Got it ups, from the BB 299.99 deal, yesterday afternoon. I'm telling you, your paying for some real estate with this card.... almost twice the size of my poor old 9800 np it replaced. Installed the drivers included and then switched them out for the 61.80 betas.
IQ is definately on par, or better, than the 9800. Noise is slightly more than the 9800 np, but what did I expect? Still, not bad.
I installed coolbits 2.0 and the auto overclocker wouldn't work - any ideas? On manual overclock, I've got it at 426/1100 and it isn't flinching. I doubt I'll carry it higher just to see what it will do because there is no point. I'm cpu bound as it is (athlon 64 3200+) and my lcd screen has a native resolution of 1280x1024. Anyway, I'm getting kind of sick of all this obsession with numbers and calling a card a POS when it won't overclock way beyond it's advertised specs - if it does the job in the game, who cares? This card is plenty fast for my system and any more speed would be a waste. Far Cry is as smooth as butter with high IQ in game play now and that's what I wanted.
Another note: the card temp reads as being 51 degrees in idle and up to 62 degrees after gaming, from what I've read, people have reported it running hotter than this. Can I trust the temp readings I'm getting?
Anyway, thanks to DoobieOnline for turning me on to this deal in a prior post at a point when I had time to get in on it. I was dubious that BB would fulfill this order, but they did, to their credit, when a lot of other buyers were getting frustrated over their online deals.
IQ is definately on par, or better, than the 9800. Noise is slightly more than the 9800 np, but what did I expect? Still, not bad.
I installed coolbits 2.0 and the auto overclocker wouldn't work - any ideas? On manual overclock, I've got it at 426/1100 and it isn't flinching. I doubt I'll carry it higher just to see what it will do because there is no point. I'm cpu bound as it is (athlon 64 3200+) and my lcd screen has a native resolution of 1280x1024. Anyway, I'm getting kind of sick of all this obsession with numbers and calling a card a POS when it won't overclock way beyond it's advertised specs - if it does the job in the game, who cares? This card is plenty fast for my system and any more speed would be a waste. Far Cry is as smooth as butter with high IQ in game play now and that's what I wanted.
Another note: the card temp reads as being 51 degrees in idle and up to 62 degrees after gaming, from what I've read, people have reported it running hotter than this. Can I trust the temp readings I'm getting?
Anyway, thanks to DoobieOnline for turning me on to this deal in a prior post at a point when I had time to get in on it. I was dubious that BB would fulfill this order, but they did, to their credit, when a lot of other buyers were getting frustrated over their online deals.
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