| considering an x800 XT [message #106712] |
Mon, 09 August 2004 10:57  |
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prox
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I'm thinking about getting one, are there any drawbacks to this card, apart from the 300 watts required to run it?
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| considering an x800 XT [message #106770] |
Mon, 09 August 2004 13:15  |
dal11
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the only thing i can think of is it's not shader3.0(can't remeber) compliant. In other words not totaly hardware DX9 compliant . It in fact uses less power than the nvidia one though plus it should be little cheaper. 
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| considering an x800 XT [message #106807] |
Mon, 09 August 2004 15:10 |
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prox
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whats your CPU?
if your CPU sucks no point upgrading your GFX card
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right now I have an athlon XP 2600+ and a gig of ram. I have a new motherboard with a pentium 4 3.2ghz processor and 1 gig of ram DDR, I've just been a little lazy to install it, plus the lack of spare time... I'll probably get myself to install it next sunday afternoon or something ... I currently have a radeon 9800 pro 128 mb but that just doesn't cut it for me, i want more!
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| considering an x800 XT [message #106829] |
Mon, 09 August 2004 16:33 |
flyingfox
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Your pc is bitchin' ~ no need for that high end a card unless you want are 1337 graphix on Doom or something. Hell, a 128mb 9200 SE can cut it at a decent framerate.
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| considering an x800 XT [message #106844] |
Mon, 09 August 2004 19:02 |
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smwScott
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FarCry is an unoptimized piece of shit. Judge your computer on how well it runs Doom 3 and Half-Life 2.
-smwScott
47% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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| considering an x800 XT [message #106846] |
Mon, 09 August 2004 19:51 |
Alkaline
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Get a X800 pro VIVO card. Its the same card has the XT PE. ALl you need to do is download the gigabyte bios and flash it. Violla its now a X800 XT card.
For 450 its the best card for the money.
http://www.UNRules.com
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| considering an x800 XT [message #106903] |
Tue, 10 August 2004 05:07 |
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SickOptometrist
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Yeah, I bought the X800pro for my wife & in Renegade for example, she is running highest resolution settings & gets frame rates of no lower than 85 & many times as high as 190. Can't wait for HalfLife2...
BTW, we bought FarCry a few weeks ago just to see what it would look like, but we've been playing to much of the ol' Renegade to even get around to installing it LOL
http://spaces.msn.com/members/patswebbucket/
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| considering an x800 XT [message #106905] |
Tue, 10 August 2004 05:27 |
PiMuRho
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Get a X800 pro VIVO card. Its the same card has the XT PE. ALl you need to do is download the gigabyte bios and flash it. Violla its now a X800 XT card.
For 450 its the best card for the money.
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Except it doesn't work on all cards, and it still doesn't give you the extra texture pipelines that the XT has.
Dev Diary
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| considering an x800 XT [message #106930] |
Tue, 10 August 2004 10:55 |
dal11
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You can always buy an X800 Pro and try to mod it to an XT. It's similar to the pencil mod that worked on the Athlons.
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That's extremly bright... buy a $450 video card to fry it in no time if you screw up.  Not to mention vioding any warranty it may have had.
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| considering an x800 XT [message #107038] |
Tue, 10 August 2004 23:38 |
Alkaline
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| Alkaline |
Get a X800 pro VIVO card. Its the same card has the XT PE. ALl you need to do is download the gigabyte bios and flash it. Violla its now a X800 XT card.
For 450 its the best card for the money.
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Except it doesn't work on all cards, and it still doesn't give you the extra texture pipelines that the XT has.
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NO man,
GOD why is everyone here in lala land?
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33766704
FULL 16 PIPELINES XT PE CORE SPEED & MEM.
http://www.UNRules.com
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| considering an x800 XT [message #107039] |
Tue, 10 August 2004 23:39 |
Alkaline
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Given that I can XT PEs for less than a Pro, I'll stick with the XT, thanks.
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where can you get this? cheapest XT PE I have seen is in the 550 range.
I got my x800 pro VIVO for 442 SHipped 3 weeks ago, its not a xt pe with vivo abilities.
http://www.UNRules.com
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