My trusty 9700 pro has finally proved itself unworthy...cant run much of anything new, decently anyway, except it did a great job with HL2, (the only game I own I have ever finished by the way). So, I was at the local Best Buy and saw an x850 pro agp for 229 bucks, and though ah what the hey!!! and picked it up.Well before I installed it I was reading some stuff about it and found an article about flashing it with an x850xt pe bios....hmmm..interesting. So I ordered the Zalman vga kit everyone was raging about and installed it. Then I installed and flashed the card...ati tool says 16 pipes and more mhz....very painless ....ran 3d mark 2005 for 24 hours straight...that was painless too.Then I sat down and proceeded to play quake4.
HOLY HELL BATMAN!!!!!!! I couldnt believe it...it was fricken awesome!!! Obviously I have been out of the vga card loop for quite a while....but I am frickin amazed at the diffrence in performance...for almost 100 bucks less than i paid for my 9700 pro!!!
All I can say is wow!! And thanks to the person who figured out the bios flash.
HOLY HELL BATMAN!!!!!!! I couldnt believe it...it was fricken awesome!!! Obviously I have been out of the vga card loop for quite a while....but I am frickin amazed at the diffrence in performance...for almost 100 bucks less than i paid for my 9700 pro!!!
All I can say is wow!! And thanks to the person who figured out the bios flash.