HIS has taken a very sound and successful base in the Radeon X1800 GTO and made it even better. The IceQ3 cooler aside from its killer aesthetics, operated at near silence under load. Performance wise, frame rates blew the doors off a one generation old midrange card which really demonstrates that the increase in technology seen on current VGA cards is not just marketing hype. It is real world frames per second performance that provides speed and just as importantly, a very high level of quality in the images it renders. Add in the ability to BIOS flash this 12 pipeline card to have a full 16 pipes, adds bang for the buck value I can’t even begin to put a price on.
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