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ATI Dropped price on X850 to 119.00
05.08.06 at 16:11:28
 
Incase anyone didn't see my last post in the ATI X850 price, they dropped the price to 119.00, while supplies last.
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Reply #1 - 05.08.06 at 17:21:04
 
I couldn't resist Grin

I got it! No TAX Shocked And FREE shipping 8)


Total price to me, $119.00 Wink
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Re: ATI Dropped price on X850 to 119.00
Reply #2 - 06.08.06 at 03:34:22
 
Hehe, got ya beat- I used the 5% off code from over at the HARDOCP forum.

$113.05 shipped.

The last new AGP board I purchase I think then it will be the end of the road for my 2.8C P4
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Reply #3 - 06.08.06 at 12:49:39
 
heheh congrats ladies!! hehe like the soldiers said to each other in teh army

heheh yeah that was a bit of funny stuff from my side, the R481 aka X850 Pro/XT/XT PE AGP versions are ATi's best AGP cards up to date, okay they don't have SM 3.0 @ HDR + FSAA mode like the X1600 XT AGP does, but they do make great use of a nice 256 Bit GDDR3 ram bus, like it's predecessor dit the R420 aka X800Pro /XT / XT PE [ X800 was an R430 Wink]

I had the X800 XT PE and yeps it was the second most powerfull ATi AGP card out there it out performed the X850 XT but the X850 XT PE just won bu a 5% margin, only the greatest advantage of that X800 XT PE is that it had a nice single slot cooler the X850 XT and XT PE had a double slot cooler like our X1800 and X1900's have today also the same idea and design.

the X850 Pro has a single SLot cooler afaik.

I just hope you guys got ViVo versions because they are the only X850 Pro's that are flashable to XT/ XT PE models, remember you MSU have ViVo on your board and the speeds capabillities to make the flash work, if your card has no ViVo forget it, it won't work.
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Reply #4 - 06.08.06 at 14:38:51
 
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I just hope you guys got ViVo versions because they are the only X850 Pro's that are flashable to XT/ XT PE models, remember you MSU have ViVo on your board and the speeds capabillities to make the flash work, if your card has no ViVo forget it, it won't work.


Nope, didn't want ViVo and no interest in flashing.

Fast enough for my needs as it is and the end of the road for my last AGP gaming platform.
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Reply #5 - 06.08.06 at 17:21:54
 
ah okay, oh well if there is free performance I would of done it, still finding a way to unlock all 16 ppipes and 6 vertex units with that Leadtek 6800 AGP 128MB I have here hehe, I know that River Tuner is a way of do'n it but never could find my way through that.
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Reply #6 - 06.08.06 at 17:59:11
 



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Features

256MB GDDR3 memory
12 parallel rendering pipelines
AGP 8X support
DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® 2.0 support
3Dc™ technology
SmartShader™ HD technology
SmoothVision™ HD technology
VideoShader™ HD technology
Hyper Z™ HD technology
DVD video playback
S-video and composite video input and output (VIVO)
HDTV support



It says (VIVO)

I may not do heavy overclocking but I do plan to flash to at least open up the additional pipelines Wink


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Reply #7 - 06.08.06 at 18:01:17
 
if you want true XT PE speeds on your ViVo based X850 Pro AGP cards, the core should run at 540Mhz and the ram at 1180 Mhz DDR and believe me that's alot faster than than the Pro speeds, and hay it's free speed as well so why not  Grin Wink 8)

the speeds of the X800XT PE AGP was Core/mem 520Mhz/1120 Mhz DDR
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Reply #8 - 06.08.06 at 18:10:02
 
LOL gdonovan, 113.50? Nice price. Thought I'd post this as soon as I seen it. Went to order my girlfriends card since I had bought one at the 139 price and seen the 119 price. Figured I'd let you guys know since I didn't think their stock of cards would last very long at the price at all.

Happy upgrading!!   Grin
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Reply #9 - 06.08.06 at 18:13:09
 
the links that I had posted for upgrading the bios can be found here, just to let you guys know.

http://www.falconfly-central.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=offtopic;action=displ...
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Reply #10 - 06.08.06 at 18:17:43
 
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if you want true XT PE speeds on your ViVo based X850 Pro AGP cards, the core should run at 540Mhz and the ram at 1180 Mhz DDR and believe me that's alot faster than than the Pro speeds, and hay it's free speed as well so why not  Grin Wink 8)

the speeds of the X800XT PE AGP was Core/mem 520Mhz/1120 Mhz DDR



They say your performance may vary. I hope I get a good one and can take it all the way. But at this price, it would be hard to be disappointed.

I also read that I should get aftermarket cooling if I want to run it that fast.
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Reply #11 - 06.08.06 at 18:41:46
 
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It says (VIVO)



No big deal either way, I'm surprise that is not listed in the description header.

I'll have to try and do some vid captures with it.

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Reply #12 - 06.08.06 at 22:23:04
 
well Gamma742 there's always the good ole Artic coolers right Wink
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Reply #13 - 07.08.06 at 05:40:10
 
Just letting you guys know, I had to upgrade my PS for this card though. Went out and bought a 500 watt.
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Reply #14 - 07.08.06 at 12:11:42
 
I'm all set there, I went overkill on that aspect.
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