With my new Sapphire 9800np after 24 hours of non-stop 3dmark03 I've decided to overclock the memory. Since it's 2.86ns Samsung it's rated 355mhz effective but it's only clocked at 290. So a simple push on the slider got me 357mhz right away. The GPU was simply amazing as well, after pushing 379 showed no problem at all and the back of the GPU was only 31C, i pushed further 420mhz still perfect no artifacts or anything. This is a 9800np overclocked higher than the freq of a 9800XT. This was done of course after new cooling, I attached a copper based generic CPU cooler, and hacked up the other half of my 1700+ processor heatsink and used it as ramsink on the front side. Then used Thermaltake ramsinks on the back. I'm going to borrow my friend's digital camera so i'll try to take a couple pics of the card and post it here. But i still don't think i'm at the limit of my card yet, the back of the GPU's never past 38C. I'm sure i could push further. I just did Aquamark3 and got 52000 Aquamarks i was VERY happy.
-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.51G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 270mhz 2.5-4-4-8 -Geforce2 MX400(i know i know) -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU
-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.51G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 270mhz 2.5-4-4-8 -Geforce2 MX400(i know i know) -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU