hercules or saphire

[Geronimo_work]

Which one would you recomend for radeon 9800 (non pro), Hercules or Saphire
(Saphire is more expensive here in Croatia) or should I maybe wait and get
9600XT. Thanks.

 

[Chimera]

Which one would you recomend for radeon 9800 (non pro), Hercules or
Saphire (Saphire is more expensive here in Croatia) or should I maybe
wait and get 9600XT. Thanks.

both are good oems, if one is significanty cheaper then take advantage of
it.
Just looking at the specs, the 9600XT even with its significantly higher
core clock (500 vs 325) and slightly faster memory, given that the 9800 has
twice as many pixel/shader pipelines, Id guess the 9800 (non-pro) would
still be the faster card.

 

[Wayne Youngman]

Which one would you recomend for radeon 9800 (non pro), Hercules or Saphire
(Saphire is more expensive here in Croatia) or should I maybe wait and get
9600XT. Thanks.

Hi,

I use the Sapphire Atlantis 9800, it's very good and I believe has a good
chance of overclocking to 9800Pro+ speeds. I see that Hercules recently
released their own 9800(np). The one advantage that this Herc card has over
the Sapphire 9800 is that I believe it comes with heatsinks attached on the
memory and rear GPU etc, this could prove useful and would save you the
cost/effort of attaching your own. Thing is I'm not sure what memory the
Herc comes with?, most Sapphires 9800 comes with Samsung 3.3ns which as
mentioned before can be overclocked quite well. . . .
--
Wayne ][

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[Geronimo_work]

thanks guys. if someone has hercules and oveclocked it please write the
results.