Guest SirGaz Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 Just thought I'd let you all know that I am the proud owner of a brand spanking new Radeon 9800 Pro. Boy does it fly. Now, where's Half Life 2 when you need it.
Guest Brody Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 I ordered a new PC last night, P4 2.53Ghz, 512Mb DDR333 RAM, alu case, 420W PSU with adjustable fans. I'm gonna take bits from my current PC and put them in new one to complete it (100gig HD, GF3 ti 200, 17" flatscreen monitor etc.) I want it now!! :lol:2015_case.jpg
Guest siu99spj Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 Gggrrrrr! :evil: Where'd you get it and how much for (Graphics card, not PC)? Looking but so far my wallet ain't fat enough. Its the kind of card you'd need to remortgage your house for :lol: (If I had a house to mortgage that is!) Any driver tetchiness yet? Heard ATi drivers were a little iffy at times... I'm slowly building towards an ultimate PC, including fun things like Springdale board, 1GB DDR 400Mhz Dual Channel RAM, 300GB (At least, 2 120GB SATA's and 1 80GB PATA) HDD, Sony DRU-510A, etc. etc. So far got the speakers and Flatscreen (Hitatchi CML174) as they'll work on old PC (Crumbling 1GHz Athlon with GF2Pro GTS), just need to finally decide on decent GPU.
Guest Brody Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 Here are some prices, the top one is Scan.co.uk and the bottom prices are from Dabs.com :lol:9800.JPG
Guest siu99spj Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 As I said, I don't have £320 for a GPU, yet :twisted: However, if I knew it really did make things go like a bat out of hell AND the drivers were nVidia-like stable (My brother has no end of problems with his AIW) then maybe I'd consider stretching. Also, how noisy is it? I can't stand noisy PCs (And hence no GeForceFX for me! :lol: ).
Guest SirGaz Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 Naw, Dabs are stupidly expensive. Got mine from Watford Electronics. It's a Sapphire board and came with Return To Castle Wolfenstein and IGI2 all for £343. Included 3 day delivery (next day was an extra £1). Haven't had any problems with the drivers at all, in fact the thing is solid as a rock so far. Only had it for 2 days though so I haven't really pushed it. I need some more cooling in the PC before I really start to clock this baby, case fan is a must and I'm thinking about a PCI fan as well. Anyone know if it's better to suck air in through a case fan or blow it out?
Guest Brody Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 Naw, Dabs are stupidly expensiveHmmm It's a Sapphire board and came with Return To Castle Wolfenstein and IGI2 all for £343. Included 3 day delivery (next day was an extra £1). Hmmm! Well i think that my Dabs.com screenshot showed prices well under £300 didn't it!!? Yup, £275 including VAT for a Gigabyte Radeon 9800 with DVI and VO!! Ps. I aknowledge the fact that you're getting the games but you don't buy a card for the games!
Guest siu99spj Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 I need some more cooling in the PC before I really start to clock this baby, case fan is a must and I'm thinking about a PCI fan as well. Anyone know if it's better to suck air in through a case fan or blow it out? Depends where your putting your fan. Usually, you suck air in at the bottom front of the case and let the area around your PSU blow it out. And usually you either balance in with out or aim for slightly more airflow in than out. Assuming your case isn't airtight, the extra air will be expelled naturally. I don't use these PCI exhaust fans as they are horribly noisy and don't really help much, case fans (In proper mounting positions) are much better. I cooled my entire system by over 10C with just 1 silent 80mm fan in the front! :shock:
Guest SirGaz Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 Look again at the sapphire board. Watford offer boards a lot cheaper but they weren't in stock, just like Dabs. I'm not saying Watford are the best mind, they were just the cheapest I found in the 5 minutes I was searching. Did find one for £225 but you have to be a reseller. If anyone on here is then I can give you the company's details. I tried to get one but they refused point blank, don't sell to the public.
Guest SirGaz Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 sui99spj - cheers. Don't really understand cooling much so tar :lol:
Guest Brody Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 Still finding Dabs a tenner cheaper and Watford Electronics/SavaStore do have Saphire board in stock!! 5 if i'm reading it correctly!!SavaStore.JPG
Guest SirGaz Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 Still finding Dabs a tenner cheaper and Watford Electronics/SavaStore do have Saphire board in stock!! 5 if i'm reading it correctly!! The sapphire board from Watford is £334.88 The sapphire board from Dabs is £358.01 Difference is £23.13 That is according to your screen shots.
Guest Brody Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 Yep but i was comparing cheapest to cheapest :wink:
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 Tried www.aria.co.uk www.ebuyer.com or www.komplett.co.uk ? The'yre generally the cheapest about. Hopefully i'll be able to get a Saphire Rad 9500 Pro from there at the end of the summer if they're still stocking them.
Guest siu99spj Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 The'yre generally the cheapest about. Hopefully i'll be able to get a Saphire Rad 9500 Pro from there at the end of the summer if they're still stocking them. You better be quick Mono. ATi have stopped making the 9500 for the 9200, 9600 and 9800's. You planning to do the mod job of getting a 9500Pro to 9700 levels?
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 Yep i know, matter of getting the money for it though... And yeah, you can pretty much soft mod a 9500 pro to 9700 (pro ?) specs :lol:
Guest siu99spj Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 Just the 9700 unless you got some really good silicon RAM chips. And decent cooling. Its always money though ain't it? Doesn't your cushy 'Bigger brother' job give you enough money? I heard you guys got paid bucketloads... Me, as a telecoms engineer, is still trying to figure out how he got £300 more in his bank this month by doing nothing...
Guest SirGaz Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 Tried www.aria.co.uk www.ebuyer.com or www.komplett.co.uk ? The'yre generally the cheapest about. Hopefully i'll be able to get a Saphire Rad 9500 Pro from there at the end of the summer if they're still stocking them. ebuyer didn't have any in stock when I tried, but that was a week ago so they could easily have had another delivery. Never heard of the other two, are they any good?
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 Aria is very good (just dont try to return or cancel an order!). Next day delivery before 12pm i think, well good. Komplett i've had less experience with but do some nice discounts. siu99spj: i'm only a mere yini peon, i get paid a 5th-10th of the big boys ;p
Guest cthulhu Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 ...and if something goes wrong with your order at Dabs you're in trouble....unless you like spending hours on the phone every day for a week as each time you slowly move down from '27th in the queue' just to get thru to a brain-dead customer service rep who hasn't got a clue where your order is, why you havn't got it, couldn't give a toss anyway, and cannot transfer you to a superviso Aaaaaarrrggghh!!
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted June 4, 2003 Report Posted June 4, 2003 Hehe, don't get me started on problems i had returning an Aria order. I still shop with them though as they're damn cheap and you cant beat next day delivery :lol:
Guest siu99spj Posted June 4, 2003 Report Posted June 4, 2003 ...and if something goes wrong with your order at Dabs you're in trouble....unless you like spending hours on the phone every day for a week as each time you slowly move down from '27th in the queue' just to get thru to a brain-dead customer service rep who hasn't got a clue where your order is, why you havn't got it, couldn't give a toss anyway, and cannot transfer you to a superviso Aaaaaarrrggghh!! Weird, when I last had problems with an order from Dabs (Ordered CDRW and mobo, CDRW delayed so asked to be split, got CDRW next day BEFORE mobo which was day after that!!!!! :shock:) I got through to them no trouble and a perfectly nice customer rep. Mind you, that was 3 years ago... Still waiting for TFT monitor I ordered last week... First E-Mail gone, waiting for response. Don't want to have to get my flying penguins out again... :twisted:
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