GS cards overclock well iirc
think its a deal :)
how much is P&P with them ?
P&P £3.82 Recorded First Class 1-3 day on this item anyway.
Agent
Cool, thanks :)
Worth getting over my 9500 Pro ?
So this a proper ultra, not ultra in the gainward sense? If so damn! I don't get paid for another week.
Skii
Worth getting over my 9500 Pro ?
Depends if your a FPS whore like me :)
It will be better than a 9500 pro, yes. If you overclock it to (which would be silly not to as its a GS), you will get quite a large boost.
You can mod these to a 5950 Ultra with a simple BIOS flash to (it does only have 128 meg as opposed to 256), which will give you the largest boost.
But ask yourself : Does your current card not handle your needs ?
Do some benchmarks with your current card. I have the gainward below this one, so ill bench mine to, and you can compare them, see if you think its worth it :)
walibe - it cant be a full blown ultra as it doesnt have 256 meg of RAM, but the speeds look the same on gainwards site.
Agent
Depends if your a FPS whore like me :)
It will be better than a 9500 pro, yes. If you overclock it to (which would be silly not to as its a GS), you will get quite a large boost.
You can mod these to a 5950 Ultra with a simple BIOS flash to (it does only have 128 meg as opposed to 256), which will give you the largest boost.
But ask yourself : Does your current card not handle your needs ?
Do some benchmarks with your current card. I have the gainward below this one, so ill bench mine to, and you can compare them, see if you think its worth it :)
walibe - it cant be a full blown ultra as it doesnt have 256 meg of RAM, but the speeds look the same on gainwards site.
cheers Agent
I was really after a 9800 Pro, purely down to the fact that they invariably get recommended over the Nvidia cards in most places. My 9500pro does a good job, especially as it has ramsinks and arctic cooler as well, however I wanted the next jump to be the 9800pro.
So if this card is comparable to the 9800pro or the 9800XT, it would seem a good option, especially flashed to a 5950 :D
if its a true ultra then it can stand a chance against the rad9800pro but not the rad9800xt
only one left
its really a good deal, but want to get the proper top end fx5950 so i can OC its a$$ off
Skii
cheers Agent
I was really after a 9800 Pro, purely down to the fact that they invariably get recommended over the Nvidia cards in most places. My 9500pro does a good job, especially as it has ramsinks and arctic cooler as well, however I wanted the next jump to be the 9800pro.
So if this card is comparable to the 9800pro or the 9800XT, it would seem a good option, especially flashed to a 5950 :D
The ATI gen of cards do seem to handle AA better (lot less of a performace decrease), there doesnt seem to be a huge amount with the AF, but ATI may just have the edge to imo. This does seem to be dependant on which drivers you use though, so its give and take really. The DX9 performace isnt as good as the ATI cards in general, but previous games not based on DX9 (there isnt that many even out yet) there is hardly anything in it, the FX even comes on top quite a lot :)
The main reason im sticking to nvidia is because of linux support, and i like their drivers. Flashed to a 5950 ultra will certainly give the others a run for their money, its just going to be the lack of 256meg memory that will be the bottleneck. Still at this price, im not moaning :)
btw, HEXUS has reviewed this exact card :
http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD01OTY=Factor in the BIOS flash and you have a few more marks on top of the bench's.
Hope thats of some help :)
Agent have you tried the bios flash? How did you get on?
The site is slightly confusing the yellow circled 1 is I think how many pics not quantity left.
ERU
Agent have you tried the bios flash? How did you get on?
Need to wait for it to arive first mate :)
Just got mine today anybody else? Also Nvidia have force 56.64 drivers. Dont know whats on the cd and which to load yet any suggestions.
Nope - ordered mine Saturday so not really expecting mine till tomorrow or the day after, moneys been debited though :D
Mines arived. Gimmie a few hours to sort a few things out, and ill see how the modding go's :)
ERU grows impatient - you've hade almost 3hrs now godammit :P
Mines arriveing soon too \o/
Installed mine with 56.64 drivers but not done any tweaks yet seems ok just about to see whats on the cd.
It works :D
3d mark 03 - getting 5862 on old drivers, no tweaking, and a hosed windows install and no overclocking (except the flash). It should do 6k without much of a problem.
To flash to a FX5950 Ultra, download
this BIOS from Gainward.
Make a bootable floppy, no drivers, minimum boot.
Run flash.bat
type in YES when prompted (dont worry about the part mismatch, its supposed to)
Reboot
You now have a FX5950 Ultra with 128 meg of RAM :)
Good news Agent :)
Are there any issues with the missing 128mb? Like there was with ATI9800pros flashed to 9800XTs
Nope.
Nvidia cards do not store the memory data in the BIOS. Its all counted on boot up dynamically.
You could have 8meg on the card, and it would still work fine, as the BIOS doesn't know any better :)
Agent
It works :D
3d mark 03 - getting 5862 on old drivers, no tweaking, and a hosed windows install and no overclocking (except the flash). It should do 6k without much of a problem.
To flash to a FX5950 Ultra, download this BIOS from Gainward.
Make a bootable floppy, no drivers, minimum boot.
Run flash.bat
type in YES when prompted (dont worry about the part mismatch, its supposed to)
Reboot
You now have a FX5950 Ultra with 128 meg of RAM :)
w00000000000000000000000000000t
<claps hands in a sort of gay but chuffed way>
Are there any issues with the missing 128mb? Like there was with ATI9800pros flashed to 9800XTs
Hmmm… ive got myselves one of these (komplet £135 saphires) and was wondering what issues there are due to XT flashing…
AHHHH ****
After just fitting this baby, i slipped when fitting one of my new SATA HD's and killed the board :mad:
Im so ****** off right now… :mad:
Its either that or BIOS corruption on the NF7-S again, ill find out tomrrow :( :mad:
Managed to get 5532 3d mark 2003 after installing latest nvidia drivers again also set core clock settings 440 and memory clock setting 900 no probs!
Agent
AHHHH ****
After just fitting this baby, i slipped when fitting one of my new SATA HD's and killed the board :mad:
Im so ****** off right now… :mad:
Its either that or BIOS corruption on the NF7-S again, ill find out tomrrow :( :mad:
:eek: :(
Price + delivery has gone back up on these now btw - now £160 + with 1-3 day delivery.
Agent
AHHHH ****
After just fitting this baby, i slipped when fitting one of my new SATA HD's and killed the board :mad:
Im so ****** off right now… :mad:
Its either that or BIOS corruption on the NF7-S again, ill find out tomrrow :( :mad:
You dont think it some kind of problem with the BIOS flash do you? Still havent got mine to test :(
ERU
You dont think it some kind of problem with the BIOS flash do you? Still havent got mine to test :(
Nar, ive got 4 different AGP graphics cards here, tried them all and its still dead :(. Also the card still works fine in other systems. I know its the board, its my own stupid fault :( :( :(
The price should have been 160ish, the site was still showing it as that price, but when you clicked on the link, it showed it as 135. Looks like they corrected the problem, as i dont think it had been officaly lowered ! :)
Got mine
Installed like a dream - typical Nvidia.
Flashed to 5950 Ultra - no problems
Hitting 5290 in 3DMark03 at stock (this is with an Xp2200 @ stock)
Seems pretty good :D
N1 skii :)
Got my new mobo to :)
Agent
N1 skii :)
Got my new mobo to :)
glad to hear it m8 ;)