First DX10 GFX card about to hit the market

[diskoboy]

Nvidia is about to release the 8800 series.

Full DX10 support.
8-) 8-) 8-)

http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce8.html

[Synergy]

I just saw that earlier today. Hot damn. Looks like my X1800XT DirectX 9 card is officially outdated.

768MB = x_x @_@ x_x

I wonder how long it will take for ATI to fire back with a 1GB card now.

[diskoboy]

I just saw that earlier today. Hot damn. Looks like my X1800XT DirectX 9 card is officially outdated.

768MB = x_x @_@ x_x

I wonder how long it will take for ATI to fire back with a 1GB card now.

Yeah.. I've got 2 7800 GT's, only a year old this christmas.. :angry:

I did find the 768 Megs thing a little odd.

[diskoboy]

Sigh - no edit...

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2006/11/nvidia_adrianne_image1.jpg

Update: The card will have a built in physics processor, as well!

I guess the physics co-processor will become a PC standard, after all.

[jonnyutah]

-_- 500mhz core clock speed..? I was expecting atleat 900mhz. this card lacks wow factor. a true next gen direct x 10 card needs to clock around 1.0ghz with 1 gig of ram.

[diskoboy]

-_- 500mhz core clock speed..? I was expecting atleat 900mhz. this card lacks wow factor. a true next gen direct x 10 card needs to clock around 1.0ghz with 1 gig of ram.

required reading.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/11/08/geforce_8800/

Just becuase the core speed isn't much faster than ones now, doesn't mean it's not better.

Take your run-of-the-mill PC CPU for example. Speeds topped out around 3.4ghz 2 years ago. Most CPU's now are around 2.2 - 2.6 ghz. Yet they run butter than PC's a year ago.

[Trebuken]

Can these do SLI?

Now I need to find a monitor with 2500+ lines of resolution...

Later,
Trebuken

[diskoboy]

Can these do SLI?

Now I need to find a monitor with 2500+ lines of resolution...

Later,
Trebuken

http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/14-121-033-06.jpg

I see two bridges in this picture of the asus 8800GTX. Looks like it'll quad.

[diskoboy]

EDIT - According to newegg, yes they SLI.

[hezeuschrist]

-_- 500mhz core clock speed..? I was expecting atleat 900mhz. this card lacks wow factor. a true next gen direct x 10 card needs to clock around 1.0ghz with 1 gig of ram.

Yeah dude I totally agree, this definitely isn't a "true next gen direct x 10 card" because it doesn't have bigger numbers than the last one.

Seriously, don't the guys making these things know anything? Bigger numbers = BETTER EVERYTHING. Who cares about how much heat these things output, the more heat, the more BADASS it is. It might melt your soundcard but it'll save you cash on your gas bills in the winter.

I still can't believe people fall into those traps.

[hezeuschrist]

-_- 500mhz core clock speed..? I was expecting atleat 900mhz. this card lacks wow factor. a true next gen direct x 10 card needs to clock around 1.0ghz with 1 gig of ram.

Yeah dude I totally agree, this definitely isn't a "true next gen direct x 10 card" because it doesn't have bigger numbers than the last one.

Seriously, don't the guys making these things know anything? Bigger numbers = BETTER EVERYTHING. Who cares about how much heat these things output, the more heat, the more BADASS it is. It might melt your soundcard but it'll save you cash on your gas bills in the winter.

I still can't believe people fall into those traps.

On topic, it looks like I can finally start speccing out a new machine. I was waiting for DX10 cards and Vista and now I can start looking.

[jonnyutah]

lol the pc game market is all about humbers man. where have you been? when a platforms software is almost entilrely reduced to a single genre( fps tech demo sold as a game) it's about numbers. LOL

[Niku-Sama]

from what i have seen it fails to impress me