Water-cooled Radeon X1950 XTX Benchmarks 49
sand writes "Sapphire has just released their liquid-cooled Radeon X1950 XTX card, the Toxic X1950 XTX. Located on top of the GPU is a water block from Thermaltake that is connected to an separate cooling unit which houses a 12V pump, radiator, and fan. The card is also overclocked to 695MHz for added performance. Firingsquad has a complete review of the board, including benchmarks against NVIDIA's GeForce 7950 GX2 Quad SLI card."
Skip the BS (Score:4, Informative)
Overclocking is good? (Score:5, Insightful)
I remember when chip stability was a feature of production equipment. I suppose some people like to use more power and get more from their chip, but when the company does it for you, is it really "over" clocked? I presume it doesn't invalidate the warranty. If it doesn't, then its simply a marketing buzzword gimick, giving you underpowered chips, and eeking out more than they are best suited for.
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This isn't for production work. 99% of the buyers for this product will use it in high-end gaming systems and as such it is ostensibly for gaming. ATi and nVidia both sell production-level video adapters that are designed for accuracy and stability more than absolute speed. This card is built for speed, pure and simple. I think it's an important distinction to make.
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Again, the water cooling could just be engineering overkill for market hype purposes.
Sometimes overclocking can be achieved by screening regular chips, and overclocked chips are justscreened to be able to perform higher than specced. Of course, with non critical parts they just let the consumer do the sceening.
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Personally I think Darren E. Polkowski of Toms Hardware is right:
see here [tomshardware.com] in the concussion section.
Sigh (Score:2, Troll)
While I know Openoffice can open it, can't these people use something more friendly?
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More friendly to everyone (Score:1)
Smaller download size, doesn't give out your history, revisions and personal information to everyone on the planet, and won't spread macro viruses.
And every word processing program written in the last 10 years will open it without any problems or loss of content. All it takes is selecting "Save as" from the file menu when you're ready to post it.
Friends don'
LaTeX? (Score:2)
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But your point is sound. Most gamers play at 1280x1024 and I'd be hard pressed to find a *popular* game that will stress out a 6800GT. Sure, the games coming out this winter will render that card defineably mid-range, but it still competes in the big leauges overall.
GPU vendors need DX10 in a bad way, I'd say. There's very little else beyond ultra-high resolution thats stressing high end cards these days, and the mar
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For those who don't want to click through ads... (Score:2)
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Yes, yes...more Video card reviews!! (Score:1)
Go Slashdot go!
Re:Yes, yes...more Video card reviews!! (Score:4, Funny)
Web 1.0 was all about porn; Web 2.0 is all about video card reviews.
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Folding@home? (Score:2)
Last Hurrah (Score:2)
We just want the chipset business. We dont need GPUs . We will be putting Graphics cores in our next chip with heterogenous cores
Huaaaahahaha .
Evil AMDer !!!!
Great but... (Score:4, Funny)
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bah (Score:3, Funny)
Bah, that's nothing. You should see my liquid-cooled Dell laptop [cpsc.gov].
As a general guide... (Score:2, Funny)
To calculate the rough performance of any given 3d card, take the number of "X"s in the name and multiply by the price. Should give a fairly accurate 3dmark score.
Also, "Toxic"? (Score:2)
What are they using for a cooling liquid, ethylene glycol [wikipedia.org] perhaps?
Oh, I get it, it's hyperbole. So now if I buy a product that says "toxic" on the box, there's no way of knowing whether it is or isn't, and whether I can leave it around young kids without them getting too curious and going to the hospital. Ingenious! What will they think of next?
Confession (Score:2)
Too little, too late (Score:3, Funny)
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Not practical (Score:1)
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Water Cooled.. (Score:2)
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Summary (Score:2)
So, it's a stock card that has liquid cooling. The only reason this is noteworth, aside from the geek factor, is that the cooling allows for moderate overclocking (695 vs 650 MHz), resulting in moderate performance gains.
Original poster doesn't seem to know their HW... (Score:2)
Fancy Rig, no performance. (Score:1)
There is no way any mere mortal, gamer or otherwise, will be able to tell the difference between 79fps with the stock x1900xtx card, and 83fps with the fancy schmancy overclocked card. At some po
Remember the good old days.... (Score:1)