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Either this guy is psychic and can see in to the future... or he's a complete dick. Believe me, you don't have to be psychic to guess which one I'm thinking ;)

Your artifacts are due to your graphics card being essentially... knackered. Either it's getting too hot or your powersupply has knackered it, I can't say, but either way, that is a graphics card problem for certain.

He does realise the X1800XT gets pussy whipped by the GTX doesn't he???

I'm really thinking about getting an X2, how much did you spend on the chip? Do you think it was worth the money? Also what were you upgrading from? One more thing... get overclocking!!!

That's BS. If anything they both overclock similarly, while you might get a P4 to 4.4GHz, you can get the Athlons to 3GHz. Say you were using a 3.2GHz chip to get the 4.4G that's an improvement of 37.5% And if you take a 2.2 GHz Athlon and OC it to 3GHz that's a 36.4% improvement, either way...

You make it sound like a bad thing?! I agree they could make faster but the added complexity is not worth it, at the moment they're dealing with cards that have between 8 and 10 layers, with twice the number of traces to memory that's going to cause some serious problems!

I'm dying to get my hands on the 8800GTX! I'll kick the crap out of the G70 no problem, 64 pipes! Wow! </crack>

Well ok maybe not in a couple of weeks, but still reasonably soon. I think both companies are going to try and have products available to buy soon after the launch unlike last time. I've heard from a different forum (overclockers.co.uk) which is also an online retailer that they will be for sale...

Why don't you wait a couple of weeks and get a G70 (next gen nvidia card) which will be as powerful it not more powerful than 2 6800Us in SLI. Then you can sell your 6800... or seeing as you have so much money to spend anyway, you could just give it to me for coming up with such a great idea! :D

While I'm sure one card will be faster than the other in certain benchmarks and vice versa, the difference will be marginal - I personally have no need for an NV40 or R480 at the moment because I only play at 1024 but even so the difference at 1600 with these new cards should be pretty small -...

While that might be true for some people on this board, I really don't think it matters, they can go with whatever card they like, no to mention that both cards are probably going to be similar in performance anyway, it just depends if you prefer red or green PCBs.

Exactly, the Quadros have been doing it for ages.

I'm selling this console because I won the thing but have no use for it as I prefer propper resolutions! I don't think I have the box anymore, but all the console's been doing is sitting around collecting dust, but that can be sorted out pretty easily! There's a standard xbox controller...

Remember if you do upgrade your video card that the PCI-E standard will be the only thing for high end cards reasonably soon, so if you are planning on upgrading your CPU then you might want to do that first and get on the PCI-E bandwaggon with a new motherboard then you won't be limited by card...

I can see it being a good thing; however that's only if it's done properly. If Ads are incorporated then it really does give the developers much more money to play with, which should mean that the overall quality of the game will be higher. HOWEVER, I can see it being somewhat of a viscous...

It is important to note that "responsiveness" is relative to ram and HD speed, if either are slow or being stressed then you will find that you system will appear sluggish, very little of it is to do with CPU speed.

What are you planning on using this rig for out of interest?

Looks like memory corruption to me - the card's toast mate.

The nvidia cards have lower power consumption when idle due to clock scaling, just as a note.

He never said it was completly stable though, from what I remember superPi is hardly very stressful on the CPU, and the same goes with Sandra benchmarks. He should have at least said if it was completly stable with large numbers of 3dmark or something (I find 3dmark01 about 10 times more...

To the muppet who started this thread: Try a non CPU limited benchmark dumbass. Why not give 3dmark05 a go?

I'm just waiting for the comments from the noobs around here saying that if you use 2 of those cards in SLI you can have a gig of graphics memory...

I did hear from the Inq. I think that nVidia was changing it's naming convention, with a chip called G70 but I know as much as the rest of you. Don't know why they'd get rid of the "nv" part though??

Scali, sorry about earlier, I was being pretty pedantic, however your example doesn't prove much as the ratio between CPU speed and memory speed will be the same. Say you have a multiplier of 10 and 200FSB to give 2GHz, then you overclock to 3GHz, your memory speed is now 300MHz, which is...

Right, I'll quote you again in case you forgot what you said: Now, I'm pretty sure you mention the word "multiplier" and also mentioned not overclocking the memory to any significant degree. As I said previously the ONLY way you can overclock a P4 is to increase the FSB, more FSB = more...

Do you not realise that Pentium 4's are multiplier locked? The only way you can overclock them is through increasing the FSB. Go figure.

If you were to keep the chip cool, you could probably get a very good overclock out of it, why don't you give it a go, you've got nothing to lose - the chance of actually breaking a video card is very small unless you plan on voltmodding it.

I put them in a metal cage and they have to fight to the death - the one that wins I keep until I upgrade again and it has to fight once more!

Are there any plans to make the FXs have 2mb L2 cache? As Opteron will be going that way soon.

Just to mention this, but 100C is reasonable for video cards, that's why nVidias thermal throttling doesn't kick in until it's over 120C. Of course, if you plan on overclocking, having a load temperature of 100C isn't great! As always the lower the better, but people saying that you're going...

It sounds like most boards out at the moment will require a bios flash to accept the new dual cores, but that's it, they should be compatible otherwise.

So does previously owning a mac not count? Also, personally I'd much rather have one of these: http://theinquirer.net/?article=19332 Also http://www.amd-guide.com/search.php?misc=search&subaction=showfull&id=1098807630&archive=&cnshow=news&ucat=&start_from=& Not only is it powered by AMD...

Why are so many people getting excited over the release of the mini mac? It sucks! Ok let me explain, you'll notice how all the mac users are saying OMG that's so cheap! Maybe they haven't realised that that's all you get, no screen, keyboard, mouse, anything. When you add that on it's hardly...

So how many people here have actually recieved notices from the MPAA or RIAA?

I'm guessing the problem you're experiencing is that your computer is unstable, maybe try running a lower overclock.

Are you serious?? This is half life 2 we're talking about and the picture looks like it was taken from the first Doom.

Haha. Dual channel you say?? High end cards already have 4 memory controllers :rolleyes: When you say dual cores, I'm guessing you mean 2 actual chips? Which by the way isn't the same thing. Also, dual or multi chip designs are also a waste of money (I know there are some cards out there...

The "S" means that it's super-sampled, as apposed to multi sampled, this gives better image quality, but at the cost of a large performance hit. The 8xAA is a combination of 4xAA and 2xS AA it might look nice but it seems that it takes a huge hit in performance.

I always used to use the 44.03s I don't know why, I tested a fair few drivers and they were the ones I stuck with, I think it was because when I tried some of the 5x.xx series drivers I got lower benchmarks, maybe that has been fixed with the 6x.xx drivers, i don't know.

I think people complaining about SLI not working for all games is kind of a moot point, basically so long as the profiles are there for the most graphical intensive games then all is good. Seriously it really doesn't matter that SLI hasn't been configured to work with Quake 3 seeing as just...