Ati Radeon X800 Xt Pe - Retail $399

[Buliwyf]

Factory Sealed Retail Box LOWEST PRICE ON EBAY

$399

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=40158&item=5109220825

[ShipWreck]

wait till christmas the price should be down

[SkiloDog2000]

i just dug that up in a tech magizine today
im thinkin i might wait for this one to come down a bit instead of geting the radion9800
the x800xt pl is supposed to be somewhat better and alot more efficient than that new nvidia 2 power supply/turbofan megaslotholder thing that is also very pricy

I've seen screenshots and the X800 uses "enhancements" to get better framerates for trilinnear filtering that Nvidia does, Actually makes bilinear look better. (9800 XT doesn't have the optimizations and trilinnear looks better)

pc gamer reports that the 6800 ultra ia faster than the x800 series in Doom 3.

[JimmyTango]

Originally posted by Edogg
pc gamer reports that the 6800 ultra ia faster than the x800 series in Doom 3.

That is because ID had to write specific code to get Doom3 to work correctly on an nvidia card. nvidia has become full of themselves, and tamper with what is supposed to be universal code for their 'optimizations.'

Originally posted by JimmyTango
That is because ID had to write specific code to get Doom3 to work correctly on an nvidia card. nvidia has become full of themselves, and tamper with what is supposed to be universal code for their 'optimizations.'

They only wrote a specific path for the FX line, which rthey then dropped when the 6800 series was released. Nvidia now runs the full arb2 path(official opengl standards) in Doom 3. Nvidia is faster in Doom 3 because Nvidia has always been better at openGl. Its mostly because The 6800 series are really efficient at doing stencil shadows, something that Doom 3 is very heavy in.

I'll stick with my 9800 pro for now. Gonna upgrade my p4 to 3.4 when the price drop goes into effect late August

[Mr. Slayer]

I want one!


(Proceeds to rob bank...)

[JimmyTango]

Originally posted by inmate#655321
I'll stick with my 9800 pro for now. Gonna upgrade my p4 to 3.4 when the price drop goes into effect late August

http://www.hardforum.com

Look unde the for sale for trade forum. You can find nice procs that are known overclockers. I got my current P4 2.4 w/ 800 FSB knowing it was already overclocked to 3.4 and stable.

[SkiloDog2000]

i figure if i go with the x800 i should be good to go for a few years. now i just have to worry about upgrading my ram from 512