Sapphire Radeon 9500 128 mb non-Pro 160.00 SHIPPED at Newegg

[xppchen]

just got mine (3/19/03) from medianettech.com, and it cannot be hacked.

 

[scauffiel]

Originally posted by: burrens
This sux, I just got my card from Newegg today, and already from the bios screen I get artifacts. Hasn't even booted to windows and its already messing up. Are these cards refurbished or something? Now I am afraid they won't believe when I tell them what happened. They are probably going to think I couldn't mod it. My FSB is at 175, but I have an Epox 8rda+ so the agp bus is locked right?

Same here. Already have an RMA request in to AllStarShop - I'm going to try again though.

S.

 

[sambao21]

So it sounds like most people have been getting boards that can't be modded. Hell it sounds like people are getting cards that don't work. Makes me wonder whether I should order one or not. Any success stories from newegg?

 

[markrb]

I got mine from allstarshop.com and it is the hackable red board.
They have a specific page for this particular version. You have to
specify the Sapphire red board. It has the right picture and a big disclaimer
that they don't recomend you hack it.

I have successfully hacked my card and so far it works perfect although I
haven't gained a ton in 3dmark2001.

Mark

 

[Medellon]

Got my card from Newegg today and did the soft mod but I got the dreaded checkerboard pattern. It wasn't real bad and in some games was not noticeable but in Morrowind all water was checkerboarded which is unacceptable. I was one of the lucky ones though to get a PNY 128MB GeForce 4200 from Best Buy for $79.99 so this card is going back.

 

[blackinches]

that looks just like the 9700, is that the correct picture?

 

[Outrager]

Originally posted by: blackinches
that looks just like the 9700, is that the correct picture?

Um.... Have you even read the thread?

 

[Sarcophaguy]

Got mine, but I'm pretty sure it's going back. I didn't even get a chance to try the mod, because this, this, and this happened. I just couldn't believe I was getting these artifacts on the boot screen as well as in WinXP. Anyone ever see anything like this? I'm admittedly testing the card on an older system (CUSL2-C 700MHz 384mb PC133), but I've read that people can get this card to work on this board.

 

[Kung Lau]

I just got mine today too.

How many different types of memory are on these 9500s?

I see this one here.

But mine is:

Infineon
DDR SGRAM
HYB25D128323C-3.3
A
0248 SUU49892

Do the memory types make a difference in the mod?

 

[sambao21]

well looks like newegg is out of stock on this item, oh well, it didn't sound like there were many success stories. How does the 9500 np compare to nVidia cards? is it equivalent to a ti4200?

 

[markrb]

Do the memory types make a difference in the mod?

No, not in the mod, but in the overclocking ability.
It seems the worst memory for overlcoking is the Inferion 3.3.
I actually have that memory.
There are three types of memory known for the red board.

Over at the amdmb.com forum there seems to be a strange pattern emerging.
More people with the Nforce2 chipset are getting it to work then any other and
by a good bit. It might just be luck, but who knows. It might have something to
do with the Nforce2 locking the AGP bus speed.

Mark

 

[Kung Lau]

Ugh, that's not looking good then.

Appears that they are OOS on this card now.


Well, guess i'll have to take it home and try it now.

 

[JoZerg]

Just got mine(3/20) Black PCB Time to RMA

 

[StayPuff]

Originally posted by: JoZerg
Just got mine(3/20) Black PCB Time to RMA

Did you explicitly order a red one?

 

[StayPuff]

Originally posted by: markrb

Do the memory types make a difference in the mod?

No, not in the mod, but in the overclocking ability.
It seems the worst memory for overlcoking is the Inferion 3.3.
I actually have that memory.
There are three types of memory known for the red board.

Over at the amdmb.com forum there seems to be a strange pattern emerging.
More people with the Nforce2 chipset are getting it to work then any other and
by a good bit. It might just be luck, but who knows. It might have something to
do with the Nforce2 locking the AGP bus speed.

Mark

Which forum (at amdmb.com) were they talking about it?

 

[Kung Lau]

Well, to hedge my bets, I've just ordered the ATI 9500 Pro (refurbished) for $147 shipped.

If the mod doesn't take, I'll stick with the 9500 pro. If the mod does take, I'll sell the 9500 pro. (which seem to be very hard to find nowdays)

 

[iguanaman]

I got my red PCB version from Newegg yesterday. No joy here either. Really a shame it's a sweet card, no lock-ups at all with the 9700 mod, but with enough artifacts to RMA. It seems each "defective" card is different..mine only has white checkers in Max's sunglasses in the lobby scene, the troll in 3DM03, and plenty of black lines and dots in DoomIII test. Oh well.

 

[StayPuff]

Originally posted by: Kung Lau
Well, to hedge my bets, I've just ordered the ATI 9500 Pro (refurbished) for $147 shipped.

If the mod doesn't take, I'll stick with the 9500 pro. If the mod does take, I'll sell the 9500 pro. (which seem to be very hard to find nowdays)

Sorry, but the 9500pro doesn't mod.

From this website:

The 9500 Pro? - Unfortunately, no. The Pro version already has the full 8 pipelines enabled, so doing the mod accomplishes nothing. The issue with the Pro is that it only has a 128-bit memory bus, a physical limitation of the board itself. Sorry!

 

[Kung Lau]

Originally posted by: StayPuff

Originally posted by: Kung Lau
Well, to hedge my bets, I've just ordered the ATI 9500 Pro (refurbished) for $147 shipped.

If the mod doesn't take, I'll stick with the 9500 pro. If the mod does take, I'll sell the 9500 pro. (which seem to be very hard to find nowdays)

Sorry, but the 9500pro doesn't mod.

From this website:

The 9500 Pro? - Unfortunately, no. The Pro version already has the full 8 pipelines enabled, so doing the mod accomplishes nothing. The issue with the Pro is that it only has a 128-bit memory bus, a physical limitation of the board itself. Sorry!

What are you talking about? I said I was sticking with the 9500 pro if the 9500np doesn't mod.
I know the 9500pro doesn't mod.

I was under the assumption that the only "mod" was the 9500np to 9700; however, you could overclock any of these boards with the appropriate bios.

 

[lazy232]

Recieved my Sapphire red 9500np today from NewEgg. Softmod worked, confirmed with 3dmark fill-rate test. I don't have any checkerboarding or any other strange artifacts. I installed Rage3D tweak 3.8 and overclocked to 300/300 = 13,250 + 3dmark on an Asus A7V333 with a 2700+ cpu.

Sweet

 

[xenolith]

I just got my order for a red/L memory PCB from Newegg. But, there's one big problem. It's not what I ordered. They sent me the black card. I'm soooo mad they sent me this worthless piece of junk! It even says "RED%" right on the invoice. If they ran out of the red cards, why didn't they show it OOS? This is something I would've expected from a company like EMS.

Now I have to RMA it, wait for a refund, and then hunt for another one elsewhere. This is the first time I ever have had a problem with Newegg, so I guess they are mortal after all.

 

[StayPuff]

What are you talking about? I said I was sticking with the 9500 pro if the 9500np doesn't mod.
I know the 9500pro doesn't mod.

My mistake -- I misread your post. I was under the impression that you were going to try and mod the ATi 9500Pro.

 

[Mark]

got mine today, but they sent me the black pcb version:disgust:

 

[ElDiablo]

I too got the black!

 

[Racketear]

Originally posted by: Mark
got mine today, but they sent me the black pcb version:disgust:

me too, back she goes.