Faster than 9800XT?!

[stardust]

New card from Geil that promises 9800XT+ performance. Its basically a 9800PRO with a ThermalTake GIANT with fast memory.

X-bit

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Second link if first doesn't work

 

[Sid59]

that'd be pretty fast

 

[boyRacer]

:Q 445/740 :heart:

 

[nRollo]

Looks plenty tough, will be obsolete soon if the R400 is an 8X2 architecture though.

 

[Corporate Thug]

thats one mean looking card.

 

[stardust]

one not so mean price 🙂

edit: spelling

 

[Corporate Thug]

i wonder if the geil cooler will be sold seperately, that would be a nice little cooling solution for ocing

 

[stardust]

Originally posted by: shady06
i wonder if the geil cooler will be sold seperately, that would be a nice little cooling solution for ocing

For those of you who have the Asus P4P800 motherboard or you wouldn't mind taking an extra PCI slot, you could get the HIS IceQ style cooler thats going to be sold at www.svc.com at the end of this month.

It looks like this

Should have same performance as that double heatpipe TT giant. Why i would want to buy the geil would be because of the 740mhz memory!!

 

[jiffylube1024]

Well I'm running my 9800np already at 445/770 and it doesn't make my cup of coffee in the morning or shatter the speed of sound everytime I fire it up. It's plenty fast, no question but it's not the be-all end-all graphics card or anything.

You can probably easily o/c an XT to that speed already, or just install a TT Giant on a 9800 pro/non-pro with some good memory and get those same speeds. Especially on the memory, I bet you can cream 740 MHz on an XT.

445 is damn impressive for the stock speed of that core though, 446 is the absolute highest I can run my core artifact free, same with 770 for the memory. I wonder what that card would o/c to!

 

[stardust]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Well I'm running my 9800np already at 445/770 and it doesn't make my cup of coffee in the morning or shatter the speed of sound everytime I fire it up. It's plenty fast, no question but it's not the be-all end-all graphics card or anything.

You can probably easily o/c an XT to that speed already, or just install a TT Giant on a 9800 pro/non-pro with some good memory and get those same speeds. Especially on the memory, I bet you can cream 740 MHz on an XT.

445 is damn impressive for the stock speed of that core though, 446 is the absolute highest I can run my core artifact free, same with 770 for the memory. I wonder what that card would o/c to!

Well my 9800np only does 690mhz mem, yours is a freak of nature, not everyone is that lucky. I just like the fact that it guarentees 740mhz of memory speed, maybe even supply a 2.5ns memory chip 😉. I hope its samsung memory they are using!

 

[stardust]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Well I'm running my 9800np already at 445/770 and it doesn't make my cup of coffee in the morning or shatter the speed of sound everytime I fire it up. It's plenty fast, no question but it's not the be-all end-all graphics card or anything.

You can probably easily o/c an XT to that speed already, or just install a TT Giant on a 9800 pro/non-pro with some good memory and get those same speeds. Especially on the memory, I bet you can cream 740 MHz on an XT.

445 is damn impressive for the stock speed of that core though, 446 is the absolute highest I can run my core artifact free, same with 770 for the memory. I wonder what that card would o/c to!

Well my 9800np only does 690mhz mem, yours is a freak of nature, not everyone is that lucky. I just like the fact that it guarentees 740mhz of memory speed, maybe even supply a 2.5ns memory chip 😉. I hope its samsung memory they are using!

 

[stardust]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Well I'm running my 9800np already at 445/770 and it doesn't make my cup of coffee in the morning or shatter the speed of sound everytime I fire it up. It's plenty fast, no question but it's not the be-all end-all graphics card or anything.

You can probably easily o/c an XT to that speed already, or just install a TT Giant on a 9800 pro/non-pro with some good memory and get those same speeds. Especially on the memory, I bet you can cream 740 MHz on an XT.

445 is damn impressive for the stock speed of that core though, 446 is the absolute highest I can run my core artifact free, same with 770 for the memory. I wonder what that card would o/c to!

Well my 9800np only does 690mhz mem, yours is a freak of nature, not everyone is that lucky. I just like the fact that it guarentees 740mhz of memory speed, maybe even supply a 2.5ns memory chip 😉. I hope its samsung memory they are using!

 

[stardust]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Well I'm running my 9800np already at 445/770 and it doesn't make my cup of coffee in the morning or shatter the speed of sound everytime I fire it up. It's plenty fast, no question but it's not the be-all end-all graphics card or anything.

You can probably easily o/c an XT to that speed already, or just install a TT Giant on a 9800 pro/non-pro with some good memory and get those same speeds. Especially on the memory, I bet you can cream 740 MHz on an XT.

445 is damn impressive for the stock speed of that core though, 446 is the absolute highest I can run my core artifact free, same with 770 for the memory. I wonder what that card would o/c to!

Well my 9800np only does 690mhz mem, yours is a freak of nature, not everyone is that lucky. I just like the fact that it guarentees 740mhz of memory speed, maybe even supply a 2.5ns memory chip 😉. I hope its samsung memory they are using!

 

[stardust]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Well I'm running my 9800np already at 445/770 and it doesn't make my cup of coffee in the morning or shatter the speed of sound everytime I fire it up. It's plenty fast, no question but it's not the be-all end-all graphics card or anything.

You can probably easily o/c an XT to that speed already, or just install a TT Giant on a 9800 pro/non-pro with some good memory and get those same speeds. Especially on the memory, I bet you can cream 740 MHz on an XT.

445 is damn impressive for the stock speed of that core though, 446 is the absolute highest I can run my core artifact free, same with 770 for the memory. I wonder what that card would o/c to!

 

[oldfart]

Stardust, I think you have your keyboard overclocked too far!

 

[mrzed]

Originally posted by: oldfart
Stardust, I think you have your keyboard overclocked too far!

Or maybe it's all the "stardust"

 

[stardust]

AHAHAHAHA =D sorry guys!!! ahahahaha oh my... i think i was a little trigger happy when my IE didn't load rite....

LMAO!!

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: stardust

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Well I'm running my 9800np already at 445/770 and it doesn't make my cup of coffee in the morning or shatter the speed of sound everytime I fire it up. It's plenty fast, no question but it's not the be-all end-all graphics card or anything.

You can probably easily o/c an XT to that speed already, or just install a TT Giant on a 9800 pro/non-pro with some good memory and get those same speeds. Especially on the memory, I bet you can cream 740 MHz on an XT.

445 is damn impressive for the stock speed of that core though, 446 is the absolute highest I can run my core artifact free, same with 770 for the memory. I wonder what that card would o/c to!

Well my 9800np only does 690mhz mem, yours is a freak of nature, not everyone is that lucky. I just like the fact that it guarentees 740mhz of memory speed, maybe even supply a 2.5ns memory chip 😉. I hope its samsung memory they are using!

True. Though I bet you can get more out of your RAM with RAMsinks. 2.5ns RAM would be awesome.

Btw, was that really worth saying 5 times?? 😉

 

[Rogodin2]

"445MHz and 740MHz "

My stock 9800non pro (sapphire 3.3ns) runs 445/401 with no artifacts and completely stable (been running it like this for 2 months) and it was only $245 😉

Rogo

 

[Jeff7181]

The 9800XT is just a 9800 Pro with higher clock speed right? Since it doesn't use DDR2 does it? And as far as I know, there are no changes to the architecture of the GPU or anything of that sort... so... is it really that amazing that a 9800 Pro can be overclocked by an average Joe to get performance equal to or greater than the XT?

 

[Sunny129]

i wonder how much it's going to cost. there's already one like it at SVC.com for $24.99, and here's the link, courtesy of stardust and his thread.

 

[jjyiz28]

Originally posted by: Rollo
Looks plenty tough, will be obsolete soon if the R400 is an 8X2 architecture though.

actually i've read the r400 will be 12x1, while the nv40 will be 8x2.

 

[Sunny129]

Originally posted by: oldfart
Stardust, I think you have your keyboard overclocked too far!

ROFL 😛

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
The 9800XT is just a 9800 Pro with higher clock speed right? Since it doesn't use DDR2 does it? And as far as I know, there are no changes to the architecture of the GPU or anything of that sort... so... is it really that amazing that a 9800 Pro can be overclocked by an average Joe to get performance equal to or greater than the XT?

The 256MB version runs with DDR II

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Rogodin2
"445MHz and 740MHz "

My stock 9800non pro (sapphire 3.3ns) runs 445/401 with no artifacts and completely stable (been running it like this for 2 months) and it was only $245 😉

Rogo

Do remember that it's not the best thing to run this hardware at these speeds for too long (even with good cooling). I'd recommend backing down to Pro or at most XT speeds when running it most of the time to make sure the card lasts awhile.

Radeon 9700/9800 cards have been known to die after a year or so of operation at very high overclocked speeds, or when the cooling is piss-poor (I've been reading a bit at Rage3d).