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Re: ATI Dropped price on X850 to 119.00
Reply #30 - 13.08.06 at 19:32:39

If anyone is getting two unknown devices in device manager you need to download the ATI WDM Driver as well to make them go away.

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/wdm_62.html

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/6-2_xp-2k_wdm_30152.
exe

It has no impact on 3D operation and is related to the VIVO functions.

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jandarsun8 God Member Offline Posts: 712 Minneapolis, MN Gender:	Re: ATI Dropped price on X850 to 119.00 Reply #31 - 14.08.06 at 01:10:52 Well, while using the Omega drivers, I am getting two devices that aren't installed, but where did you find them on the site? Both links that you sent have a https link, which for ATI isn't allowing us to get to that spot.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: ATI Dropped price on X850 to 119.00 Reply #32 - 14.08.06 at 01:43:10 Drivers and software ->Windows 2000 (in my case) -> RADEON -> Catalyst 6.2 Windows 2000 - Driver Download. Go down to the dial up packages and grab the "WDM Integrated Driver Only", it will take care of the non-installed driver problem.
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jandarsun8 God Member Offline Posts: 712 Minneapolis, MN Gender:	Re: ATI Dropped price on X850 to 119.00 Reply #33 - 14.08.06 at 04:44:06 Ah, sweet, thanks man.
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Re: ATI Dropped price on X850 to 119.00
Reply #34 - 01.09.06 at 08:52:09

Ok, out of the four cards I ordered either at the 120 range or the 140$ range (one for my brother, one for a friend, one for the girlfriend-none of them would be ocing them so grabbed the best one out of the four Tongue

) I have one card that might run the x850XTPE bios, two that will run the x850XT bios for sure and one that won't OC at all. Core clock speeds are 500/500 for Pro, 520/540 for XT and 540/590 for XTPE versions. The one that might run the XTPE bios is clocked at 563/588 speed using stock coolers. I'm thinking that if I buy an additional cooler for this, it might just work. The other two should work fine for the XT bios since the core and memory clocks are 532/556 and 541/559. The other card can't go past 501/502. I still have to actually update the bios on the card yet, have to get a floppy drive that works, but was wondering on if you guys have tried OC'ing your cards yet or what you guys thought about using a third party cooler and what brand/model?

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Re: ATI Dropped price on X850 to 119.00
Reply #35 - 01.09.06 at 09:02:25

if you want better image quallity and better performance in games use Omega Catalyst 6.3 for Win2K/XP I have used them for a very long time, on my X800XT PE AGP and X1900 XTX under 2K as XP , the FSAA and AF image quallity improves quite a bit.

Ah here it is my friends

Omega 6.3

it's the best driver with this extra handy Control panel:
RadLinker 2.033 for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

The Best Overclocker for ATi X8.xx series and older varriants:
RadClocker 2.030 (just the clock rate tab) for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

These 3 things give your cards the best image quallity and speed in games with this driver setup. Wink

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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: ATI Dropped price on X850 to 119.00 Reply #36 - 05.11.06 at 11:36:50 Just an update on my X850 AGP- Still going strong, just finished playing Quake4 with it and everything looked great.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: ATI Dropped price on X850 to 119.00 Reply #37 - 14.11.06 at 22:32:27 cool, and are you gonna go for that X1950 Pro AGP also Gary?
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: ATI Dropped price on X850 to 119.00 Reply #38 - 15.11.06 at 00:50:38 No, I suspect this will be my last AGP board. The platform is old (by todays standards) and there are faster CPU's... another year or two from this one at best.
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Re: ATI Dropped price on X850 to 119.00
Reply #39 - 15.11.06 at 02:54:12

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No, I suspect this will be my last AGP board.

The platform is old (by todays standards) and there are faster CPU's... another year or two from this one at best.

I've been thinking the same thing. I am also a proud and pleased user of AIW ATI x800XT with an old reliable Barton @2.3Ghz, and still it runs everything quite good. Maybe next year or so I'll go for the Core2Duo 6700 with some newer card, but this old system still lives.

There is only one thing that bothers me in new mainboards - the unavailability of old PCI slots. I would like to hold on to my Voodoo2 SLI, when I change to the newer system too Wink

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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: ATI Dropped price on X850 to 119.00 Reply #40 - 15.11.06 at 03:57:31 I'll be going for a X1950 Pro AGP sometime next year, as I'm still using an AthlonXP 3200+ as my main gaming rig... ...notably though this will be my last AGP card! 8)
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