Sapphire 9700 nonpro. Just Ordered!!

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Sapphire 9700 nonpro. Should Recieve it tomorrow!!

Make that not just ordered but make it 'Close to receiving it' and thanks Fedex for coming at lunch time when not even the main office is here to get it .

How does this video card compare to the ATI and PowerColor versions?

Is it overclockable?

If you got or had one how do you like it?

 

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first off to o/c it you have to do a bios flash

 

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Is this safe for the card? and yeah those are the things I like to here
I just hope I get to use it before I burn it up

 

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I have the same card, ordered from Newegg. Mine has infineon memory, flashed it this morning and can only get the memory up to 300 mhz. when artifacts start showing up. I got the core to 350 mhz.

 

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I have the same card, ordered from Newegg. Mine has infineon memory, flashed it this morning and can only get the memory up to 300 mhz. when artifacts start showing up. I got the core to 350 mhz.

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how does you card stack against a pro one??? lest say, try comparing you system to one with a similar one stock speeds on r9700 3dmark2001

 

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Okay, I ran 3dmark 2001 (the only setting I changed was the color depth to 16bit) with my cpu at xp2800 speeds(13.5x166=2250) and video card at 350/300 and got 16276. At xp2700 speeds (13x166=2160) I got around 15800. Hope that helps.

 

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mind trying defauld settings???

 

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9700 just received today but PC still not ready for it

 

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9700 just received today but PC still not ready for it

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What is the speed of the memory? TIA

 

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What is the speed of the memory? TIA

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Where do I look to see and what do I look for?

 

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Where do I look to see and what do I look for?

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What are the label written on the 8 RAM chips (square BGA), 4 on each side I think. If you can write it here, probably someone can tell what the RAM is.

 

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This is what I think was on a memory chip


DDR SGRAM
HYB250128323C - 3.3
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0248 5UU 50897

 

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This is what I think was on a memory chip


DDR SGRAM
HYB250128323C - 3.3
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0248 5UU 50897

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It looks like a 3.3 ns chip. Hynix chips ??

There is a link for overclocking 9700 np. Got good results for various ram with different speed.