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7950GX2 £90 a good deal?
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Its an amazing deal for a GX2...
Aslong as your clocks to around 590Mhz on the core and 700+ on the memory (almost all the cards do) in most of the latest released titles like BioShock and ETQW SLI is fully supported and you get performance slightly better than the 8800GTS.
Aslong as your clocks to around 590Mhz on the core and 700+ on the memory (almost all the cards do) in most of the latest released titles like BioShock and ETQW SLI is fully supported and you get performance slightly better than the 8800GTS.
Well, i thought it was a pricing error and didn't really expect these cards to be delivered, but, i got a confirmation e-mail and text today saying they have been dispatched 
/me waits 14 weeks for royal mail to get their arses into gear
/me waits 14 weeks for royal mail to get their arses into gear
Well, i thought it was a pricing error and didn't really expect these cards to be delivered, but, i got a confirmation e-mail and text today saying they have been dispatched
/me waits 14 weeks for royal mail to get their arses into gear
Sounds good.... How many did you get?
I tried to bag a few but when the confimation email arived it showed a back order due in a few days so I'm not hopeful of getting any now.
All due to 'verified by visa', couldn't remember my code so had to redo costing me precious seconds.
Enjoy
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Just to let people know, recieved my FIVE cards yesterday, and not only are they actually the EVGA 7950GX2's, they are the superclocked versions! bonus! Also, these have (funnily enough) started to crop up on a popular auction site (none from me... yet 
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I wonder how many there actually were...
)I wonder how many there actually were...
not true, if that was so no-one would bother paying 200 quid for 8800GTS's and 2900XT/Pro.
When SLI works and with a 20% OC on the GX2 (which all cards should manage) they easily keep up with the 8800GTS probably closer to (stock) 2900XT speed... mine is less than 30% slower than an 8800Ultra (with the ultra at stock - although an ultra can just clock up and leave me far behind)
Err since he got a bargain and really you should be paying £160 -£200 and that's on the bay, in shops online they are still £300 - £350 plus for these cards and they are not directx 10, latest gen etc then that's about right performance wise. In some dx9 games and oc'd they are almost up there with a 8800 GTX and certainly past a 2900xt or 8800 GTS.
So if you were paying the proper price of £300 -£350 wouldn't you want the performance to be almost as good as a GTX? And then people would buy the 8800 GTS and 2900XT as a cheaper but slower alternative.
It's like have two x1950pro's in crossfire, they will cost you less than £200, the price of a 8800 gts or 2900xt and in a lot of games they will beat them. Doesn't mean everybody wants the hassles of doing that and the psu upgrade which will come with it as well as having a crossfire motherboard etc.
ALso it's like finding 8800 GTS and 2900xt for sale for £50 and saying the performance can't be that good or why would anybody buy the 8800 GTX?
They're about on par with an 8800GTS, not a bad deal if you ask me.
That's a total of frame rates from a load of games at various settings.
Thats from Toms Hardware aint it? there benchmarks are rubbish.
Even at stock those figures are too low, very odd, some games its showing the 8800GTX as getting around 25fps when it actually gets a lot more than that.
I'm on win XP with a 2900Pro at XT speeds having upgraded from 2 x 7900 GT's which would clock to 575 / 800. I'd say this is a fair comparison to the GX2.
The 2900 is far faster than the SLI'd GT's so a GTX would be off into the sunset.
In parts of BIOshock where the GT's get 40FPS the 2900 gets 60FPS, this is repeatable accross different parts of the game. Some games don't show quite such a boost eg. Quake, but then Nvidia always did run opengl very well so I'm sure a GTX or GTS would pull well ahead.
The GX2 is a cracking bargain @ ~£90 but I think it must have been a typo as other retailers with stock are >£200.
At the retail current price the GX2 makes no sense vs the 2900 or 8800 series but at the price of these cards it's a steal.
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The 2900 is far faster than the SLI'd GT's so a GTX would be off into the sunset.
In parts of BIOshock where the GT's get 40FPS the 2900 gets 60FPS, this is repeatable accross different parts of the game. Some games don't show quite such a boost eg. Quake, but then Nvidia always did run opengl very well so I'm sure a GTX or GTS would pull well ahead.
The GX2 is a cracking bargain @ ~£90 but I think it must have been a typo as other retailers with stock are >£200.
At the retail current price the GX2 makes no sense vs the 2900 or 8800 series but at the price of these cards it's a steal.
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At stock though it does beat a 8800 GTS and with some reviews it's just behind the GTX so oc it and it will get close or beat a GTX.
Since you don't trust Toms Hardware (neither do I for that matter), heres some others:
http://www.elitebastards.com/cms/in...sk=view&id=255&Itemid=27&limit=1&limitstart=4
http://www.trustedreviews.com/graphics/review/2006/12/12/BFG-GeForce-8800-GTS/p3
For £300? You would be mad to buy one.
For £90 it's a steal for a card giving performance between a 8800 GTS and a 8800 GTX