Sapphire X1900 Crossfire Edition Video Card Review

**Capper** · March 1st, 2006

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Its been the better part of a year now since the mainstream acceptance of SLI, and during that time NVidia has enjoyed a fairly decisive edge in graphics card performance and popularity among the masses. First there were the delays with the R520 Core, which was compounded by ATI releasing their Crossfire dual GPU solution with their "old" X8XX Series cards. When Crossfire was released, I was one of several reviewers who were kind of ho-hum on it, the X8XX Series card were the best ATI could muster, and they were only as good as NVidia's last generation 6800 Series cards. At the time, I withheld judgment for one reason..... ATI's X1XXX Series cards received a fairly warm welcome as a major improvement over the X8XX Series. Now, with the release of ATI's X1900 video card ATI has a pretty formidable high end graphic solution of their own.

Sapphire X1900 Crossfire Edition Video Card
http://hardwarelogic.com/news/61/ART...006-03-01.html

Captain Crunch · March 1st, 2006

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Not bad but I'm waiting to see what the 7900 will do.

**gvblake22** · March 1st, 2006

That's a very nice card indeed. I thought it was especially interesting to see the performance differences between the processors. Many times there was almost no difference but other times it was a decent ammount. Just goes to show that even with a decent processor like the 3800 X2, the processor can still be a bottleneck when paired with such a high end card like the X1900!

March 1st, 2006

Glad ya like my card Capper :) ill swing over some time soon and drop your gear off and pick that card up.Review look's beautifull man.

**Capper** · March 1st, 2006

Thanks.... I need to add that BB will be doing a "super overclock" article with this same card.....look for that over at LFC in the near future.

March 17th, 2006

Ill be doing a super overclock on 2 of these card;s in crossfire for my boy Capper :)

**gvblake22** · March 17th, 2006

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Originally Posted by BB mods's

Ill be doing a super overclock on 2 of these card;s in crossfire for my boy Capper :)

:shock: I can only imagine.... :!:

March 18th, 2006

I figure 150k or so in am3 and about 50k in 01

fps justin · March 19th, 2006

Capper how much smaller is the 7900 compared to the x1900?

Tyreal · March 19th, 2006

smaller in size or lower in performance?

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March 19th, 2006	#9
fps justin Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 1,199	Capper how much smaller is the 7900 compared to the x1900? E2140 @ 375 x 8 = 3.0ghz 2x1 ocz system 1337s pc2-6400 5-5-5-15 @ 450mhz gigabyte P35 S3L eVGA 7600GT Stock 120 gig seagate ULTRA X-Finity 600w Sonata 2 w/ top fan G5 Lazer Mouse

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Tyreal Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 2,557	smaller in size or lower in performance? I Like Watercooling. D-Tek Fuzion, MCP655, MCR220

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March 1st, 2006	#2
Captain Crunch Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Right side of middle Earth Posts: 658	HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Not bad but I'm waiting to see what the 7900 will do.

March 1st, 2006	#3
gvblake22 Modder-ator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tempe Desert Posts: 6,351 Blog Entries: 1	That's a very nice card indeed. I thought it was especially interesting to see the performance differences between the processors. Many times there was almost no difference but other times it was a decent ammount. Just goes to show that even with a decent processor like the 3800 X2, the processor can still be a bottleneck when paired with such a high end card like the X1900!

March 1st, 2006	#4
BB mods's Guest Posts: n/a	Glad ya like my card Capper :) ill swing over some time soon and drop your gear off and pick that card up.Review look's beautifull man.

March 17th, 2006	#6
BB mods's Guest Posts: n/a	Ill be doing a super overclock on 2 of these card;s in crossfire for my boy Capper :)

March 18th, 2006	#8
BB mods's Guest Posts: n/a	I figure 150k or so in am3 and about 50k in 01