Video Card That'll Last...

[P11]

If you read the first review on it the guy said he got about 5500 after it was OC'ed. My x850xt gets 6300 at stock speeds, aside from that you have to factor in that the x850xt has 16 pixel pipelines and the x1600 has 12. Clock speeds are not that important at all, now days new cards have higher pipelines and lower core and mem speeds....this keeps the temp down and allows for greater detail and performance.

 

[Rambo]

If you read the first review on it the guy said he got about 5500 after it was OC'ed. My x850xt gets 6300 at stock speeds, aside from that you have to factor in that the x850xt has 16 pixel pipelines and the x1600 has 12. Clock speeds are not that important at all, now days new cards have higher pipelines and lower core and mem speeds....this keeps the temp down and allows for greater detail and performance.

Riiight, ok... I'm finally getting somewhere then!

I have thought about it for a while, read reviews etc, and have came to the conclusion that buying the Sapphire X800GTO2 and modding it to the X850XT is the best idea for "bang for ya buck".

Read here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles//overclocking/vidcard/127/1

As long as I get the Sapphire version of the card, it is practically guaranteed to get to an X850XT spec card.

P.S. 3DMark0(x) doesn't justify which cards are better than others...

 

[P11]

In sheer performance...yes they do. Im talking about 3dmark tests that are only based on the graphic part, i dont run the cpu test/pixel shader/sound. Anyways generally when you look at their 3dmark score the higher is always the better.

P.S show me a situation where the card with the lower score is better

 

[Ku-sama]

my 6800GS isnt better then a GT, but it gets much higher scores in all of the 3DMarks

 

[P11]

Actually there is NO noticable difference in performance in game, the only difference is that the 6800gs has a higher core clock and the 6800gt has 16 pipes. Read this : http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=160260

 

[Ku-sama]

well, i think you miss read, the GT has better preformance in games, but the GS benched better.... i was just proving you wrong about how 3DMarks is absolute about its scored with comparing videocards

 

[P11]

Link me to some benchmark results.

 

[Rambo]

P.S show me a situation where the card with the lower score is better

I presume that a 6800GS is better than the X800GTO2, right?

http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?page=5138&head=15

 

[Nutcase]

Well just buy 6800GT or X800GTO2....
You can OC X800GTO2 to X850XT PE or higher...
And GT can be OC´d to Ultra or higher...

And sorry but this card is piece of crap now... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102657

Because it is 128-bit.... (SAPPHIRE 100146L Radeon X1600XT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3) Dont know if it´s true nut if it is then it sure isn´t a good card...

 

[P11]

Well my x800GTO supports HDR.

I finally got confirmation that the x800-x850 series do not support HDR. I tried out Far Cry on my computer and there was no option for HDR even though the game has HDR support. If you were to get a x1000 series or 7000 nvidia series the option to enable HDR would be there.

 

[Yue]

i have no option to enable HDR in farcry and i am runnin a 7800gt. you have to use the console to enable hdr in farcry

\r_hdrrendering 7 (numberes 1 to 11, but people say 7 is best)

unless u are using a X1000 series card, AA must me disabled.

EDIT: must be usin latest FC Patch, 1.33 i think.)