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ATI Radeon X1800 GTO Launched
SippinTea writes "ATI has also hastened to market with a launch of their own this week, with a new Performance Mid-Range Graphics Card. The Radeon X1800 GTO is a chopped-down version of the Radeon X1800 XL with 12 pixel pipelines and less expensive, lower speed GDDR3 DRAM on board. It compares well with the new GeForce 7600GT but can it compete with a GeForce 7900GT for only a few dollars more?"
That's completly untrue. These cards are able to be sold for cheaper because they don't need as high manufacturing standards as the top of the line cards. For those, every pipeline has to be perfect (or within an acceptable range of that) in order for it not to be thrown away. The brilliant thing about selling these kinds of cards, is that they don't have to just throw them away. Instead, they disable the faulty pipelines and sell them for cheaper. Thus they make $250 instead of nothing. Some people who buy them get lucky and get ones with mostly good pipelines. They can then renenable the pipelines, and get better performance. However, there will be problems like video corruption.
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Both Galaxy and Gigabyte are currently exposing fanless GF 7600GT at CeBIT (and are planning fanless 7900GT and GTX).
Fanless graphic cards are becoming more and more common on the retail market, while they virtually didn't exist a year ago...
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If you use Linux you shouldn't buy an ATI card. The drivers for the X1*** series of GPUs simply don't exist; and even when they do, ATI's patterns indicate that the Linux driver will deliver substantially fewer features and less performance than its Windows counterpart. This is in addition to how poor ATI cards are from a performance vs. price standpoint.
More significantly, though: Xgl relies upon an OpenGL extension that ATI is unlikely to support. This means you will never get the latest and greatest X11 hardware acceleration features if you purchase an ATI card.
In summary: Do not, under any circumstances, consider or purchase an ATI card if you ever intend to run Linux.
Radeon X1800 XL with 12 pixel pipelines and less expensive, lower speed GDDR3 DRAM
The 7900GT has 24 pixel pipelines 65nm process and is cheaper. nuff said.
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Um... the 5200 series was actually a fairly decent card. I was playing UT2k4 on it at 800x600 with >30fps frame rates. For a card that cost me literally 92$ CDN that ain't bad.
Last I checked a Voodoo card from 1997 wouldn't get 30fps at 800x600x32bpp while playing UT2k4.
Nice troll though. It's kinda funny actually, most of the trolling on slashdot and on usenet come from anonymous sources. It's almost like you ARE a coward and think that disrupting a conversation is ok to do, so long as you can post anonymously and not face the consequences.
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i can see ur point there but X700 stands no where in front of X1800 GTO. u are comparing two different segments of the cards. the top end version of in that series was X850XT PE and even that version doesn't stand in front og this new GTO. first of all GTO has new features like SM3.0 support. Hardware accelaration for video. and the good thing is it consumes less power than X850 XT PE and performs better. u have more silent PC and less power dissipation. technology is moving and u can't ignore that.:)
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Actually a Voodoo 3 would barely be installable to start with, the last official Voodoo3 drivers are for Windows 98, to use a Voodoo3 on a W2K/WXP box you have to use sub-par unofficial drivers (I know it, because I used to run a W2k box with a Voodoo3)
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I doubt you would see any noticeable difference in performance for photo editing. Most of these video cards are overkill for everything other than large scale 3D modeling and the latest graphics intensive 3D games.
Matrox Perhelia if you want colour accuracy, 2d acceleration, features like 10bit colour channels (native!).
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It has excellent 3d (in terms of quality) too.
They are still alive in this FPS comparison hell thanks to their focus on features like that.
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