Comments on: XpertVision HD 2600XT Sonic Graphic Card Review

By: wk

wk — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:05:24 +0000

omg.. juz get bac my 2600xt.. they change my non HDMI to HDMI 1..
HDMO ver ’s memory clock is onli 700mhz compare to non-HDMI 1 (800mhz)
argh~!!!

By: wk

wk — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:25:58 +0000

no wonder many ppl said palit & XpertVision GC cant OC
i check dy.. they both r same
http://www.palit.biz/en/about/profile.html

By: wk

wk — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:28:17 +0000

im also using this card .. onli 11month old.. last week sent to its factory coz got artifact prob & sometime make the driver not respond for awhile.. hv to wait for 1 month .. sigh

By: goldfries

goldfries — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:09:47 +0000

Crysis is very demanding (or should I say, unoptimized!)

the HD2600XT would crawl, you’ll have to settle with medium / low details. So far I’ve tried Crysis (DX9) 1680×1050 on high-details and only 2 cards satisfy me - 8800GTS G92 and HD3870X2. And that also I had only 2x or no AA enabled.

AGP systems are older and less capable as a system in general to drive today’s demanding games. so yes, a new processor / board / RAM and card would help better when it comes to gaming experience.

By: Benicio

Benicio — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:59:59 +0000

Hi goldfires
I have talked about my problematic HIS AGP version of this same card months ago. Thanks to the ATI offcial hotfix on AGP card, it seems to be running fine now. I got no problem playing COD4 and most other games, but still got very unsatisfying results like low frame rate and jerky motion in CRYSIS. Anyway, my experience with this final upgrade of a AGP system is overall negative, it simply causes so much trouble that it just doesnt worth it to tak up so much time for problem solving a display card. I’d have rather spent more on a full upgrade to new CPU, new PCI-E mb, new affordable PCI-E display card.
cheers.

By: goldfries

goldfries — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:47:34 +0000

I don’t know how it works from where you’re at Steve, but over here in Malaysia it’s just a matter of sending the goods to the company in charge of the product, whether it be the shop you got the goods from or the distributor. Driver disks were never asked.

Try the latest drivers, if not just send it in for RMA.

I had problems with this card too and strangely it just went away and worked perfectly. I’ve sold this card quite a long while ago and so far no complaints from the current owner.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:25:43 +0000

Thanks for replying =) I have tried some stress testing software called “rthdribl” and it seems to be a hardware fault. When i change the Glare type the monitor flickers and goes black. Now my question is, is it possible for software (i.e. a game or a driver giving it incorrect instructions) to break a card to this extent? People tell me this isnt possible but the coincidence of it breaking just as a new WoW patch and new Catalyst 8.3 drivers were released is too much not to look into before i decide if someone is too blame or whether is was just one of those things. And also they wont RMA it without the drivers disk which i have lost =(

By: goldfries

goldfries — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:31:52 +0000

See if the latest drivers help. It shouldn’t be driver issues, how about sending it for RMA?

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:39:31 +0000

Hi. I have the exact same card as in the review. I have had it for at least 4 months now with no problems but lately (in the last 2-3 weeks) it has started being mental. Any time i try and play games, mostly css and WoW, i get crazy screen errors. When i am playing WoW i get artifacts (if thats the right word) i.e. big lines coming out of people and objects and the screen flickers until eventually it restarts my pc. When i play css i always get bits of texture that r mulit-coloured like when someone spills petrol on the ground and lines that are full of different coloured squares and then it also restarts my pc. On occasions there has been a line across my desktop as well and even more occasionally when windows is starting up the welcome screen is just blue with some mad lines at the top then the monitor goes black. As i say my pc has been playing these games flawlessly for months with this setup so i have no idea what could suddenly cause them.
Any help appreciated, thanks.

By: goldfries

goldfries — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:02:20 +0000

Ouh that’s strange. I’ve not come by such situations.

I ran the HD2600XT on older AMD systems (PCI-E) and it worked fine as well.

What motherboard are you using? I suggest you bug HIS persistently for the matter to be resolved since you’ve already contact them. They would be the one to know best of their product.

If not, attempt to get a full-refund! Yup, no point having a card that doesn’t work.

Not enough power supply? I don’t think so, insufficient power would lead the system to power down. Perhaps you could be having a faulty unit too.