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The NVIDIA GeForce 7900 Series

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the new-shinies-for-the-precious dept.

An anonymous reader writes "HardOCP has posted their evaluation of the new GeForce 7900 technology. They fully cover widescreen gaming this time around too. 'NVIDIA has worked hard to try and produce a more powerful, albeit power-efficient GPU in the 7900 GTX and GT, and they've succeeded. They run cooler; are smaller, have less transistors, and they don't make you stuff cotton in your ears. The 7900 GTX and GT are just more efficient while being lightning fast.'"

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  1. XBOX 360 by Eightyford · · Score: 0, Troll

    Have PCs already caught up to the XBOX 360 in graphics? I know you can't compare the two price-wise, but what about a mid-range gaming PC?

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    1. Re:XBOX 360 by bubkus_jones · · Score: 0, Troll

      You can't compare simplicity and ease of use between a full blown PC and an Xbox360. The Xbox is there to play games, and nothing else. It's entirely designed to operate via putting a disc in and using the small controllers (and a remote(?) for DVD funtions).

      Your standard home computer, in addition to everything the Xbox does, has hundreds, if not thousands of more uses. Thousands of more programs, many different Operating Systems, and that's just software. Then you have the various hardware you can use, or the hundreds of designer cases (or make your own). You can build a computer to the size of a Mac Mini, or you can have it in a 2.5 foot high * 3 foot deep * 3/4 foot wide case with three optical drives, a front panel audio interface (or cooler control, or remote control interface or whatever) and a 7 in 1 memory card reader.

      In the end, what you find simple and easy to use may be anothers agrivating and annoying. It's all what you want out of it, and PC's have so many more options for those who know how to configure them (or know what they want and know someone who can configure it for them).

  2. Re:Hurray, Another "Review" by bubkus_jones · · Score: 0, Troll

    [quote]Unfortunately, I can't. I'm better off going to NVidia and trusting their product sheets. Why? Because I'm not looking to play Need for Speed Most Wanted or Quake Four or Half Life Two, I'm looking to do some actual graphics processing with an SLI setup. Yes, brace yourselves, I don't actually use these beasts for gaming. [/quote]

    Really? Wow? But you should "brace yourself" as well, as I would guess that 99% of people who are interested in this new product are gamers. Not to mention that, from my limited contact with the manufacturers, their main concern is how these product perform in gaming situations, as that is their largest customer base, and how they make the money on these cards.

    That is why most, if not all, of the reviews center around gaming.