Curse

Admael · Mar 19, 2008, 10:55 AM // 10:55

Stock 9800 GX2 goes for ~599.99 USD
Interface: PCIe 2.0 x16
Core: 600MHz
Memory: 1GB, 2GHz (effective), 512-bit DDR3

Stock nForce 790i for ~349.99 USD
Socket: LGA 775 (Quad-core/Core 2 Extreme/Core 2 Duo/Pentium)
FBS: 1600/1333MHz
NB: nForce 790i Ultra SLI
Memory Standard: DDR3 1200, EPP 2.0 (8GB Max)

Where's my 1 teraflops?

Malice Black · Mar 19, 2008, 11:18 AM // 11:18

Geeks rejoice! Your savior is here! No sunlight again this year!!

kvndoom · Mar 19, 2008, 01:35 PM // 13:35

The GX2 is only marginally better than 8800GT in SLI, but costs a good bit more than 2x 8800GT, so unless you plan on running quad-SLI or your board doesn't support SLI, this isn't worth the price.

Tachyon · Mar 19, 2008, 06:05 PM // 18:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by Malice Black

Geeks rejoice! Your savior is here! No sunlight again this year!!

Sunlight? What's that?

Brianna · Mar 19, 2008, 06:10 PM // 18:10

I'd say stick with the 8800's until the 9 series passes us up, or until they release a better 9 series card which proves to be a useful upgrade.

I wonder about that motherboard though, pricey anyways.

Probably means I can get an older model for dirt cheap.

Well, here's the one on newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130338

GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready

GPU - GeForce 9800 GX2

Core clock - 600MHz

Stream Processors - 256 (128 per GPU)

Memory Clock - 2000MHz (effective)

Memory Size - 1GB (512MB per GPU)

Memory Interface - 512-bit (256-bit per GPU)

To name a few things.

That is double the stream processors, this thing is basically two video cards slapped together, I think in SLI It might have benefits in general.. but not really in the games that we play today.

Cant wait to see how these work in Crysis, hate that game, but I know that there was still struggles with the 8800's.

I won't buy one ATM for a few reasons.

*The drivers most likely suck.

*The price will drop in a while.

*They will release better versions of the card later

*No games benefit from these cards really, at the moment. All it does is take what we have now and over kill it, which is pointless.

Also: http://techreport.com/articles.x/14355/1 The more I read on in this article, the more and more I see this cards benefits actually.

Kind of a funny thought, but if this card could ensure that I would get 60 freaking FPS in Guild Wars while in Kamadan, then It's worth the money to me. Always been a war between me and that game to find a card good enough to out-last all the congestion, but that's me.

Tachyon · Mar 19, 2008, 06:22 PM // 18:22

You can pick a MSI P7N 780i up for around the £130 mark now.

Admael · Mar 19, 2008, 09:26 PM // 21:26

The MSI P7N is an excellent choice, composed entirely of solid state capacitors

Reports using SLI in the 790i has a 20% better performance than the 780i. But switching to DDR3? No thanks, not for me.
Anyone remember the 7950 GX2? Yeah, even that doesn't even have full Vista support.