VR-Zone found some very hot running VRMs when they reviewed the PCIe version, but blamed it on the ATI board design rather than the cooler.Originally posted by: munky
Werent there some overheating voltage regulator issues on the x1950pro using aftermarket cooling? That may be the reason the Accelero version is not available.
Originally posted by: sum1
In case anyone's wondering, that?s the Diamond Viper ATI X1950PRO AGP 512MB.Originally posted by: postmortemIA
Amazon has update:
Availability: This item will be released on January 15, 2007
Still no word from Powercolor? I?m hanging out for that because of the Accelero X2 cooler. It was originally supposed to be available mid-November.:frown:
Originally posted by: zcubed
as far as the 7600gt thing. a properly overclocked 7800gs beats an overclocked 7600gt everytime. i tried this myself in the same machine. and as for the x1950 pro agp it will smoke the 7800gs in everything. especially the 512mb version which is what im waiting for. i need to see benchamrks first cause ill never be able to recover over 200 on my 7800gs and dont want to spend more than 300 on the 512 version. if it performs just slightly better than the 7800gs then ill probably avoid it since the x1950 pro has overclocking issues anyways.
Originally posted by: Athlex
My 2¢:
Just bought a Visiontek X1950Pro AGP at best buy (B&M) last week. The card is nice and fast, a noticable improvement over my previous EVGA 7800GS (430MHz) particularly in Oblivion and Titan Quest. My only gripe is noise, Visiontek's box brags about it's quiet <27dB cooler, but it's the noisiest fan in the system by a long shot including a 120x38mm case fan! Unlike most newer video cards, it's just a 3-wire fan with no PWM, so it runs at full speed all the time. I haven't used an ATI card since my 9700 and ATI's Catalyst control center bites, but that's not a huge deal.
Anyway, great card if you can find one. If a 512MB card comes out in the next couple weeks, I'll probably swap that one in and return the Visiontek, but so far I'm glad I upgraded.
Originally posted by: honestjohn
Decided to goto the horse's mouth so to speak. Called Sapphire USA Sales Office and I asked them 3 things regarding the X1950 Pro AGP.
Number of Pipes = 12 Pipes
Amount of GDDR3 = 256MB
When? = The card has been delayed until the end of December, beginning of January.
Guess I'm going to have to wait for the Diamond 512MB. Damn. Other manufacturers probably thought that no one was going to shell out $286 for an AGP Card so they stuck with the 256MB.
Originally posted by: Athlex
My 2¢:
Just bought a Visiontek X1950Pro AGP at best buy (B&M) last week. The card is nice and fast, a noticable improvement over my previous EVGA 7800GS (430MHz) particularly in Oblivion and Titan Quest. My only gripe is noise, Visiontek's box brags about it's quiet <27dB cooler, but it's the noisiest fan in the system by a long shot including a 120x38mm case fan! Unlike most newer video cards, it's just a 3-wire fan with no PWM, so it runs at full speed all the time. I haven't used an ATI card since my 9700 and ATI's Catalyst control center bites, but that's not a huge deal.
Anyway, great card if you can find one. If a 512MB card comes out in the next couple weeks, I'll probably swap that one in and return the Visiontek, but so far I'm glad I upgraded.
Originally posted by: blues02
How is www.allstarshop.com? I've never heard of them before.
Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: EvanAdams
good reviews of this thing had better focus on CPU bottlenecks.
if you got P4~3.0 ghz or ~A64-3000+, there is no bottleneck worth mentioning .... the x1950p aint no G80
even a 2.4 P4 should be 'fine' IF you turn up the resolution, details, AA/AF to offload more work to the GPU.
Yeah, but its out of stock till the end of January at the earliest so it means nothing.Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Canterwood
I see OcUK have dropped their price to £153
Originally posted by: Assimilator1
1 thing ,cranking up res etc doesn't 'offload' work from CPU to GPU, the CPU bottle neck is merely hidden ,especially if average FPS scores are used.(maybe you were being ironic?,if so I missed it).
That's fine as long as the CPU is powerful enough to keep the minimium FPS above the 25-30FPS threshold.But if it can't then you will still get slowdowns at the 'CPU intensive' moments in a game regardless of grx card or resolution (within reason).