r-520 spotted

geRV · **r-520 spotted -** 09-08-2005, 05:59 PM

And its a bigun ed:

http://www.techpowerup.com/img/05-09-07/r520front.jpg

or ati x1800xt as the new naming scheme seems to be. eek:

Short Hand · 09-08-2005, 06:00 PM

scchhhweeet.

Judas · 09-08-2005, 06:03 PM

we dont like you anymore ... pls stop posting here.

Akuma · 09-08-2005, 06:03 PM

New name is gay... should be XI800... or Xi800...

I wonder if the Arctic Cooler will be stock...

geRV · 09-08-2005, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Judas

we dont like you anymore ... pls stop posting here.

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Originally Posted by Akuma

New name is gay... should be XI800... or Xi800...

I wonder if the Arctic Cooler will be stock...

Probably ship it with that stock cooler in the pic, some other site got one of the cards and the nvidia artic cooler lines up with the mounting holes on it, didn;t come with a heatsink or fan for some reason. eek:

Miscguy · 09-08-2005, 06:19 PM

So what is this thing supposed to do? Is it another giant leap forward that should satisfy my every need as a human. Or is it just another "next gen" card that doesnt really have all that much boost over the last gens x800xt xl superduper Xtreeeeeeem edition monster cool PT li card.

geRV · 09-08-2005, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Miscguy

So what is this thing supposed to do? Is it another giant leap forward that should satisfy my every need as a human. Or is it just another "next gen" card that doesnt really have all that much boost over the last gens x800xt xl superduper Xtreeeeeeem edition monster cool PT li card.

Nobody knows what it'll bring, sm 3.0 is one of them, increased performance, crossfire compatability, besides that it could have a number of new things.

09-08-2005, 06:40 PM

welcome back gervis.

nice card, although i wont buy it.

1080jibber · 09-08-2005, 06:45 PM

Needs more liquid metal cooling

Miscguy · 09-08-2005, 08:22 PM

Meh, not like if i even read reviews for it and saw compairison i would begin to understand the power it has. My baseline is so asscue that i simply cant look at stats anymore and be like "hmm indeed this is impressive". Now days its the assumption that whatever more extreme initial, after a number combo, is the greatest card ever made. They may actually start making up letters to help define there products. Right now you could show me stats compairing a x800 pro, xt, xl, 850 etc; vs a 6800, gt, etc and a 7800gtx and all i could say is... Yes, those numbers are big. Then if i were in the market i would buy the best comprimise of big numbers. What ever happened to the good old days when a company didnt modify there product then re-release it under the same name with a few letters behind it... No the product revisions were worth an entirly new number, or name. My god, how simple that could be.

x800
x850 (pro)
x900 (xt)
x950 (xl)
X1000 (the new r520 thingy)

Screw the letters. Why do we need 8 versions of what amounts to the same card? Oh you added 2.345302 pixel shader support to the X800 L9HF3 while the x800 HLTRN only has 1.3535674, i see now. Fuck that, revise the card and improve it enough to warrent a new number. This XT, Xl buisness is for the birds. I no longer know what im ranting about, it seems to be just pure hate and spite at this point.

geRV · 09-08-2005, 08:25 PM

The r520 is a totally new design, the radeon 9700 and upto the x850xt-pe all used modified\overhauled versions of the same core with more pipelines. This is ati's first totally new design in quite a few years.

The companies should really try and stick to a proper naming convention, 1 card for basic users, one for mainstream and one for highend, far too many other cards which gets confusing with the naming schemes.