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how fast is the x1800xt ?? take a look

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hmmm that is interesting.

The 7800GTX512 certainly takes a hammering with AA applied to the scene.

I am personally not too bothered about benchmarks. As long as the games I play are smooth thats all I care about.

I only happened to get the X1800XT 512mb this time as it was on offer and was £80 cheaper than a 7800GTX
 
Don't really think it matters what site you link to, theres always gonna be someone calling the "they are biased" bit depending on what card they say comes out on top.
 
As we noted in our Radeon X1800 CrossFire story though, NVIDIA’s key advantage they have over ATI CrossFire is infrastructure support. Since it’s been around for over a year now, NVIDIA’s SLI ecosystem is not only more mature, it’s considerably more robust as well. You can find SLI motherboards starting right around $100, all the way up to nearly $200, while the boards themselves are often more feature-complete as well. ATI on the other hand only has a handful of CrossFire motherboards on the retail market at the moment, and as such, they tend to sell for higher prices than a comparable nForce4 SLI motherboard.

ATI’s CrossFire implementation isn’t as elegant as NVIDIA SLI either. In the case of X1800 CrossFire, you have to mess with thick dongles to connect both graphics cards to each other, while only ATI’s flagship X1800 XT has a corresponding CrossFire master board to pair it with. This leaves ATI X1800 XL users out in the cold unless they want to pay $100+ more for a X1800 XT CrossFire card that will be running with half its memory disabled. With NVIDIA you can mix and match cards as long as they’re based on the same GPU: you don’t need to pair the GeForce 7800 GT for example to a more expensive master card to get SLI to work.

Until CrossFire’s infrastructure catches up to SLI, we have a feeling that ATI’s CrossFire technology will continue to play second fiddle to NVIDIA SLI despite ATI’s superior performance in higher AA modes. Gamers looking for the best combination of image quality and performance though should definitely consider ATI’s CrossFire solution. Because as it stands now, ATI’s got the edge over NVIDIA when it comes to this.
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Don't think the OP actually read that!

The comparions are all a bit pointless because they are doing completely different things. A benchmark comparing ATIs 14X to nvidia's 16X is utterly useless. You have to be very careful to choose modes that match up.
 
Nvidia cards have always stuggled with AA for some reason (from what I've seen over the years anyway).
 
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i asked a question 2.
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and thats like asking someone what colour their car is and then they tell you "what colour is my car" it makes no sense you carnt answer a question with a question

ps no one likes a smart ***
 
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for making pointless posts just like this one

i asked a question 2.
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nm put an ignore on you now, carnt be botherd with little kids that a delibritly trying to arouse an argument, sry to the thread starter for going off topic

btw read the FAQ star out swearies totaly
 
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