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1 by Hunter
Founder
I'm thinking of buying an X800 card (ATI AGP 8x). The cards are fairly cheap now, and I'm not willing to spend huge amounts on the new AGP range coming out later in the year from nVidia. Does anyone have this card, and what's your view on it, any quirks? Keep in mind I'm using a trashy 5700LE, which is in turn a reduced version of 5900, and then reduced even more for the LE version. Talk about pants!

On a side note, I just replaced my Belkin WG54G with a new Netgear router. Wireless and DSL in one tiny little box that's not much bigger than my hand.... Ah lovely 8)

3 by Flipside
Admin
I use an X1600 and it's the sweetest piece of kit I ever owned. My last card kept dying from heat in the middle of Winter, this one has barely let me down throughout the hot weather, and provides a REALLY nice framerate in just about everyhting I play :)

They roll in at around £100

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/dirr ... ml?s=x1600

Edit : Sweet piece of Kit??? Where the hell did I get that from, I'd never say that in real life......

6 by Hammer
Elite SG Commodore
Grug wrote:No idea. There's a 9600pro in this box... :(
nothing wrong with that, i j ust bought one for my parents computer so i could actually play games, cheap and effective, good enough for me :o
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7 by Flipside
Admin
Glad to hear it's working ok, I didn't have that much problem setting it up apart from the fact my Bios had somehow swapped itself back to PCI-Speeds for my AGP Port, which I swtched back.

Anyway, glad it's working now :)
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8 by Taristin
Ascended SG Initiate
Hammer wrote:
Grug wrote:No idea. There's a 9600pro in this box... :(
nothing wrong with that, i j ust bought one for my parents computer so i could actually play games, cheap and effective, good enough for me :o
Ive a 9600XT here. Not sure if hte issue is my monitor or the card, but my screen loses the red pixels from time to time, and juggling the cord fixes it for a time.
Cant tell if its the monitor's cable, or the plug on the card, though.

9 by Hunter
Founder
Yeah Flip I had the same prob, had to update my VIA drivers. HOWEVER, I have noticed gaming performance is REAL slow still, 10-30 FPS in EVE and 50fps in station. That's really crappy considering the PC specs I'm running here - I think I might need to do a clean format.

13 by Taristin
Ascended SG Initiate
Grug wrote:
Taristin wrote:Apparently it was the pinout. using the DVi with an adaptor fixed it...
LoL. That's a pain. nothing that can be resoldered on the internal?
Wouldn't know how, anyway. So I use the secondary output and the chip thinks its primary.


Glad its not the monitor, despite it being 6 years old...

14 by Flipside
Admin
I get around 70-120 fps on average, except in high-lag situations, the performance is really good.
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https://www.youtube.com/user/PRDibble/videos

15 by Hunter
Founder
And whats your system spec? Mine is 3.2 P4 (64bit dualcore), 1GB DDR. You see, I get about 10-30 FPS. Something is *VERY VERY* wrong. But it wasn't like it when I first got this new system.. It's just a recent month thing. I've tried clearing up the system, checking for viruses, adware, purging/reinstalling DirectX, trying different drivers, different graphic cards, upgrading the BIOS, upgrading the motherboard VIA drivers, checking for IRQ conflicts, adjusting and tweaking every setting in EVE and in the ATI tray imaginable, adjusting the system performance/virtual memory, degfraging, diskcleaner... The only thing I didn't try is format C:. I just don't want to do that, really. Theres so many programs I'd have to dig up, reinstall, find the registration keys for windows and several programs... And make sure I backup everything that I might need in the future... arrgh
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