Ok, well not new but anyway, I'm at my friends helping him build his new machine and digs out this box and ask me if I want anything out of there because his wife is making him get rid of some of his crap laying around the house. I'm looking through the box and I find his old PCI V5 in there. I'm like "Your getting rid of this?!?" and he's like, "Yeah, I haven't touched it in years." So I ask him if he's sure and say yes SOOOO....... I have a new PCI V5!!

Ok, question here now. I've got XP SP2 installed on my main box with a Abit KW7 board and my X850Pro, will I have any problems with installing this, I shouldn't since it's a PCI card, but thought I'd ask. Two, what are the best drivers for XP around now? All my other V5 installs have been with 98 so I'm just wondering. Three, how much of a difference should a 3200+ and 2 gig of ram be compared to a 2100+ and 512 megs since it's still going through the PCI bus which is a bottleneck at the 33mhz bus path? Big difference, little difference?

Sorry, just the only other cards I've got that are PCI are the V2's and the Banshee cards so I'm wondering about this. I'm a little excited if you couldn't tell. hehehehe   

For once, I don't feel irriatated that I'm building a machine twice as fast as mine for someone else. 

I used to do this with my Radeon 9700Pro and my MAC v5500, so you shouldn't have any problems.

(only reason I stopped is that EVERY time you update your ATI drivers, you have to remove the V5500 so it doesn't interfere with the install...)

Best drivers are the latest ones from Amigamerlin - check @Falcon's driver section in the archive.

..latest SFFT+vcontrol is the way I use mine.

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You have a typo - please spell my name correctly!

You'all need to chill out a bit.

Ok, well now that we got all that out of the way, I would like to thank both Obi and paulpsomiadis for the info. I got my card working with just fine with X850 Pro so things are running smooth. The only issue I'm running into now is that I'm having some issues installing some games under XP's compatibility (?) mode so I can actually use the card. I'll get it worked in time, going through some of the older "Games" post so it's not a huge deal. First parts over.

By the way, not to add fuel to the fire, but Obi, I do believe that paulpsomiadis was just giving you a little crap man, nothing serious. I forget how to spell my own name sometimes.    It's part of the reason I carry my drivers license with me at all times, in case I get lost. It's at that time I call the girl friend and go "Yes dear".  

Norries Paul it's okay I just had a very depressfull week and sorry I aimed it at ya which wasn't the idea.

Well I'm back to Omega 6.03 since all the latest ones causes glitches in farCry and Call of Duty2 that were omega drivers 6.05, 6.07 and 6.08 all 3 were no go's.

With my X1900XTX and with Omega 6.03 which are based on catalyst 6.3 all problems are gone, shame that the new drivers just don't cope, seems that the newer drivers are getting worse instead of better

How are your experiences with later drivers from Omega Cat 6.03?

hmm is an idea only the printscreen doesn't work with FarCry need something to make screenies in there

BTW the ASUS X800 XT PE AGP aka R420 has no problems with Omega Cat 6.08 so it's the Sapphire X1900 XTX PCI-E aka R580 which only has that problem.