ATI Radeon X1900XTX Graphics Card

Excellent Card

Strengths: Fastest card on the market. Crossfire will make it even better. Very easy to install. Great drivers.

Weakness: Expensive. Takes up two PCI slots. Power hungry.

Very nice card, fastest thing you can buy (though this might be changing with the new cards coming to the market right now). I can only imagine how great it would be in Crossfire. Takes up a lot of space on your mobo, so be prepared to lose the PCI slot directly below it. If you install another card in Crossfire configuration, you'll lose another 2 PCI slots (4 taken up by the two cards)....
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Very nice card, fastest thing you can buy (though this might be changing with the new cards coming to the market right now). I can only imagine how great it would be in Crossfire.

Takes up a lot of space on your mobo, so be prepared to lose the PCI slot directly below it. If you install another card in Crossfire configuration, you'll lose another 2 PCI slots (4 taken up by the two cards). Unfortunately, one of the slots you lose is the PCIE 1x slot.

Make sure your power supply can handle a video card like this.

By spyd3rgt - Nov 9, 2006

The adapter is a 12V 6 pin square...

Strengths: Everything, is an amazing card. However, didn't write this review for it's strengths because it has a lot.

Weakness: After purchase I noticed that this card needs a different adapter to be able to plug into the 450W power source if you don't have it with your case.

The adapter is a 12V 6 pin square power adapter and the only place I found it for sale was ATI for $12.99 plus S&H. That sort of sucked.

By Foxtail; - Sep 23, 2006

A Excelent Gamers Card

Strengths: Amazingly fast in games and everything else, has two dual link DVI output (in-case you want two 30 inch dells, or just two monitors), max resolution 2560X1600, Great price for the perfomance, Avivo

Weakness: Fan can be noisy at times, though usually only at start up and when you overclock and play games. It's power hungry so get a good power supply.

This is the best single card graphics solution ATI has to offer right now and it is selling for around $350 dollars due to Nvidia's new 7900 series pushing down prices. A few months ago this card was going for $500+, so in my opinion if you want a killer graphics card and don't want to spend a fortune than this card is it. First, I'd like to say if you plan on going crossfire, don't buy this...
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This is the best single card graphics solution ATI has to offer right now and it is selling for around $350 dollars due to Nvidia's new 7900 series pushing down prices. A few months ago this card was going for $500+, so in my opinion if you want a killer graphics card and don't want to spend a fortune than this card is it.

First, I'd like to say if you plan on going crossfire, don't buy this card. Get the x1900 xt and save yourself $100 since in crossfire mode the x1900 xtx will downclock to xt speeds and you won't get any benefit from it anyways (there are no plans for a x1900 xtx crossfire). The card is not only fast in games, but with Avivo playing movies on my computer is incredible now. It's much smoother and the colors are brighter, overall I am very impressed with the quality. The graphics card requires a 6-pin PCI-e power cord so either make sure your powersupply has one or you're going to have to buy one (they don't come in the box). Also, make sure you get a good power supply, especially if you plan to go crossfire because these new high end cards require a lot of power. Finally, it's nice that the fan exhausts outside the case to help keep the temps down inside. Very good card, highly recommended.

By jjtitus - Aug 31, 2006

ATI Radeon X1900 XTX

Strengths: Dual DVI, Crossfire capable, 512 GDDR3 1.5 GHz memory, Core speed 650 MHz; supports up to 2560 x 1600 resolution

Weakness: Takes up 2 slots, requires a min 450W 30 amp 12 volt rail power supply & 550W for crossfire, PRICE

I just rebuilt my system with the Radeon X1900 XTX card, an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard, an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Dual Core Processor, 1 GIG of Kingston HyperX memory (yes I know, it’s a little light, but I plan to add more when I recover from the cash outlay for these parts) and a Western Digital Caviar 250 GIG SATA II hard drive. What can I say but WOW! Sit back and get ready to dive...
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I just rebuilt my system with the Radeon X1900 XTX card, an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard, an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Dual Core Processor, 1 GIG of Kingston HyperX memory (yes I know, it’s a little light, but I plan to add more when I recover from the cash outlay for these parts) and a Western Digital Caviar 250 GIG SATA II hard drive. What can I say but WOW! Sit back and get ready to dive into your games. The graphics are amazing and not a flicker to find and this is right out of the box without any tweaking. If you game every waking moment, start saving up those dollars, because this card rocks. Oh by the way, keep in mind if you want crossfire, you need two of these babies, ouch!

By Nednam - Apr 18, 2006

The best single card solution

Strengths: Blazing fast, easy to install, blazing fast, blazing fast

Weakness: Price

The price on this card is outrageous, but it is FAST. I put this into a system with Pentium D 975 Extreme Edition, Intel Bad Axe motherboard, 2 gigs corsair XMS DDR2 and it just flies. One of these cards is nearly as fast as my dual 7800 GTX SLI setup. Buy this card if you have a Crossfire capable motherboard. I am saving the money to buy the Crossfire Edition X1900 XT in a few months.

By fxpath9; - Jun 25, 2006