Anyone waiting for R600?

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I might but what really does the R600 have that the 8800GTX/GTS doesn't except maybe length. Or i could just buy a 8800 and wait till the price drops.:confused:
 
not really waiting to buy since I can't afford highend video cards but yeah I wanna see what the R600 can do. :p
 
I am waiting to see what it will do, if Vista drivers will actually work when it is available and which is better between it and 8800's. Nvidia prices are dropping so it is a win win for me. Hopefully it will be worth it.
 
I didn't wait... no reason known to. I already bought my eVGA 8800GTS a couple of weeks ago... you can spend all your time waiting for the next great thing, or you can just buy what's nice now and enjoy it.
 
We should start seeing real benchmarks in March. I'm in no rush to upgrade for dx10. Although if it really delivers, I'll be tempted. But I most likely won't upgrade again until the next generation arrives in late '07 early '08.
 
Stereophile said:
We should start seeing real benchmarks in March. I'm in no rush to upgrade for dx10. Although if it really delivers, I'll be tempted. But I most likely won't upgrade again until the next generation arrives in late '07 early '08.
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I upgraded for DX9... I'll likely replace this card by the time DX10 becomes mainstream and in a LOT of games instead of just the top-end ones. Either way, the 8800GTS is a screamer.
 
I'm waiting for it but what I'm really waiting for is the resulting price drop by nvidia:)
 
just depends for most ppl, I'll personally wait, I feel it is the smart approach for me in tryin to config. a new system.
 
Yes I am waiting for R600 to come out so then the prices on the current Midrange cards will go down and down and down.
 
I dont know. I was waiting but I might actualy skip this generation due to the power requirements. I was waiting for R600 and fully vista capable motherboards which are both due about the same time.
 
Lestang said:
Yes I am waiting for R600 to come out so then the prices on the current Midrange cards will go down and down and down.
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Word, 8600GT FTW!

Or maybe an ATi counterpart, given I'll be on my BX2. If I feel the need to go CF in the future....

-bZj
 
I've been waiting, but I'm not sure how much longer I'll last. If I had to do it all over again, I would have gotten a higher end DX9 part and not waited around. Since I've been waiting this long, though, ....

Anyway, I'm giving things about a week to see what kind of news is released. If it's good, I'll wait longer. If we don't hear some performance numbers soon for R600, and continue to hear the 240W power draw, I'm probably jumping ship to an 8800 GTS.
 
I have been. Rumor is it is double the speed of the G80. That is reason enough to wait.
 
Ditto the waiting... And based on that, will determine the motherboard... SLI vs. X-fire..

This has been very painful.....
 
I sit on forums every day, eagerly anticipating an article that gives performance numbers on a product I haven't the money to buy. Ugh.

WTB: Life.
 
I want to see how they perform. I wanted an 8800GTX, but it doesn't fit in my case. The R600 XTX looks like it will fit and if it outperforms the GTX, then that's my card.
 
The 12 inch pics are of an OEM card that locks into the case for more secure shipping.
It has been done countless times and even with 7800 and 7900 series it was done.
I am currently waiting for the R600.
But I am most likely going with a midrange R6xx series GPU and even then Im getting Vista First. Most likely this will all be done towards the end of this year not due to money problems but driver and OS maturity.
 
HotGore said:
I have been. Rumor is it is double the speed of the G80. That is reason enough to wait.
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There's no rumor of that. The only thing that's nearly doubled, is memory bandwidth, which should be around 140 GB/s, while the 8800 GTX has 86.4 GB/s.
This however, doesn't mean it will double 8800 GTX performance.

On topic:

As Marvelous and many others in this thread, I''m not waiting for it in the sense I want to buy one. But I am waiing to see how it performs. Right now, my attention is turned to the 8800 GTS 320 MB, which will be a killer replacement for my 7800 GTX 256 @ 1280x1024, unless, of course, AMD can ditch out something cheaper and better.
 
Waiting to see which will be the better card, but no need to run out and get a D10 card just yet, as whats the use. Except for the Jones next door having one:p
Lets see the drivers for both the R600 and G80 work with Vista first, from what I've seen so far, both are not really producing the goods.:mad:
 
Ugh I have no real alternative except to wait for R600.

G80 drivers dont convice me and R600 shinesh with its absence, so I wait a little longer :(
 
Yup, I'm waiting for it. I'll be building myself a new computer around May-ish, and by then I should have a great selection to pick from of DX10 cards.
 
I'm eagerly awaiting benchmarks.
However, I think I'm going to wait to purchase the A15 silicon revision, with the 1.0 GHZ clock. First card of a gen is usually good, but the second one is usually much more solid.
 
I was waiting to see if the ATI cards would push 8800 prices further down. Well, work had me order two 8800gtx's for a project I'm doing. I "tested" one of them over the weekend at home and now I don't want to give it up. I'll be ordering one for myself this week.
 
im waiting. I always wait and hope the next card from either manufacturer is better than the last. its called progress. !!!!!!ism is for pathetic people. I always upgrade to the latest and fastest video card. It surely cant be long before we have games with Pixar like gfx at good frame rates, keep going ATI and Nvidia.:cool:
and dont knock G80 until you have tried it, dont listen to the bad drivers issues/ ok they arent perfect(im not even referring to buggy OS called Vista) but my G80 blows away my previous X1900XTXs in crossfire. thats enough for me.
 
I'm waiting. This card's performance will determine if I get X-fire or SLI as well. I would like to see AMD do well here. I don't like it when one company has too much dominance on performance, it isn't good for consumers.
 
I bought an 8800GTX for its DX9 performance. And I know it out performs any of your DX9 cards; single cards or double cards (SLI/CF). I've tested this myself using X1900XTX in CF and 7900GT OC in SLI. No comparison!

The DX10 potential is nice but is mostly useless until late '07 or beyond. Until then, I'm cranking out frames and getting superb IQ. Reasons to wait are lame (except lack of cash or ATI fan-boyz). Buy any G8x card and enjoy life now. Tomorrow may never come.

PS: I've got Vista Ultimate but have no plans of loading it up until it's debugged (maybe SP1). But the OP didn't even ask about Vista support. Sorry for the OT partial post.
 
Kango said:
I bought an 8800GTX for its DX9 performance. And I know it out performs any of your DX9 cards; single cards or double cards (SLI/CF). I've tested this myself using X1900XTX in CF and 7900GT OC in SLI. No comparison!

The DX10 potential is nice but is mostly useless until late '07 or beyond. Until then, I'm cranking out frames and getting superb IQ. Reasons to wait are lame (except lack of cash or ATI fan-boyz). Buy any G8x card and enjoy life now. Tomorrow may never come.

PS: I've got Vista Ultimate but have no plans of loading it up until it's debugged (maybe SP1). But the OP didn't even ask about Vista support. Sorry for the OT partial post.
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Yup my thoughts exactly. I have had an 8800 for what like 4 months? r600 doesn't come out till what? March? So the waiting ruins the utility of being able to use a card now. Waiting is smart for huge architecture changes like waiting through 7900 series for the 8000 series. So people are waiting for a card that will probably show a few higher frames and have better SYTHETIC benchies. Doesn't really do crap for the end user. Also, cpu bottleneck much?

Also, plan on buying a new case and psu. The r600 may very well be a monster card, but in the end I am happy to use my 8800. Unfortunately Nvidia beat AMD/ATi to market by months, and they usually more mature drivers and better price points. The r600 will most like be at least $150 more when they are released.

Hopefully ATI's next go round will be better.
 
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