ATI Launches X700 Series

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    ATI introduced the RADEON X700 family of visual processors.


    The RADEON X700 delivers excellent graphics performance for gaming and visual processing, at


    a price suited to a broad range of users. Delivering a gaming experience that is anything


    but mainstream, the RADEON X700 visual processing units (VPUs) include the advanced features


    of the X800 family of VPUs and a higher level of performance than some of last years


    high-end visual processors, but for less than USD 200.


    Based on the RADEON X800


    architecture and designed to closely adhere to Microsofts DirectX 9 specification, the


    RADEON X700 includes advanced architectural elements and features previously reserved for


    products twice the price of the RADEON X700. The eight pixel pipe and six vertex pipe


    architecture is unique for products in this class, enabling unprecedented processing power


    than any other mid-range priced graphics processors on the market.


    The RADEON X700


    products, built by either ATI or one of its board partners, are supported by ATIs CATALYST


    suite of software. CATALYST AI, a newly introduced feature of ATIs software suite, allows


    customers to enjoy improved levels of performance and a better overall experience with


    todays popular games. Users enable and control their preferred level of performance


    enhancement without having to sacrifice image quality.


    The RADEON X700 family will


    include the RADEON X700 XT, the RADEON X700 PRO and the RADEON X700, with a variety of


    memory configurations and speeds to meet the wide range of needs of customers looking for a


    visual processor for gaming, streaming video, digital photo editing and other visually


    demanding activities. Priced as low as USD 149, the RADEON X700 products will provide


    excellent performance for their price.


    The RADEON X700 PRO is now shipping. Products


    will be available soon from ATI and ABIT, ASUS, Connect3D, Diamond Multimedia, Giga-Byte,


    High-Tech, ITC, MSI, Palit, Sapphire, Tul, Visiontek and YUAN. The RADEON X700 XT and RADEON


    X700 will ship next month.

    i like these ati cheap cards... i think most users dont need the


    features of the expensive ones, so paying 300 USD more for those cards is not very


    clever...
    i use a really cheap ati radeon 9000 in my computer and most games work even


    now, 1 year after buying it. for next games generation i probably will have to change my


    card, but i think i should change also a 9500 card if i had it
    anyway i dont like 1st


    person / doom type games, so i dont need as much graphics power as other users...
    any of


    u thinks these non-expensive cards arent enougth for him?


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    i like fps n stuff but even rpgs and strategies..


    take perimiter


    ofr example... you need a hell of a card..


    its draining my 9800se dry, and i also got


    a gig of ddr ram and an amd2800


    the general idea changed.
    Games will be more and


    more worked out graphically at the expense of features and fun/gameplay.


    No matter


    what you play in the future, unless it's solitaire, you will need a card that is capable of


    specialized gamma blending, beta-ray nuclear emitting, sun emulating and breast enlarging

    perimeter bored me


    silly. looked like a good idea, but never really fulfilled potential...and control was


    difficult. to be fair im not much of an RTS fan to begin with...


    but i didnt have any


    trouble running it - on an Athlon XP 2000+ and Geforce Ti 4200 64MB :P