Can anyone tell me how good of an OC I got on my 9800 Pro compared to thiers ?

[Dazed and Confused]

Okay, there are a few cards that I've wanted ever since they got out and I finally got 2 of them after all these years

I recently acquired a 128mb R350 based BBA Radeon 9800 Pro for working on a friends PC and the only catch weas that the fan was dead : / So being the Zip Tie using, Power Drill wielding spare parts pack rat of a fool I am I put an Athlon XP HSF on the card and headed off to see how much hell I can put this card through before it gives up the ghost on me

After the mod HSF mod and with no vMods at all I was finally able to get the card to a 100% stable 425/768 and no this is not the R360 core 9800 It's the good ole fashioned R350 true 9800 Pro

Update 09/13/2007 : I just ran a few benchmarks using the HL2 : Lost Coast Video Stress Test and heres what I got @ 1024x768 with default setting and no AA or AF.

Here are other speeds I benched it at :

378/338 ( Stock ) : 39.4

435/385 : 41.7

445/390 : 41.8

446/386 : 42

450/386 : 42

446/800 : 31.9 :/

450/800 : 31.7

It's obvious at this point that 386mhz is the sweet spot on the mem

I was just wondering how you other 9800 Pro users and abusers fared with your stock voltage OverClocking endeavors compared to mine

Before you reply please remember to include if your card has the R350 or R360 core, what kind of cooling it's using and if it's volt modded

 

[Cookie Monster]

Id love to see the pics.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

I'll get pic's up sunday.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: Dazed and Confused
Just because I can outmod and out overclock you and all you other wannabes any day of the week doesn't mean you should post your snide and sarcastic remarks in my thread

I'm interested to know what the temps are like on the card with the processor HSF. Unfortunately, my 9800 Pro died after six months without an overclock due to a bad fan, so I can't offer up much help.

 

[osage]

I have 409/381 or 762 effective on my ATI R350 core, card is stock just like the day I bought it.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Nice, might I ask what kind of cooling you're using ?

 

[NYHoustonman]

I ran my 350 (not volt-modded) at 400/360, at first with a VGA Silencer Rev. 2 and later with the updated ATI Silencer... the card is now pretty much dead, apparently memory issues :|. Lasted me a solid three years, good enough I guess.

 

[Munky]

I'd say it's a decent OC. I had a r360 w/ a zalman vf700 running at 440mhz, not sure if the newer core revision helped or not. Sometimes I wish I hadn't sold mine, that was one hell of a card back in the day.

 

[bryanW1995]

I just went to my mom's for dinner, so I tried to test out her 9800 pro. I tried 3dmark 06, but it wouldn't work b/c it wasn't a 2500+ or greater chip. Then I tried 3dmark 05, but it wouldn't work b/c mom's tbird doesn't support sse instructions. THEN I tried downloading 3dmark 03 but my wife made us leave to put the rugrat to bed. Grrrr...

 

[VinDSL]

I'm still running a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro R360 (Masscool/Sytrin KuFormula VF1 Plus cooler) in my wife's machine.

To tell you the truth, when this card was in my machine, I never could find a limit. Every time I tried to max it out, and it got into the ridiculous range, I would chicken out...

Anyway, how do you know you have a R350 core?

The only way you can tell is by doing a 'visual' on it! Utilities won't pick it up...

Here's a pic of mine - I mean my wife's R360...

 

[Dazed and Confused]

I guess I could have magically will'd the AMD Heatsink onto the 9800 but there was no fun in that so I removed the stock heatsink on it, put some arctic cleaner on it followed by arctic purrifier and voila It said R350 right on the core

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: Dazed and Confused
I guess I could have magically will'd the AMD Heatsink onto the 9800 but there was no fun in that so I removed the stock heatsink on it, put some arctic cleaner on it followed by arctic purrifier and voila It said R350 right on the core

Yeah...

The Radeon 9800 Pro was great - the 55' Chevy of AGP cards - and still has its uses for non-gamers on vintage macines, Mac users, but...

The stock ATI reference fan SUCKED!!!

The reference fan WILL stop working after 2-3 years of normal use - usually with no warning - no noise - no nothing!

I can't tell you how many times I've heard this story! That's probably what happened to the ppl in this thread...

I bought my A++, mint condition (original box, sales receipt, etc) on eBay. It was 2 years-old and was in perfect condition. However, the first thing I did was get rid of the reference fan and replace it was a VF-1 Plus and added RAM sinks...

To whom it may concern: If you LOVE your 9800 Pro, dump the stock fan before it's too late!!! It's a ticking timebomb... Guaranteed!

You'll be sitting there one day and the screen will go goofy on you - pixels going crazy, et cetera, and...

Boom! Bye Bye...

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Bump for my newfound OverClocking pwnage