Take it out your sig then until It's stable...(Like the lecture you gave me a while back when I put a non prime stable clock in my sig
)"Your PC can't compute prime data"
8 hours prime stable or you may aswell pull the other one mate.
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Whos ditching 8800 for new rev?
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Take it out your sig then until It's stable...(Like the lecture you gave me a while back when I put a non prime stable clock in my sig
)"Your PC can't compute prime data"
8 hours prime stable or you may aswell pull the other one mate.
Take it out your sig then until It's stable...(Like the lecture you gave me a while back when I put a non prime stable clock in my sig
"Your PC can't compute prime data"
8 hours prime stable or you may aswell pull the other one mate.
lol
You my friend have just showed your age!
Only thing I have showed is you, UP.
Karma has come to bite you once again Easy.....
I aim to please
, back on topic now, 8800GT what time are these going up for sale on the site?Im too lazy to trail through 10+ pages of crap.
Never seena bottleneck that bad, the GTS is way ahead of the 2900 so wow one big bottleneck.
I would sell your 2900 and get an 8800GT but will your mobo support it? and any point if you got bottleneck?
Did you mean GTX as it's a m8's GTX I'm using/testing just now?. And yes, the bottleneck is terrible for a 2900Pro overclocked to be scoring 100 odd points more than a stock GTX
. It's not the best for my system to be running like this 
but christmas is close and I have a LOT to spend this year so a system upgrade has to wait till Jan/Feb 2008.As for my motherboard supporting it. Very doubtful but I can't see PCI-E 2.0 to not be backwards compatible as that will render most boards out there useless for the new cards. As for the point I forgot to mention I use a CRT with decent resolutions mainly and my LCD is only for entertainment now.
I forgot to mention that I have a CRT monitor. It does 2048x1536 @ 79Hrtz. Surely that would remove the bottleneck?. Time for some uber resolution 3dmark and game testing. What a noob I am for not even thinking about that in the first place
.I did notice UT3 @ 1600x1200 was a bit smoother on the vehicle CTF match map (forgot the name) but it was still showing my CPU power limitations and I played for 10 minutes tops. No reading of the hard disk so my memory was holding up but then again, crappy textures for the demo. I think a decent card at high resolutions could warrant a change on my new Pro. Especially if a peach of a card emerges
. I'll need to have a play about with higher resolutions, IQ and some more games for this GTX. Also this O/S is old and needing refreshed which would give a better result. Using this GTX with higher resolutions should give me the information I need. If I do have to lose my card then I have a 3700+ SD @ 2.9Ghz / 1gb DDR and a Sata 2 HD with a 9800Pro to play with till new cards start raining down. Sold my m8 my old x1900xt and PSU for £80.
Thank you both for the replies
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Hats off to those who acted fast and offloaded in the mm would have done myself if i had a backup card.
The good news is i look forward to paying £150 for a second hand gtx though.
why would you buy a secondhand GTX for a £150 when you yourself proclaim that the GT is a GTX beater at only £140
, also I think you'll still get a pretty decent price for a GTX if you sell it on the bay for a few weeks yet, theres allot of ignorant people out there willing to part with their cash .
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Show me where i have said the gt beats the gtx ?
I don't proclaim the GT to be a GTX beater anywhere i proclaim it to be near the GTX going by benchmarks seems around 10 fps slower.
So £140 for a gt or £150-£160 for a GTX 2nd hand is a no brainer.
I wouldn't hold your breath the gts's i see certain members doing theirs on there don't seem to be doing so well ignorant people do not buy high end gpu's on ebay as often as you might think, i am already seeing superclocked 640mb cards going for £180 on there and 320mb gts's going for £140 people aren't as stupid as you think these days.
The idea that there is a limitless stream of the ill informed buying gts and gtx cards on there doesn't hold water.
What's great about evga and bfg is you can just keep hold of it and get a much better rma card when they no longer stock the gts/gtx cards.
Gotta love 10 year and lifetime warranty's.If i can't sell mine i will keep it until the true next gen buy the next gen keep this as backup card until i am certain when i rma it they'll have to send me a better card and so on so way i see it i cannot lose.
I don't proclaim the GT to be a GTX beater anywhere i proclaim it to be near the GTX going by benchmarks seems around 10 fps slower.
So £140 for a gt or £150-£160 for a GTX 2nd hand is a no brainer.
I wouldn't hold your breath the gts's i see certain members doing theirs on there don't seem to be doing so well
ignorant people do not buy high end gpu's on ebay as often as you might think, i am already seeing superclocked 640mb cards going for £180 on there and 320mb gts's going for £140 people aren't as stupid as you think these days.The idea that there is a limitless stream of the ill informed buying gts and gtx cards on there doesn't hold water.
What's great about evga and bfg is you can just keep hold of it and get a much better rma card when they no longer stock the gts/gtx cards.
Gotta love 10 year and lifetime warranty's.If i can't sell mine i will keep it until the true next gen buy the next gen keep this as backup card until i am certain when i rma it they'll have to send me a better card and so on so way i see it i cannot lose.
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No one cares lol
You failed "the easy Shuffle"
Yeah but I had no "trust" on mm so that would go against me.
Card up to £150 already so looks good
Yeah but I had no "trust" on mm so that would go against me.
Card up to £150 already so looks good
You just post the item first
And some jester on here registered as a new bayer and sent me a question on the bay "since the new 8800 gt is out on Monday for £140 and it will **** all over your card, would you take £90 for your card to get rid of it before it's worthless?"
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Well, decision is easier for me, as i need a full upgrade.
Been trawling through loads of threads over the last few days, and its seems that whilst this GT card is causing many a debate from current 8800 owners, it seems a no brainer for a new build. I was due to order parts for my new build a bit ago. Seems for once, I may get lucky by waiting.
One thing i do know, I am looking forward to a significant jump compared to my P4/6800 setup
Final nail in the coffin for my P4 sytem came last night. I downloaded the Sega Rally Revo demo. It ran like crap. Even low settings and 800 x 600
Demo runs very,very well on our Vostro. At this point, the missus turns round and says, You better upgrade your PC then.
Been trawling through loads of threads over the last few days, and its seems that whilst this GT card is causing many a debate from current 8800 owners, it seems a no brainer for a new build. I was due to order parts for my new build a bit ago. Seems for once, I may get lucky by waiting.
One thing i do know, I am looking forward to a significant jump compared to my P4/6800 setup
Final nail in the coffin for my P4 sytem came last night. I downloaded the Sega Rally Revo demo. It ran like crap. Even low settings and 800 x 600
Demo runs very,very well on our Vostro. At this point, the missus turns round and says, You better upgrade your PC then.
Demo runs very,very well on our Vostro. At this point, the missus turns round and says, You better upgrade your PC then.
Don't you just love them sometimes
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Don't you just love them sometimes
I Think the penny dropped. She has used the laptop EVERY day since we got it. I could see the cogs working in her head. If he starts gaming on the Vostro.............
what will the increase be upgrading from a 512 mb x1800xt?
Seems like the gt will be the next bang for buck card
Your CPU will hold you back unless you start pushing 1680x1050+ with your resolutions.
My dual core @ 2.8Ghz is a bottleneck for my 2900Pro but at higher resolutions the card takes over and games get less CPU dependant.
The GT from speculation looks amazing for the price and it's only a few days till we find out if the leaked benchmarks have been accurate.
