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Warm!! X800GTO2 retail

I would prefer the Connected 3D GTO X800GTO with a Zalman VNC-700 GPU cooler. $180 + $25 - $15 MIR = $190.


Warm at best for Cali residents (tax), but good if your not in cali.
 
It looks like the best price for this card among stores with stock, but still about 20% more than Newegg sold it for a month and a half ago. It's a step in the right direction anyway, perhaps influenced by the popularity of the cheaper (but possibly nearly equivalent performing) C3D card lyfer mentioned.
 
Does the R480 core support Pixel Shader 3.0? And the R423? core just supports PS 2.0? Is there a BIG noticeable difference in current games?
 
All X800 and X850 series support SM2.0b
Well, there IS a significant difference between SM 2.0 and SM 3.0, but the X800GTO2 isn't SM 2.0; it's SM 2.0 extended, also called 2.0b. It also brings many new features to the table that SM 3.0 does, such as dynamic flow and loop control, more shader instructions processed in a single pass, and multiple rendering targets for quadruple+ the speed in performing lighting.
It still falls short of SM 3.0, though but not by much. How big a gap it is, and whether it matters at all, remains to be seen, as no one has been too keen to compare the two right off.
 
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