Launched in late 2004 ATI?s Radeon X700 Series was initially tasked to take over ATI?s mainstream performance board segment. However, soon after its announcement ATI cancelled the high end X700 XT configuration, to make way for the standard Radeon X800, leaving the X700 PRO as the highest performance configuration within the X700 line. Now that we are some way into the production of the boards there are many board vendor configurations available, and here we are looking at ABIT?s standard Radeon X700 PRO, the ABIT RX700 PRO-256PCIE.

Beyond3D takea a look at the performance of the ABIT board comparing it against the reference Radeon X700 PRO and defunct XT configurations. Read the full review here.