12-14-2006, 07:39 AM
trayne Wrote:x1300 pro is okay. the regular has more pixels than the pro due to the bands on it. the xt version of it would be better and i believe its also 25dollars cheaper. I didnt bother with a 7600. was a waste of money and the way the system was clocked and locked, it would of fried it. but i'm guessing yours is prebuilt so you'd probably want to stick with a geforce type or a hercules type. raedon is more for movies, streaming and personalized computers. the pro can be altered easier than some and you can set the clocks using rivatuner.....it actually has okay shaders just some are disabled in installation and need to be manually turned on.
The Pro is gimp. I believe it has either 4 or 8 shaders. The XT is an x1600 Pro with a different name, it had 12 shaders.
A "clocked and locked" system doesn't really make sense to me.
To my knowledge there are no "hercules" type cards. Radeons aren't more for movies...
nVidia and ATI both produce excellent GPU cores, it's the implementation that's usually flawed. Both excel at certain price points in the market.
Pixel shaders are disabled to be able to mass produce a single core type and have it work for multiple products on the market.