diff. between Sapphire X800 XT and X800 XT Platinum

[Khar00f]

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hi fellas! i'm about to buy the Sapphire X800 XT and i'm getting it from
Comtronic, but ihave one question, i checed on the comtronic website under
video cards, all the way at teh bottom there's 2 Sapphires,

VCSRX8X2IO Sapphire Radeon X800XT 256GDDR3 V+D+VIVO (RF)

VCSRX8XP2A Sapphire X800XT Plantium 256M DDR3 DVI (RF)

I dunno what the diff. between the two is and i'm hoping someone here can
clear things out fo rme plz. Thx!!!

 

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"Khar00f" <Khar00f@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> hi fellas! i'm about to buy the Sapphire X800 XT and i'm getting it from
> Comtronic, but ihave one question, i checed on the comtronic website under
> video cards, all the way at teh bottom there's 2 Sapphires,
>
> VCSRX8X2IO Sapphire Radeon X800XT 256GDDR3 V+D+VIVO (RF)
>
> VCSRX8XP2A Sapphire X800XT Plantium 256M DDR3 DVI (RF)
>
> I dunno what the diff. between the two is and i'm hoping someone here can
> clear things out fo rme plz. Thx!!!

The difference is clockspeed. The regular X800 XT is clocked 500MHz core
1000MHz memory, while the X800 XT Platinum Edition is usually clocked 520MHz
core and 1120MHz memory.