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02-04-2005, 04:09 PM (This post was last modified: 02-04-2005, 04:13 PM by kandrathe.)
Drasca,Feb 3 2005, 06:01 PM Wrote:What were your symptoms? I know mine here.
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Yes, sounds familiar. Mostly that white pixel artifacting, especially on water effects. My problem was that the stock fan, and even the upgrade I installed were not sufficient to cool the card. By the time I tried a huge one the damage had been done. I think Saphire 9800's would be a good choice only for someone who was going to strip them down and go straight to water cooling. But, now for someone with that kind of money will go straight for the top of the line anyway.

I ended up with a special MSI version of the dumbed down 9800XT that had about 5x the heat sink surface area. More like the second photo below.

Compare this very small cooling aparatus;

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with the more recent re-release (although mine also has a GPU fan);

[Image: 14-102-294-02.JPG]

Yes, Mr. Shirley, size makes a difference. :)
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Warhammer 40,000 - by Zarathustra - 09-24-2004, 05:09 AM
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Warhammer 40,000 - by pakman - 09-25-2004, 12:13 AM
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Warhammer 40,000 - by Zarathustra - 09-26-2004, 10:25 PM
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Warhammer 40,000 - by Zarathustra - 09-27-2004, 03:03 PM
Warhammer 40,000 - by WarLocke - 09-27-2004, 03:18 PM
Warhammer 40,000 - by jahcs - 09-27-2004, 04:36 PM
Warhammer 40,000 - by CelticHound - 09-27-2004, 08:53 PM
Warhammer 40,000 - by Yrrek - 09-28-2004, 01:59 AM
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Warhammer 40,000 - by Dethseeker - 10-01-2004, 04:17 PM
Warhammer 40,000 - by kandrathe - 01-27-2005, 06:07 PM
Warhammer 40,000 - by jahcs - 01-27-2005, 07:09 PM
Warhammer 40,000 - by Drasca - 01-30-2005, 08:13 PM
Warhammer 40,000 - by kandrathe - 01-30-2005, 09:45 PM
Warhammer 40,000 - by jahcs - 01-31-2005, 04:49 PM
Warhammer 40,000 - by pakman - 01-31-2005, 05:49 PM
Warhammer 40,000 - by Yrrek - 02-01-2005, 04:19 AM
Warhammer 40,000 - by Drasca - 02-02-2005, 04:35 AM
Warhammer 40,000 - by Drasca - 02-03-2005, 09:54 AM
Warhammer 40,000 - by kandrathe - 02-03-2005, 02:07 PM
Warhammer 40,000 - by Drasca - 02-03-2005, 11:01 PM
Warhammer 40,000 - by kandrathe - 02-04-2005, 04:09 PM
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