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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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No, you're not. Much of PC gaming, with rare exceptions, has become a wanking contest between different 3D engine developers.
Of course. And, of course, since a card of this power is now "mid-range" at $450 MSRP, everyone should have one by now.
Wait, you mean you DON'T upgrade your $500 video card every 6 months? You mean you've never spent more than $200 on a video card in your entire life and don't really care to? You're obviously not a gamer, we don't have to cater to you, only to our early-adopter ricer customers who feel inferior if they don't have a $4000 Alienware.
This is my sig. There are many others like it, but this one is mine.
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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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...
So true. It took me forever to get through HL2 and Doom3 because after I got over the wow factor, it was just the same old game. I used to be draw to pretty graphics like moths to a light, but not so much anymore.
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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?