Excerpt: It has been a little over two months since we first got to play with ATI's Radeon X800 XL, and we have now begun to receive retail products based on this eagerly
Summary: I like this card. I like it a lot. It offers a great amount of performance for its price, and the addition of the Zalman fan keeps things nice, cool, and quiet. While
Pros: Very cool and quiet, Outstanding performance for the price, Excellent connectivity, Excellent 2D and 3D quality, Solid overclocking, Catalyst drivers, No external powe...
Cons: The heatsink takes up two slots, A bit pricier than a standard X800 XL, Older software bundle, No TRIXX software as of yet, Most X800 XL’s rarely overclock past 440 MH...
Summary: The X800 XL looks to be one of the most exciting products that ATI has produced in a while. The price/performance ratio of this product is very high, especially once it
Pros: Quick for a $299 card, 256 MB of GDDR-3, Solid overclocking potential, Excellent 2D/3D quality, Excellent anti-aliasing quality, Good anisotropic filtering quality, Fa...
Cons: Most often found well above $299, Fan can get annoying at 100% speed, RAM sinks on only ½ of the BGA memory chips, No Shader Model 3.0 support
Conclusion: You can purchase the 512mb card here for $449. At this amount the extra 256MB of memory on Sapphire's Radeon X800 XL comes with quite a price increase over Sapphire's...