Fire up your floppies! The X1800GTO is coming to town!
In recent years, unlocking of disabled shaders via special software or BIOS modding of graphics cards has become quite common among tech communities. With more recent cards such as the X800GTO^2 and 6800GS AGP being able to achieve significant performance boosts over their stock settings. The lower end parts which usually did not completely meet quality control requirements to be placed on higher clocked cards have proven very popular among gamers on a budget, and there seems to be even more coming down the line. ATi’s upcoming X1800GTO to be priced at $249 will simply be an X1800XL with 12 pipes as opposed to 16. It may only be a matter of hours or days upon release that we could be hearing news of the new value king, though there is still the mystery that is the GeForce 7600.
The card will cost as much as Nvidia charges for the 6800 GS now. Its suggested retail price is set to $249 and we believe that Nvidia’s Geforce 7600 should be priced about the same. We don’t know which of the two will be faster. We expect to see these cards at CeBIT and they will ship in the second half of March.
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