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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: FPF-DieHard on February 23, 2005, 03:35:35 pm
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The All-in-wonder is out now and I started drooling. Anyone have this card? Any horror stories?
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RADEON X800 PRO [Display adapter]
RADEON X800 PRO Secondary [Display adapter]
Proview AY965C [Monitor] (19.1"vis, s/n 308006198, September 2003)
Yep And I love the card. Just make sure you get a huge powersupply for It and all the HD /DVD drives etc. Nut 256 MB of ddr ram on the card makes games like Doom3 and Halflife look almost life like. I did have two of the monitors mentioned , But I let Khalee Borrow my second one.
Stephen
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No, but my Mini's got a Radeon 9200 with 32 megs RAM
looks great so far, but I haven't stress tested it yet. Downloading the windows version of the drivers for it as I type. (thanks Toasty, even though you didn't know you helped lol)
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X800's are supposed to be amazing. FYI X800 XT is better than an x800 Pro.
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Don't get me wrong, I like ATI cards, but isn't the latest Nvidia, the 6800 or 6600 supposed to be much, much better?
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Don't get me wrong, I like ATI cards, but isn't the latest Nvidia, the 6800 or 6600 supposed to be much, much better?
AFAIK the 6800 ultra (or the paper launch ultra extreme) represents the high end nvidia offering whereas the X800 XT (or platinum edition) represent the ATI high end.
Depending on who you talk too, you'll get a different opinion. Some reviews pip the ATI ahead of nvidia, some vice versa.
IMO however once you are talking massive FPS numbers in games such as UT2K4... the differences become meaningless.
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The All-in-wonder is out now and I started drooling. Anyone have this card? Any horror stories?
I bought the AIW 9800 (refurbed) on eBay last month & I've had no problems.
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In several benchmarking tests, the NVidia 6800 Ultra outperformed the Radeon x800 by 20% across the board as well as 15% in visual quality including Open GL and DirectX.. the GeForce 6800 Ultra is the ultimate card at the moment, the Radeon X800 is next, then the Geforce 6800 standard, then Radeon X500, then Geforce 6800 GT then Radeon x300... that is how the benchmarking shows performance of the cards and visual quality during high end testing.. for the end user gamer, any games from 2003 and back should have no visual difference when used on either Radeon X*** or 6800 card.. the performance comes out in DirectX 9.0c coded games from 2003 up and even then there is little to no difference to the naked eye unless you are doing high end video work for like a movie company in CGI (LOTR comes to mind here).. at this point if you are doing this type of detailed work, the Geforce 6800 Ultra is the best way to go.
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You might find these articles from Toms Hardware useful. The round up all the top and middle end cards and pit them against each other on the same machine.
For PCI Express cards : http://www20.graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041222/index.html
For AGP Cards : http://www20.graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041004/index.html
I believe Pestilence is correct, Nvidia are better than ATI when it comes to PCIe cards however it is more even for AGP, (except for Doom 3 where Nvidia is leaps ahead). Mind you, the power requirements for the latest ATI cards are less than Nvidia and their cards seem to be thinner on average compared to Nvidia's bulky heatsink fan assemblies. Also, Nvidias drivers have been getting a bit of bad press lately as official drivers seem to only come out once every 3-4 months, with the leaked drivers being good for some games and not for others. I think ATI get round to releasing official drivers every month.
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That is correct Redshift, ATI is releasing drivers about once a month now. It also looks like ATI is now the speed king again with the (?paper?) release of the ATI X850 (http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/X-850article/Conclusion.htm). Personally I don't care which video card maker is the fastest. I do however love the fierce competition keeping the prices down somewhat and puting out faster cards every few months.
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That is correct Redshift, ATI is releasing drivers about once a month now. It also looks like ATI is now the speed king again with the (?paper?) release of the ATI X850 ([url]http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/X-850article/Conclusion.htm[/url]). Personally I don't care which video card maker is the fastest. I do however love the fierce competition keeping the prices down somewhat and puting out faster cards every few months.
Wow, that X850 looks sweet Javora. It makes me wonder how Nvidia will compete over the next couple of years as, I think, the ATI X800's were just an extension of their older technology, (from the 9800's). Considering Nvidia's 6800's are supposed to be new technology, but require a lot of cooling and power I'm at a loss to work out how they will push their range much further, while ATI might have it easy.
And before anyone acuses me of being biased, I haven't owned an ATI before. All my old cards, (and my current one), were Nvidia, (ignoring the old Voodoo's of course). It could be misinformed though. ;D