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Old Oct 7, 2004, 05:23 PM   #1
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DH Review: Asus AX800XT
I have been testing the new Asus AX800XT high end PCI express card, and its probably one of the best video cards ive had the pleasure to test, ever.

"One of my general annoyances with ATI is with their reluctance to have a default design structure with twin DVI ports, commonplace with the top of the range Nvidia 6800's. The R3xx and R4xx chips have a VGA, DVO (digital video out) and a TMDS out (DVI, single TMDS). To get dual DVI you need to get a DVO - TMDS convertor chip, ATI currently do this on their high end Firegl boards but to keep costs down on their boards they dont use the extra chip.

The AX800XT goes all the way and includes this additional chip for dual DVI, those of you on dual TFT will appreciate this extra as the video signal out from a standard VGA gives inferior overall image quality."

read the full review here
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Old Oct 7, 2004, 05:24 PM   #2
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I like the way you incorporated your dual Dell's into the review. Looks like a very beastly card indeed.
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Old Oct 7, 2004, 05:36 PM   #3
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Beastly and beautiful, quite the combination. Incidentally if anyone on driverheaven has one of these cards and needs the updated bios for it to use smartdoctor let me know. hopefully it will be on the ASUS site shortly for download anyway.
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Looks like you're having a fun time with the card, excellent, and kudos on the dual TFT
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top notch review dude! GOOD joB!
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Old Oct 7, 2004, 06:35 PM   #6
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Great review Zardon just what I wanted to know
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Old Oct 7, 2004, 06:42 PM   #7
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The only negative I might add is that the SmartDoc software (which seems handy indeed) won't install if you use ATi reference drivers. It seems to need the Asus drivers, which unfortunately are a few steps behind the Catalyst release cycle.

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Old Oct 7, 2004, 06:45 PM   #8
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looks like a great card indeed. and with those Dell monitors. that just makes me want a new machine.
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Old Oct 7, 2004, 06:49 PM   #9
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Kudos to you Z. I still envy your dual Dell LCDs And ASUS does stand for quality~!
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Old Oct 7, 2004, 09:13 PM   #10
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Now if you could purchase these around MSRP we'd be set...
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Now if only someone could steal me one
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Old Oct 7, 2004, 09:46 PM   #12
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Sweet card! Sweet review! Sweet!
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That is one sweet card man. Nice of Asus to cool the mem with the heatsink...nice touch indeed. As always the review was a pleasure to read
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OMG, solid review man...
That friggn things is giving me the biggest, errr... uhm, heh, lets just say im really happy and im drooooooln for this thing. Great package indeed!
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out of curiosity Z...how do you get people to send you these free cards and review them?

if a place sent me a card like that, I would do massive testing myself and post reviews about it. Thats sortof what I dream to do.
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out of curiosity Z...how do you get people to send you these free cards and review them?

if a place sent me a card like that, I would do massive testing myself and post reviews about it. Thats sortof what I dream to do.
The reviews are published here and read by many. Thats a pretty strange question man, have you a website (that gets a lot of hits) to publish them on? If you want to start reviewing hardware then you need a viable "outlet", so either open your own site and build it up or ask some people in positions on sites you frequent if there are reviewing slots available. Companies just dont send "hand outs" I think thats a common myth
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The only negative I might add is that the SmartDoc software (which seems handy indeed) won't install if you use ATi reference drivers. It seems to need the Asus drivers, which unfortunately are a few steps behind the Catalyst release cycle.

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This was mentioned thats why I modded my own 8.07 set to work with the asus package. the newest set on the Asus site is 8.05 which is the latest "offical" from ATI V4.9, not too bad.
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Very good review as always!
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Hey Zardon
I bought this card 2 weeks ago and I have been having tons of issues with the blue screens due to SmartDoctor. Thanks to you I finally figured out what was causing it but I would love for you to post the details on how you made your own modifications to get smartdoctor working.

Thanks in advance!
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I bought this card 2 weeks ago and I have been having tons of issues with the blue screens due to SmartDoctor. Thanks to you I finally figured out what was causing it but I would love for you to post the details on how you made your own modifications to get smartdoctor working.

Thanks in advance!
Well I didnt mod anything to get smartdoctor working - ASUS sent me a new bios which I flashed in DOS from a floppy. if you need the bios, drop me an email to zardon@driverheaven.net im sure ASUS wont mind, in fact im still quite surprised they havent put it up on their site yet.

The only thing I modded in the review was the 8.07 ATI offical "beta" drivers, as ASUS only have 8.05 on their download site and I wanted to use the newest ATI drivers (as they have performance gains on 256 cards) without losing smartdoctor or the ASUS specific tabs in the display driver.
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Actually ill just post the updated bios here if anyone needs it.

http://www.driverheaven.net/zardon/XT2DT.zip

Remember this is ONLY for the PCI express Asus AX800XT card if you are having BSODs with smartdoctor, nothing else. im not accepting any responsibility if anything goes wrong during a flash, it worked for me and was supplied by ASUS to finish this review so the source is good.

To flash, firstly make a bootable DOS system disk in windows, copy all the files in that archive to the disk. reboot and boot from floppy.

run "update.bat" wait until the card bios is flashed, take out the disc and reboot. Smartdoctor will now work. If you dont already have Smartdoctor V454 from the ASUS site, use it. 452 caused me some issues.
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Thanks a lot Zardon.
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After this review by Zardon, i'm inclined to buy Asus for X800 XT PE.
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Thanks a lot Zardon.
My pleasure, I hope it resolves your problems.
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