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***Official*** 9800GX2 thread (reviews and benches inside)

fornowagain said:
Which drivers?
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And ill do a 3Dmark06 tomorrow at work, ive got clan stuff to do in TF2 atm, [DoGs] clan > all! And youll have to tell me how Easyrider, ive not done that before.

Edit: @ Azza, 34-35 on both cores at idle, 55-58 at load. Not very good i know, tbh im thinking of getting another case with some better cable management. I dont really want to OC my E6600 further with those sort of load temps, when running Prime i saw them spike over 70 which im in no way happy with.

Edit2: Oh also, i dont know who said that the GX2 was the only card to not blow air out of the case leading to higher overall case temps, but your wrong, there is definately air coming out of the vent.
 
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9800GX2 causes heat-related crashes, hard locks and instabilities

Interesting read for people contemplating this card.

GeForce 9800 GX2

Heat
We don't normally comment much on heat with graphics cards, but the GeForce 9800 GX2 is an exception because the heat this card produces caused us some headaches along the way. We encountered a number of heat-related crashes, hard locks and instabilities with our Asus Striker II Formula motherboard.

The thing was, these problems were limited to only when the GeForce 9800 GX2 was installed in the board. With two GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB cards in SLI, there were no problems and the story was the same with the GeForce 8800 Ultra as well – we're 100 percent certain that the problems we encountered were entirely related to the installation of the GeForce 9800 GX2.

We witnessed temperatures in excess of 90 degrees Celsius on both the nForce 200 chip and the south bridge on the Asus motherboard – this triggered the company's overheat protection feature that automatically shuts down the motherboard to prevent long term damage.

Throughout all of our testing, we closely monitored GPU temperatures after we first encountered stability problems and they never exceeded 85 degrees Celsius, which is pretty good for a graphics card—especially one with two GPUs so closely packed together. In fact, Nvidia says the point where the GPU starts to throttle itself down is when the core reaches a temperature of 105°C for reference purposes, so there's still quite a bit of headroom.
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http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/03/18/xfx_geforce_9800_gx2_600m_1gb_graphics_card/17
 
Might be that specific mobo tbh. Ive been playing a solid 40 mins of games on mine and i doubt the temps are goign to go out much more than they are now, and everything seems fine. Although i will admit the case temps have gone up 2 degrees, but i think thats to be expected from any card like this, wether it be the GX2 or the X2.
 
Just got my BFG 9800 card up and running on single monitor (multi seems to stop SLI as it seems to suggest and slows performance down to what you expect from a 8800gtx) and this card rocks, doddle to install and the power cable supplied needs a little help to make it fit.

Just ran up Crysis, Super smooth at 1920x1200 on all High settings and shader on medium. 50fps+. Never seen crysis play like this, wish i played it the first time on this GPU.
Also so far the card runs very quiet too :)

This card trashes my 8800GTX

Im selling my smaller "gaming" monitor now. This GPU will prove its worth in the months to come until the proper next gen cards come out. :)
 
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looks like a crackin card...could well be worth an upgrade from my 18month old GTX???? At least a 50% perfomance boost with most games. Anyone else thinkin the same? A little pricey though....if they were low £300's it would be done!
 
By the way, this thing is REALLY bright in the dark:

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Its looks angry....
 
Does that yellow led come from the card as well? Wonder if it's a BFG bling thing or does it come with all reference GX2.

toxic said:
looks like a crackin card...could well be worth an upgrade from my 18month old GTX???? At least a 50% perfomance boost with most games. Anyone else thinkin the same? A little pricey though....if they were low £300's it would be done!
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If money is no object and you just want something shiney to play with then yeah.. otherwise I wouldn't flog the GTX just yet it still has plenty of life left in it until the true next gen.
 
bakes0310 said:
Will they release a 9800gtx/ultra at all?
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9800 GTX is coming April 1st now (was originally 25th March but TRi SLi drivers aint ready), but its only a slightly overclocked 8800 GTS 512mb with an extra SLi Connector so that it can be tripled (TRi SLi'd), instead of what can only be done with them today, which is paired in standard SLi. :)
 
Got 1 x BFG GeForce 9800 GX2 ordered yesterday, wasn't shipped till today though.....roll on tomorrow :D

Seems Oc have sold out of these flavour cards for the mo too :eek:
 
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