10-27-2003, 05:53 AM
I've been seeing refurbished 9800 pro for $280. I bought Saphire Radeon 9800 pro 128 recently for $300. I just finished benchmarking/tweaking my new AMD 2800 XP Barton machine's performance. I'm getting ~5950 3Dmarks (1024x768) consistently without artifacts. The CPU is running 2.2 Ghz at 96F at idle and 113F under heavy load. The GPU runs about 10F hotter.
My old machine scored 97 3DMarks. For most games I was running FPS were in the 20 - 30 FPS range, and now this new one is getting 400-600 FPS.
My old machine scored 97 3DMarks. For most games I was running FPS were in the 20 - 30 FPS range, and now this new one is getting 400-600 FPS.