Woot- my Asus X800Xt PE is on the way!

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nRollo

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I know I said many times I was going to skip this generation of ATI because they had not changed the feature set from the last two cards I bought.

Hardware lust took over though, so I bought the PE with a Silencer installed.

Am thinking of setting up another computer with some sort of SLI to compare/ contrast.

Merry Christmas to me. ;) Time to head out for some barley wine to celebrate these happy circumstances.
 
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Originally posted by: Rollo
I know I said many times I was going to skip this generation of ATI because they had not changed the feature set from the last two cards I bought.
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Wins my vote for "Understatement of the Year" award.
 
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Originally posted by: Creig

Wins my vote for "Understatement of the Year" award.
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The cynic in me suspects that this purchase may be used to promote the competition, but I have been wrong many times before. I may have to quit using the nvidia salesman moniker.
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Hardware lust took over though, so I bought the PE with a Silencer installed.
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Hey Rollo, did you get the HIS Excalibur X800 XT IceQ II I posted the link to? I posted this link several times over the last two weeks and Super PC Mart has sold 6 of the non-PE versions since then.

EDIT: Duh, just re-read the title of Rollo's OP - "Woot- my Asus X800Xt PE is on the way!" I read Rollo's comment about a "PE with a Silencer installed" and figured it was an HIS card, as I believe that they are the only vendor currently equipping ATI cards with the Silencer (Arctic Cooling) Silencer systems "out-of-the-box".

Now they have 10 of the PE version back in stock. They had been out of the PE version for about two months so so until now.

Here is the link to the HIS page at Super PC Mart:

http://superpcmart.com/index.c...03964286bfe55a194fd8d0

Just so everyone knows, the HIS X800 XT AGP cards (both PE and non-PE) as well as the PCI-e versions are all VIVO (Video-In Video-Out) models.

Enjoy!
 
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Originally posted by: Aries64
Hardware lust took over though, so I bought the PE with a Silencer installed.
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Hey Rollo, did you get the HIS Excalibur X800 XT IceQ II I posted the link to? I posted this link several times over the last two weeks and Super PC Mart has sold 6 of the non-PE versuions since then.

Now they have 10 of the PE version back in stock. Thye had been out of the PE version for about two months so so until now.

Here is the link to the HIS page at Super PC Mart:

http://superpcmart.com/index.c...03964286bfe55a194fd8d0

Just so everyone knows, the HIS X800 XT AGP cards (both PE and non-PE) as well as the PCI-e versions are all VIVO (Video-In Video-Out) models.

Enjoy!
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$585, that's really not a bad price.

 
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Mmmm, nice!

I waited for a time with cash in hand for that card to show up in stock, somewhere - ANYwhere, and it just didn't. I'd get emails from NewEgg saying - hey it's in stock, only to immediately click the link and find, no it isn't.

I eventually broke down and ordered a vanilla XT by Connect 3D. It runs stable beyond PE speeds, so I flashed it to a regular PE and I'm happy. ASUS puts together a nice bundle.

Congratulations on the purchase Rollo. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

I had the 6800GT, and I think the ATI 2D is better. That is my experience.
 
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nRollo

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Originally posted by: ronnn
Originally posted by: Creig

Wins my vote for "Understatement of the Year" award.
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The cynic in me suspects that this purchase may be used to promote the competition, but I have been wrong many times before. I may have to quit using the nvidia salesman moniker.
:shocked:
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I don't know how me using a X800 will "promote the competition", but if you think it will that's fine. I just saw a killer deal on one with a silencer on a bbs, so I jumped.

Anyone who's known me a while knows I just like to try new video cards.
 
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ronnn

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Also have a reputation of defending nvidia at all costs. Anyways if we don't start reading posts stating ownership of both cards and the 6800 series is just better (in personal experience), than I will be wrong. Has happened before. :beer:
 
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nRollo

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Originally posted by: ronnn
Also have a reputation of defending nvidia at all costs. Anyways if we don't start reading posts stating ownership of both cards and the 6800 series is just better (in personal experience), than I will be wrong. Has happened before. :beer:
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You'll wait a long time for that, I don't know how a guy using a X800XT PE could say that card owns 6800Us any more than a 6800U owner could say the the reverse. They're pretty equal.

There are some good reasons in general to buy 6800GTs over X800Pros, but I wouldn't call it "ownage".

With the official announcement of the demise of the X700XT, ATI doesn't compete at $200-$300 at all, but will again next year. For now they compete well at the low and high end.

Like I've always said, if I had to pick ONE card this year it would be nVidia based, just for the more modern feature set. I stand by that, I don't see ATI offering any real advantage to offset the lack of DX9c or SLI possibility. (actually SLI does flat out OWN, hopefully I'll get to try it)

This year the edge went nVidia, next year who knows? Competition is good for all concerned and I personally wish for days gone buy when a CGW card roundup might have five competing chipsets. Those were the fun times, when you didn't have two companies splitting hairs for advantage- 3dfx, Matrox, Power VR, nVidia, Rendition, S3 all brought good products to market with advantages to each. I used to buy a video card a month and have never cared what the name on the box was.

:):beer:
 
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You should be pleasantly surprised how the ATI drivers have matured over the past year Rollo, and try out the CCC and let us know what you think (I personally think it's great).
 
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ronnn

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Originally posted by: Rollo
This year the edge went nVidia
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Thats more like it. Only problem is the edge went to nvidia last year also (for better drivers).

 
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Originally posted by: ronnn
Originally posted by: Rollo
This year the edge went nVidia
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Thats more like it. Only problem is the edge went to nvidia last year also (for better drivers).
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No way, the FX series debacle put them in a distant second, sorry. This year they seem to have the hardware edge, but they are having more driver and application issues than ATI.
 
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nRollo

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Originally posted by: ronnn
Originally posted by: Rollo
This year the edge went nVidia
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Thats more like it. Only problem is the edge went to nvidia last year also (for better drivers).
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Nah- last year was a tossup, flip a coin. Parity. Year before ATI triumphed with 9700P.
 
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nRollo

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Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
Wait a second, what happened to the Gainward card you were bidding on? I take it you didn't get it then?
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I won the bidding, didn't meet their minimum bid. They wanted $750 plus $39 SH, I told them I'd give them $700 period, they declined. I thought it was a fair price for the card given the coming of SLI and the going of Gainward from the US market.

When you consider the X800XT PE I'm buying (albeit used) is only $450 and offers comparable performance, the "bang for buck" obviously wasn't there.

I was willing to go $700 though, and no one even topped my bid at $590, and they had been trying to sell the card 20 days. (two ten day auctions) You'd think they might have dropped $50 on the price and their gouging SH- doesn't cost $39 to ship a card from IL to WI. ;)
 
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WOW! Rollo you bought an ATI card!!! This would really take away your Captain title from Team nVidia. :D
 
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