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Well, the Radeon 9600 Non-Pro came in today

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That is a good overclock, close to XT levels. If you are happy with the performance, then by all means keep the card. It should tide you over until the next gen is available.

 
I just wish the memory would go higher.

Can I de-solder the memory on my 8500 and solder it on the 9600?? Anyone ever try it? 😀 🙂


Jason
 
That's a nice lil' orb you got there on the core, Ever consider getting RAM sinks? Tt

EDIT: lol and NO you cant swap RAM on graphics cards silly goose 😉
 
Haha. It was worth the post to ask at least 😀

Do you think Ram sinks would make much of a difference?? I am not sure if it will help them enough to get anymore mhz out of the memory. At least if I left the voltage stock right. Touching the memory chips they do not feel to hot to me. Alittle on the warm side but I could touch the memory all day and not have to take my fingers off do to the heat.

It could though, be worth it if I would do some sort of voltage increase on the memory since that would really heat up with the extra voltage.

Does anyone know of anywhere that has a write up on how to increase the voltage to the memory on a 9600? I would really love to get the memory at 300mhz(600mhzDDR) pro speeds.


Jason
 
If your case has good airflow, and you buy those heatsinks, you will be able to push the RAM a little more, I gaurentee it. But remember, RAMsinks can only move heat as fast as the air around them circulates.
 
I went to a computer store here and bought a $3.99 case fan today just for the video card. I will make some type of bracket to mount the fan directly over the video card. Or I will do what I did for my cpu. Cut a circle in the side of my case and mount the fan there. Cut the circle right above the video card. That may be better. Even though it will be further from the video card, it will be blowing the cooler, fresher air. I should be able to do it tomorrow. I will probably go ahead and order those ramsinks. Thanks for the link to them.


Jason
 
😀 Any time! i'd get them in a heartbeat if my card wasn't already a gigantic heatsink of BIBLICAL proportions! 😉 Never really noticed those heatsinks before either, they strike me as easy to install.

EDIT: Imma go the extra mile to help you out here, check this older thread out, it includes pics and instructions on how to build a homemade bracket for your video card! 🙂 Bracktacular!
 
Well, I have a 128MB TI4200 8X 250/513mhz and it gets 1000 points less than the 9600 at the oc'ed speeds gets. I used the Det. 56series. Get 11,240 on the 9600 and around 10,500 or so with the 4200. Using very old drivers I got the 4200 at 12,176 but I believe the visual quality was below average for the default settings. The visual is just better overall to me with the Radeon with AF at 16x and AA at 4x. The 4200 doesn't support af at 16x from what I can see. And it slows way down when you enable AA on the 4200. The radeon doesn't slow down as bad as the 4200 does when you enable AA.

This is all with my limited experiance with the 9600 and 4200. I think I am going to keep the 9600 over the 4200. I am not sure yet.


Jason
 
I don't know specifically how fast the 9600 non pro is but my 9600 pro at stock speeds runs unreal tournament 2004 beautifully with all settings pretty much set to either the highest or medium settings. But I am not familiar with the non pro, is it as bad as the SE version?
 
Originally posted by: Triforceofcourage
I don't know specifically how fast the 9600 non pro is but my 9600 pro at stock speeds runs unreal tournament 2004 beautifully with all settings pretty much set to either the highest or medium settings. But I am not familiar with the non pro, is it as bad as the SE version?
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no, its better than the SE
 
Originally posted by: shady06
the 9600 is not even strong enough to run games w/ AF at 16x and AA at 4x with decent resolution though
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I do not know what you are basing that own. I run Knights of the Old Rebublic and Unreal 2004 Demo at 1024x768. I consider that a decent resolution. And Yes with Knights of the Old Rebulic I run it just fine with 16xAF and 4xAA at 1024x768. I do not like resolutions higher than 1024 so I don't know, nor care, if it will run at a resolution higher than that with the eye candy stuff turned on.

I run the 9600 Non-Pro at 480mhz Core and 256mhz Memory. Its really not that far below the Pro version. The core is quite a bit above the Pro. I am not sure how much it helps though.


Jason

 
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