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looks sorta plain, might wanna redesign like doggie said, make it look more attractive so more people will sign up...

If anyone's interested heres some benchmarks I ran on all of the hacked and stock drivers.. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=ST&f=5&t=5619

Running an Illegal Key is Illegal, making copies for for friends is, using other people's keys is illegal, In other words, just buy a legit key and it'll work.. Btw, the guide on msfn will tell you how to enter the legit key when you bought it..

Plain, Old,

You should be able to enable Fast Writes in the BIOS, else in the advanced properties of your video card...

Broke the 4K Barrier Score: 4099.. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=441173 Now runnin my Radeon 9800 almost at Pro speeds.. 290mhz/290mhz (core/mem)

Yes, I am wondering the same thing, so far my Radeon 9800 already 0wned one Geforce FX card!.. rofl...

New Score 3915 on my Radeon 9800 (SoftModded).. Watch me break the 4K barrier soon http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=439949

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/artic...&aid=604&page=1 Benchmarks tested with a Radeon 9700 8x, I was actually thinking of upgrading my mobo for 8x, coz I was thinking it would give me atleast 25% boost, but now I seen this I changed my mind and I'll just go with a new cpu upgrade...

Cool, check out the benchmarks I did, the 9500>9800 is a major improvement.. about 50% in overall performance, which is allot for a video card, especially since it only takes some hacked drivers...

Rofl..

Some local stores might still have them, or pricewatch.com some stores still have little left of em...

What does this have to do with my scores? And btw, I would suppose its your driver, be sure its installed properly, if you are running the latest version you might wanna try to go to an earlier version..

Here they are, did the benchmarks in 3D Mark 2003, with same settings each time, these scores are on my lower end processor so if anyone else decides to get one it might perform better with a higher end processor... Radeon 9500 Stock > Radeon 9800 (SoftMod).. about 50% increasement in performance Hope this is useful to some people here at msfn..

I'm checking it out tonight.. Thanx for the info Speedz..

Drew, click my sig, you'll see the actual picture, thats the red PCB (the board that everything is soldered on) and the new revised ones are with a Black PCB, with a L shaped memory I mean the way they are soldered on there, like mine has a bunch above the HSF, then it has other half besides the HSF.. which sort of looks like an L-Shape... Heres a pic I found on google.. See how the memory is soldered on? that's the L shape I are talking about.. Also, theres a 60% chance for this to work since ATi binned these cards meaning they tested 9700's and if they didnt perform as they should they were sold as 9500's.. if it doesnt work you dont mess up your card.. it'll still work as a 9500 when you put back old drivers.. I am having 5% overall of what they call "artifacts" which are checkerboards and other crap (sorta glitches) goin over the screen.. I can normally not notice it at all, I have only seen it in MOHAA on the guy's hand and on the ATI demos I can see it very slightly on the walls (gotta be way up close for that s***).. Hope this helps any...

whoa... good news, the 9800 Driver is also out!! I'm trying this today when I get back to school.. hope it performs better

Drew, if the card has the older PCB it should work.. check out the card.. if it had a RED PCB and a L shaped memory it should work and it also has to be a Radeon 9500 128MB Non-Pro btw, Got mine for $153.. lol Now almost all online shops have new boards recieved from ATi.. They are now black with a silver HSF on it..

Lol, those of you (like me) that have had luck and recieved a Radeon 9500 that could be converted to a 9700, theres good news.. now they're also working on a new hacked driver that will perform as a Radeon 9800!!! They've also released the hacked drivers for Catalyst 3.2.. here you can download the 9500 > 9700 mod.. http://www.maxdownloads.com/~ian/wizzard/ Hmm.. my card might even beat the Geforce FX pos card.. (with the 9800 hack) http://forum.gamers-hardware.net/thread.ph...hp?threadid=831 Please don't try this with any cards other then the Radeon 9500 RED PCB

yes, i have something similar to xperties, I also have a TV-Card that works fine for this stuff.. just hook it up into the yellow TV in jack and start recording..

lets not get back on the subject of post counts...

rofl, should have built it yourself.. saves money, looks better, have better quality And I think it'll be able to install it.. should be in it's manual.. during the first setup screen of xp I think you can hit one of the options like RAID/SCSI controllers.. then it'll ask you for the driver disk..

what type/model is it?

best watch yer wallet (if ya got one) ...lol...

Thanx, I will try this out this week.. hope I can develop somethin