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robbiekhan
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Could you measure how long the card is at all ? I'd like to know as I'm certain I have exactly enough room but need confirmation!
decapitator said:I called Fry's and asked if they would exchange the cards on release day because the cards were recalled, and they said they know nothing of a recall but if I was not happy with them they would take them back and I had 30 days to do so, their receipt says 14 days so its one lie after another.
They said they would not exchange them with out printed proof of a recall and they could careless if I return them or not, this was a supervisor.
Thanks again man. I'm probably going to go the Newegg route just to be safe. Buy a card from Newegg tomorrow morning, and when I get it on Thursday, return the one that I bought from Fry's. That way I know I'll have a good card, since Newegg is probably really tight with EVGA. Plus the card I get from Newegg should have the real EVGA black design, not the silly reference sticker.
there is a 30 pages chinese review up,the babel fish translation isnt that bad ither.
http://www.pconline.com.cn/diy/graphics/reviews/0611/898744.html
http://www.pconline.com.cn/diy/graphics/reviews/0611/898744.html
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jcll2002 said:i called swiftech and theyre making a new mounting hardware kit for it
Yeah man, I emailed them awhile ago
I can't wait!it deals with both. quality in terms of distance is referred to as the LOD bias, as you can see in the slider in the AF tester. the lower this bias, the further the "good" texture will extend before being switched to a lower texture. the angles you see some video cards produce are mostly due to the fact that they've decided "its okay" to skimp on some angles.
this is why most of us are giddy over G80's AF, as it seemingly renders AF properly at all angles, making a much, much more natural scene.
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Nuvian said:
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is the launch time going to correspond to announcement at the Glan? Or is it a midnight thing......
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Wow the GTS looks weak. Really weak. Hard to believe that's all $500 buys you
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Nuvian said:
Clearly this guy is shellshocked by the 8800GTX.
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I might pass on G80, as I currently own a 7950 GX2. I would go G80 SLi but nVidia won't allow SLi to run on Intel motherboard chipsets. I don't like nForce motherboards, they just aren't very solid boards (and I've owned quite a few of them). We all know that it's just the driver disabling SLi on other chipsets, nVidia should just allow SLi on non nForce chipsets. I would get 2 8800 GTX's if they supported SLi on the 975X, but since they don't I will probably end up going R600 Crossfire.
nVidia should rethink there stance on SLI, although it might help them sell more motherboards, it may also make them sell less video cards. And in my case helping them sell neither.
nVidia should rethink there stance on SLI, although it might help them sell more motherboards, it may also make them sell less video cards. And in my case helping them sell neither.
No kidding. Those German designers have yet to grasp the concept of galvanic corrosion and how radically it can destroy their well-engineered components, not to mention how poorly aluminum fares to copper in terms of thermal conductivity. If they want to use a silver-colored metal so badly, why not use silver?Arcygenical said:Aluminum and expensive...I'll just take my MCW, get a new hold down kit, and fabricate a cooler for the extra RAMDAC
Christ, I want an 8800 now. You're all horrible people.
Does anyone have any idea how reputable this Chinese site is? I call these results into great question:
ITSTHINKING
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Sabrewulf165 said:Wow the GTS looks weak. Really weak. Hard to believe that's all $500 buys you
Right, even though it's $450, and kickedthe shit out of the x1950 in those tests, except for a couple of games like serious sam and nfs. If the performance isn't what you want then get a gtx
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ITSTHINKING said:Right, even though it's $450, and kickedthe shit out of the x1950 in those tests, except for a couple of games like serious sam and nfs. If the performance isn't what you want then get a gtx
I would hardly call it a shit-kicking. Look at the AA/AF numbers. The GTS is not that much faster. And don't worry, I AM going to get the GTX, I was just commenting
That's a fair assumption, though them testing indoors may be a better assumption, as the rest of the numbers they have seem about right.mike said:
In any case, the GTX is 2.2 times faster than the previous generation in their odd Oblivion benchmark, which is massively impressive.
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good good. I was worried there for a second!Sabrewulf165 said:I would hardly call it a shit-kicking. Look at the AA/AF numbers. The GTS is not that much faster. And don't worry, I AM going to get the GTX, I was just commenting
ppl need to remmber that this is only 1 review,with 1 rig,and even if thats how the other sites will bench that GTS as....we must remmber that the drivers are quite imature,things can only go up the next 2-3 months,i still belive the GTS is a good investment,altho the GTX is a better 1,so ill be going for the GTX.
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sumofatguy said:
Yeah I could tell. I thought about even not upgrading at all, but I couldn't live with myself knowing I made you worry *tear*
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Jodiuh said:
i hope it be on newegg at midnight i got my credit card out ready to order before they sold out
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LOCO LAPTOP said:i hope it be on newegg at midnight i got my credit card out ready to order before they sold out
Ditto that, but I don't think it's midnight, I think it's sometime tomorrow morning, which means getting up early or staying up reeeeally late
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phide said:
I am cautiously optimistic that the G80 will be a massive upgrade in Oblivion. The numbers in their test do seem high, but considering what a shader-heavy game Oblivion is and the fact that G80 has 3x more shaders than the X1950, it seems reasonable to expect it could provide double or better performance.
What I really want to know is whether or not nvidia will update their drivers to allow HDR+AA in Oblivion. That, in my opinion, is the critical factor.
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Sabrewulf165 said:
Thankfully, tomorrow's (presumably) the day that all of this gets figured out. I can't wait.
Sabrewulf165 said:
Well it's not that simple since the shaders are definitely not comparable and the clockspeeds are different.
G80 ~ 518 Gflops
R580 ~ 426 Gflops
G70 ~ 305 Gflops
So it's not close to 3x based on theoretical flops, more like 1.2x. But there should be efficiency gains as well.
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trinibwoy said:
I guess we'll find out tomorrow. I'm most likely ordering one regardless. If the benches are awful I can always cancel the order.
I honestly hope that they don't. I don't want developers to maintain this "eh, let the driver teams fix it" mentality. For future titles, I don't want to bypass a "HDR and anti-aliasing cannot be enabled at the same time" pop-up box; I just want it to work.Sabrewulf165 said:
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i've been wanting to play through oblivion again as a mage, but i think i'm going to have to wait until i get my G80
THIS IS THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!! dbooom dbooom shaboomboom
this is the final.... COUNTDOWN!!
THIS IS THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!! dbooom dbooom shaboomboom
this is the final.... COUNTDOWN!!
Jasonx82 said:AHHH 9 more hrs!
I'm pretty sure it's happening in the morning (6am-9am), not at midnight. I contacted Newegg and asked them "If you were to launch a new product tomorrow, what time would it show up?". The guy told me "Anywhere from 6am-5pm, depending on stock and inventory",
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mike686 said:
Yeah I saw that, but I'm not playing at 16x12. Also I don't mean "double performance" in all situations necessarily, just the ones that are choking me up right now. the difference between 15 and 30 fps goes from unplayable to quite playable. Also it sounded like you had AA enabled in the driver when you ran those tests... I know it's not applied in the game, but I'm not sure if that might still slow things down or not.
If you don't mind, maybe you could run this Oblivion test for me (you don't have to of course but it would help give me an idea
):DISABLE HDR in the Oblivion launcher (Choose Bloom instead)
SET a resolution of 1280x1024 fullscreen in the launcher
ENABLE 4xAA in the driver as well as Transparency Antialiasing (supersampling)
ENABLE 16xAF High Quality in the driver
MAX all in-game sliders and turn all settings on (except HDR, obviously)
Go to the Cheydinhall West Gate, go out of it, and walk directly from there towards Lake Arrius. This path should take you through a lot of dense forest and vegetation, which with 4xAA and TSSAA enabled will give you the "worst case scenario" from a graphics standpoint. Bench this walk with FRAPS and post your min/avg. You don't need to walk all the way to the lake of course, a short jaunt should be good enough, just make sure the "area" is done loading.
If you don't have time to do this or don't feel like it I totally understand, but it would give me a good idea of what the limits of the card in Oblivion are. You can try these same settings and walkthrough at other resolutions too if you want but I'm mainly interested in 12x10 since that roughly equates to the native res on my 940BW (1440x900).
Sabrewulf165 said:Yeah I saw that, but I'm not playing at 16x12. Also I don't mean "double performance" in all situations necessarily, just the ones that are choking me up right now. the difference between 15 and 30 fps goes from unplayable to quite playable. Also it sounded like you had AA enabled in the driver when you ran those tests... I know it's not applied in the game, but I'm not sure if that might still slow things down or not.
If you don't mind, maybe you could run this Oblivion test for me (you don't have to of course but it would help give me an idea
DISABLE HDR in the Oblivion launcher (Choose Bloom instead)
SET a resolution of 1280x1024 fullscreen in the launcher
ENABLE 4xAA in the driver as well as Transparency Antialiasing (supersampling)
ENABLE 16xAF High Quality in the driver
MAX all in-game sliders and turn all settings on (except HDR, obviously)
Go to the Cheydinhall West Gate, go out of it, and walk directly from there towards Lake Arrius. This path should take you through a lot of dense forest and vegetation, which with 4xAA and TSSAA enabled will give you the "worst case scenario" from a graphics standpoint. Bench this walk with FRAPS and post your min/avg. You don't need to walk all the way to the lake of course, a short jaunt should be good enough, just make sure the "area" is done loading.
If you don't have time to do this or don't feel like it I totally understand, but it would give me a good idea of what the limits of the card in Oblivion are. You can try these same settings and walkthrough at other resolutions too if you want but I'm mainly interested in 12x10 since that roughly equates to the native res on my 940BW (1440x900).
Sure, give me some time, and I'll be back with the results.
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