ATI X1900 Pre-Release HQ

What's the "overclocker" program? You can adjust the vcore on the X1900 radeon's? (don't laugh, I'm outa the loop)

yea you should be able to according to the pics. It is the same program used on the current X1800 line of cards for adjusting volts and clocks.

BTW, according to the last update it looks like 2D volts are lower than that of the 2D volts of the X1800 line of cards. Might keep things a bit cooler in the end which is good.

Is the 7900 series gonna have voltage options too? :)

ati tool next beta will support voltage adjustments for x1900 cards.

Atleast we won't have to wait to get oc'ing

Prices from the US: X1900 XTX $649

That doesn't make any sense....Did ATI not incur ANY additional cost going from X1800 to X1900 ????!!!!!...cos that'd put the XT at $599, just like the X1800XT MSRP.

I'm confused here :confused:

Perkam

well its about the same size core right?

so if ram prices are lower on the higher speed stuff then it should line up nice..

Seeing as this is the pre-release info thread...I imagine actual release info would be in another ? http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...t=86106&page=2 ;)

Perkam

x1900 is the replacement gpu for the x1800, kinda like the r360 replaced the r350. Why the confusion? It's already known that the r520 isn't even being fabbed anymore...even when the demand for the x1800's are so high...because of the yeild issue of the r520.

Cadaveca, I'm seeing X1900 prices in NA at X1800 price levels...can you seriously tell me that isn't alarming ?

Perkam

nope. not alarming at all. GDDR prices are less than it was when sapphire purchased the ram for the r520(long time ago now), and the savings are passed onto the consumer, as well as the shorter warranty period kicking in it's share too...you know the can make smaller runs this way and be more cost effective...and have to retain less stock. works out well, if you ask me. what's so scary? Like really?(insert blond with dumb look here)

BTW, the canadian dollar is pretty stong as of late, and that has helped out quite a bit as well.


ATI and nVidia are playing the waiting game for unified shading. Waiting for the software, of course. these products are just to keep consumer interest up.

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Cadaveca, I'm seeing X1900 prices in NA at X1800 price levels...can you seriously tell me that isn't alarming ?

Perkam

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It isn't since the 1900 is the 1800's replacement. The 1800 will drop in price if not completely gone from shelves by the time the 1900 is released

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Originally Posted by sabrewolf732

It isn't since the 1900 is the 1800's replacement. The 1800 will drop in price if not completely gone from shelves by the time the 1900 is released

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Gone from shelves? That's a very bold statement! :D

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Originally Posted by g0dM@n

Gone from shelves? That's a very bold statement! :D

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not all that bold. Production was stopped on the X1800 line back in December sometime. They are now just running off current inventory. I kinda doubt the 1800's will be gone everywhere by the 1900 launch, but I don't expect them to be around for much longer than that, maybe a month or so.

lol, I still see x800's on the shelvs:slap:

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Originally Posted by Sneil

lol, I still see x800's on the shelvs:slap:

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Did you read theslacker's post? :stick: :slap:

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Originally Posted by cantankerous

yea you should be able to according to the pics. It is the same program used on the current X1800 line of cards for adjusting volts and clocks.

BTW, according to the last update it looks like 2D volts are lower than that of the 2D volts of the X1800 line of cards. Might keep things a bit cooler in the end which is good.

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ATI Overclocker supports other unreleased cards as well :)

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I'm guessing that R580 yields are higher than R520, so that'll counteract the larger die size. This should be pretty obvious due to the fact that ATI lowered the voltage by 0.15 to 1.2v

What excites me is that ATI put the R520 on the backburner pretty quickly and transferred majority of their resources towards the R580 early on. While it is accurate to say that the R580 is a revision based off the R520 architecture, it is not accurate to assume that they are developed the same way or even by the same team or that they tweaked the R520 core to achieve the R580 :nono:

This should be the REAL R5xx :)

Perkam

so whats the G71 going to be called? 7900?

Looks like it.

Perkam

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This should be the REAL R5xx :)

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:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

The wait is almost over! I might be sticking with ATI for my next upgrade after all.

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so whats the G71 going to be called? 7900?

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According to what I've read, yes. :)

I read on the inquirer about the X1900's release, and it said the G71 should be a few weeks to a month after the X1900 release... dunno if it's true, but that's all I've heard about the estimated release date.

Perkam, I don't like the following line in your news post:

"its sure to take the performance crown back from Nvidia’s ghostly GTX 512MB."

If you simply remove the word "back," you can clear the snippet of any trace of bias and the statement says almost exactly the same thing, thus preserving credibility. I do think it sounds a bit biased. Just one man's opinion.

wow, i cant wait till these next gen cards come out

48 Pixel Pipelines :eek: Holy freaking :banana::banana::banana::banana:!