radeon x1950xt, everythingButRam

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I have owned this card for about 6 weeks now and all I can say is: This Is An Incredible Card!!! By downloading the cat 6.12 drivers, the ATITool, and overclocking both card and CPU, I was able to overclock this card to get a score of 12,876 in 3DMark05. However, it gets even better then that, I got 14,630 when I used it with my X1900 Crossfire card in crossfire mode on a DFI RXD200 I got from NewEgg for $54.00. Yeah, that’s right, I was able to use this card with my X1900 crossfire with no problems what so ever. The only performance hit with crossfire was it lower just the memory on the crossfire card from 512 to 256 to match this card, but it does not lower your overclock setting for each card so you don’t lose of the speed from each card. I don’t game above 1600/1200 so the drop to 256 on the Xfire card is not a big deal to me. I OC’ed these cards to X1950@692/1000 and the X1900@689/801 and they are rock solid in and out of crossfire. Now I am always among the high scorers in BF1942 and the other games I play.

 

I payed 276.00 six weeks ago and it has already come down to 250.00 :-( Don't think this card will work in crossfire without dodgle cables like some of the x1xxx's cards do. I hear you get better performance using the dodgles anyway.

 

I upgrade from a X1800 XT and I am so glad I did. Even though I was able to OC to a score of 10,800 in 3DMard05, the color and smoothness of the X1950 makes my gaming so much more enjoyable. I have not experienced any lags in any of the games I play. Again, this is a killer card don't sleep on it:-) It also feels a smooth as my 512meg X1900 crossfire card too.