OC3D Review: Sapphire Ultimate X1950 Pro 256mb PCI-E

[JN]

"With the release of ATI/AMD's R600 graphics card range being 'slightly' delayed, we take a look Sapphire's top-of-the-range X1950 Pro based GPU. Overclocked out of the box and complete with a sexy Zalman cooler, will this be enough to keep the ATI fans loyal?"

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[equk]

Nice review

I like the new OC3D recommended retailers search looks professional.

 

[JN]

Nice review

I like the new OC3D recommended retailers search looks professional.

Cheers mate. Ye, I still need to do some work on it, but all the prices are live from the retailers (hence why it takes a while to bring up the results).

 

[Raging]

nice review,looks to be a cracking card with an impressive price tag to boot

 

[Ham]

Looks good. One last ditch dx9 card before R600 rapes many, many psus?

 

[JN]

Looks good. One last ditch dx9 card before R600 rapes many, many psus?

We'll have to do an article on how many cheap-o psu's it takes to power it

 

[Nagaru]

I think the overclocking problems are because of Ati Tool, from the Ati Tool site "All NVIDIA and ATI cards except for Radeon X1950 Pro are supported in this release." The source.

 

[Phunky]

Nice little read, i think i will be heading back over to ATi once there DX10 range is out.

Nothing has felt quite as good as my old x800xt pe :/

 

[FarFarAway]

Actually my 6800GT was a legendary card and the best I've felt with an nVidia card ever I think

 

[Pred]

I just recently got this card and I currently have the GPU overclocked to 641 and the memory overclocked to 844 and it runs stable. If you use atitool, you have to check the driver level overclocking box in order to overclock the memory. Works great, got a 3Dmark05 score of 10520 on my system. Not too bad considering my weak 4000+ single core processor.

 

[JN]

I just recently got this card and I currently have the GPU overclocked to 641 and the memory overclocked to 844 and it runs stable. If you use atitool, you have to check the driver level overclocking box in order to overclock the memory. Works great, got a 3Dmark05 score of 10520 on my system. Not too bad considering my weak 4000+ single core processor.

Good job Pred and thanks for the info.

Welcome to the forums btw

 

[Pred]

Glad to be here. I was wondering though... has anyone else been successful at overclocking the memory? From all the forums I've read and reviews, I can't find anyone that's gotten it past 800. I know it's possible, obviously, since I did it.

One other interesting thing to note about the card: I received a model that is obviously a new batch. The heatsink on the end of the card is no longer a gold color and no longer has the "S" on it, it's colored silver now. It also had their latest May release bios on it, which surprised me because the bios was only released about a week and a half or so before I bought the card.