Help with X800Pro buy...

[silvervalkyrie]

This is my first thread here at OCForums and I think you all are the best to ask for advice. Here it goes. I'm looking to purchase a new 8x AGP card for my system (specs in my sig) that's an ATI Radeon; preferably one that overclocks fairly well (maybe a 20~30MHz overclock with a stock fan and above that with an ATI Sliencer 4), plays most current games well, and is under $400.

Currently I'm looking at the x800Pro lines from Sapphire, Gigabyte, and ATI. Here are the choices I'm considering:

Sapphire ATI Radeon X800Pro - Retail

Gigabyte ATI Radeon X800Pro - Retail

ATI Radeon X800Pro - Retail

So out of these which would you recommend or should I just pay the extra 30 dollars and get a VIVO version of the X800Pro?

Thanks in Advance.

Valkyrie

 

[Feuer Frei]

ATI retail... they seem to oc the best, but no by much...
and def. get the vivo version cuz then u mite be able 2 flash 2 x800xtpe

thats my .02

- Feuer Frei

 

[Silversinksam]

Sapphire builds most of the High end 'Built by Ati' cards for ATI, there's no advantage to buying one or the other. If it were me, I'd buy the Sapphire or 'Built by Ati' as they are the same thing. They have a good warranty, I'm not familiar with Gigabytes customer support, so that's why I recomend the Built by ATI or Sapphire.

PS to the forums

 

[sean478]

here get one of these dude
they should oc like no other
and good chance of a xtpe mod
and even better chance with 2nd and 3rd ones

ps. id get the 2nd one but call up the company and ask if that is a vivo x800 pro cause it looks like pic might be wrong

http://store.bestbargainpc.com/sarax8pro25d2.html
http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=190518
http://www.shentech.com/porax8provir.html

 

[silvervalkyrie]

Thanks for the advance guys...anyone else have any?

 

[sinsinking]

U MUST GET THE VIVO version or u just get a X800XT one
X800PRO VIVO AGP version would flash to X800XTPE with the extra 4 pixel pipe.
Accroding to the 3dmarks2005 result
X800PRO<-47xx 12 pipe
X800XL<-47xx 16 pipe
X800PRO@XTPE<-65xx 16 pipe

 

[Spyd3r]

Sapphire builds most of the High end 'Built by Ati' cards for ATI, there's no advantage to buying one or the other. If it were me, I'd buy the Sapphire or 'Built by Ati' as they are the same thing. They have a good warranty, I'm not familiar with Gigabytes customer support, so that's why I recomend the Built by ATI or Sapphire.

PS to the forums

Ditto. BBA or Sapphire.

Personally Sapphire has been looking fairly good lately to me and I wouldn't hesitate to take one of their cards.

IIRC, I've read that, from ViperJohn's posts, the X800Pro Vivo's have now become failed X800XT's, so either they didn't overclock past 500/500 or their pipes didn't work properly. If you want a better overclock, it should be fail-safe to go with a normal X800Pro now.