Adrenaline Vault Reviews the ABIT R9800XT
ABIT beats Sapphire: scores 4.5 out of 5

April 29, 2004 - Gaming authority Adrenaline Vault recently took a close look at ABIT's R9800XT, and pitted it against Sapphire's Ultimate Radeon XT. The editors liked the ABIT card so much that they decided to give it a rating of 4.5 out of possible 5 stars!

Avault on installing the R9800XT: "Installation of the ABIT card was problem free. Following the basic, but complete, documentation I was able to replace the existing video adapter in the test system in under 15 minutes. Simply uninstall the old drivers, power down and replace the card, power back up the computer and you are set to install the Catalyst drivers (preferably ones you download from ATI as they are updated on a regular basis)."

On to the benchmarks: "First up in the synthetic/demo benchmark series is the popular Unreal Tournament 2003. In this case we are using the demo version and the handy HardOCP UT2K3 Benchmark utility version 2.1. Both cards produced blazingly fast frame rates, with the ABIT R9800XT edging out the Sapphire Ultimate Radeon 9800 XT by a few frames a second across the board. The biggest difference came at 1280x1024 resolution...Code Creatures is a benchmark we will be retiring shortly, this probably being its last appearance in an AVault video card review. It renders some very complicated scenes that can stress even modern cards to their limits. Here we see the ABIT card with a slight edge over the Sapphire product..."

The verdict? "ABIT's R9800XT is a solid performing solution with no real surprises or any major faults. It provided top notch performance in today's games, is stable, provides solid overclocking performance, and has a complete package that helps in making the price tag of this high powered card palatable."

ABIT's Advanced Durability brings greater responsibility to the motherboard manufacturers in creating durable products with quality, reliability and stability engineered for long-term, problem-free use. All of ABIT motherboards are Advanced Durability tested and approved. ABIT looks to all motherboard makers to make a similar durability commitment to the end-user.

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