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Keep Or Return New X800 Pro?
Hello, I'm looking for some quick opinions on whether I should keep or
return a new ATi-brand X800 Pro that I just bought at Fry's. It was on sale for $350, and I bought it as kind of an impulse. Even Newegg has it for $400. Right now I'm using an MSI FX5900XT, and until Far Cry and Doom3 came along, I was satisfied with it. The thing is, I don't really _need_ a new card, and I know the ATi X800 Pro is only a middling card compared to the some of the other x800 flavors available. I know about the 12-pipeline thing and the slower memory and other stuff. I'm not interested in the Nvidia 6800 cards right now for reasons that I won't go into here. My system is an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe mobo, AMD XP3200 CPU, 1-gig RAM, WD "Raptor" SATA hard drive (non-RAID). Some of the other "hotrod" X800 cards cost as much as $150-$200 more than the X800 Pro; would my system be able to take advantage of the extra pipelines and faster memory, etc? Will the X800 Pro more-or-less double the performance of my FX9500XT in games like Far Cry and D3? I'm reading reviews on Tom's Hardware and all the other sites I can find, but I wanted some input from informed people here as well. Anyway, the card is still boxed and shrinkwrapped, but I know I'll only be able to resist ripping it open and plugging it in for so long... |
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"Rotwang" wrote in message ... My system is an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe mobo, AMD XP3200 CPU, 1-gig RAM, WD "Raptor" SATA hard drive (non-RAID). Some of the other "hotrod" X800 cards cost as much as $150-$200 more than the X800 Pro; would my system be able to take advantage of the extra pipelines and faster memory, etc? Will the X800 Pro more-or-less double the performance of my FX9500XT in games like Far Cry and D3? I'd recommend buying a X800 PRO(any brand,but Sapphire is prefered) with VIVO. VIVO cards have unlockable pipelines(via BIOS update). btw.the card you have is pretty powerfull,but your system would benefit from more pipelines and faster memory |
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Where do you get the bios update from?
Thanks Shane "Glitch" wrote in message ... "Rotwang" wrote in message ... My system is an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe mobo, AMD XP3200 CPU, 1-gig RAM, WD "Raptor" SATA hard drive (non-RAID). Some of the other "hotrod" X800 cards cost as much as $150-$200 more than the X800 Pro; would my system be able to take advantage of the extra pipelines and faster memory, etc? Will the X800 Pro more-or-less double the performance of my FX9500XT in games like Far Cry and D3? I'd recommend buying a X800 PRO(any brand,but Sapphire is prefered) with VIVO. VIVO cards have unlockable pipelines(via BIOS update). btw.the card you have is pretty powerfull,but your system would benefit from more pipelines and faster memory |
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"no spam" wrote in message u... Where do you get the bios update from? Basically you need to find a site that has X800 XT PE BIOS and flash your X800 PRO VIVO with that BIOS.Each manufacturer has BIOS on their site. btw.there's no guarantee that the card will work because you're OCing it just by flashing the BIOS.You have to see that it's capable of running at XT speeds or you will need to underclock it after flashing.Don't try this with the normal cooling.Buy a VGA silencer or some other good card cooling. |
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thanks
"Glitch" wrote in message ... "no spam" wrote in message u... Where do you get the bios update from? Basically you need to find a site that has X800 XT PE BIOS and flash your X800 PRO VIVO with that BIOS.Each manufacturer has BIOS on their site. btw.there's no guarantee that the card will work because you're OCing it just by flashing the BIOS.You have to see that it's capable of running at XT speeds or you will need to underclock it after flashing.Don't try this with the normal cooling.Buy a VGA silencer or some other good card cooling. |
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:12:46 +0100, "Glitch"
wrote: "Rotwang" wrote in message .. . My system is an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe mobo, AMD XP3200 CPU, 1-gig RAM, WD "Raptor" SATA hard drive (non-RAID). Some of the other "hotrod" X800 cards cost as much as $150-$200 more than the X800 Pro; would my system be able to take advantage of the extra pipelines and faster memory, etc? Will the X800 Pro more-or-less double the performance of my FX9500XT in games like Far Cry and D3? I'd recommend buying a X800 PRO(any brand,but Sapphire is prefered) with VIVO. VIVO cards have unlockable pipelines(via BIOS update). btw.the card you have is pretty powerfull,but your system would benefit from more pipelines and faster memory Thanks for the reply, Glitch. I can't tell for certain whether this X800 Pro card supports VIVO. There's a sticker on the side of the box that reads "Radeon X800 Pro 256MB V/VO/D." On ATi's website there's no mention of a VIVO version of the card, are those only available from ATi's "partners," like Sapphire? |
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"Rotwang" wrote in message ... On ATi's website there's no mention of a VIVO version of the card, are those only available from ATi's "partners," like Sapphire? Yes,the only VIVO cards are from ATI's partners like Sapphire,ASUS,Gigabyte... ATI doesn't make VIVO cards but they make the All-In-Wonder packs. |
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