Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Woohooo!!
I've followed my dreams and now i'm living it..
Overclocking is the bomb! I bought that Radeon 9500 in that dream of mine for a total of 165$.. it was the one i wanted the "L" shaped configuration where the ram is configured two on top of the chip and two others on the right side (making an L shape).. This denotes that it's a 256-bus ex-Radeon 9700.. (retails for at least 200$ online). The difference between the 9500 and the 9700 is that the 9700 has 8pipelines for texture, the 9500 only has 4.. But the 9500 used to be a 9700 due to what the engineers determined that the 4 other pipelines don't work effieciently or whatever. Anyways theres now software that turns on the other 4 pipelines in the 9500.. thus making it a 9700..
Radeon 9500 + Software = radeon 9700
But! Theres one more step..
You can overclock the chip (making it run faster) by software manners that can make it a 9700 PRO (online for 270$).. the difference between the non-pro and the pro video cards is speed.. the non-pro's run at 275mhz Core speed / 270 Memory Speed(540with DDR). The Pro runs at 325 Core Speed / 310 Memory Speed(620mhz DDR). Again more software is found to push my 9500 to 317Core / 305 memory..
So what does it all mean? how do you know? everything looks the same.. it does, but doesn't
I ran a benchmark test of my old card, the geforce 2 Pro (ahh yea back in the day, probably 1.5 years old now) which is a 4x agp 64mb card. The test scored :5025.. not bad..
The 9500 alone scored : 10964 Whoa!
9500 + Software (8pipelined) : 13520
and 9500 + Software + Overclock : 14176!!
Thats almost 3times the amount of processing from my old card, which i bought for $140 1.5 years ago.. for this one.. So for 100$ less and some software, you get the power of the latest n greatest.. Who in their right mind is gonna pay 265$ for a computer component which in 2 years would be about 140$ ($140 is my theme for parts..)It's time for some video games!
Will it survive? i'll tell yall if something happens.. hopefully not catastrophic
I've followed my dreams and now i'm living it..
Overclocking is the bomb! I bought that Radeon 9500 in that dream of mine for a total of 165$.. it was the one i wanted the "L" shaped configuration where the ram is configured two on top of the chip and two others on the right side (making an L shape).. This denotes that it's a 256-bus ex-Radeon 9700.. (retails for at least 200$ online). The difference between the 9500 and the 9700 is that the 9700 has 8pipelines for texture, the 9500 only has 4.. But the 9500 used to be a 9700 due to what the engineers determined that the 4 other pipelines don't work effieciently or whatever. Anyways theres now software that turns on the other 4 pipelines in the 9500.. thus making it a 9700..
Radeon 9500 + Software = radeon 9700
But! Theres one more step..
You can overclock the chip (making it run faster) by software manners that can make it a 9700 PRO (online for 270$).. the difference between the non-pro and the pro video cards is speed.. the non-pro's run at 275mhz Core speed / 270 Memory Speed(540with DDR). The Pro runs at 325 Core Speed / 310 Memory Speed(620mhz DDR). Again more software is found to push my 9500 to 317Core / 305 memory..
So what does it all mean? how do you know? everything looks the same.. it does, but doesn't
I ran a benchmark test of my old card, the geforce 2 Pro (ahh yea back in the day, probably 1.5 years old now) which is a 4x agp 64mb card. The test scored :5025.. not bad..
The 9500 alone scored : 10964 Whoa!
9500 + Software (8pipelined) : 13520
and 9500 + Software + Overclock : 14176!!
Thats almost 3times the amount of processing from my old card, which i bought for $140 1.5 years ago.. for this one.. So for 100$ less and some software, you get the power of the latest n greatest.. Who in their right mind is gonna pay 265$ for a computer component which in 2 years would be about 140$ ($140 is my theme for parts..)It's time for some video games!
Will it survive? i'll tell yall if something happens.. hopefully not catastrophic
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