And they have the fastest avaliable card in the X1800XT since the 7800 GTX 512 mysteriously immediately dropped off the market post "hard-launch". They are making money, its more of a are they setting themselves up for making money in the future by now having to release a X1800 deriviative in...
I have a ATi Mobility x300 graphics card in an IBM T43 Laptop. I'm wondering if there are any drivers I can use besides the scarcely updated IBM drivers. Would Omegas work, or is there a way to get official ATi drivers running?
I meant 7xxx may effect its pricing, so wait till Tuesday. It probably won't though so here's probably what you should get. 6600GT < $200 X800 < $156 6800.
Dude while it is imaginary at this point, its no match for my imagination. I dream at like 100 fps and seriously they look much better than doom 3 OR half-life 2. Yea... I'm going to ignore the purpose of the poll and just rate the thread. F, wait till the card is out before you make threads...
If you find a $200 X800, buy that, its better than a 6600 GT and pretty equal to a 6800. Of course if you found a regular 6800 that is $156, thats your ticket. You may be interested in waiting till tomorrow to see what comes out and changes 6xxx pricing.
X600 AIW Performance is around that of a 9600 XT. So no they wont be equal. You need a X800 Pro AIW, a X800 XL AIW or a X800 XT AIW (I think those all exist...) to surpass your current performance. I think there may be a X700 Pro AIW as well, and that should be aproximately equal.
Comparing XPs to P4C's you drop a speed grade. So A 3200+ compares to a 3.0 GHz, A 3000+ compares to a 2.8 GHz. Thats basically how it breaks down. You may be bottlenecked, but if you get a solid overclock the bottleneck could be negligible.
ATi is looking at 90nm Low-K tech for R520. 110nm was just a stopgap between 130 and 90, it wasnt a major node which is why they didnt create a low-k version of the process. 90nm is a major node and TMSC will have a much larger capacity in addition to low-k technology. And R480 has a higher...
If you're overclocking, scale back some. Otherwise.... I'd fool with the AA/AF and resolution settings. Also if you're using AI, try scaling it back to off or low.
Oh but you save $20!
Retail Price: $699.00
Our Price: $679.00
You Save: $20.00 (3%)
You can spend the $20 on gas driving to your night job!
There's no reason to buy now. Prices will only go down.
Or he's irrationally in favor of making sure people get their facts straight. Oh wait, thats not irrational at all, thats sensible. Ohhh! So hes trying to make sure when people talk, they dont sound completely ignorant. How thoughtful. HDR is NOT a SM3.0 Tech. Its a completely unrelated tech...
I'd go for either the X800 XT or XT PE depending on how much you want to spend. the GT is better than the X800 Pro, but you've stated you dont want to overclock and that you're willing to spend more and the XT/XTPE are going to be a better buy if you're willing to pay for them.
Well it appears to be faster in other games. It seems that Doom 3's texture lookups disagree with the methodology of ATi's lookups which results in a large (and unnecessary) performance hit. By using a math replacement, they regain this lost performance.
I bet every company that makes videogames doesnt implement texture lookups in the same method. The Farcry method may just be more friendly to all cards while the Doom 3 method favors nVidia's architecture...
ATi decided that AGP --> PCI-E was a poor choice for bridging because it kills PCI-E's only advantage. Now PCI-E --> AGP is a completely different issue. Because PCI-E has much higher speed and bandwidth, the difference should be negligible. The bandwidth becomes an issue if the textures ever...