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[First Look] Nvidia GeForce 9800GX2
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Im not saying anything bad about this card until i see benchmarks. This card + Crysis patch + new nvidia drivers could be the golden ticket for performance
I want to see the numbers with my eyes first , then Nvidia can have my £800.
I'd much rather get a proper 9800gtx, or D9E, whatever the hell its called, quad sli has never really been much good.
Then again, it comes out around the same time my step up program with evga ends, so if its a cost effective upgrade I might give it a whirl
Then again, it comes out around the same time my step up program with evga ends, so if its a cost effective upgrade I might give it a whirl
Latest news/rumour has the 9800GTX just being a 8800GTX refresh with the performance of an Ultra
given that 3 8800 Ultras in tri SLI can barely get playable framerates at high resolutions using very high settings I doubt it.
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I cant be bothered going back over the thread, but someone made a comment about Dual GPU's.
Thats been done, both Gigabyte and Asus made them.
Gigabyte made a 6600GT Dual GPU card ( downside it needed the special Gigabyte Mobo ).
Asus made a 6800GT Dual GPU card ( even had an external PSU ).
Thats been done, both Gigabyte and Asus made them.
Gigabyte made a 6600GT Dual GPU card ( downside it needed the special Gigabyte Mobo ).
Asus made a 6800GT Dual GPU card ( even had an external PSU ).
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Was it not a 7800GT DUAL with the external PSU?
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Na it was way back on 6000 series.
http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=1&id=1632
I never knew about the 7000 series one.
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/video/g70-8.html
http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=1&id=1632
I never knew about the 7000 series one.
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/video/g70-8.html
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I think the point is that as it is design/manufacturer produced and not another company like asus/sapphire whoever making them, the drivers will be there for these cards, opposed to say asus trying to support there one-off product with occasional updates. I think it's much better this way with the fast moving graphics industry.
As for the whole 'sli shared memory' thing, well if you have a card like the 3870 x2 then it is feasible that the memory could be shared fairly easily. Afterall, Intel do it with shared cache memroy on their chips, so why not with gpu's?
Thankfully I have relatives in the states, so if it was a stupid price, the next time I went over, I'd probably pick one of these up (or the next similar item).
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As for the whole 'sli shared memory' thing, well if you have a card like the 3870 x2 then it is feasible that the memory could be shared fairly easily. Afterall, Intel do it with shared cache memroy on their chips, so why not with gpu's?
Thankfully I have relatives in the states, so if it was a stupid price, the next time I went over, I'd probably pick one of these up (or the next similar item).
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Yes by the sounds of it, only this time they are doing what AMD/ATi did, give them new names as well, the new 9800GX2 aint new, its 2 8 series GTS's slapped together, and the over 1 year old 8800 GTX is coming out again on a smaller die as well, but will be called a 9000 something also, and they'll expect you to pay another £350-£400+, yeah right, for a card thats over a year old, get stuffed, the proper next gen will do me, G100, which we'll no doubt see when AMD/ATi's next appears, the R700.
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this will be A LOT more than £300.
especially in the UK. dont expect ANYTHING under £400 tbh, not within the first 2 months of release
especially in the UK. dont expect ANYTHING under £400 tbh, not within the first 2 months of release
Well considering thats all it is its not really something new at all.
Most likely 2 gt's would run faster if theyve downclocked the ram and the core speed like they did with the 7950.
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it isn't though, you can make a 9800 GX2 now, buy a couple of GTS's, and get some electrical tape to stick em together, voila.
it isn't though, you can make a 9800 GX2 now, buy a couple of GTS's, and get some electrical tape to stick em together, voila.
Indeed.
Plus they seem to be underclocked GTS's.
Might be, last time around the 7950 ran on some ati chip motherboards, this will probably be similar.
The problem with AFR is that frames from the two cards are not output uniformly in time. Since it is the maximum gap between frames (rather than the time-averaged framerate) that the eye notices, a given framerate with AFR does not appear as smooth as the same framerate with a single card (or equivalently SFR mode in SLI).
AFR is great for boosting raw framerate, and hence for looking good in benchmarks, but it has drawbacks in real-world application. SFR is the way to go in my opinion, even though you will not see as many "90% improvement" type statistics.