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Title: Radeon X800XT Platinum Edition
Post by: 214thCavalier on May 04, 2004, 04:35:41 PM

Apparently kicks Nvidias 6800  Pro into touch and the X800 Pro is a good match.

Edit:

Typo corrected cos that *****ing laggy came in and poked fun at me !

Title: Radeon X800XT Platinum Edition
Post by: Overlag on May 05, 2004, 06:14:10 AM

nvidia dont have a 9800pro ;)

but yes the X800XT (very high end) and the X800pro (High end) done great... i wasnt expecting to see ATI  "come back" when i saw he 6800ultra for the first time.... Probably ordering a X800 of some sort tomorrow :mad:

Reviews

http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD03NTg=

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=2044&p=1

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjEx

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040504/index.html



Other Rreviews (not read yet)

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1583627,00.asp

http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=418

http://www.beyond3d.com/reviews/ati/r420_x800/

http://www.gamers-depot.com/hardware/video_cards/ati/x800/001.htm

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/geforce_6800_ultra_extreme/

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1710/

Looks Very interesting... Nvidia lost again :D

Title: Radeon X800XT Platinum Edition
Post by: ChasR on May 05, 2004, 07:32:23 AM

I'm an ATi fan myself, but for most folks (those without p4C 3.0 + or Athlon 64s) both the 6800(and upcoming 6850) and the x800 are going to be processor bottlenecked and produce very similar results.  Comparing the Anandtec and Toms reviews It seemed to me the X800 was the clear winner on the Athlon 64 rig (Anandtech) and it was much closer on the P4c (Tom's).  Bottlenecked on a P4C 3.2?
In AH1 and AH2 I expect both cards to produce frame rates grater than the monitor refresh (85 to 100) rate at maximum quality all the time.
With the games I play, it wouldn't make any difference which card I used.  But when you consider the power requirements and heat produced (and left in the case rather than exhausted) of the nVidia 6800 the ATi X800 XT would be the clear choice.  I'm going to wait a while and see what else develops with PCI-x, DDR2, new prescott steppings, etc. Then new rig time?

Title: Radeon X800XT Platinum Edition
Post by: Overlag on May 05, 2004, 08:27:28 AM

Quote

Originally posted by ChasR

In AH1 and AH2 I expect both cards to produce frame rates grater than the monitor refresh (85 to 100) rate at maximum quality all the time.

I cant wait to play farcry on max settings.... my 9700pro just isnt cutting it at my native TFT's resolution, so i need to back res down... making it look blury.

Title: Radeon X800XT Platinum Edition
Post by: Reschke on May 09, 2004, 12:31:04 AM

Yep the nVidia cooling idea just simply sucks. The engineering idiot that decided to leave the heat inside the case should be flogged and then drug through a briar patch. Why they decided to exhaust all the heat into the case when they have a full PCI slot taken up next to the AGP slot I can't understand. With something like what they are proposing it already is pulling in heated air because I didn't see it pulling in outside air into the case to help cool the card.

Title: Radeon X800XT Platinum Edition
Post by: ChasR on May 10, 2004, 06:01:59 PM

I'll bet one of the many manufacturers of nVidia chipped cards fixes the exhaust problem.  Still its going to be hard to spend $500 on a card and another $100 for a new power supply, not to mention rewiring your computer to install it.