I received my 9800se today!,
at first i was very disappointed to find out that i get the "checker-board" artifact when running the card with all the 8 pipelines enabled, nothing i tried
seemed to help, including forcing AA and AF, and disabling Hyper-Z using Rtool version 0.998 RC 11.
Then i decided to try to overclock, i easily hit 450/740 using ATI tool without raising voltages on stock voltages... Original clocks were 324/580
Not a single artifact during Aquamark 3 or ATI tool stress test(for a couple of minutes)...
Then i runned the card with all the pipelines enabled with those clock speeds,
there was minor artifacts beyond the checker-board artifact...
Any way it did increased my FPS during the major loads... but only raised my score by approximately 5K, which is exactly the original improvement i experienced due to the OC.
at first i was very disappointed to find out that i get the "checker-board" artifact when running the card with all the 8 pipelines enabled, nothing i tried
seemed to help, including forcing AA and AF, and disabling Hyper-Z using Rtool version 0.998 RC 11.
Then i decided to try to overclock, i easily hit 450/740 using ATI tool without raising voltages on stock voltages... Original clocks were 324/580
Not a single artifact during Aquamark 3 or ATI tool stress test(for a couple of minutes)...
Then i runned the card with all the pipelines enabled with those clock speeds,
there was minor artifacts beyond the checker-board artifact...
Any way it did increased my FPS during the major loads... but only raised my score by approximately 5K, which is exactly the original improvement i experienced due to the OC.