X800 GTO or 800XT which is the Best card??

[toad]

Hi,

I'm looking to change my 9700 Pro for a new card.

I've an AGP slot, on a dell 8250, and was wondering which would be the best card for the new X800GTO, available for about £150 or a X800 XT which I've seen for £188 (connect 3d).

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks


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[KCB]

Hi,

I'm looking to change my 9700 Pro for a new card.

I've an AGP slot, on a dell 8250, and was wondering which would be the
best card for the new X800GTO, available for about £150 or a X800 XT which
I've seen for £188 (connect 3d).

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

If you look here:

http://www.ati.com/products/radeonx800/radeonx800series/index.html

you will find info on the XT, but I didn't see anything about the GTO.
Another link for comparisons is here:

http://apps.ati.com/ATIcompare/

but again, nothing on the GTO.

Google the GTO, and you can probably find specs from hardware review sites.

 

[Clas Mehus]

Hi,

I'm looking to change my 9700 Pro for a new card.

I've an AGP slot, on a dell 8250, and was wondering which would be the best card for the new X800GTO, available for about £150 or a X800 XT which I've seen for £188 (connect 3d).

Any advice would be appreciated.

£150 is quite much for a X800GTO, but I guess the AGP-version is quite
much more expensive than the PCI-E-version.

What CPU do you have in this system. If this is an slower system the
difference between the X800 GTO and X800 XT might be quite small if
the CPU is a bottleneck. A bit slower than the X800 GTO is the Nvidia
6600GT AGP, but this is also like £50 cheaper. The difference ain't
that huge in performance.

 

[toad]

Hi,

I have a 3Ghz P4 with 1 GB RAM.

Ta

£150 is quite much for a X800GTO, but I guess the AGP-version is quite
much more expensive than the PCI-E-version.

What CPU do you have in this system. If this is an slower system the
difference between the X800 GTO and X800 XT might be quite small if
the CPU is a bottleneck. A bit slower than the X800 GTO is the Nvidia
6600GT AGP, but this is also like £50 cheaper. The difference ain't
that huge in performance.

 

[Lion Of Judah]

My advice is the All In Wonder X800 XT I paid $299 US including overnight
shipping $18 at ebuyer.com....

I was able to overclock SAFELY to 564 core and 565 mem, some gamescan go
higher too, but at this level all of them work. 3D Mark 2003 scores 13032,
consistenltly a little over 13000....

And is a world of difference over my previous 9800 XT in games such as Call
of Duty 2, Fear Demo and Quake 4...all run flawlessly now at 1280x1024 using
my athlon 3400.

Trust me, it will be like you got a whole new computer when you go from the
9700 to the X800 XT... I couldn't be happier with the decision.

Only one thing pisses me off...I saw that new King King has a special hi-res
gamer's version but it says it requires Shader Model 3.0 and the X800 only
does 2.0+ or something like that. The thing is...SM 2.0+ kicks ass in Half
Life 2 Lost Coast and Chronicles of Riddick. It sorta pisses me off that
someone would make a hi-rez gamer's version that renders (pun intended) the
X800 series obsolete. That just sucks.

But all games other than the King Kong gamer's version will kick ass on your
system at 1280x1024 guaranteed. With games like Painkiller you can do
1600x1200 and still get over 100 fps...

 

[TonyC]

Hi,

I'm looking to change my 9700 Pro for a new card.

I've an AGP slot, on a dell 8250, and was wondering which would be the
best card for the new X800GTO, available for about £150 or a X800 XT which
I've seen for £188 (connect 3d).

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Did you choose the GTO because you're aware of it's ability to use unlocked
pipes and overclocks well, even beyond X850XT PE apparently. Certain models
come with the R480 core and all 16 pipes can be enable. If you're not aware
then maybe read up. Sounds good from what I've read.

 

[tod]

The ATI X1600 should be coming out in AGP this month.

 

[Mike]

Only the gto2 sapphire's can unlock, except for old stock of one other brand
(forget which). I got the sapphire and it came with all 16 pipes unlocked
but doesn't quite make it to 800xt core speed (mem goes higher).

Mike

 

[JM]

I just bought an (AGP) X800XT and am quite happy with it. For good
benchmark comparisons, you may want to check Tom's Hardware review of
both these cards (and others), at:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/07/05/vga_charts_vii/index.html

I'm in the U.S. and just bought the X800Xt at www.buy.com , pretty
decent deal I think.

List Price: $399.00
Our Price: $285.40
Less Rebate(s): - $30.00
*After Rebate(s) $255.40

 

[JM]

I just bought an (AGP) X800XT and am quite happy with it. For good
benchmark comparisons, you may want to check Tom's Hardware review of
both these cards (and others), at:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/07/05/vga_charts_vii/index.html

Oops, sorry about that, I thought the review above covered the
X800-GTO but it does not. There may be the 'equivelent' of the GTO in
this review, but I'm not sure what it would be.

The review shows a chart of core/mem/pipes/chipsets for each Radeon
card tested, which may match the GTO. The video card chart is here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/07/05/vga_charts_vii/page2.html