ATI X800 Pro X800 XT Platinum Edition reviews

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  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    awesome ...thanks omega
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited May 2004
    Awesome indeed.




    ....double post. Shorty beat ya to it.
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited May 2004
    Not really. I added 8 links to shorty's post and then copied it here. It'll be moved off of news page #1 (and forgotten) in 2-3 days but it'll remain here for a while if anyone wants to check out the reviews.
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited May 2004
    With all these killer reviews it is going to be extremely hard to abstain from droppin 5 hun on one of these bad boyz.

    I cant stop teh drooling!

    Who will be the firyst short-median to own one?
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited May 2004
    I might actually have to buy one of these things once the price drops below $400. :grumble:
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Omega65 wrote:
    Not really. I added 8 links to shorty's post and then copied it here. It'll be moved off of news page #1 (and forgotten) in 2-3 days but it'll remain here for a while if anyone wants to check out the reviews.
    :thumbsup:

    It's not often I beat Omega to the punch ;D
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited May 2004
    FormFactor wrote:
    ...Who will be the firyst short-median to own one?

    There's an x800XT PE with my name on it...

    It just involves a little drive 35 minutes west to a big building in Markham, Ontario in the not too distant future... :wink::eek3::cool:
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited May 2004
    Another awesome thing is that as good as the X800 Pro is - There is a REAL performance jump going from the X800 Pro to the X800XT PE 4 extra Pipelines, not just a measly 45mhz or so
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited May 2004
    Especially when you crank the AA/AF on those new cards.

    I thought I was fired up about the 6800U. The x800 XT & XT PE series blasted me away.

    Additionally, I'm thinking the normal x800 XT will be the best way to go for enthusiasts. Price point isn't too rough, and it's a 16x1 card, just clocked lower than the x800 XT PE. Either that or the 6800 GT. 16x1, just clocked slower than the Ultra.

    Perfect overclocker cards... too bad the x800 XT's haven't been OC'ing well. Perhaps with age, they will get better... like a fine electronic wine. :)
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited May 2004
    They're still new silicon. In 3-4 months after a revision or two you'll start seeing some serious OC's
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited May 2004
    Yes, A1 silicon (or whatever ASIC spin they are at) is usually bad at speed ramping.

    Hopefully they'll push that Low-K process to the max. How in the world they ever got 520 MHz out of 160 million transistors on a 0.13 process is amazing in it's own rite and is a testiment to Low-K technology.

    I wonder what A1 would do under a Prometeia/Vapo...
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited May 2004
    As much as I love being one of the first people to get their hands on a new piece of hardware, I'm going to wait a few months in hopes of getting a GPU that overclocks better than the first ones will.
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited May 2004
    If it doesn't overclock well... sell it on E-Bay. There's always a sucker...err.. customer who will buy it at more than the price you paid for it :)

    OMG New In Box x800 XT PE *RARE!* :)
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited May 2004
    SimGuy wrote:
    Yes, A1 silicon (or whatever ASIC spin they are at) is usually bad at speed ramping.

    Hopefully they'll push that Low-K process to the max. How in the world they ever got 520 MHz out of 160 million transistors on a 0.13 process is amazing in it's own rite and is a testiment to Low-K technology.

    I wonder what A1 would do under a Prometeia/Vapo...

    True

    It is!

    Or at least chilled water and/or Tec

    ATI's .09u R5xx chip should be incredible :respect:
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited May 2004
    I was thinkin' about how these cards (the X800 in particular) were so limited by that FX-51 cpu. (The review @ Hexus) You think the clock speeds would have anything do do with that? (Just 2.2GHz) I mean, what would it be like if they put a 3.2 or 3.4 GHz P4 EE behind it? If that doesn't make any sense to you, it's probably because I don't know what the heck I'm takin' about. ;D:rolleyes:

    What do you guys think would be the best cpu to put behind these cards?
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited May 2004
    The FX-51 is just as fast as a P4 3.2 or3.4EE (depending on the app, it's faster)
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