This gecube 1950xt is not real 1950xt... It has slower ram. Look at the reviews of some people @ newegg. It's more like a 1950pro with other 4 pipes unlocked. This card is actually slower than 1900xt.
You'll find that most X1950XTs are 628/900. I was disappointed when I discovered this card has a memory clock of only 702. CCC only allows overclock to 703(whoopee). Could probably go higher with ATI Tool but haven't tried yet. Still not a bad card for the price.
Message edited by marvelous211 on 09-06-2007 at 01:05:00 PM
I purchased a GECUBE HD2900XT a few weeks ago because the sapphire was out of stock on newegg when I went to purchase, along with the asus one being too pricey compared to the others. So far it hasn't given me any problems. Updated driver disc, comes with every cord I could need and more.
Only problem I could say which isn't really a problem is that it didn't seem to have terribly much overclocking capability. I can't remember the exact numbers (not at home) but I was able to get the core clock about 100mhz over stock while not being able to really touch the memory. I didn't have plans on overclocking anyways but figured I would give it a go.
Anyways it ran fine in 3DMark06 and increased my numbers a bit but when I went to run my computer crashed at the first intensive screen. It could have very well been my processor not having enough voltage due to vdroop. I really just wanted to play the game so I reset the video card to stock and lowered my cpu down to numbers which I had it at stable previously.
Kind of getting off on a tangent without even having the same card, but I would call my card quality...hope I helped a little.
Well yes a R580 is the same core as a 1900gt the XT and the XTX are actually R580+ the diff being only small and not really relating to performance that much.
The fact still remains that it is an xt core so they are not doing anything technically wrong .
However i do agree with you that they are being very naughty not listing the clock speeds and as you say somone who didnt dig as deep as yourself did would have ended up with a comparably under performing card to what they had expected.
Mactronix
Message edited by mactronix on 09-06-2007 at 10:23:14 PM
You need something like this. Vram matters if you are going to add AA and run high resolutions. But now it looks like these cards would be underpowered to run AA in future games.
At this price though you can get a 8800gts 320meg for $50 more which would be much better than 1950xt.
Message edited by marvelous211 on 09-07-2007 at 01:34:29 PM
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