Of course, I havent had a 7800 or X1800 to compare... aint rich heh, but since the Geforce 6600 couldnt out shine the 9800/9600/9500, I wouldnt be surprise if it was still the case with those two.
Ive been using a Geforce 6600 along with Radeon 9600/9500 and 9800s, and have to say, nvidia still need to improve on 2D quality. Text has been blurred in games (even the HUD text was more blurred), squinting at text at 1280x1024 in IRC on a 19" monitor is painful, when going back to a Radeon, never needed to worry, everything was nice and sharp. I used to like Geforces, since they were smaller and faster than Voodoos. When I went form a Geforce 3 to a 9800, I couldn't believe how sharp my monitor picture looked, it was like I've gone from a.28 dot pitch to.24 or something.
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what? George III had a planet named in his honour so that when he looked through a telescope he would ask "what's that?" Astronomer: "Uranus My majesty." Teh King: "You're fired"
Why not? Cos ATi cards are more efficient at FSAA than nvidias cards. If you see all the benchmarks, ATi gets less of a hit in 4x AA compared to nvidia. In fact in some cases, you get same hit with 6x on ATi as with 4x on nvidia... they're just balancing it out.
a Geforce 6600 GT may do, unless you can find a real cheap 6800 GT. Both will not sweat much in Doom 3 engined games while still providing nice frame rates in Unreal.
I'm happy to switch between the two. Well, back a few years back, 3...
First I was on Voodoo, Voodoo2 and Voodoo3, then TNT2, Geforce 256, Geforce 2 MX (which I got instead of a Voodoo5, as it was much cheaper, wasnt far off in performance and tiny in comparision on size), Geforce 3 (Radeon 8500s driver niggles kept me on nVidia) and then a Radeon 9800 All In Wonder (There was no way I was getting one of those Geforce FXs...). My next card would probably be a X800 XL. Unless nvidia brings out a 7600 or so that performs as good or better, is smaller card in size and puts out less heat.
Thats my video buying criteria now. Size, Fan Noise and Heat. ATis and nVidias same price solutions match each other in performance anyway, so I wouldnt need to worry there. Though for the other criteria now, the 3rd party card makers are actually taking those concerns into mind. That heatpipe only Gigabyte X800 XL attrachs my attention so far.
...why is this called Geforce 7? It behaves and performs more like a Geforce 6 refresh. It should've been a 6900.
On another note, is the price tag worth it? Theres a lot of geforce 6800 Ultra/Radeon x800XT/850 users who arent going to see nothing more than a 10fps increase in Doom3 at 1600x1200 4xFSAA.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trolling. I'm disappointed. I like many other doubtlessly are, are checking these reviews with a view in mind on maybe purchasing such a card in the future. I'm actually concerned R520 could hit a similar performance 'wall' now...
Or maybe we are just seeing the restrictions of CPU tying due to less than large increases in CPU performance and speeds in the last two years versus graphics. It'll be interesting to see a site test the 7800/R520 out on a FX57/59 etc or higher. Maybe when nvidia releases their multithreaded drivers, we may see some better gains.
well, they did blank out the roof of the white hosue and the two buildings on either side, probably to hide all the secret agents and sniper positions and the anti-aircraft batteries.
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Of course, I havent had a 7800 or X1800 to compare... aint rich heh, but since the Geforce 6600 couldnt out shine the 9800/9600/9500, I wouldnt be surprise if it was still the case with those two.
Ive been using a Geforce 6600 along with Radeon 9600/9500 and 9800s, and have to say, nvidia still need to improve on 2D quality. Text has been blurred in games (even the HUD text was more blurred), squinting at text at 1280x1024 in IRC on a 19" monitor is painful, when going back to a Radeon, never needed to worry, everything was nice and sharp. I used to like Geforces, since they were smaller and faster than Voodoos. When I went form a Geforce 3 to a 9800, I couldn't believe how sharp my monitor picture looked, it was like I've gone from a .28 dot pitch to .24 or something.
"Oh shit, there goes the planet"
man, that would suck.
what? George III had a planet named in his honour so that when he looked through a telescope he would ask "what's that?" Astronomer: "Uranus My majesty." Teh King: "You're fired"
probe puts hole in comet!
How they'd treat a person who has a heart damaged say, in a car crash, or was pierced by an object?
put them on a heart machine while the heart regenerates itself? This sort of technology would certainly put an end to transplants.
a beowulf cluster of milk cartons
is this july 26th THIS year or next year? : p
or are Tuesdays becoming a International patching day? World of Warcraft also patched up Tuesday too...
Why not? Cos ATi cards are more efficient at FSAA than nvidias cards. If you see all the benchmarks, ATi gets less of a hit in 4x AA compared to nvidia. In fact in some cases, you get same hit with 6x on ATi as with 4x on nvidia... they're just balancing it out.
.. read that as 'SG-1 Faces Bankruptcy'?
you prise my Hofner bass from my cold, dead fingers
Google cache dupes slashdot articles
now wheres the one for zombie pcs?
a Geforce 6600 GT may do, unless you can find a real cheap 6800 GT. Both will not sweat much in Doom 3 engined games while still providing nice frame rates in Unreal.
Note: OpenGL = Nvidias fastest. Direct3D = ATi.
I'm happy to switch between the two. Well, back a few years back, 3...
First I was on Voodoo, Voodoo2 and Voodoo3, then TNT2, Geforce 256, Geforce 2 MX (which I got instead of a Voodoo5, as it was much cheaper, wasnt far off in performance and tiny in comparision on size), Geforce 3 (Radeon 8500s driver niggles kept me on nVidia) and then a Radeon 9800 All In Wonder (There was no way I was getting one of those Geforce FXs...). My next card would probably be a X800 XL. Unless nvidia brings out a 7600 or so that performs as good or better, is smaller card in size and puts out less heat.
Thats my video buying criteria now. Size, Fan Noise and Heat. ATis and nVidias same price solutions match each other in performance anyway, so I wouldnt need to worry there. Though for the other criteria now, the 3rd party card makers are actually taking those concerns into mind. That heatpipe only Gigabyte X800 XL attrachs my attention so far.
...why is this called Geforce 7? It behaves and performs more like a Geforce 6 refresh. It should've been a 6900.
On another note, is the price tag worth it? Theres a lot of geforce 6800 Ultra/Radeon x800XT/850 users who arent going to see nothing more than a 10fps increase in Doom3 at 1600x1200 4xFSAA.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trolling. I'm disappointed. I like many other doubtlessly are, are checking these reviews with a view in mind on maybe purchasing such a card in the future. I'm actually concerned R520 could hit a similar performance 'wall' now...
Or maybe we are just seeing the restrictions of CPU tying due to less than large increases in CPU performance and speeds in the last two years versus graphics. It'll be interesting to see a site test the 7800/R520 out on a FX57/59 etc or higher. Maybe when nvidia releases their multithreaded drivers, we may see some better gains.
"Whats even better is that the entire project cost around $4 million to get on the ground."
yeah they certainly may have got it on the ground alright now!
well, they did blank out the roof of the white hosue and the two buildings on either side, probably to hide all the secret agents and sniper positions and the anti-aircraft batteries.
but since 2800AD, the joke wore thin and its now Urrectum
I hope they changed the progamming so it doesn't do a polar lander.... jump off the rocket pack at 40 metres...
now im more confused... :p
so thats where Intels 4Ghz P4 went...