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X1900series owners or very soon to be owners

Just ran 3dmark03 and got 17892 :)
Thats a good score isnt it for that card what is everyone else getting.
Do you wreckon well get even higher scores when the drivers start coming out.
 
bakes0310 said:
Just ran 3dmark03 and got 17892 :)
Thats a good score isnt it for that card what is everyone else getting.
Do you wreckon well get even higher scores when the drivers start coming out.
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Absolutely, maybe 5-10% better performance? Maybe more, maybe less.

Im testing my 2Gb kit now as my god dam DFI wont give me a 166 divider :(

Conc
 
bakes0310 said:
Right my thoughts on the x1900xtx so far......
When i turned my pc on i thought it was a bit loud it sounded a bit like a whistle, but the noise went after a several seconds. During post i always a have a logo of DFI Lanparty but it was all colured weird i think it was some sort of artifacts :(
When i got onto my windows screen it looked fine and everything looks normal, i ran 3dmark05 and no artifacts just a nice score :)
Afterwards i ran a series of games (at1280x1024) and these are my thoughts:

Farcry- Put everything on maximum (when i mean everything that means EVERYTHING) the first thing i noticed the loading time for the level took ages but it does that anyway. When i got onto the game there was a slight stutter but afterwards was tottally smooth. The graphics looked the same as my x800xl did apart from the water which looked quite a lot better :)

Rome total war- I maxed everything up and done a skirmish with 9660 men on the battlefeild (when i was choosing my men i had a warning telling me that performance will decrease due too large numbers). It was right, it looked lovely but very slow.

Doom3 & expansion pack- ran them both but had a lot of hassle trying to put everything on max i could have 1280x1024 res but no AA?? but the game still looked nice on ultra settings but not much different than my x800xl.

quake4- had the same trouble with the AA as doom3 (maybe its an ID Software thing) but this game did look quite a lot better on ultra. And no stutter on this game only a little at the start of the level and the loading times.

call of duty 2- Ramped everything up and went on the desert mission so i could see the detail better (i think ive lost my save now all well ill have to do that blinking hard level again). This game so far has the most difference in quality in graphics ive mentioned so far. And its so smooth as well even with the scope up and and looking at a smoke nade.

FEAR-With everything up this game looked a lot better and its got one of the best effects ive ever seen in a game. I was looking at a barrel with fire coming out and above it was heat haze :) . The smoothness wasnt that good it did feel a little slow in the outdoor areas.

HL2 Loast coast- what can i say other than amazing. The HDR looks superb and the water effects is better than farcry. The game was very smooth and the HDR was in full affect....i must have been blinded about 5 times just to see it again and again :p

With all that done i would say that im very impressed but the performance wasnt as good as i was expecting with the chuggy bits that i found in some games. But that could be put down to the game itself or other parts of my pc that aint worthy of the x1900xtx.
Now im thinking what game shall i play all the way through with my new card im stuck deciding between hl2 or fear Ive still got to finish cod2 but thats so hard im on the hardest setting on a d-day mission.

If theres anything else you would like to know about the card ill be glad to help.
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Thats interesting regarding the boot up logo being strange-I have an Asus board with a boot logo and that was displayed as if by a default VGA driver i.e-256 colours.
Has anyone any idea why this should be...it never happened on my Nvidia card!
Must say I agree about "The Lost Coast" it looks stunning on this card at 1920x1600 4XAA 16 XAF and max detail (still get 62 FPS on the stress test!)

Not to pleased with the CCC and that bloody Dot Net installation as it has slowed my boot time up considerably! -I used to love the old CP!
 
Gah! for some reason ATi Tool will lock the PC if I put it to stock 3d Clocks :(

How are you doing it? I think i have 1.1ns as it did 800mhz + before the 3D thing went messed.

Guide to overclocking the X1900XT PLEASE!!! Thanks :)

Concorde
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500/600 stock clocks :S
 
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bakes0310 said:
Right my thoughts on the x1900xtx so far......
When i turned my pc on i thought it was a bit loud it sounded a bit like a whistle, but the noise went after a several seconds. During post i always a have a logo of DFI Lanparty but it was all colured weird i think it was some sort of artifacts :(
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Perfectly normal, same happens on the X1800, I guess something in the bios doesnt sort that colour mode out correctly, butits not a major thing .. I always turn off the bios splash screen anyhow ;)

Have you tried overclocking your CPU any ?
I would say you need at least 2.6 ghz to let that card breath, looks like you have the OCZ memory like I had, they clock like the devil ;) 236 fsb/htt (dont forget to drop the HT down to 3x) will get you over 2.6 and the mem should laugh at that :p ... your CPU may or may not ;)
 
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Concorde - my sapphire will arrive tomorrow and I will have a good fiddle with it see if I can make sense of it. Patience is called for though its only 1 day old. :D
 
speeduk said:
Concorde - my sapphire will arrive tomorrow and I will have a good fiddle with it see if I can make sense of it. Patience is called for though its only 1 day old. :D
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Good luck, theres 1x dead Sapphire already, D.O.A too. :(
 
i must admit i am also confused on the overclocking front. I have the card in and running nicely - CoD2 at 1920x1200 with 2xTemporal AA, Adaptive AA, 8x AF is sweet!

but not being used to cards changing clocks I was wondering how you know it has upped its speed. I rad a windowed 3d program and watch the CCC for a change in core speed but nothing chnaged except the temp! how does the 3d mode work??

most confused
 
The right section is higher than the left, hence giving it the bent look.

Edit: Concorde dude, how old are you :eek:. Is your profile correct?
 
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