Radeon 9600 pro

[DanielHerrmann]

You all recommended the Sapphire 9600 pro for $66 on Newegg. I got it, installed it fine... as my last post said.

I got BF2 from ebay the other day.. installed.. played a little on LOW settings and it did fine. I upped everything to medium settings and it was little jumpy. I turned off all of the anti aliasing and dianamic light and shadows. It looks pretty good and its not jumpy at all.

I wanted to thank all of you for your help!

Since you all seem very smart, and I now trust your advice even more than before:
Kingston value ram : 2x512 for around $70 on newegg? Should I get that with my current 2x256? Or get better quality 2x256 and run 4x256?

 

[SolMiester]

BF2 runs better with 2Gb RAM, how many slots do you have available?, is it a dual channel board/CPU? Details details!

 

[DanielHerrmann]

I have 4 slots dual channel. I don't really want to pay for 4x512.. So I was going to possibly get 2x512 and the move the 2x256 over to have 1.5g?

 

[deepred98]

i don't think your computer would be able to fully use the 2 gigs of ram. There was a thread sometime ago talking about how he didn't see any improvement going from 1 gig to two gig.

don't get 4x256 cuz you'll be a lot better off uprading in the future with 2x512

 

[mwmorph]

i have a suggestion. keep your 512mb and add the 2x512mb for a total fo 1.5gb. bf2 loves 1.3gb or more and the 2t drop wont be as bad as having 512mb of ram, because the quantity will make up for it.

 

[DanielHerrmann]

Yeah, I dont really want 2gigs. I have 2x256. I said I was thinking about getting 2x512 Kingston Valueram (abour $70 on newegg). I would move my 2x256 to slot 2 and 4, and have the 2x512 in slot 1 and 3. Run 1.5.
My question I guess was would I be better off buying that ram at $70 or buy another 2x256 (to end up with 4x256) of a little better qualilty?

Again... THANKS to everyone who helped me decide on my 9600 pro!

 

[mwmorph]

amd64 is mostly quantity over quality. not so sure about p4s. what is your processor?

 

[DanielHerrmann]

2.8 p4

 

[imhungry]

No, don't get better quality if it's more expensive..

your ram speed will be limited to the slowest stick in your setup anyway.
You should try to get a gig either way. But if you like to play BF2 alot, I'd just sell the 2x256mb and drop for a decent 2x1gb set.

 

[DanielHerrmann]

How will my gaming change with 2gig instead of 512mb? It just loads a little slow... but other than that I wouldn't think it would help anything else?

 

[beggerking]

Originally posted by: DanielHerrmann
You all recommended the Sapphire 9600 pro for $66 on Newegg. I got it, installed it fine... as my last post said.

I got BF2 from ebay the other day.. installed.. played a little on LOW settings and it did fine. I upped everything to medium settings and it was little jumpy. I turned off all of the anti aliasing and dianamic light and shadows. It looks pretty good and its not jumpy at all.

I wanted to thank all of you for your help!

Since you all seem very smart, and I now trust your advice even more than before:
Kingston value ram : 2x512 for around $70 on newegg? Should I get that with my current 2x256? Or get better quality 2x256 and run 4x256?

have you tried to flash it to an XT? greatly improves speed for free.

 

[beggerking]

have you tried to flash it to an XT? greatly improves speed for free.

here are the bios.Text

 

[DanielHerrmann]

hmmmm... Does that document tell me how to do that? I'm not really familiar with that. I'll try to do that when I get home tonight.

 

[Zebo]

Thats nice - 9600 pro is still a good card I play farcry/kohan 2 and civ 4 in my 2.6C office machine at work and it runs fine at 10x12. ( btw- I work 3 or 4 days a week at site so I'm not "stealing" employers time)

 

[DanielHerrmann]

By flashing it does that mean oc? I don't really want to fry it... Its just got the heatsync and the fan and its a got a sound card right below it.

And there are like 6 for the 9600 pro. which do I use?

 

[beggerking]

Originally posted by: DanielHerrmann
By flashing it does that mean oc? I don't really want to fry it... Its just got the heatsync and the fan and its a got a sound card right below it.

And there are like 6 for the 9600 pro. which do I use?

9600 pros are underclocked from factory. Take a look at your card's memory manufacturer, and try to use the one with same memory manufacturer.

If u don't want to overclock it, flash it with one that says 500/300.

b/w, whats the last 2 digits on your memory chip ?
whats your cards brand?

 

[DanielHerrmann]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102510


This is what you all recommended as a cheap card to play bf2

 

[beggerking]

Originally posted by: DanielHerrmann
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102510


This is what you all recommended as a cheap card to play bf2

you are linking to a 9600xt card... is your card 9600 pro or xt?
if its 9600 xt, then there is no need to flash..

 

[DanielHerrmann]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102409
Sorry!

 

[beggerking]

ok.. take a look at your ram chip
who manufactured the chip? you should see a numbers on your chip

what is the last 2 numbers? it should be after the '-'

 

[DanielHerrmann]

I am not at home. But you want me to look at the chip in the video card? Which part is the chip?

 

[beggerking]

Originally posted by: DanielHerrmann
I am not at home. But you want me to look at the chip in the video card? Which part is the chip?

umm.. you should have 4 or 8 of them.. they are rectangular/square black colored soldered onto the board...

 

[DanielHerrmann]

oh ok. I think there are 4... I'll check later. This matters as to which one of those flash things I download?

 

[beggerking]

Originally posted by: DanielHerrmann
oh ok. I think there are 4... I'll check later. This matters as to which one of those flash things I download?

Yes. has to be same manufacturer... I mean.. its best if they are same manufacturer.. and also its speed (the last 2 digits on them)

 

[DanielHerrmann]

I will post that tomorrow.

The software that came with it has an overclocking function. I shouldn't play with that should I? I dont want to run the risk of frying it.