I have "desperately" avoided ATI products ever since the Rage 128 days, When the 8500 Came out I was like "hhmm... not yet" when the 9700 Pro came out I was still skeptical but at the same time enthralled. About a week ago I landed some money on a computer deal (selling my old vid card and some ram) and being value minded liked I am it just didnt get any better then a $180 Sapphire 9500 PRO from newegg. So away we go! Joe's trying an ATI card again for the first time this milenia! (ooooh sounds cool)
Anyway, I put it in yesterday and WOW this thing is fast. The Image quality is the same as my Geforce 3 (it was a leadtek, they are EXETREMELY high quality IQ) I had a feeling it would be wich is good, because I was spoiled by the crystal clear crispness of leadteks 2d filters. I ran a 3dmark 2003 and got a score of 3600 and I was even more pleased. Hey, this is a sweet card.
The bad stuff:
What I did was uninstall the nvidia drivers. Put the card in, rebooted into safe mode. no drivers found, good. then I restart booted into windows. Ran the 3.2Cats restarted. Ran the ATI control pannel, restarted.
As soon as I got back into windows after installing the control pannel the first thing I did was go and adjust my resolution and refresh rate, I immediately set it for 1024/768@85Hertz (this is what I ran befor) As soon as It changed I was shocked to see a rather "large" Amount of "waves" pulsing inside the blue ocean otherwise known as the windows blue desktop. (it is a nice color!) After playing around for quite a while I found that 60Hertz is the only refresh rate that does NOT show the waves, But of course its 60hertz so its like suicide on the eyeballs. (it feels like a million mile wide peice of jagged glass slowly burrowing its way into my eye socket as I type this, well maybe not that bad but you get the idea)
I've played alot with the settings inside the ATI controll pannel to no avail. the ONLY thing that seemed to help was switching the power line (the external power line) from the harddrive chain to the cd-rom chain. Could the power be causing this if its attacked to other devices?
I'm using the standard monitor output not the DVI btw, I tried to use the dvi with the adapter but it didnt work for some reason so I'm lost there.
What do you think? any ideas?
Anyway, I put it in yesterday and WOW this thing is fast. The Image quality is the same as my Geforce 3 (it was a leadtek, they are EXETREMELY high quality IQ) I had a feeling it would be wich is good, because I was spoiled by the crystal clear crispness of leadteks 2d filters. I ran a 3dmark 2003 and got a score of 3600 and I was even more pleased. Hey, this is a sweet card.
The bad stuff:
What I did was uninstall the nvidia drivers. Put the card in, rebooted into safe mode. no drivers found, good. then I restart booted into windows. Ran the 3.2Cats restarted. Ran the ATI control pannel, restarted.
As soon as I got back into windows after installing the control pannel the first thing I did was go and adjust my resolution and refresh rate, I immediately set it for 1024/768@85Hertz (this is what I ran befor) As soon as It changed I was shocked to see a rather "large" Amount of "waves" pulsing inside the blue ocean otherwise known as the windows blue desktop. (it is a nice color!) After playing around for quite a while I found that 60Hertz is the only refresh rate that does NOT show the waves, But of course its 60hertz so its like suicide on the eyeballs. (it feels like a million mile wide peice of jagged glass slowly burrowing its way into my eye socket as I type this, well maybe not that bad but you get the idea)
I've played alot with the settings inside the ATI controll pannel to no avail. the ONLY thing that seemed to help was switching the power line (the external power line) from the harddrive chain to the cd-rom chain. Could the power be causing this if its attacked to other devices?
I'm using the standard monitor output not the DVI btw, I tried to use the dvi with the adapter but it didnt work for some reason so I'm lost there.
What do you think? any ideas?
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