Ati X800

[gIzzE]

I have been offered an ATI X800 for ?175 and there are a few PC games that I want to play, not played anything on a pc for about 2 years now.

It is this one

PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256MB DDR3 TV-Out/DVI (AGP) - Retail (GX-029-PC)
The RADEON? X800 graphics technology is the world?s fastest and most powerful VPU*, setting a new standard in graphics performance and visual realism. With up to 16 pipelines, higher clock speeds and breakthrough image enhancement technology, RADEON? X800 Graphics Technology ushers in a whole new gaming category called High-Definition Gaming.

- 475MHz GPU Core clock speed
- 12 Pixel rendering pipe-line core
- Six programmable vertex shader pipelines
- 256MB 900MHz DDR3 High Speed Memory
- 256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory interface
- 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats
- Supplied with Hitman Contracts full game

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Full Specification

Price:??256.00 ??(?300.80?Including VAT at 17.5%)

taken from www.overclockers.co.uk

Is ?175 a good price ?
and would it be worth it as I only have my daughters PC to stick it in P4 1.8 gig with 512meg ram?

I don't mind spending ?175 if it will allow me to play games at a reasonable rate, but, I don't want to buy a new motherboard, cpu and ram if it isn't going to be able to keep up.

any feedback would be great

[Mr Ono]

My feeling is that your cpu would be the limiting factor with that card.

Best spend less and get something like a 9800 Pro or something.

[gIzzE]

Yeah but the 9800 seem to be around ?150 including vat and delivery, so I might as well spend another ?20 and get the X800 surely ?

[eastyy]

is it worth upgrading my 9800 for a x800?

or shall i hold out for later cards?

system is a

xp3000
512mb
200gb hardrive

[DjSatansfury]

You could always sell it to me

[fifty?ballz]

Sounds too good to be true.

I just ordered a few 6800's because the x800's were too steep to consider
at ?300 a pop for the entry level one.

[Mr Ono]

Yeah but the 9800 seem to be around ?150 including vat and delivery, so I might as well spend another ?20 and get the X800 surely ?

Radeon 9800 Pros are about ?125 delivered - see HERE.

Don't get me wrong - you have a good deal for the X800 there but you won't see anything above a 9800 Pro.

[Freddo]

I'd go with the x800, that way if you upgrade your cpu later you can take better advantage of it, and also even on a "low end" processor such as a 3000+ the x800 is considerably better than a 9800.

[eastyy]

hmm how much better though would you say ? 10fps 20fps or even great diffrence?
(say in games like x2 far cry ut2004)

[gIzzE]

Thanks for the replies, but I dont think I am going to have it as I have other things I need to buy at the moment, but if anyone wants it I can get it for you if you pay postage.