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Radeon X800 Pro Card Roundup
[Abstract]
ATI's Breadwinner Of The High-EndSlightly more than a half a year after its launch, the ATI RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition is still the highest performing product on the AGP front. Supporting ...
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Sapphire RADEON X800 PRO VIVO 256MB
Quite literally out of the blue, Sapphire's RADEON X800 PRO VIVO graphics card was the only card that was visually unique (besides the HIS IceQ edition). Based on a deep ocean blue PCB with a matching decorative faceplate and few other visual touches, together these distinctively highlight a Sapphire product.
Sapphire's RADEON X800 PRO VIVO graphics card. Seen on the decorative faceplate is Sapphire's alien mascot. |
Like the HIS card, this is another VIVO enabled product that only adheres to its specs and has 12 rendering pipelines. The card is equipped with memory that is far speedier than necessary and there are possibilities of converting the card into a full blown RADEON X800 XT P.E., but do so only if you are knowledgeable and don't mind voiding the warranty.
The card was fitted eight of these Samsung 1.6ns memory chips that have a theoretical ceiling of 1.25GHz DDR. |
The ATI Rage Theater chip lends its hand in video capturing. |
The striking box package of the Sapphire RADEON X800 PRO VIVO. Ensuring their product gets noticed on the retail shelf has certainly helped Sapphire boost its image and brand quite considerably over the past year. |
Sapphire too ensures that its bundling is as complete as possible and listed below are the entire package contents:-
DVI-I to VGA adapter
Component-output cable dongle
VIVO dongle (S-Video & Composite connections)
S-Video extension cable
Composite extension cable
Y-Power cable splitter
Sapphire manual
Sapphire Driver CD
Sapphire RedLine Tweak Utility
Sapphire casing sticker
Software: CyberLink PowerDVD 5.0 (2-channel), CyberLink PowerDirector 2.55 VE
Games: Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (DVD), Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time (2 CDs)
The cable package is as follows: VIVO cable dongle, Component-output cable dongle, Y-Power cable splitter and a DVI-I to DB15 VGA adapter. |
In addition to the cable accessories shown in the previous photo, Sapphire provides Composite and S-Video extension cables too. |
A final look at the Sapphire card. |
Alphabetically, Sapphire is the last card to be featured in this shootout. We now move on to the comparison phase where we summarize the key differences between the shootout participants and present the outcome of our various test segments.
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