Bought a 280 GTX

I will have benchmarks as soon as I can.

I ended up paying 550$ for it So i'm happy with the Outcome, the brand is BFG like always

Here is a link at the card.

http://www.bfgtech.com/bfgrgtx2801024e.aspx

I'm going to pick it up 2morrow and when I have time sometime this week, I'll have benchmarks up

If the card performs lower than my GX2 its either going back to the store or in my secondary

Cheers

not off BFG.

If you live in toronto, theres a place called FiltechComputers, My friend owns the place lol. They are getting in the shipment at 2 p.m 2morow

lol.

I doubt they will, from what I see, in Sli optimized games it looses.

It looses in Crysis, CoD4, etc.

I just got it because it would create less heat, and I just want to see what new drivers would do to it. I doubt it will help alot since its already single GPU...so I dunno, plus I still think that Quad Sli will be interesting

And I'll post as soon as I get the results

I dunno I get mixed answers about quad core.

My friend has a quad core system, and he leaves me in the dust. Games play blazing, even Crysis (Don't take it literal) so I dunno.

to be honest with you I think for me I'd get alot more adding another GX2 than buying a new card and then 2 more or 1 more.

Anyways I'll see, if I decide to keep it, I'll just put it in my Secondary computer and just use the GX2 for now

right now I'm at 1280x1024...but I usually play on my dad's TV which is 1080p

screw 1200p I made it too 1080p I'm happy enough...so go to hell plz

Your thinking about getting 2 9800gx2's to run on a monitor with that low of a res gadgetnerd??

Thnx....to me a deal is under 400 for s stupid card

But either way, yes I feel confident ont he GX2, I wish it sported 1 gig per PCB, but w.e.

The 280 GTX has Beta drivers, but I mean common its just a single Core...whats soo driver demanding about that????:|

the X2 and GX2 have an excuse hahaha

And yes I can still return it and get a GX2 for way less...but I like opening fresh meat (If any1 turns that into a gay joke I'll destroy em) HAHAh

I forget which review it was it might have been the Tom's one but they said the heat output was off the charts. On an open air test bench they had to turn a box fan on it to keep it from throttling down due to overheating.

no man ur fine i have a 9800gx2 and a q6600 it runs fine. but i did overclock my cpu to 3.0ghz. only a slight bottleneck.

L1qu1d i'm waiting for HardOCP to do a gtx280 SLI /3way SLI review and if that goes like i expect it to i'm getting TWO =)

Check HardOCP's review, the gtx280 is definitely smoother gameplay/no microstuttering compared to the gx2 from what i've read. You can make your own judgments

Good luck with your new toy :-)

The GTX280 pulls ahead of the GX2, but mainly at the extreme resolutions, like those on 30" monitors.

It's ahead @ 1920x1200 with AA and AF but as L1qu1d wrote it's just short of playable. I have a 24" and I'm just waiting for the day that I can buy a card that will play everything on high with my screen, until that day I'll stick with my GT. Actually the only thing I can't play with everything maxed is Crysis and I'm not going to spend the money until a card comes out that can run it maxed out, might be a while. Well maybe 2 4870's in crossfire, we'll have to see.

I think youll like it . Seems he does http://www.xtremesystems.org/forum [...] p?t=191413

You're really lucky liquid you can get it for 550 from your friend.

anandtech has sli benches for 280gtx and it scales better than quad sli gx2's

Don't hold your breath. Maybe...just maybe...if these new cards flop, it will knock NV off their high horse and if they realize they are digging their own grave they might consider licensing it to Intel...but...NV is pretty cocky....I wouldn't hold my breath.

lol ordered mine to cant wait till u post the benches L1qu1d

also yea 1 GTX280 doesnt beat 2 9800's gx2's but if u SLI 280's they will.

its been all posted on EVGA. so yea. good luck .

Next week? Aren't you getting it tomorrow?

Pick up another GTX280! According to Anandtech, 2x GTX280 > 2x 9800GX2s...mostly because it's more "hassel free" and doesn't require games to be well written for SLI to really bust some balls.

Damn, yea there is that, didn't think it would be too much of an issue since you already have a 9800GX2 and picked up a GTX280!! LOL...looking at your signature, damn, yea, there's some bucks in that system! Dude gotta pick up a 45nm QX though, that's all I have to say!! Hehe.

I heard July release date on the 4870...where are you getting "1 week?"

Ahh very interesting! Thanks for the enlightment.

July 8th for the 4870 is what I just read on an investor's article.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops- [...] -Road-Map/

Congrats on the pruchase
But wasn't the 9800GX2 enough for u ?