Picked up G80's

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decapitator said:
Just got home from my Frys with two GTX'S but I did put up a fight :eek:
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Which Fry's!! I got three within driving distance, and they all told me over the phone they won't sell them yet!!!!
 
decapitator said:
Just got home from my Frys with two GTX'S but I did put up a fight :eek:
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OMG! dude the fry's next to my house in arlington, texas has both the GTX for 649$ and the GTS for 499$
i went up there and the guy showd them to me but after i talked him into selling me the GTX which took me like 30 mins we went to the cash register and the damn thing wouldnt let him enter it into the cpu thus he couldnt sell it to me ( ,so i guess ima have to wait till the 8th

BTW they were the BFG brand
 
The problem I have at the moment is the Abit board you see in my Sig, I'm running SLI with my 7900GTX's but I'm using the Mod driver and it works fine, so I do not know if it will work with the 8800 just yet. I'm going to give it ago and let you guys know what gives. The 680i is due next week so that will be better. I will be right back :eek:
 
decapitator said:
The problem I have at the moment is the Abit board you see in my Sig, I'm running SLI with my 7900GTX's but I'm using the Mod driver and it works fine, so I do not know if it will work with the 8800 just yet. I'm going to give it ago and let you guys know what gives. The 680i is due next week so that will be better. I will be right back :eek:
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Oh damn didnt notice that. Well im sure one card is good enough but that other card is going to tease you lol :D

Either way you shouldnt be much CPU limitet.
 
ToddMcF2002 said:
Am I the only one alarmed by the 80 degree heat report???
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No big deal, actually, nothing to worry about up to about 90c as long as everything is stable. These are NOT cpu's and they can take much more heat, they are designed for it.

My 7900GT, overclocked to 535/1600, with stock cooling, ran into the 82c to 85c range all the time under heavy loading...never crashed, never balked....went a year that way and now the guy that bought it is running it a bit faster even....
 
hoop32 said:
OMG! dude the fry's next to my house in arlington, texas has both the GTX for 649$ and the GTS for 499$
i went up there and the guy showd them to me but after i talked him into selling me the GTX which took me like 30 mins we went to the cash register and the damn thing wouldnt let him enter it into the cpu thus he couldnt sell it to me ( ,so i guess ima have to wait till the 8th

BTW they were the BFG brand
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They did a manual ticket on mine to get around it, Evga on mine.
 
decapitator said:
They did a manual ticket on mine to get around it, Evga on mine.
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Yeah when the guy tried to ring mine up it wouldn't go through the first 3 times, then he finally did something and it went through. He kept asking me if my debit card was good. :rolleyes:
 
hey decapitator, i have a X24800 with 2 gig OCZ ram, which one do u think i should buy? the GTX or GTS, i am asking because i dont want to buy something i want use the full thing and yes i want to go SLI with this so what do u think bro?
 
ToddMcF2002 said:
Am I the only one alarmed by the 80 degree heat report???
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considering what the x1900 series got, i'm relieved

not as cool as it will be someday, but it's all exhaused out of the case anyways!
 
Bo_Fox said:
I just noticed that Nvidia released 93.71 WHQL drivers that said they had support for the next generation of GPU's. Does it work with your 8800?

By the way, it seems that 93.71 is much more stable for my 7900GTX so far..
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Just tried installing those, they don't work on the 8800.
 
TheRapture said:
No big deal, actually, nothing to worry about up to about 90c as long as everything is stable. These are NOT cpu's and they can take much more heat, they are designed for it.

My 7900GT, overclocked to 535/1600, with stock cooling, ran into the 82c to 85c range all the time under heavy loading...never crashed, never balked....went a year that way and now the guy that bought it is running it a bit faster even....
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Thanks for that - I was getting concerned that factoid was getting lost in the excitement. Can't say I'd want those torches heating up my case in SLI but I do plan on getting a single card.
 
I can't wait to see what this guy with the E6600 gets.

Decapitator, can you please do benchmarks in both single and multi card mode if you can?
 
oh ok. thats not really that great but hopefully youre just CPU limited ;)

I cant wait to step to one of these babies through eVGA's setup program
 
jcll2002 said:
oh ok. thats not really that great but hopefully youre just CPU limited ;)

I cant wait to step to one of these babies through eVGA's setup program
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I can't wait to see what this guy with the e6600 gets. :eek: :eek:
 
mike686 said:
I can't wait to see what this guy with the E6600 gets.

Decapitator, can you please do benchmarks in both single and multi card mode if you can?
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Ok, give me some time im going offline now.
 
I have an E6600 and I plan on getting one of these on launch day :D

Look for mad benchies and screenshots from the latest games.
 
decapitator said:
Ok, give me some time im going offline now.
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My cards are gonna be in mon or tues. Not sure what it will take to make SLI to work, but if you figure it out, I will be sending you a PM. :D
 
OK 3DMark05 (17615) Temp 56c I'm off to do 06 when I get back I will figure out how to post the results.

BTW -This is with a 3.1 overclock of the 6600, with mushkin XP6400 @ 3.4.3.9

Also single card, the cards did not like the SLI mod drivers. I will try again, I'm using the drivers that came with it.
 
Hmm...that CPU limit sucks. Think my system will be CPU limited if I buy an 8800GTS?:

Athlon 64 3400+ @ 2.6GHz (Socket 754, Venice)
1GB PC3200 @ DDR 520
Soudblaster Audigy 2
EPoX EP-8NPA SLI Motherboard
GeForce 7900GT @ 615 Core / 1680 RAM
Samsung 930b 19" LCD monitor @ 1280x1024

I can pull in an even 10,000 points in 3DMark 05 with this single 7900GT, and every game I own runs without a hitch (with the exception of Oblivion, but even SLI 7900GTX's have problems with that game).
Do you guys think I should go with an 8800GTS or just save $300 and toss in a second 7900GT?
 
decapitator said:
OK 3DMark05 (17615) Temp 56c I'm off to do 06 when I get back I will figure out how to post the results.

BTW -This is with a 3.1 overclock of the 6600, with mushkin XP6400 @ 3.4.3.9

Also single card, the cards did not like the SLI mod drivers. I will try again, I'm using the drivers that came with it.
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Nice. So that's a 5,600 point gain in 3dmark05 going from a 4000+ to a E6600.
 
mike686 said:
Volumetric fog demo at 1600x1200:

volumelj3.jpg
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Which means a 10x increase in Vertex Texture Fetch performance over my 6800GT

wow! This opens up a whole new world of shaders and effects :)
 
mike686 said:
Nice. So that's a 5,600 point gain in 3dmark05 going from a 4000+ to a E6600.
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the g80 seems extremely cpu limited.

e6400 or e6600? cant decide!
 
decapitator said:
OK 3DMark05 (17615) Temp 56c I'm off to do 06 when I get back I will figure out how to post the results.

BTW -This is with a 3.1 overclock of the 6600, with mushkin XP6400 @ 3.4.3.9

Also single card, the cards did not like the SLI mod drivers. I will try again, I'm using the drivers that came with it.
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Ok (10862) on 3DMark06

A couple things to note if mike hasn't already, this card is long so check your case if you have not already, I don't use a case so its no issue for me but it extends over the abit board I use. Also I found it funny that on the front of the box it says it supports DX10 shaders but if you look at the side of the box it says it supports Windows 2000, XP MCE 2005. Where is Vista :eek: :D

They also give you two extra PCIE connectors for SLI , you plug one end into a hard drive connector and the other into the PCIE card.
 
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