TheTechLounge has posted an ATI Radeon X1000 Series Preview
ATI unveiled the entire next-gen family of boards, dubbed the X1000 series. As one would expect, there will be three price-points: low-end, mid-range and high-end. Oh, and did I mention that they gave me four boards to test? The boards received include the X1800 XT, X1800 XL, X1600 XT and X1300 Pro.ATI Radeon X1000 Series Preview
Obviously, I wanted to conduct a full review of all four of these video cards, but I had a little bit of a problem. Since I wrote the XFX 7800 GT Preview about a month ago, I’ve been planning on getting an AMD FX-55 to replace my 3500+ with. The reason I’m replacing the CPU is that I was starting to see in my testing results that I had a CPU bottleneck. I was expecting to get the FX-55 on September 29th, giving me about six days to test all my cards, but UPS had to re-route the package for some reason and it was re-scheduled for delivery on October 3rd, giving me less than two full days to benchmark all the cards. So, I was pretty much left with only once choice: do a preview of the X1000 series with the 3500+, and then do the full reviews with the FX-55.
In addition to the usual benchmarks, I’ll also have more information than usual about the architecture and features, and you’ll also see some information from the Question and Answer Session during the Tech Days event.
