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Sapphire Hybrid Radeon X700 PRO Review |
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Written by Mavke
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Wednesday, 03 November 2004 |
Digit-Life has published a review on the Sapphire Hybrid Radeon X700 PRO. Much has been already said about Sapphire, so there is no point to repeat all that. You can just read the corresponding reviews. The company is popular, very popular, and that's that.
 Sapphire Hybrid Radeon X700 PRO Review
Thus, will the verdict be returned today or the barrister is on sick leave again? I guess that we should better hold back our conclusions, because the prices are so unpredictable now (mid October) that the mistake is almost imminent!
On the whole, we can see that X700 PRO obviously fairs somewhere between GeForce 6600GT and GeForce 6600. Perhaps that's how it should be! ATI has three video cards in the line, while nVidia has only two, and that's why X700 XT can and must oppose GeForce 6600GT, and X700 – GeForce 6600. And the role of X700 PRO is to be between them.
Unfortunately, the news for X700 PRO is not so rainbow: the sales commenced with incredible prices – about $200, while GeForce 6600GT video cards are only a tad more expensive! Of course, this is conditioned by different memory capacities, the latter having only 128MB, while both X700 PRO and X700 XT can be equipped with 128/256MB of the very expensive GDDR3.
That's why we shall just state that GeForce 6600GT is obviously better, which is demonstrated by all tests. But will the price parity remain between X700 PRO and this card? I don't think so, there being a higher video card – X700 XT.
But still, the cooler in Sapphire X700 PRO is very noisy. The company should think how to replace it for something more pleasant. That's sort of a concluding remark.
Our readers may be surprised why I haven't played with the new name – Hybrid – chosen by the Sapphire company. But I think that if someone has been persistently publishing on boxes an alien suffering from all the diseases in the universe instead of an attractive hero, probably picturing a gamer after many sleepless nights, we shouldn't be surprised at anything. At a new name as well.
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