i found one of these cards..radeon 9800 XXL
before trying it out, i wanted to know this ...
on the top there is a floppy drive power connector.
-For universal agp it needs power connected?
-For agp 8x it also needs power connected to it?
in terms of performance this card is below 9800pro?
i found the drivers for it on the medion website, but i think those are for windows XP. are there win98 drivers for it?
Just use ATI catalyst drivers for it, any version that supports Radeon 9800 XT should work.
You will need to plug in the power cord.
As for performance it depends on the GPU and memory clocks. Some where clocked slower that 9800 Pro others a bit faster.
It is a R360 card like 9800 XT and some 9800 Pros.
I have an archive copy of the last Omega Radeon driver somewhere Ill dig it out and post it for you later.
This should work
http://www.mediafire.com/file/qia3nvqs32tm2bv … a_2637.exe/file
ps I think you net .net 1.1 or 2.0 I cannot remember. which one
Radeon 9700/9800 will draw most of the required power directly from PSU. They will not work without external source of power.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
-It needs external power in all AGP configs.
-Its an OEM version of the 9800xt, just with bit slower memory, so its better than a 9800pro.
My builds!
The FireStarter 2.0 - The wooden K5
The Underdog - The budget K6
The Voodoo powerhouse - The power-hungry K7
The troll PC - The Socket 423 Pentium 4
its between a 9800 pro and xt its literally a 9800xt with 128mb of mem. should be able to hit xt clocks. ditch the stock cooler if you want it to survive. this cooler does a poor job a cooling one of the worst in my opinion.
It's mostly fine and still better than Radeon 9700/9800 stock coolers.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
"ditch the stock cooler if you want it to survive."
- So is the stock cooler how bad exactly if never overclocked or such for durability ?
I have in original condition:
9600 256 mb ( Tiny heatsink no fan.)
9600 Pro 128 mb ( Tiny round heatsink and fan.)
9800 Pro 128 mb ( Below picture.)
i like to see coolers and heatsinks from that era
because i think they had no idea of what they were doing back then in terms of airflow and pressure
to be honest, its incredible that a 9800 pro with stock cooler survived after so many years. Not only because of cooler and heatsink, also they used to glue the heatsink to the dye, so its common that when you open it you will find some kind of yellow glued and hard thing on the dye.
same goes with the 6600GT models, such crappy coolers with only 2 fittings. Its even impossible to find a replacement aftermarket cooler for those designs. better mod a PC intel or amd cooler and drill some holes.
Iirc I have the Radeon XL with the smaller HSF (the little round one). I received it in working condition (I happened to know the previous owner and he knew I was into these old rigs, so he gifted it to me). I did replace the tiny stock HSF with a larger aftermarket one.
It's been years since I modded my 9800 XL, but iirc it wasn't hard to clean up the die.
wrote:to be honest, its incredible that a 9800 pro with stock cooler survived after so many years. Not only because of cooler and heatsink, also they used to glue the heatsink to the dye, so its common that when you open it you will find some kind of yellow glued and hard thing on the dye.
That is not glue, just the dried remains of a thermal pad.
