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*** The Official X1950 Pro Thread ***
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I'm sure it does the job . . . but . . . you really should be looking into getting at least a 19" LCD that runs 1280x1024. I held off for a while but eventually picked up an LCD 20 months ago, the difference really is 'night & day', very very sharp, vibrant and colourful as hell, space saving, low energy etc etc etc.ShiWarrior said:
One of the best upgrades I ever made actually so I highly recommend you sell a kidney/your sister etc to grab yourself a new LCD to pair up with your X1950 Pro, its a perfect match really!!
Did u read any of the posts so far in this thread? or the opening post? (lots of review thereDark_Angel said:
)I think you may be expecting too much from the X1950 Pro if you wanna play 'Oblivion' in high res and max settings!
Ok calm down. Firstly I think about three people have had problems, which when u consider how many are sold is expected. I've got a HIS X1950 Pro installed running now and its ace!Proc said:
I've installed three X1950 Pro's and not had any problems that the other posters are experiencing??
I would expect the boxes that ship to be sealed & with all accessories, apparently two posters have recieved boxes with missing items? (if the boxes were sealed I do not know).
Don't worry about it, the HIS is a smashing card, the 256MB version was £153 just over a week ago, this week only= bargain!
there are so many reasons a system can crash while under graphics load, one of them is of course a faulty card but there are plenty others too, I've put both the HIS and Powercolour cards under tremendous loads for long periods and they hardly even sweat?Freakitchen said:
Some people are talking about over-heating VRM's, that can't be on the Power-Colour or HIS but I haven't used/tested the Sapphire Vanilla X1950 pro so can't comment really.
In short this is a cool running card, it doesn't use a ton of juice and I can't imagine it overheating?
Why did they suggest that?Freakitchen said:
There seems to be some differences in the bundles people are getting with this card?
Note: regardless of which HIS bundle you get neither of them include a molex-to-PCI Express power adapter, so if your PSU doesn't have a PCI-Express plug make sure you buy an adapter!
£3.51 inc VAT
Note: regardless of which HIS bundle you get neither of them include a molex-to-PCI Express power adapter, so if your PSU doesn't have a PCI-Express plug make sure you buy an adapter!
£3.51 inc VAT
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Oh the plot thickens!ShiWarrior said:
Just installed a 512MB HIS X1950 Pro for a mate, his box was sealed, undid it myself and was suprised to see hardly any accessories? Also as Beast informed me the 'venting' plate is now 'all-in-one' (one piece).
Strange, I had two 256MB HIS cards last week and they had the 'full' bundle and were a two piece design. Anyway the card works perfectly and is very quiet again!
I updated the picture of the HIS package above . . . .
[edit] also I noticed the 512MB versions are clocked at 620MHz/GPU (256MB versions were 635MHz/GPU), although its always said 620MHz on the box.
oh no! that's a pain in the rass. That makes two of us so far that recieved a HIS card with a 'debatable' silent cooling solution? My second HIS card has a perfect fan attached, and so does my mates 512MB HIS card, there must be a few 'rattlers' floating about.yeti said:after about ten minutes it started to rattle!! im totally gutted
If I had just the one HIS card and it had made that sound I would have assumed it was the same for all cards and RMA'ed it for another brand but luckily I had a second one to test and as mentioned it meets my fussy expectations (in every review on the HIS card they 'praise' the ICEQ-3 cooler saying how quiet it is so . . .).
On top of that it seems that HIS have now changed their 'bundle' and made the vent-slot an all-in-one piece (IMO the seperate plate is better, its easier to install the card in the case when its two seperate pieces).
If I was reading all of this I would be a bit worried about buying a HIS X1950, although as far I as I know they have all worked well, just that so far two people have had a rattly fan and now you can't be sure what accessories your gonna get?
So I'm sat here with a HIS card, works well, quiet, and has all the bit'n'pieces in the box . . . go figure?
The Power-Colour is a stonking card, hopefully it will fit in your case!yeti said:
(if you got a normal sized tower it will be fine).It's not quite as fast as the HIS but the one I tried was very quiet, not sure what I think of the BTX design yet, where the GPU-Cooler blows the exhaust air straight down at the mobo, but in the [HTPC] builds I was doing the HIS was preferable to exhaust the hot air from the small system, again if you got a decent case with cooling then this BTX cooling design shouldn't be an issue.
Naughty HIS!
Hey one thing I just noticed, the HIS card that I have that makes that sound, it has something different to the others. There is a white power cable going from the graphics card PCB to the underside of the fan, well on the two HIS cards I have that are silent, this white cable is short and pretty much cut to length correctly, however on the 'rattly' HIS the white power cable is about 2-3 inches too long and the excess has been folded behind the fan (underside).yeti said:
Is the same for u Yeti?
I can't test it atm but I'm wondering if pulling the 'excess' out from behind the fan the rattle will go away?
Let me know?
thinking that maybe this is a sign of some cards being made better than others (bit sloppy not cutting the cable length correctly?, maybe the fan was 'slapped' on also?).
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I mean that either the 'excess' wire behind the fan is causing it to be off-balance and 'rattle' or just a sign that whoever was assembling the card wasn't doing a very good job and didn't mount the fan correctly? (I mean if he/she can't cut a cable to length neatly they probably weren;t paying attention kinda thing . . .ShiWarrior said:
If I get some time I will take the ratter from its packaging (posting it in the morning rma) and pull out the excess to see if that effects the noise?
they are all plugged in the same (under)side of the cooler, just that the two that work properly have the white (power) wire neatly cut to length . . .ShiWarrior said:
As far as I know thats the first faulty HIS anyone has got? weird, all three I have tested (twox256MB, onex512MB) has worked great out the box, just one wasn't silent enough . . . hmmmDutch777 said:gutted it wont run any 3d without crashing within 3 minutes
[edit] I bet when Proc reads this he will begin worrying!!
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