Buying an x1900xtx?

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Well, ofcourse it's a good card, I mean it's ATI's highest offering a
the moment. But I'll warn you ahead of time on a few things - Firstly
don't complain when the drivers for your videocard don't work, o
cause your system to become unstable and plain out bring dow
peformance. ATI is known for shoddy drivers and horrible support
both customer and software. You must purchase a powersupply that i
atleast 600 watts in power and occupying 25-30 amps on the 12v line
Secondly that card can tend to run hot, so don't be afraid if you se
it idling at 60 degrees celcius or so. Other than that, it's a grea
card, enjoy
 
Well, ofcourse it's a good card, I mean it's ATI's highest offering at
the moment. But I'll warn you ahead of time on a few things - Firstly,
don't complain when the drivers for your videocard don't work, or
cause your system to become unstable and plain out bring down
peformance. ATI is known for shoddy drivers and horrible support;
both customer and software. You must purchase a powersupply that is
atleast 600 watts in power and occupying 25-30 amps on the 12v line.
Secondly that card can tend to run hot, so don't be afraid if you see
it idling at 60 degrees celcius or so. Other than that, it's a great
card, enjoy.
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So says the Nvidia Troll....
 
Mike L said:
Well, ofcourse it's a good card, I mean it's ATI's highest offering at
the moment. But I'll warn you ahead of time on a few things - Firstly,
don't complain when the drivers for your videocard don't work, or
cause your system to become unstable and plain out bring down
peformance. ATI is known for shoddy drivers and horrible support;
both customer and software. You must purchase a powersupply that is
atleast 600 watts in power and occupying 25-30 amps on the 12v line.
Secondly that card can tend to run hot, so don't be afraid if you see
it idling at 60 degrees celcius or so. Other than that, it's a great
card, enjoy.
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Using a OCZ Modstream 520W with my X1900XTX just fine. Also running 3 HD's,
2 optical drives, an FX-53, and 10 fans off the same PSU just fine. I'm
going to have to disagree with you on the 600W minimum for the PSU.

Gonna also have to agree with you on the driver end. They work wonderfully
for me... both the old CP style and the newfangled CCC style, though it is a
resource hog - really need 2GB RAM when using CCC.

Tony
 
Mike L said:
Well, ofcourse it's a good card, I mean it's ATI's highest offering at
the moment. But I'll warn you ahead of time on a few things - Firstly,
don't complain when the drivers for your videocard don't work, or
cause your system to become unstable and plain out bring down
peformance. ATI is known for shoddy drivers and horrible support;
both customer and software. You must purchase a powersupply that is
atleast 600 watts in power and occupying 25-30 amps on the 12v line.
Secondly that card can tend to run hot, so don't be afraid if you see
it idling at 60 degrees celcius or so. Other than that, it's a great
card, enjoy.
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I've had a very decent driver experience in the 32 months that I've owned my
ATI card (9800 Pro), and I've updated drivers quite a few times in that time
span. Your mileage may vary, I guess.
 
What about Catalyst 6.3? Anyone had any experiences with that?

Not only with speed but memory consumption?
 
Mike L said:
Well, ofcourse it's a good card, I mean it's ATI's highest offering at
the moment. But I'll warn you ahead of time on a few things - Firstly,
don't complain when the drivers for your videocard don't work, or
cause your system to become unstable and plain out bring down
peformance. ATI is known for shoddy drivers and horrible support;
both customer and software. You must purchase a powersupply that is
atleast 600 watts in power and occupying 25-30 amps on the 12v line.
Secondly that card can tend to run hot, so don't be afraid if you see
it idling at 60 degrees celcius or so. Other than that, it's a great
card, enjoy.
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Heh, 25-30 amps. Thats enough to weld stainless steel.

*coughTrollcough*
 
Everyone's mileage does vary, that's why I warned him ahead of time.
I've had horrible experience with ATI's drivers, maybe he won't, and
I hope he doesn't.
So says the Nvidia Troll....
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Right.. so all of a sudden I'm an "Nvidia Troll" or
"fanboy" if you'd prefer because I tried to give this guy
some reasonable, factual information that he'd like to hear? For your
information d*ckwad, I own an ATI card if that comes to you as any
surprise. So inspite of my bad experiences or anyone else's good
experiences, I think it's still worth a moment or two of listening to
some advice.
 
Memory consumption is only an issue if you use CCC. The Control Panel
version has negligible memory use. Download it from the FireMV driver
section on ATi's web site.

For me, Cat 6.3 fixed an annoying bug where manual AGP speed selection
previously wouldn't stick. Everything else seems to work fine as usual.
Radeon 9800Pro 128 MB.
 
Heh, 25-30 amps. Thats enough to weld stainless steel.
*coughTrollcough
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Hmm, troll, that's funny. Yet another ATI fanboy jumping on th
bandwagon with no real purpose in the discussion. See, if you had an
common sense, you'd know that the X1900 series is known for puttin
quite a bit of pressure on your powersupply. If you took the time t
read, or if you can read for that matter, almost anyone who's bough
that card has suffered hell because their powersupply was eithe
underpowered or just not providing enough power. So you can cough al
you like my friend
 
Mike L said:
Hmm, troll, that's funny. Yet another ATI fanboy jumping on the
bandwagon with no real purpose in the discussion. See, if you had any
common sense, you'd know that the X1900 series is known for putting
quite a bit of pressure on your powersupply. If you took the time to
read, or if you can read for that matter, almost anyone who's bought
that card has suffered hell because their powersupply was either
underpowered or just not providing enough power. So you can cough all
you like my friend.
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Assuming you are 100% correct (not that I care),
Why stay here and argue about it if you are going the Nvidia route?

His assesment of you being a troll is pretty much what spot-on if you look
at the facts.

Honestly, Wouldn't you be happier posting into an Nvidia newsgroup with all
your happy new friends?
 
Mike L said:
Well, ofcourse it's a good card, I mean it's ATI's highest offering at
the moment. But I'll warn you ahead of time on a few things - Firstly,
don't complain when the drivers for your videocard don't work, or
cause your system to become unstable and plain out bring down
peformance.
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Running Win x64 with Catalyst 6.3 for my x1900xtx. Only problem I had, was
an unknown device (vivo). I have no performance problems, and everything
runs stable.
ATI is known for shoddy drivers and horrible support;
both customer and software.
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Because I had an unknown device, I made a ticket with ATI support. They
helped me in a week.
You must purchase a powersupply that is
atleast 600 watts in power and occupying 25-30 amps on the 12v line.
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Enermax 550 here .... no problems.
Secondly that card can tend to run hot, so don't be afraid if you see
it idling at 60 degrees celcius or so. Other than that, it's a great
card, enjoy.
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The stock cooler makes way to much noise. I've replaced the cooler with an
Arctic X2 one, which is very silent. When idling my card is around 30-40°C.
Stressed around 70-80°C. I once shifted all the overdrive sliders to the
top ... stressed it never went over 90°C. Which is 'ok' for the x1900.

Cheers,

F.
 
I am from ruby headquaters and i must tell you one thing that
Much like the rest of nVidia’s cards, they don’t support simultaneous
HDR and FSAA. If this feature means a lot to you, then you might want
to consider an X1900XTX.Even nvidia latest 7900 SERIES DONT DO THAT so
what the point of buying a card that does not have all features and by
the way ATI image and video quality surpasses nvidia.Especially Avivo
nvidia don't have any answer for this.
 
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