Curse

Lord Sojar · May 28, 2008, 09:48 AM // 09:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by joef5052881

wanna to play??

No, but I would love to play a game called kill the spammer. I call the big stick with a nail in it.

Kattar · May 29, 2008, 12:04 PM // 12:04

Well, to go along with the gfx card talk, did anyone see this on Engadget?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Engadget

Phew. A few more months of nothing and we would've been forced to put this thing on vaporware watch. None of that nonsense will be necessary now, however, as ASUS has finally gotten its act together and officially launched the ROG XG Station. Hailed as the "world's first VGA and multimedia docking station," the ExpressCard-interfacing unit comes bundled with a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT, four USB 2.0 ports and a snazzy display for good measure. Not unlike ASUS at all, there's nary a mention of a price or release date -- so yeah, we're right back where we started.

It looks like a really cool idea. And it would totally change how I play games, especially on my laptop.

If it doesn't cost $1000 that is.

Link to ASUS site is here: http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=11426

Brianna · May 30, 2008, 09:52 PM // 21:52

Bah.. I was just messing with my fan controller, hot-plugged it into the other system and heard ''click'' then a BSOD with some long stop code followed, rofl.

Bad idea. But I've been hotplugging it in this system with no problems, oh well.. maybe I shouldn't be doing any of this.

Tamuril elansar · May 31, 2008, 12:31 PM // 12:31

the GT260/280 wil whipe the floor with the HD4000 serie

Snograt · May 31, 2008, 02:01 PM // 14:01

Ye it whill.

Cyb3r · May 31, 2008, 05:58 PM // 17:58

probably however i just can't wait to see the new series of cards

Brianna · May 31, 2008, 06:49 PM // 18:49

What I don't understand, is that the ATI cards pack a lot of stream processors and high core clocks too, what exactly makes Nvidia out-perform them? Even without GDDR4 etc?

I always use Nvidia as you know, because they've been reliable and problem free for me, I just wonder why this is, because on paper it seems ATI does have decent cards spec wise.

KZaske · May 31, 2008, 08:15 PM // 20:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna

What I don't understand, is that the ATI cards pack a lot of stream processors and high core clocks too, what exactly makes Nvidia out-perform them? Even without GDDR4 etc?

I always use Nvidia as you know, because they've been reliable and problem free for me, I just wonder why this is, because on paper it seems ATI does have decent cards spec wise.

I wish I had an answer for you, but I have tried to find the answer before. Basicly, it USE to be that the drivers that ATI supplied, were thought by most reviewers. to greatly limited thier performance. Then Nvidia started doing the same thing with unoptimized drivers (versions 98 and up). Junk drivers and all, nvidia have still done the trick for me.
I just wish I could go back to the 93 series of drivers. Nicly optimized, fully compilied and small compaired to what they are putting out now. It worked without a bunch of junk hanging out in the system memory.

Edited - Reminder to self; never reply to a post when my blood suger is too high or too low.

moriz · Jun 01, 2008, 04:14 AM // 04:14

ati cards mainly suffer from a lack of ROPs (raster operators) and TMUs (texture something or another, can't remember). anyways, both of them determine how quickly textures can be drawn on screen.

the HD3800 series has 16 of each. the geforce 8800GT has around 56.

now don't quote me on exact specs, but that's the answer.