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I will have an X800XT sooner then you my friend. I'm currently spending a
small fortune on audio gear that has my mind occupied.
The only reason why I bought a video card now is because while installing a
water cooler in my case, a Swiftech NB block ripped the hold down hooks out
of the board, fell onto the 9700pro and damaged it. I returned the NB block
and put a large Thermalright one on it with a silent 40mm fan. I also added
a second radiator and basicially have the PC running silent and
overclocked - best of both worlds.
Why was I installing a water cooling system in my PC? Because its in my
audio listening room and it wasn't quiet enough. I've been building and
OCing PC for years now. I use to spend time on these NG groups but tired of
them. My unplanned recent and premature endeavor in video cards made me seek
out some information and conversation. And like all hobbies, I can easily
enjoy this one even if it was unplanned. However, my passion right now is
for HiFi audio. Want to talk about tubes? Vacuum tubes, wire and
capacitors - that's where my interest is today. I'm looking at some great
MIT S3's for $350/meter, fixed impedance and that's cheap!
If I really wanted the X800XT I'd just go and buy one but its not on my
priority list and thus not worth the extra cash for it over the 9800pro
which is working out well for now. When the summer is over and I start
getting bored with the audio system, I'll stick the 9800pro in my 5 year old
son's PC and pick myself up whatever is fastest at the time.
From what I am reading, it'll likely be an NV40 but I sure hope its a Radeon
because I like ATI. However, ATI MUST work out its OpenGL issues since I am
mostly interested in the Doom3, Quake4 and similar games. The only other
games I play are Unreal Tournament and Civilization, all the others bore me
too quickly - I'm now a game junkie, I also use my PC for work (audio and
video mixing) and store literally tens of thousands of songs from my CD
collection. Remember I said I was a HiFi junkie? My PC is also a giant
jukebox and entertainment machine, its not just about video games for me -
I'm not 15 years old!
Oh and yes, the X800 Pro isn't good enough for me! When I buy another video
card, it'll be something special. The 9800pro is a Band-Aid. I actually
started out buying a refurbished 9800pro for $160 which was just so darn
cheap, but it was also broken on arrival. I then saw newegg selling OEM
9800pro for $198 and just ordered one on the spot, cheap and fast!
So whats your story?
"Ben Pope" <spam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2mj22vFmnm8cU1@uni-berlin.de...
> fish wrote:
> > I just got one, its doing 432Mhz core clock out of the box with stock
> > cooling. It doing 452Mhz with some artifacts but no lockups.
>
> Nah, you wanted the X800XTPE, you have "only" 8 pipelines
>
> Ben
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