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9800Pro

The 9800 Pro is a great card. I had the non-pro and flashed the bios to Pro then OC'd it some more :D
 
£75 for a new 9800 pro , they must be joking , new i dont think so, just sat on the shelf because everyone buys modern cards if they got any sense !
 
it was my first performance card, well, i bought a 9600XT before that by mistake but i managed to sell it within 3 days and bought a 9800pro for £180 ! :eek: but that was with an arctic cooler and BGA ramsinks plus the VAT and the high delivery costs from OCUK took it from £135 to £180.

but it was a good card, i ran it for about 14 months, sold it for £70 in october to a friend down south, hes still hapilly using it :) and i went on to own a 6800NU(horrible card imo)>>>X800GTO2(excellent card)>>>7800GT>>>X1800XT 512mb in 5 months.
 
I don't see what the big arguement is about. Mostly, we can agree it was one of the best cards for its time, the fact that people still even mention it shows how well it's though off. I used for 2 years until last week. Its gonna go on ebay soon and i wouldn't expect more then £35 and it has an AC cooler.

People may want a card that can run games, maybe low-med settings. And why not, if you can pick one up for a good price sure. I myslef agree that £75 brand new is not a good buy, you might aswell pay abit more and get a new card that would be a lot better. But to put it into context with my X1900XT, 3DMark05 shows a 1000% increase in performance, and games like HL2 on max everything barely breaks a sweat for the X1900XT. I don't like playing games at ayhing lower then 1280X1024 and atleast 4xAA so i can justify spending uber loads of money on a card. I guess others don't feel the same way so a 9800 Pro is an option.
 
BloodWolf said:
Ha, there's my getting hopes up :rolleyes:

locutus12, thats a lot of cards you've owned..damn! :eek:
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well what can i say, im a perfectionist :D im sticking with the X1800XT 512mb now, :) got it for a good price back in february, with go for a DirectX 10 card come feb 2007.
 
Ahh, the good old 9800pro. Mine's still going strong, I've just recently enjoyed playing FEAR through and I'm loving Oblivion. Amazing how long the card has lasted really, and it's a real credit to itself that it can still work on these new games fairly well. Sure, you aren't going to get HDR or even much AA on something like those new games, but it absolutely stomps with Half-life 2. All settings to high (except it's 1024x768, no HDR) and 4xAA, 8xAF and it still runs wonderfully - combined with a rubbish old Celeron D! :D

I'll be sad to say goodbye to mine in the coming weeks when I upgrade.
 
I had a 9800XT since December 2003. A fantastic performer. Clocked to 440mhz core and 785mhz memory and scored around 7500 in 3dmark03 with a P4. Now in Mid 2006, it's still going and runs perfectly. My friend has had the card for several months now and plays BF2 and the like very nicely on his Sempron64 based system, 1024x768 with quality settings fairly high up.

Heck, I'd be still using my 9800XT right now if I didn't bother swapping over to PCI-Express. They are fantastic cards in my opinion. The 9800 pro is certainly worth between 35 and 45 quid.

Mul
 
I used to play BF2 at 1280x1024, High Detail (only lighting and textures at medium), no AA at respectable frame rates. Most new games can be run at 1024x768 with no issues. Its a very decent card that only struggles with the latest games because they make use of HDR/SM3.0 which it doesn't support properley.
 
Until my Asus 9800XT just bit the dust for the second time :/. I was using it for everything. I ran BF2 1280x1024 with what looked to my eyes as smooth gameplay with almost everything on high. Quake 4 was very playable. NFS:MW even managed to run on 1280x1024 and DOD:S ran without flaws with HDR. The only games that struggled were Feer and COD2 (Crappy engines, especially COD2) but putting down to medium settings soon fixed that.

I agree that the card is beginning to show it's age but it's still a performer in 90% of games. You just lack the luxuary of using FSAA.

Also i can remember a 9800XT would run HL2 quicker then a 6600GT and a lot of DX games for that matter. Old technology really sucks ^_^.
 
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HicRic said:
Actually, that's what I'm planning. Got a spec thread open in General Hardware right now, looking at AM2/x1900xt. :D
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well if you die tomorrow you can die with the knowledge that you made a moral purchase of computer parts :) and remember children.... whilst i have no problems with their CPU`s... Intel Company = Evil.
 
Cobra said:
I run dual screen, hi-res everything, and it looks the biz with my 9800pro.

In games - granted, BF2 isn't playable on the highest setting, but with 1024 resolution and everything on at least medium with bits of it on high, it looks awesome. I can't see myself buying a new card for at least a year.
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Yay I have a 9800 pro, and bought it pretty much the day it came out, now some 4 years on it still serves me well on 1024x768 and I can't complain..... :)
 
I might aswell post here instead of starting a new thread.

I haven't upgraded my pc for a while, too expensive etc, but I feel my 9800pro is showing its age. Hitman Bloody Money and Oblivion are playable at the lowest of low settings, but X3 is still too jerky for my liking.

I have a P4 2.4 @ 3.2, 1gb pc3200 ram and this 9800pro all on a Abit IC7-G. Having been out of the hardware loop for a while, whats a reasonablly priced AGP replacement for the 9800pro?
 
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