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Sapphire 9600XT refurb bad?

My system is running predictably if not stable. Everytime I play AA, sometime in the first 10 minutes or so the card will do a vid reset. So the screen flickers, goes away, then comes back. Takes too long but it hasn't happened in a crucial spot yet. After the reset I can run it for hours...
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- Post #21
- Apr 18, 2005
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Sapphire 9600XT refurb bad?

I have been playing around with it. Bumped the agp slot up to 1.6v. Good advice on the omega drivers and I can OC fine now. It is now running core of 550 and memory at 350. 3dmark 2001 at almost 14500. If I go back to stock settings I get less than 13400. I went back to omega drivers...
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- Post #16
- Apr 11, 2005
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Sapphire 9600XT refurb bad?

Motherboard is a P4P800 and is only a week old. And yes I did install 9c. The card acted the same with my other mb.
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- Post #12
- Apr 2, 2005
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Sapphire 9600XT refurb bad?

Fast Writes was the problem with this card. Set everything else back to default and my 3dmark score even went up about 500 points! All in all it seems to be working out. Even though the frame rates are lower than I expected, game play is fine and after 2 weeks of tinkering it appears to be...
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- Post #10
- Apr 1, 2005
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Sapphire 9600XT refurb bad?

Couple of updates. 1) I guess I am keeping the board. 2) I downloaded the omega drivers and the vid card locked up both in 3dmark and in game. 3) I reinstalled the newest ati official drivers without catalyst. I noticed that omega recommended to turn off fast writes which I did. I also...
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- Post #7
- Apr 1, 2005
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Sapphire 9600XT refurb bad?

My system is a P4 running at 3.24 and I get around 12,700 in 3dmark 2001. I am getting disappointing results in Americas army. Running at Normal details and 1280x1024 my frame rates drop down to the 20?s sometimes. In 3dmark, and in games I noticed the movement starts getting choppy, like...
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- Post #3
- Mar 29, 2005
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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WinXP- How to get sound from the internal speaker?

This a major annoyance with me. If you buy a branded computer, sounds come out of the case speaker. So what if it is mono and crappy. At least you have sound without having to have external speakers. I think this is a major drawback to building your own computer. I do have a nice speaker...
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- Post #18
- Mar 18, 2005
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Sapphire 9600XT refurb bad?

Just got a Sapphire 9600XT from newegg and noticed two weird things... 1) A capacitor is sticking up off the board a few millimeters (1/8 of an inch or so) unlike the others. You can move it and it seems it would break off easily because it is only held on by the two thin leeds soldered to...
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- Thread
- Mar 17, 2005
- Replies: 21
- Forum: Graphics Cards

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