Powercolor X800XL or Gigabyte's X800XL?

[Creig]

Originally posted by: Wizard12
hey

a friend of mine just got a new comp and bought a non-sli board, so I recomended him to buy a X800XL, yet Power color is priced 20$ lower than gigabyte's.

So what would it be :

Powercolor or Gigabyte ?

Powercolor = 1.6ns memory chips
Gigabyte = 2.0ns memory chips

Powercolor = Dual DVI
Gigabyte = DVI/VGA


Get the Powercolor.

 

[imported_llama]

therefore the power colour is better if the memory ratings are correct, would allow 1.2GHz instead of 1.0GHz as far as i can remember

 

[Capt Caveman]

Unfortunately, the Powercolor x800xl is only stocked w/ 2.0ns memory. However, it still is a better pick b/c it can oc better w/ the external power connector.

 

[Creig]

Whoops, just found out that some of the older Powercolor X800XL's came with 1.6ns memory, but newer ones seem to come with 2.0ns.

 

[fstime]

1.6 ns would be nice but not necessary