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ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Video Card Review

Postby Apoptosis » Mon May 14, 2007 8:31 am

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Video Card Review

ATI’s finally joins NVIDIA in the DirectX 10 market space by hard launching the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT video card, which is their new flagship graphics card. The core on the Radeon HD 2900 XT is clocked at 743MHz and its 512MB of GDDR3 RAM is clocked at 825MHz. Does this $399 video card have what it takes to beat out the NVIDIA 8800 series or does it get beat? Read on to find out!

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Article Title: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Video Card Review
Article URL: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/503/1/
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Postby Bio-Hazard » Mon May 14, 2007 8:53 am

Nice review guys, in all honesty, from what I've read around the net so far, there really isn't any reason to pay out the extra cash to buy a 2900XT, even if you had a 8 pin PCI-e PSU already and some top-end water cooling to push it's performance. I don't think it's a cost effective buy at this late in the video card arena. Ati/AMD needs to build and improve on it's current tech and maybe the next gen will be worth buying AMD/ATi again. And I was really hoping that the card would be a winner......... :|
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Postby stopthekilling77 » Mon May 14, 2007 9:36 am

suprised me! i'm glad that it's giving the 8800 GTS a bit of a run for the money!

i'm relieved it wasn't a complete bomb :D
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Postby Bio-Hazard » Mon May 14, 2007 9:58 am

LOL.....no bomb, just a large heat generator like the old Nvidia 5800............ :mrgreen:
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Postby atlr » Mon May 14, 2007 1:28 pm

Enjoyed the review.

Will you update the article and its benchmarks after drivers are updated? Certainly not every driver update though; you wouldn't have time for anything else in life if you re-tested after every driver update.

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