HIS X1600XT IceQ Turbo Edition @ Viperlair

Vikingod · Feb 14, 2006, 02:07 PM

ATI have had it quite rough lately in the eyes of the enthusiast press. Crossfire has only recently begun to make a real showing and it’s still not a big showing. Trailing the mature SLI and experiencing similar teething troubles as well it hasn’t looked good. It’s not all bad though, as the X1900XT is a good card and is arguably top of the game, even against the 7800 series from NVIDIA.

One area that ATI has done well in is the midrange area, although this has been in the latter generation with the X800GT and X800GTO cards; cards that are quite cheap and yet can mostly give near to 6800GT levels of performance when overclocked. Some have even seen X800XL levels of performance out of the box. Of course that was then and this is now, and now ATI’s midrange series has been updated with the X1600 series, to which manufacturers have been making cards based on these GPU’s.
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Feb 14, 2006, 02:07 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	HIS X1600XT IceQ Turbo Edition @ Viperlair ATI have had it quite rough lately in the eyes of the enthusiast press. Crossfire has only recently begun to make a real showing and it’s still not a big showing. Trailing the mature SLI and experiencing similar teething troubles as well it hasn’t looked good. It’s not all bad though, as the X1900XT is a good card and is arguably top of the game, even against the 7800 series from NVIDIA. One area that ATI has done well in is the midrange area, although this has been in the latter generation with the X800GT and X800GTO cards; cards that are quite cheap and yet can mostly give near to 6800GT levels of performance when overclocked. Some have even seen X800XL levels of performance out of the box. Of course that was then and this is now, and now ATI’s midrange series has been updated with the X1600 series, to which manufacturers have been making cards based on these GPU’s. _________ Read More / Source: Viperlair