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ATI Radeon X850 XT PE 256MB PCI-Express
Introduction
In today's world, technology plays a big role in all of our lives. We depend on it daily to do our work, to talk to our friends and family, and even to sit back and whoop some arse in Counter-Strike. The video card industry has to be fast paced in order to meet new demands and to set new standards for the games of tomorrow. As I mentioned in my ATI Radeon X800 XL 512MB review, games have improved tremendously in just the last two years. Each new blockbuster game that hits the market brings amazing new visual effects and increasingly realistic graphics. None of these developments could be made, however, if our systems didn't have the horsepower to push a playable number of frames per second. This is why we see a new batch of video cards from the two big players (ATI and NVIDIA) every six months or so. It was only December when we were looking at the almost-top-of-the-line ATI Radeon X800 XT, and already I have in front of me the upgraded X850 XT Platinum Edition. The X850 XT PE is based on the R480 core clocked at 540MHz, has 16 pixel pipelines, and 256MB of GDDR3 clocked at 590MHz (1.18GHz DDR). We have rounded up a good number of cards to pin against the X850 XT PE, including NVIDIA's top-of-the-line Geforce 6800 Ultra. Let's find out if this behemoth is all it's cracked up to be. 
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: The Card Page 3: Test Setup Page 4: Benchmarks: Half-Life 2 Page 5: Benchmarks: Doom 3 Page 6: Benchmarks: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay Page 7: Benchmarks: Need for Speed Underground 2 Page 8: Benchmarks: Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Page 9: Overclocking & Conclusion 
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3 User Comments 1 - Posted by
PennyManDeux
on May 25, 2005 - 12:32 pm Awesome card. Can't wait to see what the next gen brings though. Of course I won't buy either until I have some more cash but you know... though can’t help but look at the benchies and dream of what might have been...
2 - Posted by
Kurtis
on May 25, 2005 - 12:38 pm it's a great card, but the price is just too steep for me to recommend it, especially when the next generation is right around the corner. i actually put the X800 XL 512MB back in my system for the better HL2 performance. I admit it, I'm a CS: Source junkie... /scratches lips 3 - Posted by
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on June 16, 2005 - 11:40 pm Good Article, I am purchasing a new Dell computer and have used this article to help me make desicions. I appreciate the forecasting and am willing to hold on to my cash for the next gen cards out in the next 4 -6 months.
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