Radeon X800 PRO $399 and get Half Life 2 for FREE @ Best Buy!!

[thatsright]

I live in Boston, MA and just got the Sunday paper and in the Best Buy circular on page 8 is a ad for made by ATI Radeon X800 Pro for $399. And if you get Half Life 2 at the same time its FREE. ONLY GOOD ONLINE!!! HL2 and Radeon X800 Combo deal!

Not sure if this is Smoking HOT? But seems scalding at least. Man what A Killaha deal to upgrade from my Power Color Radeon 9700 NON-pro. I would go for this, even thought I"d rather get a GeForce 6800GT. Normally I would of ordered first before I blab my mouth to everyone bout it. But lack of funds preclude this deal for me.

Well hope this works for someone!.

Good Luck guys.

 

[BentValve]

Not too good of a deal... a 6800 GT will outperform this card by quite abit.

 

[IceMole]

Outpost had x800Pro for $249 by visontek, they have BBA version for $329.

 

[NorthBear]

Originally posted by: BentValve
Not too good of a deal... a 6800 GT will outperform this card by quite abit.

I bought the BFG 6800GT OC for $399 - %12 'Preferred Customer Coupon' = $350. Add the cost of
HalfLife 2 ($55) and you can get the combo this weekend for $405 if you received the coupons in
the mail.

 

[imported_siegler]

If you wanted the X800 Pro this is a very good deal. Not smoking since I just got the x800 Pro at Outpost recently for $260, but that was a fluke. Normally the ATI x800 Pro sells for $400 and is OOS everywhere.

Forgot the 10% off coupon! Now it's smoking! Although since the deal is online-only I'm not sure you can use the coupon.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: siegler
If you wanted the X800 Pro this is a very good deal. Not smoking since I just got the x800 Pro at Outpost recently for $260, but that was a fluke. Normally the ATI x800 Pro sells for $400 and is OOS everywhere.

Forgot the 10% off coupon! Now it's smoking! Although since the deal is online-only I'm not sure you can use the coupon.

It's listed in the Sunday Best Buy Flyer, so I don't think it's online only.

 

[dethman]

Originally posted by: BentValve
Not too good of a deal... a 6800 GT will outperform this card by quite abit.

as i understood it, doom was much better on the 6800GT, but since HL2 was optimized for ATI the X800Pro would out perform it. not sure about that though.

 

[whistleclient]

which version of half life is it?

does it come with DoD: source or just CS: source?

 

[imported_Bleh]

Originally posted by: tangent1138

which version of half life is it?

does it come with DoD: source or just CS: source?

Im pretty sure it would just be CS source if at all. Dod source would only be on the steam offer.

 

[gspyer]

Originally posted by: dethman

Originally posted by: BentValve
Not too good of a deal... a 6800 GT will outperform this card by quite abit.

as i understood it, doom was much better on the 6800GT, but since HL2 was optimized for ATI the X800Pro would out perform it. not sure about that though.

You are correct. I has to do with the way the 3D render is written. That and the bribe money from either card manufacturer. So DooM3 and all future DooM3-engine based games are better on Nvidia cards. All Source-engine games will be better on ATI.

Eventually, the DooM3-engine will support Pixel Shader and Vertex Shader 3.0. This is something ATI cards don't support. That actually doesn't mean you'll have nicer graphics. Because everything in PS/VS 3.0 can be done in 2.0, just with more instructions. What that means, basically, by using less instructions, you can get even better performance.