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BFGTech GeForce 8800 GTS

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Tim S, 18 Dec 2006.

  1. Tim S

    Tim S OG

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    Why do you say that? Most developers are USING G80 based cards to develop their games on DirectX 10.
     
  2. Iago

    Iago What's a Dremel?

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    Congrats on a great review. By the way:

    Thank you, thank you, thank you... Given that, as you well say, 1680 is currently the sweetspot for Widescreen Gaming, I find incredible that no site reviews games at that resolution. It's either 1280 and/or 1600 for standard displays, or 1920 and/or 2560 for widescreen...those of us with 20' widescreen monitors are allways left in the cold and have to extrapolate results from 1600x1200 reviews. At leat, you told me exactly what I wanted to read (or better NOT to read so close to Christmas Shopping Frenzy(tm) ), that the GTS is a perfect match for my monitor.

    Even if that were true (unlikely, as Tim said, developers are using G80s right now), there won't be a truly deep catalogue of games that fully utilizes DX10 for 2 more years at least. This (2007) and next year (2008) we'll likely still be playing DX9 games with extra DX10 effects at best. By 2009 G80/R600 will be long past, but meanwhile, you can get the best performance in all those DX9 games.

    Remember than DX10 will only be available for Windows Vista. With a 400 million or more Windows XP user base out there, there won't be many developers anxious to make their games Vista-only.

    If there was a time to upgrade GPUs in the last 12/24 months, it's definitely with this generation (either G80/R600)...
     
  3. Nature

    Nature Minimodder

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    I like it, excellent potential in 80nm technology.

    I thought the RD600 was Ati's new video card:D... I guess AMD socked graphics market in it's take over.

    Road Juice
     
  4. M4RTIN

    M4RTIN What's a Dremel?

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    RD600 is the motherboard chipset
     
  5. Woodstock

    Woodstock So Say We All

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    I have to say the GTS is tempting for my new build (shortly after christmas/new year more time and postage takes forever), but it is a fair bit more then i planned to spend.
     
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    Great review guys, this is my next card :)

    I agree about it being the best time to upgrade.
     
  7. Ieldra

    Ieldra What's a Dremel?

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    Im interested in this card! i want to buy it! but im not sure if my mobo will handle it .. can someone please help me on this issue.. I have an intel 915P Combo by MSI. Im running a P4 3ghz ht and 1 Gb DDR2 ram
    Thanks in advance for your help
     
  8. rquasar

    rquasar What's a Dremel?

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    I noticed you said you had a liteon 'SATA' DVD writer. Could you tell me the model number. Because I just built a New computer & from what I could find Plextor is the only company that makes 'SATA" DVD writers.
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    HDD: 2x Western Digital Raptor's WD1500ADFD 150 GB 10,000rpm 16MB cache
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    Video: '1' nvidia GF 8800GTX PCIe <----only have a BFG 650 watt PSU. Need a 1Kw PSU for 2 cards. ea: pulling 303 watts, @ full load 600+ watts for the cards alone.
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  9. DougEdey

    DougEdey I pwn all your storage

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  10. rquasar

    rquasar What's a Dremel?

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    Yes I went there. Liteon dosen't make a SATA DVD writer...perhaps had you looked for yourself you would have not made that post. :confused:
     
  11. DougEdey

    DougEdey I pwn all your storage

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    But it says:

    So is SATA not Serial ATA now?
     
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