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Title: Strange ASUS X800XT PE AGP card
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 21.12.05 at 15:47:05

While I was looking around on the net I came acros this strange cooler based ASUS X800 XT Platinum Edition AGP:

http://www.hardavenue.com/reviews/asusx800xt_front.jpg
http://www.hardavenue.com/reviews/asusx800xt_angle.jpg
http://www.hardavenue.com/reviews/asusx800xt_panel.jpg
http://www.hardavenue.com/reviews/asusx800xt_power.jpg

and if you compare that with the this model, the model we all know:

As you can see ASUS changed the cooler quite alot, could it be that the one I showed forst is the prototype or Pre-Production model of the ASUS AX800XT Platinum Edition AGP ?

Title: Re: Strange ASUS X800XT PE AGP card
Post by paulpsomiadis on 21.12.05 at 18:42:04

The new cooler certainly has some 'assets' of note...LOL! ;D

But on a more serious side - maybe you're correct about pre-production...time will tell... ???

Title: Re: Strange ASUS X800XT PE AGP card
Post by st4r4m4m4 on 21.12.05 at 18:45:20

The PCIE EAX800XL and the AGP AX800XL happen to have the same heatsink (asusworld catalogue july-august 2005)

Title: Re: Strange ASUS X800XT PE AGP card
Post by ALT-F13 on 21.12.05 at 19:03:36

ASUS was going to install an self-designed cooler on X800XTs and had some issues with ATI regarding it. For X800Pro they used original ATI design but i'm not sure if they came to agreement about XT model at the end. Anyway, my ASUS X800XT AGP press sample had ASUS cooler as pictured above but I don't know if this was a normal stock solution or just a small bunch of press cards.

Title: Re: Strange ASUS X800XT PE AGP card
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 21.12.05 at 19:08:51

well the one I had the the Blue ASUS AX800 cooler and I suppose the one you had was scraped.