The new High-End G.P.U.s are coming...are you ready?

Well I am just hoping I will be able to step up. My father purchased the vid card in my sig on the 9th or 10th of December so with any luck I will be able to nab a step up through evga on one of the 9800 cards. If not...oh well, its still alot better than my old X1900XTX and I didnt have to pay for it. lol

Best,

3Ball

Can't afford it.

So nothing for me. Going to wait for the 10000GTX or whatever.

well i replaced the gts 640mb cards with the g92 - so who needs them!

dual gpu - i be crossfire - ing those

they have much more incentive to simply increase supply for their 8800gt, since that would bring prices down, and it would then be a superior product to the 38-- series from ati since they already hold the High end performance crown

I doubt you will see these until mid next year.... there really is no reason for them to release the any sooner I thought they were just bringing out 8800GS and soon the dual 8800GT.

?? And what do you mean by that?

TESLA! GO TESLA! YEHAWWW!
It's basically just a GPU chip put into a PCI-E slot that instead of rendering images, it renders date (i.e. instead of the CPU).
Since it has 128, 256 or even 512 SP's, it can basically compute a lot more data.

yeah go supercomputers! woot! TESLA is going to break all FLOPS records!

yes but those are still gpu's, they may not be discrete gfx cards but you said no gpu 's which ain't true.

I'm actually not getting ready at all for the next latest/greatest set of GPUs. Believe me I'm very curious to how they perform and waiting to see the improvements over the current selection of GPUs, but for now I shall remain content with my current Vid cards and don't plan on any major purchase agian until late 08 or even early 09 (next rig revamp).Currently the most powerful GPUs in my collection are an overclocked (800/2200) HD2900 Pro 1Gb and following that an overclocked (600/1450) 7950GT 512 Mb. Both which remain pretty capable of playing the games I enjoy.Though if I was preparing myself for the next upcoming GPUs I'd be doing one thing, waiting for the CPU horsepower to be released and invest in a good water cooling setup to push it even further. Only then would I purchase the new cards wich by then would already be replaced with something faster.

It should have said " no gpu video cards " ... no video cards in the system with a gpu .... does that satisfy you ?

Take the N off non ... done explaining it ... like I owe you an explanation ---- drop it dude !

Okay my typing is horrible ... was looking for an opinion of what is probably coming in the future ... should have put those links in .

no gpu video cards? that doesn't even make sense, i am not having a go just trying to make snese of what you typed in relation to your links.

One more time to waste my time ..... NO VIDEO CARDS WITH A GPU !!! CHRIST GET A LIFE !!!!!!!!!!

I don't really give a sh*t what you think anyway .... GO AWAY and bother your little sister !

They're going to make the cpu and gpu all in one ..... hopefully not in all their future productions . Sounds like some stupid idea to me . That will surely sink their ship ....

have you seen smoe of my posts lately, let him be, he is talking senseless rubbish anyway, how can you have a video card without a gpu, you can't. you can haea gpu without a video card which is what i think he was trying to say but couldn't quite get it across.

anyway, what he is talking about is old news and has been discussed before.

As I look into my crystal ball I see a G92 based duel GPU graphics card with two PCB's that will have one 8Pin and a 6Pin PCI-Express connector.



By systemlord at 2007-12-24

I was told its an early prototype that stated that it will have more power connectors added, same PCB but with two G92's. See in a PCI-E 2.0 slot you only need on 6Pin power connector, in a PCI-E

Why don't you post the story?
Here it is:
http://en.expreview.com/?p=133

Who told you what?
The picture you posted is a 7950GX2

That looks like one of the highest quality assembled video arrays I've seen for a long time ! What company produced those ? Makes my ATI sapphire 3870 look like a flashy cheap made hong kong production in comparison .... which it probably was ... LOL --- !

I have been disappointed with graphics performance for a long time. Top of the line cards would come out year after year only offering 15% performance improvement in 'some' games. Its really sad. I hope this year I can actually justify spending any money on a new video card. Nvidia hasn't really designed anything innovative in the last 4 years.

I look at it this way. Up until a few years ago, they always released a video card that could run the latest games at their highest settings and at least sticking with the unwritten rule of gaming for your eyes, and that is to keep the frame rate from never dipping below 30fps, period.

Its the same old crap they are reselling us. It's so bad now that it makes the video card companies look pitiful. Almost all of the pc games released under DX9 (and 10) platform can not run the games at standard panel resolutions, and the gaming companies know this so they only review their games at pitiful resolutions like 1024x768 and try to play down the fact that we have been at that resolution for almost 5 years now and any game that supports a higher res takes a huge hit on "minimum FPS", generally dipping well below 15fps in games. This is not acceptable, especially when you consider they are trying to sell us graphics cards that are so hot you can heat your entire house up with them (p.s. I don't even need the heat on in the winter anymore while I am playing any pc game). This is really sad.
PC gaming is complete crap right now, and the fact that you need 3 or 4 cards to achieve the "never drop below 30 fps rule" is depressing.

If Nvidia comes out with cards this year that offer the same performance but require 5 or 6 in tandem and a small thermo nuclear power plant with a 8 foot box fan, I will give up and abandon the pc platform for gaming for good.

Just curious, what are you actually running? Your view seems pretty bleak. First of all I've seen much larger increases then 15% when upgrading cards and I've been upgrading frequently, even within the same generation of cads. Also I play at 1680x1050 and Crysis is the only game I've ever had any problems with "the stay above 30 rule". Also I don't see how games pushing the limits of hardware is a bad thing that makes PC gaming crap. And although it's not a real inovation since I believe ATI all ready had it, NVidia's 8000 seriers cards did introduce unified shaders to already powerful GPUs. Finally there are still a ton of PC games that don't require very powerful GPUs. Most MMOs, RTSs and online shooters are pretty friendly on older cards and even some integrated chips.

The 7950GX2 was an excellent card, I beleive it was the first one that was able to max out oblivion. Personally, I had the ATI X1950XTX, which I believe was it's competition, probably my favorite GPU I have ever owned...