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The Fastest Video Card You Can Buy

Posted by chrisd on from the one-spicy-meatball-of-a-heatsink dept.

Mack writes "OCAddiction takes a look at the fastest video currently on the market. Here's what they say."With the release of Doom III pending, both ATI and nVidia are scrambling to show their very best product on game day, this we can count on. But as it stands now, the OCSystem Enhanced Radeon 9700 Pro Level III SE is simply the best card your money can buy today.""

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  1. Games!!! Bah. by BWJones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is really amazing to me right now is that games are driving this huge industry of video card development. Both ATI and nVidia are scrambling to deliver faster frame rates pushing more and more triangles that appears to be developed for games. Now, I like a good game as much as the next guy, but I wonder if there is anyone out there that is using all of this triangle processing power for purposes other than games? Simulation of course was the original driving force for computer graphics with companies like Evans and Sutherland and more GPU power is great for moving around molecules and proteins as computers can model progressively larger structures, but I am wondering what novel uses out there are being implemented?

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  2. Get a low-end GEForce and you're set. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I mean, really. With my GEForce 3 + P3/800 = I can play anything I want. Eg: Command & Conquer Generals, Unreal Tourney 2003, Warcraft 3, Battlefield 1942. Maybe not with all the options turned on and at a "mere" 800x600 - but still, so long as the game is fun... right?

    Game makers know that the lower their system requirements the fewer copies they will sell - which I bet is why Counterstrike has been doing so well.

  3. Before people bitch by be-fan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you don't need one, don't buy one. Everybody has an addiction, and computers happen to be addictions for a lot of people.

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  4. If I were to buy the fastest video card for DOOM 3 by antdude · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would wait until DOOM 3 is actually out. Test demo or full version. =)

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  5. And while we're saving money... by mmacdona86 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A $10 FM radio will give you all the sound you need. Sure, fancy stereos have lots of buttons and knobs to twiddle, but the difference in sound quality is negligible--especially since all we really do with our sound systems is listen to talk radio, right?