Hardware MSI NGTX275 Lightning Review

Which is all well and good, but the aircraft on the box art is in fact an F-22 Raptor (the YF-22 prototype to be specific) , which is quite fast and extremely agile. Sorry for being today's aircraft nazi

 

Does that meant this graphics card will also crash if it passes over the International Date Line?

 

No, but if it crosses at more than 87 mph then it will go back in time..... and destroy ATI

 

Sorry, there's still no thing as solid state chokes. It's still marketing BS.

There are a number of measures that can prevent Magnetostriction from causing inductors in switch-mode power supplies from producing audible noise, and it's possible (or probable) that they've implemented one (or more) of those. However, promulgating faux electrical terminology only serves to confuse people tho know what they're dealing with, and misinform people who don't.

Sorry for being such a pedant, but this sort of thing bothers me a lot.

 

Instead of there being a little bar of iron/ferrite on the inside the whole thing is iron/ferrite coating the coils within. It was just hard to describe

 

i wish they start to do something on the idle power state of video cards. Why do they have so much idle power consumption. for normal desktop operations it should not use more then 30 to 50 watts. My guess is that 75% of the time pc's are running in desktop mode.

 

But if you make a demo of real world gameplay like joining a tf2 server with a full 24 players for about 30 mins then shouldn't that be a good indicator of performance. Also to keep the performance consistent theres some trick that frag video makers use to keep the game at a previous version so they can playback their old demo recordings.

But I realise that's a bit annoying just to include one game in a benchmark.

 

No because it's just a recording - there's no computation for realtime interaction. It's worse for Left4Dead. Plus, Valve updates its engine regularly which causes timedemos to generate an incompatibility error.

You can after some messing about keep the game version, but it's a ton of hassle and just as non-valuable to current players on the latest engine etc.

Not to mention that the Source engine is about as hardcore as a kitten with a toothpick.

 

Hmm, Ultimate Knight Windom XP!!!

Sorry, just joking. Got hooked recently on the game, though.

Hmm, ARMA2 should be OK, but I hate the asscap DRM used.

 

Have you folks (or authors of the article) noticed something? Hint: Look at the Folding@Home performance of this review and the last video card review...

=> http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/08/31/msi-ngtx275-lightning-review/9
and
=> http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2009/08/26/galaxy-geforce-gts-250-1gb-review/7

...Heck, look at the GTX260 version of MSI's Lightning line! (Back in July)
=> http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/07/06/msi-n260gtx-lightning-review/13

...Doubling the memory of a mainstream/performance Nvidia video card does improve F@H performance! So it isn't a one off anomaly!

This brings the question: Is it better to have more RAM on the video card OR a card with dual GPUs? (Total F@H output comparison?)

You folks gotta try and explore this in a "GPU Folding@Home Performance" article!

 

Double GPU is always better than Double RAM.