ATI RADEON 9800 Pro 256MB from CRUCIAL

[JP_Singer]

Retail ATI RADEON 9800 Pro 256MB from CRUCIAL around $300.00,does anyone know if these are any good? they still use Samsung memory 2.2 and I was wondering if the chances of sofmoding to XT were the same as any other manufacturer or would I be better off going for the newer 256mb 9800pro cards cause the one I am about to purchase here has the heatsinks on the memory and they are GDDII..


General Specifications

Powered by the RADEON™ 9800 Pro VPU, driven by eight-pixel pipeline rendering architecture

256-bit GDDR2 memory interface, featuring HYPER Z™ III+ bandwidth-conserving technology

256MB GDDR2 SDRAM memory

400-MHz RAMDAC

AGP 8X/4X compatible

VGA connector, TV-out connector, DVI-I

Fully supports Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® 2.0

Crucial Quality

Crucial Technology, a division of Micron, provides high-quality memory upgrades, video cards, flash memory, and a host of products to enhance the entire computing experience.


Thanks

 

[chaostheory]

the newer saphire 256's that use ddr1 are your best bet if your wanting to flash it to an xt and have everything work, to my knowledge you cant flash ddrII cards to xt's.

 

[JP_Singer]

the newer saphire 256's that use ddr1 are your best bet if your wanting to flash it to an xt and have everything work, to my knowledge you cant flash ddrII cards to xt's.

Yup I decided to go with the Asus 9800pro 256mb Retail that has Hynix 2.5 memory DDR Not DDRII

Thanks

 

[chaostheory]

lol, I didnt notice both posts were from you, oh well,,

 

[GWAR]

the newer saphire 256's that use ddr1 are your best bet if your wanting to flash it to an xt and have everything work, to my knowledge you cant flash ddrII cards to xt's.

I just got a Saphire "ultimate" with DDR2 and i can acheive 490 on the memory "before" the XT flash..

here's a e 3dmark bench @ default, just after i flashed it to a ati BB XT 256mb..

7,076
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=2450569