Kerii wrote:Makes me wonder exactly what game could actually bring down such a beast, especially in SLI.
NO KIDDING!!!
I think the best thing about new hardware technology and products (besides having new hardware to play with) is that it allows game developers/programmers to make new games with even better graphics, effects, and physics; all things that make games that much more fun to play! When people have better hardware available, they'll (hopefully) start making more resource intensive games to take advantage of the new/better hardware. Which is what I'm hoping they'll start doing for dual core processors as well!
damn, and it comes factory as a 2-slot card (one of them being cooling) . Man, all I know is that's one beefy card, and once it gets settled in, it would be nice to see GTX prices come down to what the GT is now. If it does, oh yes, this would be a wonderful addition to my system, and I shall have it, oh yes!!
OMG!
So the clocks are legit! That's one frickin' beast of a card!!!!
Glad to see nVidia (and the card producers) actually clocking these cards higher and making them better all around instead of just plopping another 256mb of memory on there and charging twice as much. nVidia continues to impress me and this card is no exception!
Holy crap! They're available already? Was this released THIS Monday like it was originally planned? Some guy posted a customer review for it YESTERDAY.
Reviewed by: on 09-Nov-05 Rating:
Strengths: Incredibly FastVery stableBlows away the ATi cards
Weaknesses: Price
Summary: Absolutely amazing card. Call of Duty 2 on max settings 1600x1200 is smooth like butter on my high-end machine. F.E.A.R. also plays INCREDIBLY well with this card. I upgrade from a 6800 Ultra and the difference is amazing (well, you probably could've told by reading my last two sentences). Very pricey, though.
Some is definitely on the ball with getting this one out of the gate. I know it's probably been done before, where they release a product earlier than they say and keep the consumer in the dark until then, but this is the first time I've seen evidence of it....that is just nuts!
killswitch83 wrote:holy crap! are you serious? that's like a professional video card, isn't it? man, that's definitely worth the money.
The Quadro is a workstation card, yes...I mean, I GUESS you could use it for gaming, but it's not really optimized for that (likewise the 7800 is not really optimized for the stuff the Quadro is). The 7800GTX is no less professional than the high-end Quadro, it's just marketed toward the gamers.
Well, if anyone has checked mwave in the last day or so, you probably saw that they took the item off now. Whether or not it was because it wasn't supposed to be up yet, or whether they sold out is up for speculation.
In any case, it seems someone DID actually get their hands on one before it was removed from the site:
Wow, that'll be a wallet whomper...who can afford those? That costs more than some people's budget rigs! But they'll blow the crap out of any game/competitor for awhile, do you think we'll need GDDR4 to beat those memory clocks (stock, b/c AFAIK the graphics makers are conservative on their clocksetting and even if they know that the card can go smokin' faster, they hold back and let the OCers like us push the designs to the limit)
the GTX 512mb is using samsung 1.1ns chips, they aren't even available to buy, there is no sign of them on their website and no-one can pre-order them
Either Nvidia are using qualification samples or done a deal with Samsung, eitherway, this is the main reason the 512 card soo expensive....
I've read that Nvidia have being making GTX chips which can clock over 500MHz for a good few months..they asked TSMC (makers of the chips), to increase their yeilds and make some "uber" chips.....Nvidia have being stockpiling these chips waiting for ATI to release thier new card....ATI's new card is just as fast as the 256mb GTX, or will be when drivers improve.
ATI are saying they will have a XTPE version if TSMC can get better yeilds.
Nvidia was going to release this card to compete with the XTPE, but they need to release it now, otherwise they loose out on the christmas market.
Some people see the GTX as the fastest card, so they think if they by a ~$200 card by the same maker it too will be faster....Nvidia and ATI know this.. The majority of gfx card revenue is NOT with the GTX, it's with the 6600 and mainstream cards.
makes sense.......higher volume with lower, more mainstream models tend to bring more revenue due to the consumer base when compared to the upper-end models. However, for enthusiasts like myself, the higher-end 7800 GT or GTX is a must.....but in general yes that most definitely is correct.
