x850 pro need advice please

[AAvK]

Curious as to which vid-card to buy. I can see the x850 pro has a 500mhz gpu
and 256mb of 256 bit DDR3 RAM at usually 500mhz, 12 pixel pipelines but
can another four be opened via soft mod? I read one pricegrapler (TG stores)
review; they said the following:
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http://stores.tomshardware.com/rating_getprodrev.php/masterid=11139079/id_type=masterid

Excellent Card for the Buck
Strengths: 1. Awesome performance in 3D games. 2. AGP 3. Inexpensive
relative to other cards on the market 4. Quiet

Weaknesses:
1. Only 12 pipelines 2. AGP 3. Catalyst Control Center is slow and
useless 4. Could not get it to softmod

Summary: Bought the card thinking I could get it to an X850XT PE by
flashing it with the PE Bios. Didn't work, lots of black screens, crahses,
etc, so I reflashed it back to the regular X850 Pro. It runs well in games
for the price ($250) and is very quiet for a mid-highend videocard.
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Me the OP:
Does anyone know better, or if there is another (other than ATI) brand
that is more flexible than this?

Any advice much appreciated, TIA

 

[D.Corn]

Curious as to which vid-card to buy.

Save yourself many headaches, these are good cards at good
prices, and the software works, whereas ATI's does not:

http://www.leadtek.com.tw/

They even personally answer email support!


I can see the x850 pro has a 500mhz gpu

 

[AAvK]

Save yourself many headaches, these are good cards at good
prices, and the software works, whereas ATI's does not:

http://www.leadtek.com.tw/

They even personally answer email support!

Thanks. Me thinks me too po' however... so I grabbed a refurb x800xl.
I'll try that out with the Omega driver. If it's utterly worthless, I'll send
it back for a 6800gt refurb.

 

[D.Corn]

Thanks. Me thinks me too po' however... so I grabbed a refurb x800xl.
I'll try that out with the Omega driver. If it's utterly worthless, I'll send
it back for a 6800gt refurb.

Maybe you got po' by ATI, you certainly won't by Leadtek,
check out the prices!

 

[AAvK]

Maybe you got po' by ATI, you certainly won't by Leadtek,
check out the prices!

Yeah... I have a Leadtek picked out for the RMA exchange too.
Too many games don't work right with the ATI and they all worked
well with the ol' Ti4600. Just want more graphics in the game.