Good Upgrade for aging X800XL - Page 2

Icarusmk2 · April 20th, 2007

Thx everyone. I guess I'll do a "wait an see" for the R600 => X2800 series and see how they stack up to the 8800s. Hopefully they release before mid May.

**One4yu2c** · April 21st, 2007

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Originally Posted by Icarusmk2

Thx everyone. I guess I'll do a "wait an see" for the R600 => X2800 series and see how they stack up to the 8800s. Hopefully they release before mid May.

Possibly, but late May to early June is looking more realistic.

Quakindude · April 21st, 2007

I'll have to agree with One4. He is spot on as usual. The 8800GTS 640 I have overclocks very well. Surprisingly aggressive overclocks are quite possible with the stock clocked 8800GTS 640 and good case airflow.

Anytime I can move memory over 200Mhz and the GPU right at 100Mhz, I'm impressed as hell. And performance increases were exceptional, although really not needed due the cards pure muscle in DX9 games.

Now if the R600 comes out with the steroidal number of stream processors that pre-release commentary is calling for, the R600 could end up spanking the hell out of the 8800 series of cards. However, you do need to ask yourself if you really want to spend that kind of upgrade money on the ATI card, many users will require a new PSU to supply the power for that beast, and as with the 8800 series, no one knows how either camp will perform in DX10 games until we can walk into Wally World and buy one.

April 20th, 2007	#11
Icarusmk2 Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 5	Re: Good Upgrade for aging X800XL Thx everyone. I guess I'll do a "wait an see" for the R600 => X2800 series and see how they stack up to the 8800s. Hopefully they release before mid May. Cheapo OC Comp => ~600USD: E4300 @ 3.2GHz Asus P5N-E-SLI 2GB OCZ ddr2-6400 Plat. Rev 2 ATI X800XL Sound Blaster Audigy 5.1

April 21st, 2007	#13
Quakindude I'm Diggin it! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Fort Rucker, AL. Posts: 2,767 Blog Entries: 7	Re: Good Upgrade for aging X800XL I'll have to agree with One4. He is spot on as usual. The 8800GTS 640 I have overclocks very well. Surprisingly aggressive overclocks are quite possible with the stock clocked 8800GTS 640 and good case airflow. Anytime I can move memory over 200Mhz and the GPU right at 100Mhz, I'm impressed as hell. And performance increases were exceptional, although really not needed due the cards pure muscle in DX9 games. Now if the R600 comes out with the steroidal number of stream processors that pre-release commentary is calling for, the R600 could end up spanking the hell out of the 8800 series of cards. However, you do need to ask yourself if you really want to spend that kind of upgrade money on the ATI card, many users will require a new PSU to supply the power for that beast, and as with the 8800 series, no one knows how either camp will perform in DX10 games until we can walk into Wally World and buy one. Q6600@ 3.2GHz w/ CNPS9700 \| EVGA 780i \| 4Gb Patriot Extreme DDR2-800 5-5-5-12 \| EVGA GTX 280 1Gb Video \| 1x WD 640Gb HDD, 2x Seagate 400Gb HDD, 1x250Gb WD \| 2x Samsung SH-203B Opticals \| Antec 900 \| ABS/Tagan BZ700 700W PSU \| Zalman ZM-MFC1 Fan Controller Last edited by Quakindude; April 21st, 2007 at 21:22.

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