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Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition AGP Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: July 6, 2005
Page: 2 of 11
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The AGP Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition

You can see the reference model for the Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition AGP version on Figures 1 and 2.

Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition AGP
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Figure 1: The reference model for Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition AGP.

Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition AGP
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Figure 2: The reference model for Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition AGP, back view.

The cooler used on this video card is so big that it uses the PCI slot right next to the AGP slot. On the other hand, the cooler blows the hot air generated by the card outside the case, which is very good to lower the temperature inside the PC.

Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition AGP
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Figure 3: This model is “fat”, using the space of two slots. But the cooler blows the air outside the computer.

We disassembled the video card heatsink to take a look on the memory chip used. This video card uses 1.6 ns GDDR3 memory chips from Samsung which can run up to 1.2 GHz, according to the manufacturer. Since Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition accesses the memory at 1.18 GHz, there is less than 2% headroom for overclocking the memory inside the memory’s specifications. But of course you can try overclock it over its specs.

Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition AGP
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Figure 4: 1.6 ns GDDR3 memory chip used by Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition AGP.

This video card has also video capture function (a.k.a. VIVO), which is produced by the ATI Rage Theater chip.

Before going to our benchmarking results, let’s recap this video card main features.

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