What a great deal. Ive been planning on upgrading my computer for a while now and this will help me out a lot, not just in money, but in being able to figure out what to get. Ive been spending the past few months surfing the net, forums and drilling friends so that when the time comes i will have the best computer for the best price. I have spent countless hours revising plans and comming up with new plans. Every day it seems my plans for the computer change, today I went from considering 6800gs sli to a x1600 crossfire, right now im thinking this 7800gt will save me countless hours of sleep and prolong my life expectency...17 is not too young to worry about old age.

Does anyone know how well PCI-E runs on AGP8x?
Because if it dosent run too well I reckon I'll trade in my prize for 1.5gb more ram and a Radeon 9800xt

To the best of my knowledge, PCI-E cards run in PCI-E slots, no matter how fast the AGP slot is. :blush:

yeah, i think that would be the case. AGP(advanced graphics processor0 and PCI(Peripheral component interconnect) are two sepperate areas so yeah.


http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1087

You are correct, A PCI E card is deffinitly not compatable with an agp slot, right now most motherboards have PCI E x8 support, the PCI E graphics cards have the capability to go x16, only thing is there is little or now improvment yet from 8 to 16x. In my opinion you should use that money to get an x850xt and have and make sure u have at least a gig of ram. This is if you are into gamming, you might have to shell out an extra 20 bucks, but it would be worth it, the performance jump is too big to pass up. :)

AGP doesn't stand for Accelerated Graphics Port then?

Im on the same boat as Finchy, I have never had a console and probably never will. I was raised on computers, my first video games played were on the computer. Consoles are pretty cool though, pop a game in and enjoy, but in these days it is important to have a computer, owning a computer should come before owning a console. Then for that extra 300-400 bucks instead of getting a console, spend it on your computer to turn it into a gaming computer. A computer that can play games is better than a console system that can imitate a computer. As for the power of consoles, I would have to agree with people who say that the games supported by the console are most important. In my experience, most of the time when comparing two systems that are that close in performance the only way to tell which is better is to torture it and see which cracks first...not very nice.
If your trying to pick between a playstation and xbox, another big thing to consider is what your friends have. By getting a system that is compatible with your friend's, you are now in a position to have fun lan partys, or the ability to swap games.
These crazy consoles are becoming more and more like computers everyday. I would even go as far to say that the gap between consoles and computers has been closed. The Phantom by infinium is the bridge between the two. The only thing is, where are they? The phantom is not out on the market yet and it might not make it. Who knows....
The closer and closer consoles get to PC's the closer the companies are getting to their doom. Once people realize their computers will do the same thing consoles do, but better...bye bye Playstation.

Meaning with multiple cores, well yeah i think it has like 9 cores right?
I was reading about the Cell processor in a PC mag a while back and they sound complex!! I think they have 2 'master cores', then 7 'cell cores' that are controlled by the masters and all the cells interconnect, but the masters are seperate or something like that, ani kept reading and it made my brain melt.

On this point i most definently agree. $300 bucks for a new console, and it will work well within its limits until it is obsolete, but games tend to be more expensive for consoles than pc, and for much longer. Plus consoles...lol...just are not good workstations, they are only good for gaming, that is it. Now you put hat $300 into a computer, well even with modern prices that is a pretty good upgrade.

This is getting pretty off topic here, so I've created a thread and poll in The Meeting 'spot' (http://www.techspot.com/vb/newintopic39484.html) on the subject of consoles, so that this thread can go back to being about the techspot new year giveaway.

this thered was getting to be a concol flame war :hotbounce good thing you made a new thered

GOOD LUCK everyone on the contest

Greets, and back on topic, a good contest for a great video card. Lets keep posting.
L8R

Something you'll never see with PC's.

Just thought i'd mention(though someone else prob already has)...
just in case someone is to lazy to google this...


Chipset
GPU Geforce 7800GT
Core clock 400MHz
PixelPipelines 20
Memory
Memory Clock 1000MHz
Memory Size 256MB
Memory Interface 256-bit
Memory Type GDDR3
3D API
DirectX DirectX 9
OpenGL OpenGL 2.0
Interface
Interface PCI Express x16
Ports
DVI 2
TV-Out HDTV/S-Video/Composite Out
VIVO Yes
General
Tuner None
RAMDAC 400 MHz
Max Resolution 2048x1536@85Hz
SLI Supported Yes
Cooler Heatsink and Fan

Just in case anyone is too lazy to Google this:

The new King Kong movie is approximately 2 hours 55 minutes too long :zzz:

Just in case anyone is too lazy to Google this:

The new King Kong movie is approximately 2 hours 55 minutes too long :zzz:


lol, actually as i do not have much time for movies of late, yeah thanks, i didn't know that...

hoping to win this cool gadget. i'm in.

GADGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my good friend( in a English accent of course) This is no mere gadget!!!! it is THE Geforce 7800 GT!!!!!!! that is not by a long shot, a mere gadget!

Me too.. I'm in.. I made it.. better start organising an australian freight company.
To quote the goons..
Seagoon: I went thru hell to get here.
Thynne: There must be a cooler route.

Balzi

it is too a gadget. something that bond would use when he had some off time.

anwyays im going to bed. good luck to u all

ps. we shouldnt talk about consoles here. actually i dont even no what we should talk about here. perhaps how to end world hunger. we could get alot of people to help seeing as every body in the entire world wants a 7800. night everybody

Boy, I sure could use an upgrade! :wave:

Talk about the competition here. talk about other things in the appropriate forums in any new thread you would like to start. Makes sense to me anyway.

Hmmm.. gadget in the dictionary... yeah this forum is nerdy enough for that.

what you guys are arguing over is whether the 7800GT is a "small fitting or contrivance in machinery" (fitting as 'bathroom fittings', not as in 'why isn't my foot fitting in my mouth') :rolleyes:

so there you go.. that settles it :approve:

it is too a gadget. something that bond would use when he had some off time.

anwyays im going to bed. good luck to u all

ps. we shouldnt talk about consoles here. actually i dont even no what we should talk about here. perhaps how to end world hunger. we could get alot of people to help seeing as every body in the entire world wants a 7800. night everybody

lol, good point, well i guess i concede that point anyway...

what cards does everyone have at present?

I have an integrated Intel 64MB card. It sucks.

Like everyone else in this thread, I'm in... I too could do with a 7800GT rather than my 6600GT at the moment.

i'm definitely in!

Like everyone else in this thread, I'm in... I too could do with a 7800GT rather than my 6600GT at the moment.
Man, I'd much rather a 6600GT, letalone a 7800GT, than my fx5600!!!

I've got an ATI Radeon X800 XT PE. :D

But all the same, i'd still want this monster, so im definitely in people. ;)

Monster? Hell yeah!! I reckon youd be able to play Doom3 and Quake4 on Ultra with full AA and AF!! And the same goes for F.E.A.R. i reckon, too!! Oh yeah, and FarCry with pixel shader 3.0 and Call of Duty in DX9.0 mode with everythin on and Need For Speed Most Wanted and oh man the list goes on!!! I reckon I would cry (with tears and all) for joy if i got this card. If anyone got this card I reckon they wouldnt need to upgrade for at least 3 years or so!!! Man it'd be so COOOOOOOOOOL!!! Of course we cant get the opinion of someone who actually OWNS this card, because why would they want ANOTHER one?! Oh yeah, now i know they wanna SLI it up, wouldnt they? I dont even know the point of SLI, even with modern games....

I'm definitely in on this one.

What kind of cooling does this one have?

Hi guys.

Long time member rare poster reporting for duty :grinthumb

woaaaawwwww

this is huge, well...
i'm still new in this site, just registed yesterday...

but when i saw that is a geforce7800 GT to be give well maybe i should try it...

hehehehee....
well to all members here.
nice to meet u all

hope the prize will be mine :grinthumb

Great to be part of this :grinthumb

I' am a student with little money but a true gamer at heart but miss out on playing the latest titles. I'm hoping on of these cards might change that :wave:

oh and its my 20th on the 1st of Jan !!! .. and for once I'd have something to rave about :giddy:

So you want that kickass videocard? Just reply to this message and start posting comments in our news coverage (http://www.techspot.com/).

Feel free to post any comments or suggestions.

Remember, full contest rules can be found here (http://www.techspot.com/news/19759-techspot-new-year-giveaway-win-4-geforce-7800-gt-videocards.html).
This is a great card, I want it now!

Interesting. This will lure the lurkers out. I guess I'll have to step up my posting from 1 per week to 10 ;)

What about you smtkr? What video card do you have?

in the unlikely event i win it will be my first pc upgrade in years im sad to say..it would be great to run current games instead of watching the slideshow my current card provides

Interesting. This will lure the lurkers out. I guess I'll have to step up my posting from 1 per week to 10 ;)

Don't we all, don't we all. On another note when did this thread become a discussion thread?

My 9800 pro was the best 300 bucks i ever spent. Real quality piece of hardware that served me well for 2 years. Sad to see ATI failing to keep up with nvidia as of late but what can ya do. I hope I win this card so that the wait for the PS3 wont be as agonizing!

I've got an ATI Radeon X800 XT PE. :D
Me, too! :grinthumb

::giggling to myself greedily::

Well, the ATI cards lag behind at first but, for some reason, when u turn up the graphics options like FSAA & resolution, the ATI kicks the Geforce's *** pretty badly. :D

Well, the ATI cards lag behind at first but, for some reason, when u turn up the graphics options like FSAA & resolution, the ATI kicks the Geforce's *** pretty badly. :D

That's sweet, will have to remeber that. Personally i have never used a Geforce card *hoping to get a chance :)* so i can't personally compare them....

I'm In! And I plan on Winning? Please! Please! Pretty Please! Now hows that for confident Begger!

Late
Puppetgrimm1

This rocks since this is the videocard that I want to buy when I do my next upgrade in the spring...

i think before dx10 is even realised games will be already in production that will use it. i hope that cod3 uses it. im preety sure it will. i just cant what.

also jez nathan u have posted a million times here. i see ur avatar every time i scroll down.

i think before dx10 is even realised games will be already in production that will use it. i hope that cod3 uses it. im preety sure it will. i just cant what.

also jez nathan u have posted a million times here. i see ur avatar every time i scroll down.

lol, sorry, just trying to keep up... okay, me excessive compulsive, no more posting today......:)

BTW, what video card have u got, flavin?