picked up a 2nd hand ASUS P4P800 today. works splendidly at default speeds. no artifacts too. 🙂 so that leaves me with a working spare 9800 pro. was thinking of passing it to fish… then maybe get him to try a flash to make it a 9800 xt. it does have an rv360 core, which means it can do much better. memory speed will be a limiting factor though.
so tomorrow it’s back to benchmarking and overclocking. 🙂 and it’s also nice to see CPU temperatures below 45 C instead of the usual 60+. maybe the dunking of the heatsink in some water really did the trick.