Sapphire Atlantis 9600

[lazerbeam]

Just purchased a Sapphire Atlantis 9600 (ATI chipset) w/256Mb DDR. I plan to use in on a Asus A7N8X-E mobo. I notice in mobo manual to only use an AGP card that uses 1.5Volts. Since the Vidoe card is an OEM no specs are included. Went to the Sapphire site but no luck on specs. Does anyone know what the operating voltage is for this vboard?

[Direct1]

That card will work fine. All 4x/8x cards are 1.5v. Look at Peter M's posts here...

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=150473&highlight=4x%2F8x

Good luck! :D

[G]

I have built a system under the same 1.5V limit for a Sapphire 9600 Pro 128MB and these newer cards use this voltage.

So you are ok.

[lazerbeam]

Thanks to all... got it up and running this AM.

[megaspazz]

well- do you like it?

(and what did you have before?)

[lazerbeam]

Its very fast and so far, very stable. My old machine was an AMD 2400+ w/Sapphire Radeon 9100 and a lower end MSI Mobo. The new machine is an AMD 3200+XP w/1024GB DDR400 ram, 80 Gb Maxtor ATA133 Hard drive (plus 180 Gb hanging off externally), the Sapphire Radeon 9600 w/256Mb DDR 52X CD and an NEC CD-RW / DVD +/- R/RW combo drive, and an ASUS A7N8X-E mobo. I would highly recommend this mobo to someone that was not going to go the 64 bit processor route right away. It has plenty of USB ports, Firewire, two lan ports, and incredible sound capability built in. Overclocking is probably not as easy as what I've had in the past with Abit boards. Overall its not bleeding-edge technology, but a very nice machine.

[megaspazz]

sounds good.

[G]

Agree, sounds like a nice system.

Happy gaming :D