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Old 03-January-06, 05:37 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I got this new vid card Ati X800XL 256 Mb and i am thinking to return it to Best Buy as it was a open box buy they told me I caould bring it back by the 11th of Jan and get another if i was not satisfied

well i am thinking about doing this they have these cards i am looking at and just wanted some opinons on which would be a better choice

Choice one is this card --
ATI Radeon X850XT 256MB AGP Video Card - Bilingual
http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10061200&catid=20397


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ATI Radeon X850 Pro 256MB AGP Graphics Card - Bilingual
http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10066453&catid=20397
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Old 03-January-06, 01:39 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Your first choice (The XT) is top of the line for ATI and AGP, but lots of money!

The second choice (PRO) is pretty good for the money, it is decent upgrade from the XL, and can often be Overclocked to XT speeds.

The XL is not a bad card, but it does not Overclock well, and it's not nearly as fast as your other 2 choices, I would return it

EDIT/ADD I don't think I would drop that kinda dough on a super high end AGP card, the slow (For gaming) Intel CPU can start to become a bottleneck and may not take full advantage of what this card can do. It's not that it won't be faster, just the gains over Pro would be minimal for the cost difference.
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Old 03-January-06, 03:17 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I'm with Necro on this one, The 850 is faster than the 800XL you have now, and the 850XT is even faster yet. Like Necro said, the X800XL does not overclock well, as I am unable to push my X800XT very hard at all either.
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