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Re: X600XT
Posted by angel of death on Tue Mar 1st at 4:13pm 2005


I recently bought a powercolor X600XT (pci express version). Was this card designed for gaming or other purposes. I just don't feel it's performance is what it should be for CSS and HL2. My system specs are as follows.

3.0 P4
albatron px915p mobo
1 gb ram
x600xt video card


Feedback please.




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Re: X600XT
Posted by $loth on Tue Mar 1st at 4:21pm 2005


What frame rates are you getting on which settings?
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Re: X600XT
Posted by SaintGreg on Tue Mar 1st at 8:53pm 2005


You get what you pay for with budget gfx cards. It should be more than playable even on decent settings though.
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Re: X600XT
Posted by omegaslayer on Tue Mar 1st at 10:34pm 2005


tell us the clock rates of the ram and GPU, then we wil tell you. TBH Ive never heard of this card before.
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Re: X600XT
Posted by Orpheus on Tue Mar 1st at 11:35pm 2005


IMO its results that count for all. not names, or titles or designations.

tell us your frames per second, and we'll tell you how it is.

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Re: X600XT
Posted by angel of death on Wed Mar 2nd at 12:15pm 2005


In some areas I get as low as 30-50 and in others as high as 120. I'm running at 800x600 everything set to high except shadows. According to the site I bought the card from my gpu is set at 500mhz and the memory at 600mhz.






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Re: X600XT
Posted by Orpheus on Wed Mar 2nd at 1:53pm 2005


? quoting angel of death
In some areas I get as low as 30-50 and in others as high as 120. I'm running at 800x600 everything set to high except shadows. According to the site I bought the card from my gpu is set at 500mhz and the memory at 600mhz.


in some areas of what? you are talking in broken sentences. :/

a card with those stats, hooked to a machine of yours should have no issues. it could be entirely the operators fault. who's to say you haven't set something wrong, or gotten some bad drivers someplace.

you may even have forgotten to set the bios correctly. it may be set for AGP instead of PCI-E.

i get a variety frames per second, depending on the map, but on average if the maps good i will hold 80+. if the maps poor i get 30ish. if its tiny.. who knows..

even at your poor settings 30-120 is not bad, just not what you seem to want.

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Re: X600XT
Posted by $loth on Wed Mar 2nd at 2:36pm 2005


Those stats look fine to me.
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Re: X600XT
Posted by omegaslayer on Wed Mar 2nd at 5:38pm 2005


Look at you Bios to make sure you have you AGP slot size set accordingly (eg: you have a 2X and 8X card, but you bios is only running it at 2X). Those clock rates seem to be accurate from the fps your getting. Do you have AA and AF turned on high? If so then turn them down, and you will get better frames (allowing you to turn up the resolution).

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Re: X600XT
Posted by Orpheus on Thu Mar 3rd at 1:10am 2005


*whispers to omega*

for someone who gripes at other people for not reading, you are doing a good imitation of not doing so yourself

he says he has a PCI-E card bud

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Re: X600XT
Posted by rs6 on Fri Mar 4th at 2:12am 2005


the X600 is exactly the ATI top of the line, its the upper mainstream of the new ATI series. Its like the 6600 in the nvidia side of things. [addsig]




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