Yooo!

Decided to pick up this cooler off ebay. It was an open package, but everything was still there. Will install it later, but wanted to show some pictures of it, seems pretty solid! By Arctic Cooling.

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I had the original version of this on a 9800Pro.
These would work great, but would not fit in an MDD (where the AGP slot is at the left).
I use Zalman coolers in MDDs and leave the right most memory slot empty.

Good point! I actually was gonna shove this into my 2.7 G5 :)

I have a zalman on my other Radeon 9800 pro, but i have to remove the 4th memory chip to use it. :)

Man, that's a sore spot.
I had a deal for a G5, then I received this message:

"Sorry for the bad news but my boss actually sold it already over the weekend and forgot to tell me he had it listed on Craigslist a long time ago. Someone finally called to buy it. I have a dual 1.8 Ghz with 2.5 gb of ram I believe if you want to buy that for 150 that I can list."

What a crock!

The few 2.7ghz g5s I picked up for about 175 a piece shipped, and the 2.0ghz I got for $75 shipped, thought It didnt have a hdd, ram, or a video card.

Sometime I will get around to rebuilding the LCS on both 2.7ghz.

Scratch the idea........Cooler will not work for any of the Macs.... It gets in the way.. :( No bueno lol... oh well. was worth a shot.

Doffo,
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It won't fit in a G5? That would royally suck! The 9800 you gave me runs insanely hot as likely all do

Go for a Zalman cooler Red.
Its a tight fit.
And if you've got your 9800 in a pre-MDD Powermac, its going to block a PCI slot.

BTW - I found a great buy on some aluminum memory heatsinks on Ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/130791989438?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

Just attach them with some Arctic Silver thermal adhesive and you're good to go.

Come on mate, few little mods and Arctic Cooling will fit :)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9lf8ozrxg75wzxq/2013-02-11%2021.31.03.jpg

@Pampers

You win! HAHAH, dammit..... Threw the damn thing away thinking i couldnt possibly use it...

Does anyone know the clock speed of the 9800XTs market in the US by sibusa?
The cards use surface mount, rectangular memory (instead of bgas).
And the don't look like their cooling is all that great.

I seem to remember hearing somewhere that these were only clocked to 392MHz (and I can't remember the memory speed).

What about the Zalman VF900 CU?

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/9800_VF900_cooler_install/VF900_install_on_mac_9800.html

Miky060,
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That is what I've been installing Miky.
On the MDD you have to leave out the right most memory strip, and on earlier Power macs it blocks a PCI slot.
But it works great and its quiet.

I've only had three people ask for flashed 9800XT video cards.
All are 256mb and have either been shipped to their new owners or soon will be.
In addition to those, I have two 128MB 9800Pro cards that are spoken for.
One is in Eric's G4, the other goes to soviet.

I have one 9800SE I got burned on (the Chinese labeled this as a 9800XT, but it clocks in at the same speed as a 9700Pro). The card does have 256mb of memory. I've installed heatsinks on the memory and I am trying to figure out what fan to use. Anyone that wants this one can have it cheap.

I've got three more 256mb 9800XTs on order. All from manufacturers I trust (ATI, Celestica, or Dell). I also have two 256mb 9800Pros on order, but one is already spoken for (my longest standing order Cool_amigaN/Stefanos has been waiting for a card with a universal AGP connector (which one of these cards has).

So, if anyone else is interested, I'll have a few more cards (available at reasonable prices - soon).

Remember, when Mark (finally) lets us have the R300 3D drivers, these cards will be a quantum leap over the R200s that many of us still use.

Hey!
Something finally went my way.
won a 256mb 9800Pro on Ebay for $10.
It had the ugliest aftermarket cooler I have ever seen.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ATI-Radeon-9800-Pro-256M-Graphics-Card-with-Cooler-Master-Cooling-System-/321071131492?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT&nma=true&si=fOAkLCoUIR%252BUK7ANWgVYMbPjhhg%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

You can't tell by the picture, but it is also missing one heatpipe.

Anyway, to make a long story shorter, when I took off the cooler, i found an R360 GPU underneath.
$10 9800XT 256mb.

Doesn't make up for the Chinese fakes, but since I needed one for myself, it is a nice bonus.
BTW, if I can get the 9800SEs running, anyone who wants one can have it for the price of shipping.

Oh, and if I hoard this card for myself, I'm out of cards I really feel good about.
Currently 1 9800SE, one the maybe similar (both 256mb), and a 9700 Pro 128mb card left.

I will try to focus on R360s from now on.

Where the chinise get they source of new 9xxx ati chips ? they are still in production

When ATI moved from Rage 128 to Radeon they dumped a bunch of low binned Rage 128 GPUs.
These are similar. They run slower then any other 9800 (325MHz), and the memory is only 128bit wide (as opposed to the stock 256).
Basically its a lot like a 256mb 9700Pro (with a narrower memory bus).

Not terrible, but I'd be willing to bet the failure rate will be fairly high.
And for some reason they don't even include the molex power connector.
It is an R360 GPU though (I took off the cooler just to make sure).

sibusa - to be avoided. makes Sapphire cards look good.
AND it had a 9800XT label on it. The only reason I knew what it was is that I keep a few utilities on hand that give me the specs on installed GPUs.