Need help deciding on a video caed.

[loserguy]

Ok, I was really stupid and did about 0 research when I bought the parts for my first gaming rig, and I stupidly purchased an ATI X300. I have overclocked the absolute ****** out of it and still can't get performance out of it (517/256) so I am going to be upgrading soon.

I am having trouble deciding between two cards though, the Radeon x850xt, or x1800GTO.

I would buy the X850Xt right now, but I ust noticed it only has pixel sader 2 support, is a real bad thing?

Thanks.

 

[Ika]

Get the GTO. It's based on the X1900 core, which means in the future it might be possible to unlock the disabled pipelines (currently programs aren't ready to do this yet). Also, it does have PS3 support, which may be important a few years down the road, when more developers support PS3 and drop support for PS1 and 2. The X850XT isn't a BAD card, it's just a little outdated. It still runs fairly well for the newest games. X1900GTO is just more future-proof.

 

[loserguy]

Originally posted by: guoziming
Get the GTO. It's based on the X1900 core, which means in the future it might be possible to unlock the disabled pipelines (currently programs aren't ready to do this yet). Also, it does have PS3 support, which may be important a few years down the road, when more developers support PS3 and drop support for PS1 and 2. The X850XT isn't a BAD card, it's just a little outdated. It still runs fairly well for the newest games. X1900GTO is just more future-proof.

I hope you meant x1800 core

I've read somewhere that you can flash it to x1800xl and get the 4 pipelines.

 

[AzNPinkTuv]

HIS only x1800gto's

 

[JimmyH]

It looks like the HIS x1800gto and the C3d x1800gto have a decent shot at unlocking to 16pipes. HIS has 1.2ns memory and not sure w/ c3d. The c3d is $178 at the egg so its cheap. Still a little too early to tell % chance.

HIS & C3d x1800gto unlocking to 16 pipe

 

[LW07]

Get the X1800GTO like everyone else said.

 

[loserguy]

Ok thanks guys, but how exactly do I flash the bios on the card?

 

[Ika]

EDIT: oh wait... i guess the X1800GTO is based on R520?

 

[Ika]

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/34

 

[loserguy]

Thanks for the link

///bookmarked

 

[TheRyuu]

Get the X1800GTO, unlock, then overclock the sh!t out of it.