ATI now supporting OCing.

[mr_knowitall15]

Cant believe this wasnt posted yet... anyway, it seems ATI will now relax its strict rules about letting board partners sell pre overclocked boards like BFG and XFX do for Nvidia cards. FULL ARTICLE HERE

[perkam]

Ths basically means we'll see higher clocked regular XTs alongside cherry picked XTPEs :

ATI is also showing that its sanctions about overlocking are more relaxed than ever by even supplying certain board partners with a software utility that will put their Radeon X1800 XT board through tests. Once the board has been determined to be of exceptional quality, the utility will signal a message indicating the board is capable of overlocking. The advisory indicates that at this point, partners are advised to perform application tests before locking the new speeds into BIOS.

Nice

Perkam

[HungryForHertz]

"The advisory indicates that at this point, partners are advised to perform application tests before locking the new speeds into BIOS."

They still don't totally get it, but it's a step in the right direction for sure.

[metro.cl]

and they call nvidia desperated

[Hicks]

and they call nvidia desperated

It's called competition. It's healthy for us. Why has it always got to be OMG, this company pwns this company, and Vs threads, geesh.

[krille]

Actually, mr_knowitall15, to be honest I think it has been posted before. Maybe I'm wrong, but wasn't this on the news very long ago? (Long before the date of the linked article.) I am sure I've read this before somewhere... anyone else?

If I indeed am wrong, then my humble apologies.

[metro.cl]

It's called competition. It's healthy for us. Why has it always got to be OMG, this company pwns this company, and Vs threads, geesh.

because if it wanst desperated, ati would do the waranties, but they dont want to because their financial status is crap and hardware wise they dont have anything to compete with nvidia until r580.

they had enough time to release a x1800xt at this clocks from the begining and dont make a Press Edition thats gona be a ghost

[perkam]

because if it wanst desperated, ati would do the waranties, but they dont want to because their financial status is crap and hardware wise they dont have anything to compete with nvidia until r580.

they had enough time to release a x1800xt at this clocks from the begining and dont make a Press Edition thats gona be a ghost

I dunno, I think Lower Warranties are a fair trade-off for higher clocked cards...

Also, both companies have products competing with each other on many levels...just because one company has the performance crown doesnt mean it has no competition. ATI had the X850XTPE up there for so long, and yet the 6600GT was still beating the hell out of the mainstream.

Perkam

[nn_step]

So basically they allow the partners to overclock but require the bios to be locked to try to prevent us from doing the same...

[metro.cl]

I dunno, I think Lower Warranties are a fair trade-off for higher clocked cards...

Also, both companies have products competing with each other on many levels...just because one company has the performance crown doesnt mean it has no competition. ATI had the X850XTPE up there for so long, and yet the 6600GT was still beating the hell out of the mainstream.

Perkam

i was talking about warranties from partners (that oced the card) they would have to do them and get around the cost of them not ati.

i know about the mainstream but if the performance crown wasnt so important we wouldnt see ati and nvidia releasing card after card for just a few more fps

[Rovtar]

when can we expect this cards in europe?

[perkam]

i know about the mainstream but if the performance crown wasnt so important we wouldnt see ati and nvidia releasing card after card for just a few more fps

X1800XT vs GTX 256MB = few more fps So Nv didnt NEED to take out a the GTX 512MB...but as Hicks said, its competition, and good for the consumer...bad for both companies in long run

Perkam

[metro.cl]

X1800XT vs GTX 256MB = few more fps So Nv didnt NEED to take out a the GTX 512MB...but as Hicks said, its competition, and good for the consumer...bad for both companies in long run

Perkam

if you ask me they seem to be a duopoly so not so good for customers.

regards