g80 is it worth it?

I am well aware of that, and may list more sites if people want.

??????/? huh?

All the tech reports that I've read have stated that one 8800 GTX card outperforms two 7950 GT's running in SLI mode. I've been running an XFX 8800 GTX with an AMD X2 5000+ AM2, 2 gigs of Kingston DDR2 (667 mhz oc'd to 725 mhz) since December when I built this rig and haven't had a single problem with the card or its drivers since. It's made a humungous difference in ALL my games, faster frame rates, deeper colors, sharper textures. If, from what reports/reviews that I've read, I see no need for me to purchase another and run two of them in SLI with the performance that I've gotten. Of course, DX10 will be the deciding factor. I refuse to install Vista until at least SP1, or until Creative and NVIDIA iron out their driver problems.

I think I'll get another 7950 gt oc and just run my sli set up, g80's will be down in price by 3rd quarter when the 9 series drop

Right now the 7950GX2 , with 1GB memory pownz all cards PERIOD, under XP OS ,

The 8800GTX with 768MB will pown all cards PERIOD, under Vista along with DX10 engine game, However D3D9 games; the 7950GX2 and 8800GTX will perform the same, and you will not see difference. However with the 1GB of memory the GX2 has, will come in handy to load in high rez texturez in games like Doom 3 , and you will never get a stutter !


Soo basically heres what it comes down to. Do you use XP or Vista

If you use XP, its pointless to get a DX10 card,

If you use Vista, "U need to say asta la vista to uncle billyz new junk OS" then its pointless to get a 7950GX2 cuz it cant do DX10

gl,

I'm gonna be sticking to the X1950pro then, and upgrade later when more DX10 games come out. Probably save money in the end too.

yeah gonna sli my 7950 card and call it a year

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html?modelx=33&model1=516&model2=606&chart=199

Welcome to the club

They're already thinking of the 9xxx series?

Crap, I haven't even heard about that.

yep, 9 series cards end of this year. probably Dx10 certified too, and certified is what I'm worried about with the g80

Go relearn everything you know about video cards. Go now. Get out of my sight.

The 8800GTX is 90% faster than DUAL 7900GTXs, which themselves combined are faster than a single (and sometimes dual, depends on resolution and amount of AA/AF) 7950GX2s. So obviously, that tells you that an 8800GTX or GTS destroys a 7950GX2 even in Dx9.

About the 9000 series cards, they won't be really much different than the 8000 series. There's no way they can be much different/better if they only had a year to make them.

Hmm.. I don't know how I missed that part.... This is why I'm always skeptical about free advice on the net. Especially after that "guide" on how to quiten case fans, you just don't know which kook just gave you advice.

BTW, a new generation of cards don't always have to have a great leap in performance. I have this nagging suspicion that the 8xxx series can't really perform under DX10, which is what the 9xxx series will rectify....

But given that I've still yet to see DX10 games...

Well I'm not running vista anyhow, too many bugs. You have to have a mental disability just to not notice all the bugs with it, wait till they create service pack 1 or somethng

This is assuming the 9000 series is going to be a new launch. Maybe it is coded G90 at the moment, but really it will end up being G81 or G82 or G83 or something. The other thing that I think might happen is that it will kind of replace the 8000 series fixing the DX10 bugs, like you said CMH. However, the one thing I am almost certain of, is that the G90 will not be much better performance-wise than the G80. I'll bet any money that the X2900XTX (ATi/AMD's R600 for those who don't know) will slaughter them both.