My usual luck..

halflukehalfluke
edited October 2003 in Hardware
Hi all!
I was almost sure it wasn't possible to find those nice Infineon 3.0 rams on a Sapphire 9800 NP
On the contrary, I succeed to find them, on my new card got today.
Wow, so I won't risk to void the guarantee, cause it would be unuseful to flash the 9800pro bios!
I'm so lucky.... don't u think so?:banghead:

Comments

  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Bad luck there. Cant you return it and get a Powercolor instead?
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Oh no, don't tell me that!!! I have one on the way right now as we speak. I'll find out in a few hours I guess..
  • halflukehalfluke
    edited September 2003
    no way to return it.
    But who told that Sapphire always has Samsung chips on? :bawling:
    Anyway, i've reached the usual 330mhz (*2)
    And no probs with the core even without the Pro bios (more than 400mhz with stock cooling)
    As I said, no risk to void the guarantee, but I'm going to put a wb now :crazy:
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Welcome to Short-Media halfluck!

    Where did you buy the card?
  • halflukehalfluke
    edited September 2003
    Thx friend
    I bought in Italy
    www.essedi.it
    Maybe Ati realized that it was too easy to mod the 9800 to Pro, and decided to increase the partnership with Infineon..
    :scratch:
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    I got lucky with mine, and have the Samsung, but it just barely makes it.
  • halflukehalfluke
    edited October 2003
    sapphire flashed with 9800 pro bios
    error...
    videocard dead
    now waiting to change it
    didn't tell the shop about flashing and voiding the warranty:scratch:
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited October 2003
    Half-luke... what color is the PCB on that Sapphire Atlantis 9800?

    Red or black?
  • halflukehalfluke
    edited October 2003
    red (with infineon 3.0)
  • halflukehalfluke
    edited October 2003
    Mmm, just got the new 9800 NP by Sapphire after my previous bios flash and the unsuccessful recover

    Better gpu (435 without artifacts, and it runs COLDER), but worse ram (the same infineon 3.0, but now I have artifacts after 630mhz, 660 before, and they run HOTTER)

    Obviously I'm not flashing the bios, but I've read the problems with cat 3.8, so I'm going to roll back to 3.7 to see if there are any differences

    Do u want I keep u updated?

    Cheers,
    Halfluke
  • halflukehalfluke
    edited October 2003
    Nothing
    memories still very hot and nothing more than 640mhz
    These crappy Infineons!

    I can feel better only thinking that even at 900mhz or more, the FX is always bull**** :D
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2003
    The RAM shouldn't be more than lukewarm to the touch. I suggest you get a Zalman Fan Bracket + 92mm fan... that will be more effective than RAMsinks, and it should let you OC both the core and the RAM some more...
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2003
    You dont want to viod the warrantee by flashing a different BIOS but you will viod the warratee by overclocking? Makes a lot of sense.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2003
    mmonin... overclocking doesn't void the warranty... (well, technically speaking it does...) what they don't know can't hurt them...
  • halflukehalfluke
    edited October 2003
    Well, if overclocking voids the warranty, why ATI has put the OVERRIDE panel in the new cat 3.8, for XT series cards??

    Anyway I succeeded in changing my old 9800 after the bios flash failure, simply non telling it to the shop.

    Now I'm not going to flash anymore, because I know it's unuseful with Infineons

    P.S.: I'm using a wb for the core, and I'm not going to fix some heatsinks on the ram cause of the warranty matter..
    But in my experience I'm not sure they could give more than 10mhz overclock (heatsinks I mean)

    Anyway, I confirm this core runs colder, and these Infineons run hotter than the previous one.

    Only, if I could find that german site again, where they sell liquid cooling kit for memories!
    Can anybody help me?

    Bye, halfluke
  • DogSoldierDogSoldier The heart of radical Amish country..
    edited October 2003
    I'll be picking up my Sapphire 9800 NP (SAMMY RAM!) today, along with a new Chieftec case with 4 fans. Should be a real interesting day. How's the stock cooler on the 9800? Do I need anything special?
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2003
    The stock cooler for the 9800, like every other stock video card cooler (with the exception of some of the 5900s that have exotic hsfs, and the Sapphire Ultimate Edition cards) is spectacularly crappy. If you want to OC it at all, something bigger is in order. I'd suggest a 1u rackmount heatsink. If you decide to go that route, I can give you some ideas for mounting it using the standard mounting holes, so it won't void the warranty.
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