X 1800 XT vapourware ?!

    poor old Ati. I asked the rep a few weeks ago if they were going to come up with anything, and while she talked a good talk, she didn´t act very convincingly. Nvidia are still top of the tree. All ATi can do is rework the Radeon.

    "for once, i`ll actually tell you what i was thinking; but maybe i won`t have anything to say.."

    "Rework the Radeon"? Pah, they´ve been ridin´ that old horse for the last three years. It´s too bad that they are stuck in 2002, because ATI were leading the industry once *shakes head sadly*.

    Esquilax.. Those benchmarks were fake. The dude Sander from hardwareanalysis.com just posted the scores of an OC´d X850XT PE because he didn´t get invited to the real X1800 series ATi media unveiling.

    I didn´t get invited either. Carly Cheshire and I will be having words!

    "for once, i`ll actually tell you what i was thinking; but maybe i won`t have anything to say.."

    D34N - I had a feeling that they were, especially since I did not think that HA would really break an NDA <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>.

    I still think that it is the 90nm form factor. Every chip maker that moved to 90nm had huge teething problems. I believe that the 7800 rolled out because it ISN´T on a 90nm die.

    There are new runours almost every day about the R520. Newest one: it seems that there will be no AGP-version. Not confirmed. But difficult to understand because no graphics-card has even reached the technical (bandwidth-)limits of 8xAGP.

    The current joke has been whether it is Cross Fire or the R520 that has more smoke. But I also hear that those who are blessed with dual SLI GeForce boards have a problem when they try to watch ordinary video... that it is rather crappy unless they disable one of the boards to switch to single board video feed. A new driver to fix it is due but it hasn´t come out yet.