Neh, i'll stick to the stock drivers.

The only thing that omega does is change levels of detail and other stuff like that that aren't changeable in the stock drivers.

alas, on a card that gives 40fps in the doom3 timedemo demo1 at medium details+800x600x32+FSAAx2+Anisox8, i don't think i need that extra 1~2fps that omega's tweaks will give me

Well the R300 is a very good and solid core, My Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro X-Mas Edition surely does it's stuff the right way.  it's a red Hercules 9700 Pro and normally they are blue , the red ones are quite rare i guess, all my other friends that have a Hercules 9700/9700 pro, they are all blue.

it's stock speed is core/mem 325/620 and my max OC was 388/730 quite okay for stock cooling even outpacing the 9800 pro cards, only the FSAA and AF is better on the 9800 pro cards. my 9800 Pro is a normal Connect3D built by ATi.



here the Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro X-Mas Red Edition:



and here the original :



and here a Blue one with the heatsinks of the X-Mas Red Edition:



The one I have is the X-mas Red edition, now I'm lookng for the other two. hmm three different Hercules Radeon 9700 pro's m now that's neat.

Heh, my modded Radeon 9500 (a.k.a. 9700Pro) looks JUST like the Hercules XMAS edition!

I have a Vantec copper heatsink (includes blue LED mod) and copper RAM-sinks on all of the RAM...

SHWEEEET! 8)

well a pair of these would be nice too:

Hercules 3D Prophet 9800 Pro 128MB DDR2 256Bit



here the backside of this beauty

and here in action :

I was looking at that 9800 PRO on eBay USA.  There was one going for $120.00 USD.