A nice boxed Radeon X800 that I bought new in 2005 as an upgrade to my XFX GeForce FX 5600. A decent upgrade although the X800 by far wasn't the fastest card out there. The Radeon X800 Pro and GeForce 6800 had quite a bit more oomph and both the Radeon X850 XT PE and GeForce 6800 Ultra could deliver twice as much performance in demanding games.

I used to run this card with the standard heatsink/fan solution. In a lab-environment the cooling works fine but in practical terms they are often a bit under dimensioned: the narrow fins of the heatsink easily acquire dust and after a year the cooling gets sub-par causing the fan to spin faster and thus louder... I found the solution in installing a Zalman VF700 fan solution.

This card was manufactured in the time-frame that PCI Express (PCI-e) was new. ATI engineered their chip to work with PCI-e and used an PCI-e to AGP bridge. > Read more

This Radeon X800XT Platinum Edition from ASUS comes with a very large retail box. It even includes a webcam!

I bought this card second-hand from someone who bought it (pre-ordered) when it was new. The box has a price tag indicating it costs 535 euro!

In terms of quality and performance this is a good card. It's small and efficient, yet faster than the GeForce 6800 Ultra. Some games seem to run blazingly fast like Quake III on low resolution. Perhaps it needs less CPU cycles (as Quake III is heavily CPU-limited on these 'new' cards) than the 6800 Ultra. However, most interesting is Crysis in which the X800XT PE is factor 3 to 12 faster than a 6800GT! > Read more