9600 xt

[Brad]

Wiil the 9600 xt run in windows 98 ? The box does not say that it will.

 

[John Smith]

I had a Sapphire 9600XT Ultimate card arrive this morning. On the outside of
the box it says it has a driver CD included for Windows 9X/ME/2000/XP.

Hope this helps,


John.

 

[Daren Evans]

mine runs in win98 se

I had a Sapphire 9600XT Ultimate card arrive this morning. On the outside of
the box it says it has a driver CD included for Windows 9X/ME/2000/XP.

Hope this helps,


John.

 

[MinMin]

Wiil the 9600 xt run in windows 98 ? The box does not say that it will.

Mine runs on Win98 (first ed.) no problems.

 

[John]

Wiil the 9600 xt run in windows 98 ? The box does not say that it will.

Not if you want to play the free Dungeon Seige bonus pack. Apparently
there are some ... ahem ... compatability issues.

 

[Timothy T. Doran]

Don't buy an ATI 9600XT based video controller unless it is a genuine retail
ATI 9600XT, as most other "builders" that are using the ATI 9600XT chipset
have not fully followed the ATI reference design, used old PCB's that were
"in stock"
to rush product out for Christmas holiday, and have not enabled the ATI
"OVERDRIVE"
feature.

I too was "duped'" by C.P.Technology Co., Ltd. aka/dba in United States as
Power Color USA Corp. in purchasing a R96A-C3T in a new system I had built
by Future Technologies International, Inc. (FTI), Great Neck, NY about two
weeks ago, who is an "authorized" distributor/reseller" Power Color
products.

The cost to me between the Power Color R96A-C3T and a genuine retail ATI
9600XT was less than five dollars, but I went ahead with the Power Color
Product since it seemed to have a better bundle. I was not aware that there
were any differences in the cards, as Future Technologies International,
Inc. (FTI) web site (as do most other resellers) still to this day state the
fact that the Power Color R96A-C3T has "OVERDRIVE", as does C.P.Technology
Co., Ltd. Main web site, only in the last week has the Power Color USA Corp.
web site quietly removed the statement about the Power Color R96A-C3T having
'OVERDRIVE" ability.

 

[John Smith]

My Sapphire 9600XT says it has Overdrive on the box. Frankly, this is an
overclocking feature isn't it and I am not too bothered whether it has it or
not. But thanks for the heads up.

John.

 

[Timothy T. Doran]

So does almost all the 9600XT's out there, but many are missing the
"coupling chip" on the PCB, and I do not overclock either, but "push" system
hard 24X7, so the lack of "on-die" thermal monitoring is bad.