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CKXP

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Sapphire X800 GTO2
Yet another outstanding piece of "sleeper" hardware, the Sapphire X800 GTO2 was pretty good stock card to begin with. It was soon discovered that this card has serious potential and all you had to do to unlock it was perform a simple BIOS flash. For your 5 min effort you then end up with a full fledged X800 XT capable of running Platinum Edition core and clock speeds.
nice pick IMO:) but my first thought would have been the 7800gt
 

shinzwei

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Originally posted by: CKXP
Sapphire X800 GTO2
Yet another outstanding piece of "sleeper" hardware, the Sapphire X800 GTO2 was pretty good stock card to begin with. It was soon discovered that this card has serious potential and all you had to do to unlock it was perform a simple BIOS flash. For your 5 min effort you then end up with a full fledged X800 XT capable of running Platinum Edition core and clock speeds.
nice pick IMO:) but my first thought would have been the 7800gt


I thought the GTO2 can be modded into a full fledge X850XT capable of running PE speeds. The Picture even shows the R480 core. The C3D GTO was the one that could be modded into an X800XT capable of running PE speeds because it has the R423 core. Mistake on their part?