ATI Radeon Modification Poll

[MrMarbles]

bump, hope people are still voting. This helps everyone. No lying, too.

 

[hoppelswat]

card wouldnt mod...3.0ns infinion ram !
I already ordered the next oen from newegg...hope it works this time

 

[wannaoc]

I put my vote in for some artifacts. I get small dots in darker spots, such as the sunglasses of the guy in the "lobby" test and shadows in BF1942. By the way this is one of the new Saphire stock from newegg - 3.3 inf mem.

 

[AlexG]

I have had 2 more artifact-free mods recently (june 03), both purchased from Newegg. Add 2 more to the 'good' column. I can't, since I have already voted once.

 

[RadiationMan]

Bump

 

[katka]

I get dots all over the screen when I run 3d apps. It didn't bother me at first, but in some games it was real bad so I went back to a 9500NP. I did disable HyperZ and ran 3dmark 2001 and the artafacts got better, but I didn't run any games. Next I'm going to try and reinstall windows and disable HyperZ and see if that works.

Anybody got anyother tips that might help me get rid of the artfacts?

If nothing else my card OCs good. 415/303 (core/memory). All I did was take off the stock thermal greese and put some creamique(sp?).

 

[PreservedSwine]

I get dots all over the screen when I run 3d apps. It didn't bother me at first, but in some games it was real bad so I went back to a 9500NP. I did disable HyperZ and ran 3dmark 2001 and the artafacts got better, but I didn't run any games. Next I'm going to try and reinstall windows and disable HyperZ and see if that works.

Anybody got anyother tips that might help me get rid of the artfacts?

If nothing else my card OCs good. 415/303 (core/memory). All I did was take off the stock thermal greese and put some creamique(sp?).

Do you get artifacts (not checkerboards, but artifacts) at stock speeds as well? Try underclocking your card, that will let you know if it's a heat issue....

 

[katka]

Hmm Yeah, I never tried OCing it untill I had undone the softmod, next time I try it I'll try underclocking it and see if that helps.

 

[Banyan]

u guys bump the voltage up at all?

 

[El<(')>Maxi]

Perfect W1zzard SM, zero artifacts.

Card from AllstarShop with a cool keychain

OC 364/317

3DMark01 scores

stock

OC 391/317 -14671

SoftModded 364/317

 

[PreservedSwine]

Perfect W1zzard SM, zero artifacts.

Card from AllstarShop with a cool keychain

OC 364/317

3DMark01 scores

stock

OC 391/317

SoftModded 364/317

None of the links are valid projects....want to just tell us?

Here is my R9500np 3dM03 score

 

[El<(')>Maxi]

Hmm, ok no pasting the URL I guess? Or do I need the "compare" link? "Published" have anything to do with this?

stock -11752

OC'd -14671

SM -18320

edit-published two of them. It would not let me publish the OC'd score(CPU difference, or something)

 

[PreservedSwine]

Hmm, ok no pasting the URL I guess? Or do I need the "compare" link? "Published" have anything to do with this?

Stock -11752

OC'd -14671

SM -16670

Yes, you must have the project "published" if you want to post the compare link.

Nice scores

Have you run 3dM03?

 

[El<(')>Maxi]

Heh, DL'ing 03 right now....................56K....................LOL

8hours left

 

[Watch22]

I just bought 3 from Newegg the Sapphire 9500Np and all three worked.

 

[MrMarbles]

do you need all 3? Do you have any plans on selling a couple?

 

[Josebmw]

I would buy one too!

 

[Chowdy]

How come the Omega drivers aren't part of the "softmod" part? I can't figure out how to do the w1zzard mod... i mean i follow directions but it doesn't work, so i must be doing something wrong . I Omega-driver'd mine and 8 pipelines unlocked according to AIDA32 and based on 3dmark2001 results. I don't know if it'd taint your results if i were to vote.

PS: all's good so far. I've ran only a few programs though (UT2K3, 3Dmark2001) I'm downloading 3dmark2003 and i plan on playing CS in in opengl and directx mode... what the heck does RON run in?


EDIT: PS, El<(')>Maxi check my compare link. Everything in our benchmarks, yours rapes mine except in bump mapping. Why's that?

 

[dropadrop]

My card works perfectly when modded. Unfortunatly it's not much of an overclocker, but to be honest I don't play enough to care.

 

[Onlypro]

I get checker-boarding during the single-texture/multi-texture test in 2001se. I dont notice it in games though.