Lucky me!!

[Cabinny_san]

As some of you know I am building my own PC. I am getting the parts separately because I cannot afford them all at once. I recently picked up the 9800pro from New Egg, it is a sapphire model that I got for 208.00 us. I held off replacing my heatsink and fan until today and as I took off the heatsink to my suprize I have one of the random cards with the R360 instead of the R350 core!!! Now I am happy still more, could on of you kind gents whom have flashed the 9800xt bios to their 9800pros give me an idea of how to do this? another question is I have a titan copper heatsink fan on the card will that be enough to cool the core if I flash it, or should I put the original back on?

[buildabear]

lucky bastard. :) :yummy: getting more than what you paid for is yummy...!

[Flamer]

Very nice:) To bad I dont have any info on the mod:(

[dbwillis]

I flashed my 9800Pro to 9800XT bios...had no problems with it..
Imade sure the card would OC to, and past, XT speeds before I did the flash.

THeres a great how to over on www.xtremesystems.org/forums

[Cabinny_san]

That being said would I benefit more from waiting until I have the new computer built before doing anything drastic? I don't want to make problems for me later on.

On another note has anyone here ever used the titan Copper Vga cooler before? still want to get the best cooling I can for this Computer but for the best price! Thanks for the replys guys, noob is grateful!

[Cabinny_san]

You know I was reading some posts from the above website, certain individuals were saying that they could not Oc the sapphire cards they bought above 400 in some cases!! that is funny because with my limited experience I got an Overclock of 432core/371mem stable as far as I could tell.

Like I said I am new to this but there were no artifacts and I still have the stock heatsink fan on! Below is my last score on 3Dmark2001SEpro with my still very crappy dell system(I wish I had the money to finish building my computer!!) :( as you can see the set up is limited only by the processor and Mobo setup, possibly the ram too for I am using PC800 Rdram.
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3DMark2001 Project Details
Project Info

2004-03-17 Project ID

Project not published

System Configuration
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP

DirectX Version 9.0

Mobo Manufacturer Dell Computer Corp.

Mobo Model

AGP Rates (Current/Available) 4x / 1x 2x 4x


CPU Intel Pentium 4 1894 MHz

FSB 100 MHz

Memory 1024 MB


Graphics Chipset ATI RADEON 9800 PRO

Driver Name RADEON 9800 PRO

Driver Version 6.14.10.6430

Video Memory 128 MB


Program Version 3DMark2001 SE

Resolution 1024x768 32bit

Texture Format Compressed

FSAA Disabled

Z-Buffer Depth 24bit

Frame Buffer Double

Rendering Pipeline D3D Pure Hardware T&L


Detailed Test Results
3DMark Score 11204 3D marks


Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 137.3 FPS

Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 39.0 FPS

Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 202.2 FPS

Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 105.9 FPS

Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 124.2 FPS

Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 53.9 FPS

Game 4 Nature 129.6 FPS


Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 2270.0 MTexels/s

Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 3407.5 MTexels/s


High Polygon Count (1 light) 75.2 MTriangels/s

High Polygon Count (8 lights) 21.5 MTriangels/s


Environment Bump Mapping 159.9 FPS

DOT3 Bump Mapping 226.3 FPS


Vertex Shader 87.7 FPS

Pixel Shader 141.0 FPS

Advanced Pixel Shader 241.1 FPS


Point Sprite 49.3 MSprites/s
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Any suggestions mates?