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[Silverstrand]

"In the high-end videocard market, the Radeon X800 XL VPU offers great value. Perhaps that's why these cards are selling out everywhere. Today PCStats will be checking out this high-end value king in the form of the ATi Radeon X800 XL PCI Express videocard. Backed by 256MB of GDDR3 memory, a 512MB version is available also, but the extra memory does little in terms of real world performance. Like all other videocards currently on the market, the Radeon X800 XL supports S-Video/Composite TV-out as well as component output for HDTV owners."
REVIEW URL: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1808

[zachig]

I've already read several review on that Video Card. Its performace is awesome, and it is even cheaper than its Nvidia competitor.
Currently, the 512MB version, doesn't mean a lot, but I think that in about 6 month or a year, most games will require 512MB of memory in the Video Card.
I wish I had the money to buy one. Probably I'll to manage with my XFX 6600GT AGP (which is quite OK these days, I guess).

[PUTALE]

nice card from ati. HOwever, I think nvidia has all the news nowaday. ATI for some reason still produce good cards but I think the availabilty has really hurt it's name and hence it's sael.

[unholy]

ATI is good, they are a great competitor. But nVidia is just better due to the easy of coding games , they have a shadow mapper built in to all there FX's

[PUTALE]

well, don't forget ATI also has some tweaks and features under their cards.

[unholy]

yer, but what does that matter to game programmers, more nVidia card will be supported due to the tools which are possiboel to be used by the coders, i know SLi is reasonably easy to have , though u have to have a C++ or .Net / ASM program but still i am sure u could make a mod for VB to run SLi

[jonorossi]

The fate of ATI vs Nvidea will be revieled within the next year.

[unholy]

The overall effect that comes from ati and nvidia can be expressed as a equation, though u won't like it
nVidia = ATi
ATi = nVidia
See i told you!!!