Radeon X850 Xt Platinum Edition 256 Mb Agp

by ATI

Product Details

• Item Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009B0GIG
• Item model number: 100-435601
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 24, 2005

Product Description

ATI Radeon X850XT Platinum Edition - This 3D video card is designed to produce fantastic visuals for the latest 3D games on the PC. In addition, it features a Component output for enjoying your PC games on the big screen. Especially HDTVs, whose resolutions are fully supported with this video card. Component YPrPb HDTV Output VGA & DVI Outputs 2D Resolution Support - 640x480 to 2048x1536 (including HDTV 1920x1080 16 - 9) 3D Resolution Support - 2048x1536 (65K & 16.7M Colors) 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing Modes 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering Modes 16 Pixel Pipelines 520MHz VPU / 575MHz Memory All-format DTV/HDTV Decoding

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent card!, July 2, 2005

By 

lmchv (Lima / Peru) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Radeon X850 Xt Platinum Edition 256 Mb Agp (Personal Computers)

Just got my card, I was so excited I took lots of pics of the box and the card itself. :)

The card box came in a nice big box (courtesy of Amazon), very well packed with a lot of protection, inside you find the box of the card, not so big, but very well packed too. The retail package of this card is quite nice, lots of cables for the VIVO functionality, a manual, a driver CD, and the card wrapped in a anti-static box with some warnings.

To install the card I proceeded to uninstall my old Radeon 9800 Pro first, remove the card from my PC and install the new card. Keep in mind that this card is a 2-slot card, it means it uses two slots of your computer (AGP and the first PCI). After the card is secured in the AGP slot you need to connect it to the PSU because this card uses more power than the AGP slot can give.

Once your computer boots, you need to install the drivers again (if you had a Radeon before), it's recommended but not neccesary, windows recognizes the card correctly anyway. If you had a nvidia card (or any other brand) before, don't forget to uninstall the drivers before you put this new card in!.

The Catalyst software suite intalls 3 things:
- Radeon drivers
- WMD drivers (for vivo capabilities)
- Catalyst Control Center
NOTE: Requires .NET Framework 1.1 installed.

The drivers are very stable, and haven't given me any problems so far, I ran several benchmarks with the following results:

3dMark05: 5850
3dMark03: 12750
3dMark01: 20600

Also all my games run smoothly at 1280x1024 6xTFSAA+16xAF.

Conclusion: This card is great, easy install (if you know what you're doing), nice functionality and great performance.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, it's worth the price.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Video Card, June 19, 2005

By 

Nick - See all my reviews

This review is from: Radeon X850 Xt Platinum Edition 256 Mb Agp (Personal Computers)

Ok, with the last guy's review some of you may find this card to be a burden. However, he has only had compatibility issues which iswhy he has burnt his rating for this card. Truthfully, the card performs unbelievably well, and compared to other cards, this card deffinately holds the crown. To avoid any compatibility issues, make sure your motherboard is updated with the latest bios. Also, you can check your motherboard's manufacturer's website to check compatibility issues with any video card at all. I deffinately recommend this graphics card to any gaming enthusiast who loves liquid smooth game play.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Card, Amazon disappointing., December 4, 2005

By 

Hao Wang "Custom Computer Builder" (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Radeon X850 Xt Platinum Edition 256 Mb Agp (Personal Computers)

Received my order in good time from Amazon.com and they were the lowest price retailer for this item, which was a good thing. Opened the box to find the X850 XT P.E. retail box, good. Opened that box and found nothing but wires and manuals and a CD. Contacted Amazon.com for return and still waiting. Not going to pass judgement yet on Amazon.com but this is my first purchase from them and so far a it's bit shaky. Amazon.com was recommended to me with high regards though.

Had to run out and purchase the card again, a little more expensive, finished building the system and the card is simply stunning. Install was a snap, ATI must've made some upgrade to their control panel and drivers since the time the previous reviews indicated tough installs. The whole process took roughly 7 minutes, and the instructions were simple and clear. I think I'm going to purchase another one for personal use. Overall great card for AGP slots, for those of you still hesitant in jumping into the SLI and PCI-E frenzy.