Correction it's not can't but lower chance of unlocking the pipelines that's all

AFAIK, the Connect3D GTO's have shown a rather high sucess unlock rate actually

Depends on how you like it...higher clocks but higher heat emission and energy consumption, or a decent X800XT replica which doesn't suck up the juice

Sure you may say that, but at 12 pipes, the performance of the X1600's are better in many aspects. How does video encoding done thru the X1000's which are faster then a Dual Core A64 by 5x sound to you? Let's not even go to it's HDR+AA support too

In a way yes, but in this instance what makes it different from NVIDIA's solution (Which I admit has supported HDR quite sometime already) is that ATi intends to combine both the HDR and the AntiAliasing effects together as smoothly as possible in terms of frame rates so I've been told.

And the RV530 (X1600's) are actually an indicator as to what the R580 would be as it's more closer in relevancy to that card then to the R520

No, X800GT with DDR1 will be outperformed by the 6600GT and can't clock as high either. Hope that helps

GTO2 dun have and AGP also AFAIK X800GT 128Mb DDR1 models

Depends on how much you're willing to let it go

Easy there on the poor n00b, he's new and got quite a bit from me this morning over something similiar. and next time superdav007, do read around our policy at H/w. Here's a quick run down

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No Picture, No Talk. That's the rules of pimping here. Show us some benches and clocks then we might be amazed

well, my reasoning is this. If you calculate the cost of getting a non-HIS brand GFX and factor in a Silencer, you come to about the same price but with the added bonus of getting a known quantity of an overclockable card which just needs sorting of cooling. don't you think so?

I'd dare not speculate much but with the fact that the X1600XT promises to clock at core 600Mhz and mem 1Ghz, we might be in for a close fight and not to mention that the fact that RV/R5XX cores will have some form of support for HDR+AA, and (finally) SM 3.0 makes a done deal especially for gamers.

I though ATi Tools allows presets storing for per application? I noticed that in the recent releases by Omega

Topic " X800 GTO AGP" by cuoreboy merged here. And AFAIK, only 1 card has had a 100% successful unlock rate which is the GTO2 PCI-e. The other cards have been quite a gamble. This may be of help but I can't guarantee anything

http://hardware.mcse.ms/message277103.html

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=8060

VIVO or non-VIVO? Curious to know cos the non-VIVO unlocking is quite unproven and would love to know it was done with yours

VIVO actually just need to flash BIOS of XT. Non-VIVO would require a few tricks but the sucess rate is very low on it. One would have to hard mod by bridging pin 1 and 3 and also solder resisitors at the back of the card. And then flash a modded BIOS. The success rate for that is rather low and there have been cases of some getting 4 pipelines only

He means for X800 Pro VIVO flash the BIOS and you got urself an XT. that's what he meant