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TheRapture

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Sold my 7900GT, it was a good card, but at this moment I am not gaming alot, and I am testing Vista, making DVD, audio CD, etc., but I plan on building a new rig for Vista and DX10, along with Crysis and UT2007....I had a spare old PCI-E 6200LE in the closet, and I bought another 19" widescreen display to go along with my 21" widescreen, duallies FTW for the moment.

So now I need to read up the time lines for the next cards, what's the biff?
 
i 2 am rather anxious for the new line of cards to come out. I will hopefully be moving into a G80 shortly after the first of the year
 
I am only anxious for Crysis, UT2007, and QW:ET. Current games are OK, but FarCry has been ruined for the longest time time by hacks, CS:S well, it's counterstrike...Q4, hard to even find a decent online game, etc.

I needed a small break from it anyway....bah, let the games begin! :cool:
 
BF2 POE2 for some late night fun. The POE servers don't get going until later but damn man OREL and FALLEN are a damn good time.
 
All the POE maps are good..IMO Fallen is one of the worst.. :D But its still better than the Vanilla BF2 maps..
 
Personally I am waiting for the nVIDIA G80 graphic card. I'm going to put them in SLI with a AMD 4X4 or the Quad core conroe and of coarse with Windows Vista.
 
Quad cores are years away from having anything that will actually use 4 cores, hell, game makers are JUST now starting to get out some dual core capable titles, and it is mediocre at best. With Crysis and UT2007, that will get better, but quad cores? Waste of money for gaming at this point and probably for a long time.


I LOVE having a dual core and having the smooth hiccup free experience while doing anything is the benefit, but I won't be building a new rig at Christmas, just slapping a new high end video card into it, it's not like a dual core AMD at 2.6ghz is slow or anything and at high res with high levels of AA the cpu is not likely to be a bottleneck anyways for a while...with my 7900GT at 1680x1050 with all IQ and AA on, I literally could not tell the difference in game between 2ghz and 2.6ghz, and running benches showed at best a 2-3fps increase....the VIDEO card was the weak link....
 
TheRapture said:
Quad cores are years away from having anything that will actually use 4 cores, hell, game makers are JUST now starting to get out some dual core capable titles, and it is mediocre at best. With Crysis and UT2007, that will get better, but quad cores? Waste of money for gaming at this point and probably for a long time.


I LOVE having a dual core and having the smooth hiccup free experience while doing anything is the benefit, but I won't be building a new rig at Christmas, just slapping a new high end video card into it, it's not like a dual core AMD at 2.6ghz is slow or anything and at high res with high levels of AA the cpu is not likely to be a bottleneck anyways for a while...with my 7900GT at 1680x1050 with all IQ and AA on, I literally could not tell the difference in game between 2ghz and 2.6ghz, and running benches showed at best a 2-3fps increase....the VIDEO card was the weak link....
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Alan Wake is coming out soon. It REQUIRES dual cores, absolutely will not run on anything else. And it excells with quad cores. The game uses 5 completely different threads...so programs correctly using quad cores are very very close.

As for the people wanting to put quad cores with SLI G80's....I hope you have that 1kW PSU ready.
 
Makers of Max Payne series.

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Alan Wake is set for 2008, they just had their tech demo at IDF which was more then impressive!
 
What is the R600? Is that ATI? Or are both the G80 and R600 Nvidia? What else are we to expect in this last quarter?..I'm currently building my gaming rig and am about to throw in a foxconn board with a am2 proc and hopefilly those pc10000 determinator's (or whatever they are called) What other high end gear are we getting?
 
Well by 2008 maybe I can see it, by then, even the G80 will be a slow card for that game.... :p


those graphics are fuggin amazin.
 
TheRapture said:
Well by 2008 maybe I can see it, by then, even the G80 will be a slow card for that game.... :p


those graphics are fuggin amazin.
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I'm pretty sure it has a release date of 1/1/2007.
 
TheRapture said:
Well by 2008 maybe I can see it, by then, even the G80 will be a slow card for that game.... :p


those graphics are fuggin amazin.
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The demo ran on one 7900GTX and one Quad Core running at 3.3GHz. Alan Wake is much more CPU dependent then GPU dependent.
 
Damn, nice pics..

Look at my sig, rest assured I'll be building a new PC based on the G80 :p
 
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