I've been doing some research, reading reviews, and some other things. I've pretty much set my mind on this card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814131010 I plan on using it mainly for Battlefield 2, and the new upcoming Battlefield game. My only worries are that i've seen alot of complaints on it overheating, and causing crashes. Some people said to get a Arctic Cooling System, but i'm not sure which one to get. If somebody could please get me a link from newegg with the cooler that will fit with card, and put it here, i would really apprectiate it. And if anybody has this card, to let me know what they think about it.
i suggest http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814102606. around the same price. faster specs, and i believe they have the same core. http://teblockedeport.com/reviews/2004q4/radeo...xt/index.x?pg=1 ^ scroll down a little and you'll see a table with specs to some of the x8** cards. it's an old site, but i believe the specs are still valid.
not to fear, XmasterX has the same card here. I have a x800 myself, cant remember the 3rd party that made it, but it's been good to me. (I can take a look when i get home) It only overheated when i was playing a game on immensly high graphics for 3 hours on end.. other than that, its fine, just put all your games on medium, and youll be fine. I'm currently looking at watercooling to help that pitiful fan on the gpu... that's my bit, Im sure Xelink will say the same, as he reccomended it to me..
Thanks for the info MAster, I will just buy the card for now, and a cooling unit later on if problems come up. Can you run BF2 on it?
I have ran BF2 on default settings, then i tried to up it to medium, worked great still, then I tried to up it to 1280 x 1024, and my computer restarted, lol.... just put it on medium settings, and around 1024 x 768.. also tried B&W2 on there, worked alot better than my 5500 on my socket A board... no prob, Aiden.. BTW, the 3rd party card i got was from PowerColor
in the past 6 months the x850XT went from 250 to 100 and the x800GTO went from 180 to 90. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814102688 I have to recomend the x850XT, it's only slightly mroe expensive and you certainely get what you pay for. x800GTO would still eb a good second choice. EDIT: you have AGP, not PCI-e, then yeh go for the pro.
if ur getting agp dont get the powercolor (its slower (its in my brothers computer) ) i own this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814102609 and its still kickin out all games maxed out not fear of course but close the powercolor is slower like i said and it does not hold up very well as for the SAPPHIRE i own it and it kicks ass i unlocked mine was not hard.
ive got it, and it doesnt over heat, i dont over clock it though. but i can play CSS on high settings with high resolution and i have no problems at all.
I tried BF2 with my gfx card, i dont even got great cooling but max settings in the game worked fine.. I might of turned down view distance to like, 85 i think... and it only lagged a little during the times they tried to bomb me (u know, the commander sends downa bunch on a certain position..forget the name..) I got a connect3d version
It is really pointless for me to say this as everyone else pretty much all ready has. But ditch the idea of the x800GTO and just go with the better card for less money in the x850XT.
if you got the one that has 700mhz mem clock then it is, but i don't see anyone linking to that do I? and what happened to you outperformaing AKWs x1900XTX on FEAR with everythign on? wait, pixel doubling...
ahh, whoops....thanks for setting me straight john. Well unfortuantly the pro edition is more $$, but still a great card.
SO from all that gibberish I don't understand, i believe i will be getting this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814102606 is that correct?
