9800SE or 9600Pro?

GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
edited February 2004 in Hardware
I read a review at extremeoverclocking, and the 9600Pro was better than a 9800SE across the spectrum. But, could a 9800SE be soft-modded to open up the rest of the pipelines? The two cards are roughly the same price (when taking into account refurbs), so I'll go for the SE if I'm fairly sure it can be soft-modded.

Thanks.

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  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2004
    SE versions SUCK. My 8500LE smokes a 9200SE.

    I think I remember reading that the SE uses lower clocked RAM so it would be hard to get it to the speeds of a NP or Pro.
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited January 2004
    First off it depends on which type of 9800se you get. Some had a 256bit bus (like my Hercules 9800se aiw) others only 128 one. Then you run the risk of it not soft modding successfully, mine wouldn't :( and it would appear that the success rate is getting smaller. Personally I wouldn't take the risk.
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Sound advice. The 9600 Pro sounds like the way to go then. :thumbsup:
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Or if you could scrape up the extra dough to get one of the 9800 Pro's from allstarshops.com or newegg. I can't beleive how fast they just came down in price!!!
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2004
    The SE might perform better but the 9600 is prolly the better deal.
  • CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    I have seen the 9600XT 256Mb and the 9800SE 128Mb for about the same price on overclockers UK and was wondering which people thought would be best to go for??

    ~Cyrix
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited February 2004
    imo I think again the performance would be about the same. With the Sapphire 9800se cards there is no chance of it softmodding as it only has a 128bit bus but it has bga memory. The 9600xt has more memory but it doesn't state which type (it can come with either BGA or TSOP, but it does have a much a faster core clock.

    Personally I've given up on getting a cheap radeon 9800 for now and I'm getting a BFG FX5900 from the US with 2.2ns memory which I can then flash to a FX5950 Ultra speeds, hopefully, all for £117 delivered.
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