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just bought refurb 9200se - 143mhz memory???

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joeld

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I had a geforce 3 ti200 with a very bad fan and I got tired of listening to it, so I picked up a refurb 9200se at newegg for cheap (will probably get a better card around thanksgiving or so). Anyway, but powerstrip and 3dmark03 say the card's memory is running at 143mhz. Anyone know why it is so low?
 
If it's refurbed it might be the fact that it was over / under clocked with the previous owner. The memory is stock at 333MHz with the 9200se. You may want to just bring it back up to the default (keeping in mind it's 333mhz effective, so bring it up to 166) setting and see how it runs.
 
Is it listing the bus speed thus since it is DDR the actual memory speed is 286mhz? I have a 9200se as well and the numbers your showing is the same speed that mine comes up as. I think it is listing the speed before the double data rate.
 
9200SE is MUCH MUCH slower than your Geforce 3. You should have just gotten a fan to tide you over. (IIRC the 9200SE is 64bit memory bus right)

-Kevin
 
Yeah, I'm guessing that it is 286mhz effective megahertz, but still, that's quite a bit off the normal 9200se memory speed, which from everywhere I've read is 333mhz. I tried clocking it up to 150 (300 effective) and it hard locked loading up 3dmark03 (not running the test, just loading the program). I guess that's why it was originally refurb'ed.
 
Kevin,
Yeah, the geforce 3 scored 900 something 3dmarks while this card did 550 or so, so it's a little less than twice as fast. I already borrowed a fan to replace the one on the geforce from a friend, but it was incompatible and I didn't want to modify anything if I could help it. I could have just taken out the card and used integrated video (nforce 2 - with single channel ram), but I wanted to have a spare card w/ dvi laying around if I needed it as well. I did expect the card to run at the specs it was supposed to, however... I'm wondering if that would qualify for a warranty exchange to the manufacturer?
 
n/m - they usually disclaim their products -- "product specifications may change without notice"...
 
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