GeCube to release X1300 PCI Radeon card

User Comments: 4

1. June 30, 2006 11:12 PM
   swker98 said:
   i wonder how much one of thsese r gonna cost
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2. July 1, 2006 12:26 AM
   crossfire851 said:
   I would rather buy a new a PCI-e board and a x700, because I bet it will be the same price, with alot more performance.
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3. July 4, 2006 6:42 AM
   RBBrittain said:
   Though the writer is right that this isn't for gamers, I think he, and both of you, are missing the untapped market segment this card is aimed at: Owners of recent (< 2 years old) integrated-graphics systems without AGP or PCIe slots, like me, who want to upgrade to Windows Vista, yet DON'T have the stomach to handle a mobo transplant or a new PC. (I think I *could* do a mobo transplant, but I'm not ready for it.)Up to now, the only PCI cards still on the market that support DirectX 9 have had NVIDIA GPUs, and most of them use the brain-dead GeForce FX series. Only one manufacturer, BFG (both directly and thru its 3DFuzion division), has put the GeForce 6200 on PCI; and I'm having 2D graphics corruption problems with the 3DFuzion 6200 PCI I recently bought. (It's going on RMA number two, and both RMAs came AFTER upgrading the power supply to eliminate the most likely culprit. And that's still on XP SP2; I downloaded Vista Beta 2 but don't plan on installing it till I get the card stabilized.)Ironically, ATI had a hand in removing NVIDIA's only competition here when it bought XGI's card assets; the Volari V3XT was also DirectX 9 on PCI (I hear it was an incredible HTPC card), but with XGI's withdrawal from the market their cards aren't supported in Vista Beta 2. It's great to see ATI *finally* stepping into this niche--and with a newer-generation GPU as well. If anything, it'll give NVIDIA some much-needed competition; anyone ready for GeForce 7 on PCI?[Edited by RBBrittain on 2006-07-04 06:53:51]
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4. July 5, 2006 3:45 AM
   crossfire851 said:
   Well anyone with some common sense and willing to take there time can do it. "mobo transplanT" LOL that sounds funny.
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