ATI Steps Up to 9800 XT Overclocking

[causticVapor]

The reset thing is one of the few areas where ATi lagged significantly behind nVidia, but now they have caught up.

nVidia drivers for a long time have given advance warnings of the hardware (GPU Core) being pushed too far - they freeze, then momentarily allow the user to exit from a 3D application before the system locks up. On ATis, the system would simply lock. I have the 3.8's, but haven't tested the video card reset thing yet.

I also like how ATi have unified the D3D/OpenGL panels into one and made the presets far more acceptable.

[Someone Stupid]

I haven't tried overclocking either. But I'm running a 9800 with a 9800 Pro's bios, so I'm already pushing it. I prefered the old seperate pages for DX and OGL due to the fact that it runs D9 better than OGL - but on the 9800 Pro it doesn't matter, though for lesser cards I could see people wanting to change it up a bit.

[smactek]

I can finally retire my old 3dfx 3000, and get a real Video Card. Sounds Sweet. Guess I better dig deep. Looks like the 9800 Pro isnt getting any cheaper.:D

[Theneed4speed]

for the 9800 pros, take a look at the hercules. I'm sure you will be impressed. I blew my ATI up (got pushed up out of the slot a bit and poooof) and i went a bought a hercules. simply awesome. from the heat sinks on everything to the stylish little led blue light on the gpu. only thing that kinda sucks is their drivers release. they take about a week after ATI releases them to get thiers up and going. but its only a week.

[Bat25]

Eh, ATI regular drivers or Omega leaked Dell work best for me anyway. I have the Herc 9800 Pro - such a pretty card ;)