farmer

This videocard is now available in the US in the Visiontek flavor, but the question I'm in need of, is there a noticeable difference in 256 & 512 video memory? I've an older system, with 1 gig of ram, so I didn't have a clue if there was performance gains to be had from video memory.......

Later....

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Regeneration

Still unknown (No reviews yet).

Pandaz3

This looks like a great card, my X850 Pro is OC'd to 540/1180 where this one is 575/1380 stock and it has the 512 bit ring controller and shader 3.0. The only place I actually found one was Best Buy for $300 US

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fjutrackx

i think its to crazy to get a x1950pro on a agp slot and specialy on your S478 mainboard!
256MB => i can't run battlefield 2 or 2142 on max because i haven't enough videoram
512MB has no problems, even if it is slower

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Tru3Exil3

§up, I just recently purhased a X1950pro VisionTek XGE and by far its done nothing but amazing me (reguardless of my massive bottleneck >.<) I upgraded from a Nvidia 6600 agp 256mb card.... But to answer your question... Yes, depending on the game... Some games like GRAW, DooM 3, Prey, and the new C&C 3 can pick up a nice little boost just from having extra space to run textures back and forward it with that sweet DDR3 ram. :-) But depends on your system setup also.... If your specs are looking kinda out dated, don't really mind the different from the 256mb vs 512mb b/c your massive bottleneck is doing your card no justice and your better off saving yourself a few bucks instead of forking over more cash when you could be saving it for/towards a new system.

VisionTek XGE X1950pro 256mb AGP Review

http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/...oAGP/index.php

Sapphire X1950Pro 512MB AGP Review

http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/...0AGP/index.php

^^^just for a little compare and contrast ;-)

phxz31

Well I got the visiontek X1950Pro 256MB card, and it is one absolutely fantastic card. Honestly, now that I've used it, I would have rather purchased the Power Color 512MB card because there are times whent he card is obviously hampered by lack of video RAM.... and there are other problems with the Visiontek card as well (no temp or voltage monitoring, no internal overclocking support via ATI overdrive, etc) but overall I've been very pleased with the performance of this card. Very worth the $300.

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ATI Radeon x1950pro 256mb
Phillips PSC706 5.1 Sound Card
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