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First Reviews: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT GPU
Spinnerbait writes "This morning NVIDIA let fly with a cut-back version of their GeForce 7800GTX
flagship card, dubbed the GeForce 7800GT.
HotHardware has a full review and showcase posted of this new more reasonably
price GeForce 7 series card. Overall it's performance was impressive
but there is a tad bit of confusion in the channel about clock speeds on these
new boards, so keep you eye on retail board specifications." The embargo's off: here's TheTechLounge's review, and GDHardware's, too -- I'm sure you'll find links to others in the comments below.
great, just what the world needs, a faster video card to display those BSOD's that much faster.
Nvidia has released a faster card. It's better than anything out right now.
Stay tuned next week. ATI will do the same.
Rinse, spin, and repeat.
Might as well release a credit card with it to just so u can buy the damn thing!
Hope the first release drivers aren't corked this time around.
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Sometimes I wish I were my own sibling. My sister keeps getting dibs on my "old" hardware when stuff like this happens and forces the geek in me to go on an upgrade spree.
:p
She will shortly have an Ath64 3500+ and a 6800GT.
Must be nice.
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I have one of these in my as right now...it's not that good.
I'm so scared to ask... Please tell me you either misspelled something or that's an acronym which is unfamiliar to me.
One can only assume that this is to keep up with the latest trend of game developers using every possible ounce of juice from the hardware they can squeeze without a concern to gameplay or story line.
Whats with this?
Perhaps I'm suffering from the Star Wars "isn't as good as it used to be" syndrome..
Oohhh... crap. I just fed a troll. Sorry, all.
Dell has it for 342 + 4 shipping = 346. See the deal at slickdeals.
Lowest price on pricewatch is 404 after shipping.
Also, BFG is a good manufacturer to buy from as they have a lifetime warranty. I actually had one of their cards die on me and the RMA process was painless (only had to pay for shipping the card out to them).
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I still have a GeForce2. And sometimes I think that's overkill.
"keep you eye on retail board specifications.""
Wake me when the 7600GT arrives, then it'll be time for me to jump to a PCIe platform. I'm happy enough with my NVidia 5900XTV-based system for now. No way am I spending over US$250 for a videocard. I'd prefer under US$200. Once you can play BZFlag at 1600x1200x32 at 85Hz or above, with all options on, and no slowdowns, what more do you really need?
Since when did $450 become a "mid-level" price?
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Does this mean I can finally get an nVidia card that can run HL2's DirectX 9 codepath decently at a reasonable price? The 6600 (and better) cards have been stuck at at around $150 for quite a while now, and I can't get an ATi card because of the Linux driver situation, so I've been limping along on a GeForce 3...
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The 7800gt uses the same chip that the 7800gtx uses, but it has a quad disabled, therefore it only got 20 pixel pipelines, but as the 6800 -> 6800ultra rivatuner can unlock the "hidden" pipelines and turn your 7800gt into a 7800gtx. however, the firs cards out are most likely based in the faulty versions of the chip, whit a little time, the probability of found a card fully modeable increases The fact that this mod can be done, with the current version of rivatuner, is a clever move by nvidia, as most of their sales are not in the top of the line cards, but in the mainstreams, so give this possibility to users is a really smart move... I for one will buy myself one as soon as I get a pcie board...
Single page version:
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2496
No paper launch this time, you can buy the cards for $399 already:
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http://labs.anandtech.com/search.php?q=GeForce+78
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I've got an Athlon XP 1200 with Radeon 7200 64MB VIVO and 512 MB of RAM
The AnandTech RealTime Price Engine has a compilation of merchant links for the most of the 7800GTs.
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http://labs.anandtech.com/search.php?q=7800gt+-gt
zipzoomfly has the pny and xfx 7800GTs at 399 shipped.
The specs say it's compatible with windows, linux and OSX, so can you pop this one in your G5?
yes, their are based in the "faulty" 7800gtx chips. the 6800 (vanilla 12 pipelines) is also based in the 6800ultra "faulty" chips, but now in the mayority of the 6800(vanilla) you can activate the disabled parts using rivaruner, and in most cases it turned out that the 16 pipes were fully functional... this leads to the impression that the yields are not as bad, an to satisfice demand they used good chips for the "inferior" line... so, the more you wait, the more likely your 7800gtx have a fully functional chip in it.... nothe that there are also one disabled vertex shader, so, if one vertex shader turns out to be bad, they disabled it and also disable one quad so they can sell the chip as a 7800gt, in this case you get a 24 pipeline, 7 vertex pipe 7800. sorry about the "engrish"
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I mean any time you go digital/analogue/digital there's going to be some loss. What you tend to get with LCDs on a VGA connector is some ghosting and colour bleed. The clock is never dead-on perfect, and there's always interference, so you have an image that's ok, but the colour isn't as good, things are less sharp, etc. It's not necessarly noticable if you have only one display and it's like that but side-by-side it really gets to you.
I mean ok, BZFlag is fun and all but it's really not the epitome of graphics. Try running Half-Life 2 at 1600x1200x32 at 85Hz or the like.
That's not to say that this high end card is a good value for the money, they never are, however I wouldn't use BZFlag as a roadmap for what's "good enough" in hardware. Now if that's the most complex thing you personally play then great, use it for you, although in that case I'd say a 6600 is probably more than plenty. That doesn't mean that it's generalizable to all gamers though, most of us play games with significantly more complex graphics.
Screw Nvidia and their proprietary shit. Until the release the specs (any specs!) I'll keep using passive cooled ATI cards that dri supports. I won't corrupt my pristine kernel with proprietary junk.
I'd buy this thing in a second if it did HW accelerated H.264 decoding. I have heard detonator 80.40 includes the features on the 7800 series. Anyone know if this is true or if there is a software player or codec that can take advantage of this?
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If your computer case costs more than your motherboard you might be a ricer.
If you overclock your midrange videocard you might be a ricer.
I have'nt run into any other games that would get much benefit from the larger memory.
Further you have to look real close (at 1600x1200) to see the difference between high and ultra quality textures. Just not much point.
512MB midrange might be five years away.
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"Overall it's performance was impressive..."
So it = performance? Finally, a pure performance PU.
Not to worry Nom du Keyboard, others remember as well. To the petty loosers who modded the truth down, nice try, but it didn't work.
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nvidia:
Performance in Linux = Performance in Windows/2
ati:
Performance in Linux = Performance in Windows/10
I guess this means that the 6600GT is going to go down in price, meaning that I can upgrade from my X300SE to something that is supported under Linux (meaning lets me watch DVD's under Linux). I think I'll wait a few months, see if Newegg keeps them in stock or has a clearance on them. Or who knows, maybe we'll see a flood of discounted video cards on ebay?
The second I saw Half-Life 2 listed as an OpenGL game I was turned off to this review. These guys need to get their shit straight, especially on the games that they are using to conduct these "benchmark" tests.
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People who like to keep the bleeding edge technology (weather is it useful or not) like to have the newest... bigest... badest hardware out there. There are people who would laugh at us though and say we are paying to much for just a computer :S.
These people oviously do not understand anything about computing and gaming though it may be a bit pricy it is like a hobby.
Those of us who buy computer parts all the time are no different then those who buy Warhammer Pieces which cost a fortune. If you don't know what this is no worries a link is here.
Looks like they're not too keen on offering support for AGP motherboards. I had hoped they'd support it for one more generation so I wouldn't have to replace the motherboard on my year-old computer to get a really nice video card. Anyone in the same boat?