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Me and my 8600 GT will be parting ways soon, and won't be waiting on the G100/200. I don't believe in the mid year release of the G100. I think it will be at the end of the year if we are lucky. I just am not willing to wait that long...
I have a Maximus SE that doesn't support SLI. I love the idea of the GX2 and the speed increase it should offer me over my 8600 GT. I do have some consirnes that it may have some SLI issues, but am an optimist, and believe Nvidia will not drop the ball this time around. I think there are more running SLI now, more than ever. I don't see many posts of guy's that actually are currently running an SLI setup, and complaining about it. I am aware it isn't nearly as efficient as it could be. I also enjoy the idea of looking for speed increases, as new improvements get made to the drivers. My money says that nVidia has their best and brightest working on that very issue.
I have heard the card might cost around $679.00 retail. Am I happy about it... No. Will I be willing to pay that much, yes. I have never owned a super fast GPU. The 8600 GT is currently the fastest card I have ever owned. I just completed my first ever build using a Q6600, and have the CPU and NB cooled by water. I had my heart set on getting the fastest GPU out at the time when I was ready to buy. I have drooled at the Ultra for a loooong time now, but don't want to buy an 18 month old card just due to principle. I don't have anything against the Ultra, but wanted the new king no matter how much faster it was, over the Ultra. I think the reported 30% minimum speed increase over the Ultra will be met. Sure I wish it took the same huge leap over the other cards, like the 8800 GTX did, but I realize that this will not happin this time around. I think the GX2 will be king until the end of the year, or early 2009.
I also favor the OC cards, and buy into the thinking that not all GPU's like CPU's, can OC the same. The OC GPU's are as close to a Cherry Picked card as us commoners can get. I also think that there is actually a testing process that takes the cards that wouldn't take the OC, and sets them back down to stock speed. That is the one I don't want. The OC'ed cards also might have better cooling installed. I like that allot!
You also dont have to mess with Rivatuner making me hit accept twice on boot-up with Vista Ultimate, to allow my OC to engage. I would rather just have the card set to run about as fast as it can.
I will wait for a review or two to be posted, I am not in that much of a hurry to spend $700 bucks. Baring any searous problems, and counting on it being faster than an Ultra, I will be jumping in. I could save 100 bucks mabey getting another speed deamon single card, but believe I would be happier with the GX2 and my 24" monitor.
You can't blame a guy for wanting the fastes GPU for once in his life.....
So who is thinking they also will probably be getting a GX2 besides me?
Please no negitive GX2 posts, there are plenty of other threads you could voyce your opinion... I am looking for other positive GX2 members who actually think they will be getting this card too.
I have a Maximus SE that doesn't support SLI. I love the idea of the GX2 and the speed increase it should offer me over my 8600 GT. I do have some consirnes that it may have some SLI issues, but am an optimist, and believe Nvidia will not drop the ball this time around. I think there are more running SLI now, more than ever. I don't see many posts of guy's that actually are currently running an SLI setup, and complaining about it. I am aware it isn't nearly as efficient as it could be. I also enjoy the idea of looking for speed increases, as new improvements get made to the drivers. My money says that nVidia has their best and brightest working on that very issue.
I have heard the card might cost around $679.00 retail. Am I happy about it... No. Will I be willing to pay that much, yes. I have never owned a super fast GPU. The 8600 GT is currently the fastest card I have ever owned. I just completed my first ever build using a Q6600, and have the CPU and NB cooled by water. I had my heart set on getting the fastest GPU out at the time when I was ready to buy. I have drooled at the Ultra for a loooong time now, but don't want to buy an 18 month old card just due to principle. I don't have anything against the Ultra, but wanted the new king no matter how much faster it was, over the Ultra. I think the reported 30% minimum speed increase over the Ultra will be met. Sure I wish it took the same huge leap over the other cards, like the 8800 GTX did, but I realize that this will not happin this time around. I think the GX2 will be king until the end of the year, or early 2009.
I also favor the OC cards, and buy into the thinking that not all GPU's like CPU's, can OC the same. The OC GPU's are as close to a Cherry Picked card as us commoners can get. I also think that there is actually a testing process that takes the cards that wouldn't take the OC, and sets them back down to stock speed. That is the one I don't want. The OC'ed cards also might have better cooling installed. I like that allot!
You also dont have to mess with Rivatuner making me hit accept twice on boot-up with Vista Ultimate, to allow my OC to engage. I would rather just have the card set to run about as fast as it can.
I will wait for a review or two to be posted, I am not in that much of a hurry to spend $700 bucks. Baring any searous problems, and counting on it being faster than an Ultra, I will be jumping in. I could save 100 bucks mabey getting another speed deamon single card, but believe I would be happier with the GX2 and my 24" monitor.
You can't blame a guy for wanting the fastes GPU for once in his life.....
So who is thinking they also will probably be getting a GX2 besides me?
Please no negitive GX2 posts, there are plenty of other threads you could voyce your opinion... I am looking for other positive GX2 members who actually think they will be getting this card too.
