Hot or Not

[jlfirehawk]

Microcenter one day sale only:
Link

Edit: New Years Day only. So link does not show the extra price discount.

 

[EKKC]

if you like AGP, i dont think AGP people now have that many choices

 

[maxcom]

hot , i might have to give up my 9600xt

will my rig bottleneck this card ?

 

[Mojoed]

Wow, this is VERY hot. I thought previous deal of $250 AR was hot.

 

[apoppin]

is this B&M only?

 

[sleepdragon]

more details pls? any rebate involved?

 

[Navid]

How does this compare to a 6800OC (not Ultra or GT)?

 

[Trikat]

Originally posted by: Navid
How does this compare to a 6800OC (not Ultra or GT)?

I believe it completly smokes the 6800 OC on an overall scale.
In some games the 6800 OC might get a little close to the X850 XT, but those are only on certain games.
It would be a good upgrade from a 6800 OC to a X850 XT.

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: Navid
How does this compare to a 6800OC (not Ultra or GT)?

Found it.
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1901&page=11

 

[Devistater]

Your title makes me think of:
http://www.HotOrNot.com/

 

[RussianSensation]

So you get the card for $249.99 - $50 MIR or $199.99 - 50 MIR?

 

[thegimp03]

It'd be 199 after rebate I believe. I upgraded from a 6800OC to the x850xt recently and there's no comparison. Once you turn up resolution and turn up AA/AF the 6800 gets bogged down but this card chugs through. Awesome deal...

 

[KingThot]

Nice, can't wait to snap this up!

 

[Adam8281]

Now it says $299 - $50 rebate =$249. Boo, I was going to buy one!

 

[maxcom]

Originally posted by: Adam8281
Now it says $299 - $50 rebate =$249. Boo, I was going to buy one!

read the post

 

[Adam8281]

Whoops, sorry about that. Guess I'll buy it tomorrow. To the OP: how do you know it'll be on sale tomorrow? Is there a circular posted online?

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: Adam8281
To the OP: how do you know it'll be on sale tomorrow? Is there a circular posted online?

E-mail.

 

[Adam8281]

Oh, I hope I can get this online!

 

[Conky]

Wow, very hot!

 

[xSeongminx]

Dang, this deal is on fire but won't this card get bottlenecked by many AGP running computers? Just curious, as I have a Duron running at 2.4 gigs. Not sure if I should jump on this deal though, if the card is going to be slightly better than a 9800 Pro.

 

[Corporate Thug]

H-O-T

 

[mell1n]

thx to wldock at hardforums
http://photobucket.com/practice.php?id=qsec

look's like he's on here too
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=40&threadid=1770043&enterthread=y

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Originally posted by: xSeongminx
Dang, this deal is on fire but won't this card get bottlenecked by many AGP running computers? Just curious, as I have a Duron running at 2.4 gigs. Not sure if I should jump on this deal though, if the card is going to be slightly better than a 9800 Pro.

Why on God's green Earth would you think that the X850XT would be only slightly faster than a 9800pro on a Duron @ 2.4? It would be great on that system.

Also, AGP is not (yet) a bottleneck.

 

[funboy6942]

I have the PCI version and it clocks past the XTPE speeds and the best part is not having to mod the bios or use any different card driver to do so.

 

[Devistater]

PCI-E I think you mean