X-bit labs

Started by: somebody | Date 02/10/05

Comments: 10 | Last Comment:  12/10/05

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1. Good review, but the x700 pro ain't exactly worth buying, the 6600 GT usually rips through it.

Also, I am really wondering why there was no reviews for nearly 2 months, it was quite dissapointing really.

Oh and another thing, a x800XL/x800(vanilla) benchmark would be really nice to see!

Thanks for kind words.
Graphics review team has been working on multiple projects, you'll see them shortly.
RADEON X800 XL and RADEON X800 benchmarks will be published in some future articles.

Can't wait for more benchies! thx! :)

2. Hi
Why Intel to your "standard PCI Express platform" ? Isn't A64 best gaming platform ?
For reviewing graphics cards is good to use best possible platfom, i think...

We use numerous criteria to determine which platform to use. Performance is one, stability is another one. At the time of testing none of AMD64 PCI Express platforms provided stability and absence of problems we would like to see.

What the heck does that mean?

3. No 9800 pro?

4. The Half-Life 2 tests should be not be used in video card benchmarks. There have been evidence to prove that Valve had forced GeForce hardware to run 24-bit shader instructions in 32-bit mode even though using 16-bit mode will work just as well[1]. Given GeForce 6 cards hits bandwidth limitation at high image quality settings, Xbitlabs should test GeForce cards running in FP16 mode when Half-Life 2 is used.

[1] http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?s=91a23fedbdd7f3f4e930864dd2989c5d&threadid=117117

5. Did you measure energy consumption for the X700. Your earlier article was very useful for us silent types, it would be good if you could add energy consumption to your standard review method.

Mark

6. hi was wonderin, i have an ati x700 pro 256mb pcie vid card,and how do i overlock it,the card is awesome enough,but i wanted to see what was the big talk about overlcoking frome veryone,please tell me,i am in desperate need for this help,plz email me at: LNKNPRK4LIFE19@YAHOO.COM
Thanks for your help.

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