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Club Overclocker posted a review on the Connect 3D Radeon X800XL 256MB DDR/PCI-E/TV-Out/VGA/DVI video card



Does anyone remember the nVidia TNT2 video card? How about the Ti4200 or Radeon 9500 Pro? One thing in common that these cards had were the capability to run any game at that time, they were significantly less expensive, yet their GPU was based on their flagship brethren. Whenever a new card comes around you'll always drool over it, but what most of us don't take into consideration is that the less significant cards are cheaper and perform just a fraction less. The X800XL debut from ATI actually caused quite a commotion due to its cost being 1/3 of the 850PE flagship card. What you get in a X800XL is a flagship GPU with slower clocks, yet unlike the X800 Pro series you still retain the 16 pipes which allow the card to maintain some outstanding performance in quality mode with anti-aliasing and anistropic filtering enabled. So lets dive in and take a look!
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