Geforce 8800 and nForce 680i

Black_ViperBlack_Viper Join Date: 2003-12-08 Member: 24157Members
edited November 2006 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">Watch it ATi users, Nvidia is a killing machine.</div><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143075" target="_blank">BFG's 8800GTX is only $660 bucks mommy!</a> - Newegg

Some review's already going on:
<a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/11/08/geforce_8800/" target="_blank">Toms Hardware</a>
<a href="http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2006/11/08/nvidia_geforce_8800_gtx_g80/1.html" target="_blank">Bit-Tech</a>


DX10 looks FANTASTIC! Cant wait to hit the lottery today, that way i can have one air lifted to my house by tomorrow.


The nForce 680i chipset is out also.

<a href="http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813188009" target="_blank">Newegg</a>

The new nForce 680i chipset allows for 3 PCIe bus's, two of which are full 16x, the third running at 8x (Does this mean Six GPU's in the future? Well, probably Quad-SLi with a Phyx card)

Info(Also included are the 650i and 650 Ultra):
<a href="http://www.storeplace.net/2006/10/26/nvidia-nforce-680i-sli-650i-sli-650i-ultra-launch-november-2006/" target="_blank">http://www.storeplace.net/2006/10/26/nvidi...-november-2006/</a>

Pictures:
<a href="http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=4452" target="_blank">http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=4452</a>
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  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    <i>I remember back when the radeon 9800xt was considered the best of the best.</i>
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    edited November 2006
    Looks like the current-day flagship is being compared against the previous-gen ATi card. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> The X1950XTX was still faster than any single-card/core (for those who will certainly try to be pedantic with the 7950, which was jus two pre-sandwiched cards) solution nVidia had out.

    I'd suggest waiting for ATi's next card to come out before plunking down any cash. ^_^
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  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    I'd be defending my GeForce 3, except I didn't buy this computer.
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  • Black_ViperBlack_Viper Join Date: 2003-12-08 Member: 24157Members
    edited November 2006
    <!--quoteo(post=1574890:date=Nov 8 2006, 06:55 PM:name=Talesin)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Talesin @ Nov 8 2006, 06:55 PM) [snapback]1574890[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Looks like the current-day flagship is being compared against the previous-gen ATi card. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> The X1950XTX was still faster than any single-card/core (for those who will certainly try to be pedantic with the 7950, which was jus two pre-sandwiched cards) solution nVidia had out.

    I'd suggest waiting for ATi's next card to come out before plunking down any cash. ^_^
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    Thats what im doing, but its kinda hard to compare the current Nvidia flag-ship to ATi's when ATi hasn't released anything (For this gen that is)... When they do im sure it'll kick arze.
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  • ShoeboxShoebox Join Date: 2004-11-15 Member: 32817Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1574881:date=Nov 8 2006, 02:42 PM:name=Xyth)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Xyth @ Nov 8 2006, 02:42 PM) [snapback]1574881[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    <i>I remember back when the radeon 9800xt was considered the best of the best.</i>
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    yep, no kidding.
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  • AldarisAldaris Join Date: 2002-03-25 Member: 351Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1574890:date=Nov 8 2006, 10:55 PM:name=Talesin)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Talesin @ Nov 8 2006, 10:55 PM) [snapback]1574890[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Looks like the current-day flagship is being compared against the previous-gen ATi card. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> The X1950XTX was still faster than any single-card/core (for those who will certainly try to be pedantic with the 7950, which was jus two pre-sandwiched cards) solution nVidia had out.

    I'd suggest waiting for ATi's next card to come out before plunking down any cash. ^_^
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    Well, of course it's being compared to the previous generation, seeing as the 8800 is the only currant gen card available for testing. And faster? A brief check of tech site reviews shows that both Nvidia and ATI cards provide different performance results in different situations in different games, so, er, ATI isn't necessarily 'faster'.
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    Overall, the performance gap between the ATi cards and the nVidia cards in games where nVidia has a performance lead is much narrower than the gap in games under which ATi is leading. So yes. They are faster. Nowhere near as clear-cut as the 9700 was when it swept the board clean, but hey. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />


    And yes, that's why I was saying something about waiting until ATi's new offering is released, rather than plunking cash down now. It pointed out that ATi's offering has not been released yet, and was simply advice against early adopters, who may be disappointed.
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1574902:date=Nov 8 2006, 11:19 PM:name=Shoebox)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Shoebox @ Nov 8 2006, 11:19 PM) [snapback]1574902[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    yep, no kidding.
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    And when it was just ATi xxxx number or Nvidia 4MX/Ti/GT/xxxx number... now it's like the X10T50 or whatever and it's getting tiresome and hard to keep up with all these X's and numbers inter-twined. So much so I just give up on following the new tech. releases, go back to the old system! Wheres my Nvidia 8 MX? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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  • SidSid Corwid of the Free Join Date: 2003-01-28 Member: 12903Members, Constellation
    Wow. Just wow. Wow.

    <a href="http://images.tomshardware.com/2006/11/08/geforce_8800/nvidia_adrianne_image1-big.jpg" target="_blank">http://images.tomshardware.com/2006/11/08/..._image1-big.jpg</a>

    And here I was looking forward to the PS3... :/
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1574934:date=Nov 9 2006, 12:49 AM:name=Sid)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sid @ Nov 9 2006, 12:49 AM) [snapback]1574934[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Wow. Just wow. Wow.

    <a href="http://images.tomshardware.com/2006/11/08/geforce_8800/nvidia_adrianne_image1-big.jpg" target="_blank">http://images.tomshardware.com/2006/11/08/..._image1-big.jpg</a>

    And here I was looking forward to the PS3... :/
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  • ComproxComprox *chortle* Canada Join Date: 2002-01-23 Member: 7Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
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    Copy and paste the link, or drag it to the address bar. I thought everyone knew to try that! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

    As for the new Nvidia cards(and if ATI releases their DX10 soon), they look nice, but totally pointless to buy right now. DX10 support? YAAAHH, wait, what? I need Vista and games that support it? Sooo... the advantage is I can my 1280x1024 games at 106 FPS over 89 FPS now? Um, ok.

    It's gonna take the release of Vista, 10 patches to make it stable, a few games and patches to make those work, patches for DX10 when it doesn' work and finally 2 new generations of DX10 cards that don't crash and then time for me to get money before I throw anything down on a new video card.
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    Ah I see <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" /> Cheers. Although as sexy as she is we're not going to see games being revolutionary better looking like that anytime soon <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" /> Not much of a break through I'm with comprox on this. Let's see how things go
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Games are still going to look better and better as time goes on. Unreal Engine 3 is just around the corner, and that thing's freaking pretty (at least Gears of War is). Just because we won't have 100% DirectX10 adoption anytime soon doesn't mean stuff like Crysis isn't going to come out.
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  • ChronoChrono Local flyboy Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18989Members
    im still using my ti4600 think its time for a upgrade? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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  • Black_ViperBlack_Viper Join Date: 2003-12-08 Member: 24157Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1574966:date=Nov 8 2006, 10:50 PM:name=Chrono)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Chrono @ Nov 8 2006, 10:50 PM) [snapback]1574966[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    im still using my ti4600 think its time for a upgrade? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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    Just a lil one wont hurt...
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  • BeastBeast Armonkyi Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15731Members, Constellation
    Pfft, I still love my 7900GTO(GTX really).
    Cost me $240 for a $400 card. WOOT <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" /> Highly recommended <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
    It also doesnt require a 300384942Watt Power supply <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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  • ChronoChrono Local flyboy Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18989Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1575003:date=Nov 8 2006, 09:33 PM:name=Black_Viper)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Black_Viper @ Nov 8 2006, 09:33 PM) [snapback]1575003[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Just a lil one wont hurt...
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    amazingly tho it can still run doom 3 and source just fine <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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  • DrSuredeathDrSuredeath Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8217Members
    Frankly, I think these new cards are overkilled. I'm perfectly content if a game has PS2 level graphics. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
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  • 404NotFound404NotFound Join Date: 2006-10-31 Member: 58103Members
    edited November 2006
    <!--quoteo(post=1574881:date=Nov 8 2006, 05:42 PM:name=Xyth)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Xyth @ Nov 8 2006, 05:42 PM) [snapback]1574881[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    <i>I remember back when the radeon 9800xt was considered the best of the best.</i>
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    9800xt? How about a TNT2... <i>ultra!</i> Ran Mechwarrior3 like a dream. I wish MW3 ran on Win2k properly.. bah.
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