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ATI Radeon X1800 GTO 256MB

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Kurtis Kronk
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May. 8, 2006

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The Card

The heatsink is a rather uncomplicated, but cool looking, single slot solution which covers up the GPU as well as the 256MB of GDDR3 on the front of the card. This is ATI's reference cooler, mind you, and they won't be producing any of these cards, so the design on the heatsink, and the heatsink itself, might be different on retail boards.

On the edge of the card you will notice that there is a 6-pin PCI-Express auxiliary power connector - something you'll see on all the X1800 cards, and pretty much any other high-end card on the market. The outputs on the card are two dual-link DVIs and a TVo connection. There isn't much to say about the back side of the card - a retention bracket and a sticker, exciting.

I didn't manage to get any shots of it, but the card uses Samsung K4J55323QG-BC14 with a maximum frequency of 700MHz. I would expect a decent overclock on the memory since it comes clocked at 500MHz. Since ATI won't be producing these cards, I can't say what the bundle will be as it will be dependent upon each board partner.

We'd like to thank Directron.com for donating the ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 Motherboard which we used for testing.

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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: The Card & Bundle
Page 3: Test Setup
Page 4: Benchmarks: Half-Life 2
Page 5: Benchmarks: Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Page 6: Benchmarks: Quake 4
Page 7: Benchmarks: X3 Reunion Demo
Page 8: Benchmarks: Chronicles of Riddick
Page 9: Benchmarks: F.E.A.R.
Page 10: Benchmarks: Need for Speed Most Wanted
Page 11: Benchmarks: Black & White 2
Page 12: Benchmarks: 3DMark '06
Page 13: Overclocking... and Unlocking?
Page 14: Performance Summary
Page 15: Conclusion

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5 User Comments

1 - Posted by tobba007 on May 26, 2006 - 12:22 pm

Excellent review there Kurtis - I needed a comparison of these 2 cards, with an unbiased slant, and that's what I've got!

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2 - Posted by Kurtis on May 26, 2006 - 1:39 pm

i recommend reading my 7600 GT review as well. i found out some interesting information about the pricing while i was writing that review. the main thing you need to see is the conclusion:

http://www.thetechlounge.com/article/276/XFX+GeFor...

3 - Posted by mustafa on July 10, 2006 - 9:29 am

I really wanted to know if i failed in flashing the x1800 gto to x1800 xl would it be easy to restore the default bois of the gto or it is someting out of hands?

by the way what is ur opinion in powercolor x1800 gto?

thanks

4 - Posted by Kurtis on July 10, 2006 - 9:49 am

i have no idea if you'd be able to recover from a failed BIOS flash... i haven't tried it, personally.

as far as the different brands of video cards go, that's all up to you. my personal opinion is i don't care that much who's sticker is on the video card, what i car about is what the GPU is under the heatsink. the deciding factor for me would be the price, the bundle, and the warranty.

5 - Posted by mustafa on July 10, 2006 - 5:53 pm

well what i think about the x1800 gto GPU is that it is has superior power (321 million trasistors and 256 bit memory interface),excellent support for HDR, AA and AF but when it comes to the 7600 gt it is cheaper, hell of a fast card,
designed for specific game titles but unfortunately it only has 167 million transistors and 128 bit memory interface.

i think i would choose the x1800 gto it's eyes looking
for the future.

now for my questions part:
1-would i be able to crossfire this 1800 gto using another 1800 gto on an intel 975 chipset based m.board
2-is this crossfire dongless or not?
3-i read that ATI will have several crrossfire layouts,2 GPUs,1GPU and 1physics card is that true?

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