Graphics Request: Help from owners of: 9700PRO, eVGA 5900SE

I'm curious to see if these two cards both have temperature monitoring on gpu or not, I will be buying one or the other very soon...

I'm not leaning towards the 9700PRO, considering that newegg lowered the price down to 194USD, while the evga 5900SE is at 189USD. I know that the 5900 overclocks better, but benchmarks are unreliable since nvidia's drivers cheat on them.

The 9700PRO kit has better accessories, more cables... no extra free games included though.

- They are both retail kits
- They are both 256Bit
- They both have 128MB of DDR memory

Pro 9700PRO
- CD with a few small games
- 4x4 evolution 2 (game)
- Doesn't cheat at benchmarks
- 4 cables

Pro evga 5900SE
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon (game)

Wow, I just realised this: "Support 3D API: DirectX®9, OpenGL®1.4" oGL 1.4!? I'm glad that I didn't buy this right away... That definitely makes me tilt towards the 9700PRO, just one more straw, the last straw that breaks the donkey's back, does the 9700PRO have temp monitoring?

Could you owners of 9700PRO and 5900SE post your 3dmark03 scores, along with CPU+ram+mobo+clock rates? It'd be greatly appreciated.

 

As far as I know, there aren't any ATi cards with temperature monitoring, the 9800XT I think has it internally (for the use of Overdrive) but doesn't let you read it yourself.

I would recommend a 9800 non-pro instead, you'll be able to get it up to Pro or maybe XT speeds Or if you're daring, a 9800SE and see if the extra pipelines will unlock to give you a Pro And hell, for another $20 or so you could get a fully-fledged 9800 Pro...

 

I realise that, but spending 195 is already pushing it. I might end up buying a 9800pro though, considering that I sold my palm pilot for about 35 dollars more than I thought it would on ebay.

 

I have the EVGA 5900se and there is a tab for temperatures. It displays the current temp and allows you to set an alarm for a certain temp.......ask if you need more. Damn good card.

 

I'll probably get the 5900SE now... I don't have issues with nvidia/radeon wars, so I could care less. Plus, temperature monitoring = good for overclocking, you wont have to worry about your gpu running constantly at like 70C with a mild overclock, and you not knowing it

(the 5900SE was out of stock yesterday so I was almost certain I'd be getting a 9700PRO, but it restocked today )

Anywheys, Thanks much, Aaron.

 

Or you could touch the back of the card = instant temperature guide! The fingers never lie

 

Lol I hope you're joking Anyways, I do that with my crappy FX 5200 PCI, the back of it never gets hot though. (heh, that brings me up to something: the stock fan that was attached to the tiny round gpu cooler started getting very loud, so I took one of the fans from my vantec HD cooler, and hot-glued it onto the aluminum gpu heatsink (I took the original tiny fan off first), it works pretty good... and my current computer is once again quiet)

I will be ordering this computer either today, or tomorrow Which is good, because I've been planning on getting it for a month. The money from my palm pilot I sold (230USD) should be in my account either today or tomorrow, + some tax return money

(500USD in parts, a 2500+ Barton, 512mb (2x 256mb) pc3200 Geil cas2, an abit NF7 mobo, a cheap case+psu combo, and the 5900SE )

 

Welp, it's official. I ordered my computer today!

Specs:

2500+ Barton Core
Abit NF7 Mobo
Geil 256MB x2 pc3200 dual channel (cas 2 latency)
A cheap case with 350w psu

And, of course... The 5900SE

 

Nice computer,

IMO pitty you went with the SE, the ATI 9700 Pro/ATI 9800 is a far better card, I have benched marked them and done extencive Pixel Shader/DX9 analysis on them, the ATI 9700 Pro/ATI 9800 is almost twice as fast in some shader limited situations, due the NV3x having some inbuilt hardware limtiations.

 

Oh well.. I don't really care, for 185 dollars... 5900SE will crank out enough performance to last me a while.

 

Wow, lightning fast shipping.. I ordered from http://www.accupc.com wednesday night at around 5PM est, and recieved the video card friday, 10:20 AM That is less than 48 hours!! Anyways, the rest of my pc will get here monday so I'll be sitting here with this Geforce FX 5900SE over the weekend clawing at my eyes waiting for the rest...

Teaser pics:
http://true-fx.com/nv.jpg
http://true-fx.com/nv_cod.jpg