Simviation Forum - 9700 Pro

Dec 2^nd, 2004 at 8:37am

RollerBall Ex Member

Just picked up a 9700 Pro 128 on Ebay.

Should get it tomorrow.

OK - what's the good and bad news about the card Roll Eyes

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Reply #1 - Dec 2^nd, 2004 at 11:11am

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Don't have one, have the 9800 Pro 128 MB. It's a decent card even today. I would suggest you update the drivers immediatley, and would strongly suggest using the latest Omega drivers.

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Reply #2 - Dec 2^nd, 2004 at 12:15pm

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Depends on what your old card was Rollerball?

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Reply #3 - Dec 2^nd, 2004 at 12:56pm

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Its a 2+ year old card for a start!

As long as you've paid little for it, (there available new for well under £100!) it should be a good buy.

Certainly a better card than mine! (FX5600) as I have little problems with mine, then your considerably faster 9700 should be a real improvement.

If however, your old card was something like a 6800LE (unlikely! Grin

), then the 9700 is about 3 times SLOWER! Wink

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Reply #4 - Dec 2^nd, 2004 at 5:43pm

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Old card is a GeForce 3 Ti 200 so I'm hoping for a real improvement. My present quality is not bad as you can see from past screenies but it's just so slow. It's a major negative on FR and eg ground textures just load so slowly. Obviously I'll load the latest drivers as always.

It's a 'refurbished' card from a dealer with a warranty and as you say well under £100. I could hardly believe it - guys were bidding more for same cards that were listed in auctions from private sellers without any warranty than I paid 'buy it now'. Are some people stoopid or what ???

I'll do a before and after check and post some details so anyone thinking of changing themselves will have some info to compare,

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Reply #5 - Dec 2^nd, 2004 at 6:16pm

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After a '3 ti 200, your in for a real treat ! Wink

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Make sure you run before and after 3DMark 2001 Benchmarks! I'd be interested to see the differance.

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Reply #6 - Dec 2^nd, 2004 at 7:16pm

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will do

after yr comments I think I did the right thing as long as long as quality is OK

quite a few of these coming up now as new cards come out but guys are just going mad with the prices they're bidding for em

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Reply #7 - Dec 2^nd, 2004 at 9:45pm

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Your gonna like it alot RollerBall........expecially since your switching from a 200

Just don't set autogen to max tho...lol.......... Wink

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Reply #8 - Dec 3^rd, 2004 at 5:40am

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Just don't set autogen to max tho...lol.......... Wink

Thought you knew me better by now Jeff - I always max everything Wink

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Reply #9 - Dec 3^rd, 2004 at 4:32pm

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Oh yesssss....

3d 2001 SE Benchmarks

Geforce 3 Ti 200 4332
9700 Pro 11223

Aquamark Benchmarks (great DirectX9 benchmarking prog)

Geforce 3 Ti 200 10689 10.69 fps
9700 Pro 36230 36.23 fps

My system is Athlon 2600+ slightly overclocked to run at 2.2 GHz, clock speed 175 MHz

1.25GB DDR RAM (forget the speed , mid-speed, not the fastest, not the slowest PC2700 I think)

DirectX 9.0 in XP Pro SP2

Epox MB nForce 2 chipset (not that happy with it I might say)

I'm running on a 40GB removable drive which I was configuring especially for FS9 but for some reason it runs with lower FR than the sim on my 'main' 180 GB HD. So I'm still doing everything in effect on the same drive. Such is life.

The performance difference is noticeable. Much smoother with everything maxed. I'm off now to try my Kai Tak approach for which I was getting under 6 fps with the old card, more or less unflyable. The main reason I stopped developing the scenery. If things are better I guess I might get back to it Wink

BTW I'd overclocked the Geforce 3 a bit - to the point where sparklies were beginning to show and then pulled back a bit.

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