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400415	2005-10-30 19:38:00	Copied the following from another forum "the fan died on my 9700pro a few days ago so replaced it with a shiny new sapphire x800xl only problem so far seems to be that it has almost exactly the same framerate as the old card in both halflife 2 and world of warcraft (those being the only games installed theyre all ive tryed). On the video stress test in HL2 old card scored 86 new scores 88 so seems wasnt really worth the money." I was about to replace my 9800 pro 128 megs, with a Gigabyte x800xl with 256 megs. Reading the above has put me off a bit. Looks like I may be spending over $600 for not much improvement. Any comments?	JJJJJ (528)
400416	2005-10-30 19:50:00	I chucked a system together the other day using an AMD 64 3000,1 GB ram, Asus Nforce4, and the above mentioned video card, With no "optimising" it ran in 3dmark 03 at just under 11000 points.....	Metla (12)
400417	2005-10-30 20:01:00	I went from a 9800 pro on my Intel 3.0 GHz system to a X800XT. I can now play at 1280 by 1024 far more easily. You can actually turn Antialiasing etc on and it doesn't hit your frame rate. I'm seeing far more consistent frame rates (i.e. the don't drop right down in certain parts of games). What CPU have you got? Maybe the forum poster had an underpowered CPU (somewhere less than 2.4 GHz)..	gibler (49)
400418	2005-10-30 20:10:00	Copied the following from another forum "the fan died on my 9700pro a few days ago so replaced it with a shiny new sapphire x800xl only problem so far seems to be that it has almost exactly the same framerate as the old card in both halflife 2 and world of warcraft (those being the only games installed theyre all ive tryed). On the video stress test in HL2 old card scored 86 new scores 88 so seems wasnt really worth the money." I was about to replace my 9800 pro 128 megs, with a Gigabyte x800xl with 256 megs. Reading the above has put me off a bit. Looks like I may be spending over $600 for not much improvement. Any comments? Whats cpu, ram, powersupply? You might have one of those components bottlenecking you? Have you updated your drivers? Try the 3dmark05 to make sure your card is running at its normal speed. Also make sure your motherboard bios are updated, (because this was causing my 6600gt mediocre performance) Good Luck.	bigmit37 (7537)
400419	2005-10-30 20:18:00	Jack the best card going at the moment and if you have the money is a Nvidia based Geforce FX 7800 series card. It well leave ATI based cards in its dust. This is only what I have read on the internet. Trevor :)	Trev (427)
400420	2005-10-31 03:59:00	Copied the following from another forum "the fan died on my 9700pro a few days ago so replaced it with a shiny new sapphire x800xl only problem so far seems to be that it has almost exactly the same framerate as the old card in both halflife 2 and world of warcraft (those being the only games installed theyre all ive tryed). On the video stress test in HL2 old card scored 86 new scores 88 so seems wasnt really worth the money." I was about to replace my 9800 pro 128 megs, with a Gigabyte x800xl with 256 megs. Reading the above has put me off a bit. Looks like I may be spending over $600 for not much improvement. Any comments? This guy had a problem - its not his card. Read the replies and you'll see that. Go ahead and buy the card..........	pctek (84)
400421	2005-10-31 04:29:00	hhhmmmmm....Im reading the thread at GP forums that JJJJ has pasted in his post, I cant see them identify any other issue.(apart from the fact its an HP, which is a bad starting point)	Metla (12)
400422	2005-10-31 05:40:00	Copied the following from another forum "the fan died on my 9700pro a few days ago so replaced it with a shiny new sapphire x800xl only problem so far seems to be that it has almost exactly the same framerate as the old card in both halflife 2 and world of warcraft (those being the only games installed theyre all ive tryed). On the video stress test in HL2 old card scored 86 new scores 88 so seems wasnt really worth the money." I was about to replace my 9800 pro 128 megs, with a Gigabyte x800xl with 256 megs. Reading the above has put me off a bit. Looks like I may be spending over $600 for not much improvement. Any comments? x800XL is a good card, however I wouldn't pay $600 for it. I would also probably Choose the Nvidia 6800GT over the x800Xl due to pixel shader 3 ability and it is a little faster is Q4 and FEAR etc, and should be similar price. The post you have pasted doesn't mention CPU speed. The CPU is often the bottleneck with the higher cards and that may have been his problem. If you have say an Athlon XP2000 it won't provide enough grunt to run the video card at full speed. I would suggest a AMD64 3000+ or above to run these cards or higher.	Battleneter (60)
400423	2005-10-31 05:42:00	Giffto Forum Whore. -NN- Old Post 14 Oct 2005 2:32 pm Did you install new drivers for the card? Try using different drivers, i.e. download ones from www.ati.com. hefilump Regular Old Post 14 Oct 2005 2:47 pm yeah tryed the ones that came with it but couldnt even start the computer with those so got the newest omega drivers and theyre what im using now but cant really go downloading alot for awhile because im over my 10gig cap. Not that they were helpful - but the point is he had a problem - what exactly I don't know - intersting that he says he couldn't even boot originally. But its not that the card is useless.	pctek (84)
400424	2005-10-31 05:44:00	Jack the best card going at the moment and if you have the money is a Nvidia based Geforce FX 7800 series card. It well leave ATI based cards in its dust. This is only what I have read on the internet. Trevor :) Hate to correct you but the New ATI X1800XT is currently the fastest single card soulution by about 7-10% in most games. The supply is extremely limited at the moment, but it is faster than the 7800GTX. oh and he is replacing AGP by the looks of it, so both those are out anyway.	Battleneter (60)
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