And keep in mind the importance of cooling. With my water cooling system my chip runs extremely cool. 3.6ghz@1.55 after vdroop is factored in doesn't worry me for 24/7 use. I have run tons of voltage to an old Barton core in another water cooled machine for 24/7 use for 3 years or so...It is...
Rigging a power supply bad news? Naaaa....suprisingly easy really. I cut up an old 20pin atx connector because I noticed it was keyed to fit the extra four pins that are usually covered up with the little gray cap. I then extraced four of the pins from my second PCI Express power cord and...
OK, I am trying to decide if I have a screwy board and should RMA it. The hightest stable FSB I can run in 355. I have tried the following...
It is stable at 8x355=2840, so I know the processor is good up to there.
I am running Corsair XMS 6400 (2x512) that I have tested up to 830 with no...
OK, that is what I get for not watching what I am typing. My Core is at 360 and Mem is at 330. Sorry for the confusion. Yea, I would have been pretty psyched to get my memory to 360! Not sure what the limit on this card is yet, those were just my first setting and I have not pushed it any...
Got mine last night. Very nice card for the money. Installed it, cranked the core up to 360 and the memory to 425 with no problems. I figured this to be about 95% the speed of the 9800pro for 66% of the price. Good catch whoever found this one first. Oh, mine has the Infineon ram.
Well, since this thread is still drawing post, I have a little info to add. Since I last posted, I have tried a Geforce 4 4200 and a ATI Radeoon 9000. Both worked much better than my TnT 2 card. The ATI was a my favorite, but the GF4 did just about as well. The text under both cards is very...
McCarthy, I have to say the 9700 pro was the best by far. The ATI Radeons mostly seem to do TV encoding on the chip. Some of the ATI cards had a "Rage Fury" theater chip that some people swear by. With the ATI 9700 pro I got full screen with no real ajustments. I was using the 3.2 Catalyst...
Wow, this got hot again all the sudden. Well, since the last post I have gotten my hands on a few cards so I have a little base to compare.
The first up is my TNT2 that I was complaining about in the first place. It has gotten better, but it still is not great. It looks ok, but is not very...
Good news, or so I think. I tracked down the PNY Geforce 3 ti200 I sold to a friend about a year ago. He said it has the Conexeant chip that I am looking for.
I am going to borrow it on Sunday and see what I think. I may just get him a new Geforce 3 and switch with him.
I would do it...
Guspaz, I have looked at the ATI 8500 and the doggle. I emailed ATI but have not heard back on that one yet. Searching on the web for that answer is a mixed bag. Good idea, I will have to persue it.
I am not necessarily looking for a "cheap" card, but I don't want to spend more than $100 for...
Guspaz, I think I may be confused, but I go through most of my life that way, so I am used to it. I mostly do not want to go to the RGB output, I just want S-video out of the card. I have looked a little bit at the ATI doggle, but it mostly comes on much higher dollar cards. I am very tempted...
Good suggestions, but I don't want to mess with the composite connection. My TV has that on one of the inputs at least. It is not a high dollar tv, just a regular 32", but I want the best picture out of the car possible. While I am not opposed to driver hacks and the like, I don't want to do...
Thanks again Gonad, I am glad to hear that I am on the right track and that it is worth the extra effort. I think will have to look into the ati 9000 a little more.
On a side note, I got looking through my drawer of broken bits, and I drug out an old Geforce 2 MSI card with TV out. Of course...
I like the 8500, and it has its fans for TV out, but for the most part it is not a favorite. The speed of the 4200 is not really a big deal to me. I had a Geforce 3 ti200 (of course, I did not check what I thought of the TV out at the time) and a 4200 (same, no idea about the TV out). I am...
Gonad, thanks for the comments. That certainly gives me pause. Do you have any other suggestions? The one with the Conexect chip, how was the TV out?
Does anyone have any suggestions on a way to get a card with Conexect TV out?
Man, this is really getting to be more of a quest than I would...
Here is a little more on the Conexant chip. Conexant Chip info in Businesswire
I did find it interesting that it cost an extra $7~$10 US to put that 3rd party TV out chip on there.
I thinks some of the GeForce 4 cards have it also.
Oh, one article said the FX5200 had an integrated controler...
Yea, here is what I found out about the Gainward Geforce3. It uses the Conexant CX25871 TV processor chip, which seems to be far the favorite over at http://tvtool.info/. It has a much better picture and offers much higher resolutions.
Here is a good picture of the chip itself on one of the...
Bluemax, I don't mind at all. That is I guess what I really want to know, but there seems to be no good, through articles on which TV out is best and why. I can find pleanty of info on the 3d aspects the cards, but I really wish that the major review sites would at least include a small blurb...
Thanks for the replies. I have heard that the ATI 8500/9100 TV out was not great. I have also heard that the Geforce 3 was much better than any of the other Nvidia cards mostly due to the Phillips or Conexant chip for TV decoding. I really with someone with the knowledge and equipment (ie...
Odeen, thanks. I know the 7500 is not dx8 or dx9 complient. That is my cheap fall back. I can just thought I might add a little bit to get a lot more card. I guess I should have said the ati 8500/9100 instead...maybe I will do that...
Yea, I guess I should have been more specific. I know the text under Windows is fuzzy on all of them. Matrox is supposed to be the best, but I just can't pay that much for a 2d card when I can get the ATI 7500 so cheap. The real pull is having a very modern DX9 card for only $70, even...
OK, I have a computer that is hooked to my 32" tv for playing back movies, dvd, music etc over my network from my big computer. Problem is the old TNT 2 may be dying. The picture is getting worse, and it was not great to begin with.
OK, I don't play many games on this, but I could. It is a...
I have not found a trick to this board. It seemed to work pretty much as advertised for me. What is it doing and what are you trying to get out of it? My board acted a little screwey early on, but it seem to have smoothed out. The 8k9a does not come with a fan on the heat sink, so I added...
swNYC, glad to hear all is working out. So far I have been very pleased with my Epox 8k9a without any of the bells or whistles. It was a nothing to write home about over the Shuttle AK35 it replaced, but the usb 2.0 was something I might get some use out of. I really had no interest...
Latest update: RMA back to Newegg. Motherboard died today, blank screen on post, continous beeping pattern
That sucks. Maybe that was the problem, not the 9700. That does not make me feel good about my board....at least it was Newegg, they are pretty good about RMA's and such..
swNYC, sorry to hear the 9700 is still being a problem. I got my 8K9A today and my 2400xp. Runs fine at 166mhz, so I thought I would set it up like you to see what I could see...running 13.5x166mhz for 2250 or so at 1.9v. Getting 35C with a nice watercooler, so you are doing pretty damn good...
swNYC, nice job! Great to know the Radeon 9700 Pro will run stable. How stable is it at 166fsb? When are you going for the big 200mhz? You have that pc3200 like mine, so you know you want to...I should get my board and 2400xp Thursday or Fri, so I am excited to see what I can get with the...
I really appreciate the input..I already took the plunge since I needed it pretty soon. I went with the Epox 8k9a. I really feel for everyone with the ati 9700 problem. Stupid agp 8x. Well, I hope it works ok with my geforce 4 4200. I will let everyone know how it goes. Don't you just love...
Newegg has the Epox 8K9A board which is a KT400 for $85. I am leaning that way since it will let me have all my multipliers unlocked on the new 2400XP I am getting. I am trying to find someone who has purchased this board, but what I have read has been all good..
Well, I want a new board to go with the 2400XP I am ordering. My dilema is which way to go. The 8k9a is suppose to have the lower multipliers unlocked, which is a nice feature since I don't feel like wrapping wire around pins. But, it does not have the history that the 8K5A2 has.
So, which way...
Hey cPKain, I am in the same boat. I am leaning towards the 8K9A because I don't want the raid or serial ata. Just want a simple board to overclock with my water cooling and a new 2400 XP. The 8K9A is supposed to unlock all the multipliers for the 2400XP, which is why I am leaning towards it...
I have had a strange problem lately, so I have some observations. Last night I was able to format a drive using the IBM Disk 2000 software under WinXP. I had to have the disk manager software in place or it only saw 32gb. It runs my 45GB drive under WinXP fine. What I cannot figure out is...
Nice sounding card so far. I will still stick with a Geforce 3 as my next upgrade because they have always given so much more in the are of drivers while ATI has always struggled. Speed is great, but it should have been on the store shelves by now with final drivers that don't show giant...
Damn, it sure is hot in California..
Strange problem. I had an old 300a Celeron that did that. I ran it overclocked for a month or two, and it would no longer run stock speed without problems. I assumed I had somehow "set" something in the cpu so it was not happy at the lower speed...
Played Nascar 3 a while back at a big lan party..for many, many hours...It was truely weird trying to drive home.."hey, why should I slow down..i'll just bounce off those other cars...hey, wait minute.."
Mono or stereo? Mono has two wires...one pos, one neg. Stereo has two channels and usually contains 3 wires, one for the left, one for the right and one common ground wire. The newer ones are very hard to splice since they often only have a coating to shield the 3 wires. Radio Shack used to...
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