> Heh, 25-30 amps. Thats enough to weld stainless steel.
>
> *coughTrollcough

Hmm, troll, that's funny. Yet another ATI fanboy jumping on th
bandwagon with no real purpose in the discussion. See, if you had an
common sense, you'd know that the X1900 series is known for puttin
quite a bit of pressure on your powersupply. If you took the time t
read, or if you can read for that matter, almost anyone who's bough
that card has suffered hell because their powersupply was eithe
underpowered or just not providing enough power. So you can cough al
you like my friend

"Mike L" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Heh, 25-30 amps. Thats enough to weld stainless steel.
>>
>> *coughTrollcough*
>
> Hmm, troll, that's funny. Yet another ATI fanboy jumping on the
> bandwagon with no real purpose in the discussion. See, if you had any
> common sense, you'd know that the X1900 series is known for putting
> quite a bit of pressure on your powersupply. If you took the time to
> read, or if you can read for that matter, almost anyone who's bought
> that card has suffered hell because their powersupply was either
> underpowered or just not providing enough power. So you can cough all
> you like my friend.

Assuming you are 100% correct (not that I care),
Why stay here and argue about it if you are going the Nvidia route?

His assesment of you being a troll is pretty much what spot-on if you look
at the facts.

Honestly, Wouldn't you be happier posting into an Nvidia newsgroup with all
your happy new friends?

"Mike L" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Well, ofcourse it's a good card, I mean it's ATI's highest offering at
> the moment. But I'll warn you ahead of time on a few things - Firstly,
> don't complain when the drivers for your videocard don't work, or
> cause your system to become unstable and plain out bring down
> peformance.

Running Win x64 with Catalyst 6.3 for my x1900xtx. Only problem I had, was
an unknown device (vivo). I have no performance problems, and everything
runs stable.

>ATI is known for shoddy drivers and horrible support;
> both customer and software.

Because I had an unknown device, I made a ticket with ATI support. They
helped me in a week.

>You must purchase a powersupply that is
> atleast 600 watts in power and occupying 25-30 amps on the 12v line.

Enermax 550 here .... no problems.

> Secondly that card can tend to run hot, so don't be afraid if you see
> it idling at 60 degrees celcius or so. Other than that, it's a great
> card, enjoy.

The stock cooler makes way to much noise. I've replaced the cooler with an
Arctic X2 one, which is very silent. When idling my card is around 30-40°C.
Stressed around 70-80°C. I once shifted all the overdrive sliders to the
top ... stressed it never went over 90°C. Which is 'ok' for the x1900.

Cheers,

F.

I am from ruby headquaters and i must tell you one thing that
Much like the rest of nVidia’s cards, they don’t support simultaneous
HDR and FSAA. If this feature means a lot to you, then you might want
to consider an X1900XTX.Even nvidia latest 7900 SERIES DONT DO THAT so
what the point of buying a card that does not have all features and by
the way ATI image and video quality surpasses nvidia.Especially Avivo
nvidia don't have any answer for this.