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New Sapphire Blizzard X1900XT-X worth the wait ???

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Been considering upgrading to 7900GTX rather than X1900XT's due to noise but might be swayed to ATI because of their current ability to run games with both HDR + AA/AF maxed out, which it seems 7900's can't do at this moment in time.
I had put in order on launch date 9/3 for a XFX 7900GTX XXX Edition for
£ 499 but gave up as they can't seem to get supplies.
This new ATI card offers Core 675 and Mem 1600 - faster than stock 650/1550 and now has silent option as being water-cooled
Downside is its £460 instead of £ 370 for normal 1900xt-x's.
Any one else considering this new card ???
:)
 
looks like a cool idea (no pun intended)...but when I bought my 1900xtx a few weeks back on the one weeks special...it was only £310...that blizard version is basically 1 1/2 times the cost for effectively the same thing...albeit maybe a slighly better cooling solution. Seems like a lot of money. Apart from that..I love this XTX...like you say the image quality is sometimes breathtaking.
 
Very good idea and its good that companys are offering Water solutions. Altho its a little too expensive. Sooner add my own block Rad etc.
 
;) But that was one week only deal - they have now gone back up in price
So no-one has any views on whether watercooling of card would be cooler (/pun intended :D), quieter than say getting ZalmanVF900 - not forgetting not invalidating any warranty.
W/Cooler would need to sit in spare pci slot in between the 2 gfx card slots as it has slot on bottom of the unit as well. But if you are running single card won't make any difference.
40man - OK if you already have W/C system but this would be separate only for GPU
The way is see it is you pay £90 for even faster card than stock xt-x, w/c so none of the noise associated with normal xt-x's and might be able to clock more than with stock fan.
Any opinions guys ? :)
 
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I would be a bit worried about nothing cooling the actual card itself though. Ive been looking at this card for a couple of months now and i find it a very good design! Is there any benchmarks and temps to see if it is really worth it...
 
Look folks. Just buy an XT then with your spare cash,buy a watercooling set up & clock the nuts off it :eek: Like me :p

Rob
 
Definately worth it, as its still £40 cheaper than the 7900 GTX you were gona get, and the peformance is the same as they are on par, but as you say the x1900 can also do AA+HDR at the same time. :)
 
Combat squirrel said:
All it is, is a x1900xtx with a thermaltake tidewater attached:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Thermaltake/TideWater/

Get a normal xtx or xt, get the tidewater and jobs a goodun, save you lots of ££ as well
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Yeah, but he might not be confident enough to fit it, so it will be bye, bye warranty if he buggers it up, where as if he goes for the blizzard, its no worries warranty wise. :)
 
definitely think it would be worth it considering same speed as a 7900GTX & cheaper than that card you were buying. that cooling should be very nice too.
 
I was looking at this and the HIS silent coooled version. I have a HISx850 PE and the cooler is silent and works very well. The x1900xt-x version looks even better with the copper showing under the hs.

Jim
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Yeah, but he might not be confident enough to fit it, so it will be bye, bye warranty if he buggers it up, where as if he goes for the blizzard, its no worries warranty wise. :)
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:D Exactly, as well as I would have get full W/C set up with separate rad/pump/block/res/tubing which would bump up cost.

This way get a top card with faster clock than norm xtx, silent operation for
£40 less than was prepared to spend anyway.

:D :D

Found this review http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/27/review_sapphire_blizzard/

On Low Setting claimed 18db and High 26db - which is about same as normal xtx

Anandtech review http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2737&p=1
 
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