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9800GX2 or No 9800GX2?

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Well, maybe it's too expensive and not so worthy to some people who have been 'spoiled' by 8800GT/S G92:p So you guys can always look away and enjoy yourself.

But for other people are after the best card in the planet(I would say the card money can buy), 9800GX2 is the only choice. It eats 3870X2, 8800Ultra, 8800GTS G92 for breakfast. I would say it is at least 50% ahead of all others according to the leaked benchies.

OK, probably you guys would say, 'I can SLI 2x 88GTS G92 and beat this bloody money waster.' Well, in that case, some people could SLI 3x 9800GX2 (it supports 3-way SLI with 790i as far as I know) and blow everything away. Just as same as the story that an overclocked 8800GT would never beat an overclocked 8800GTSG92:)

With another angle of views, as 'Makunouchi' mentioned, a 9800GX2 would save you a bit of money on buying a SLI board and some electricity bills. If you going to buy 2x 8800GT and a nVidia 750i/780i, it would cost you same kind of money with some efforts setting up and more noise from the fans.

So that's it. I'm standing firm by my 'coming' 9800GX2 :)

Edit: I haven't seen any complaints against Intel's QX9650, QX9770 and QX9775 for god's sake. They are selling way more expensive than 9800GX2 and give you much less actual improvement compairing with oced Q9450 or even oced Q6600.

Edit2: 9800GX2 only supports 2x SLI. Thanks for the lastest info from 'jaykay'!
 
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I would have to wait for several more reviews and the performance would have to really be something special before I would even contemplate upgrading to a 9800X2 from my overclocked 8800 Ultra, and only then would i purchase one if its priced nicely, which I cannot see happening.

If ATI can sort out crossfireX I think that will be my probable future upgrade, they seem to be more upcoming than nvidia with card releases to the consumer market, they seem to be pushing for the crossfire multiple system to consumers with competively priced cards, and they appear to be working on improving crossfire support and drivers on a more frequent scale than nvidia and sli in my humble opinion.

Though you could argue that they have been lagging behind and therefore nvidia have had no real need to really push anything impressive out of the boat. Once ATI sort out their bugs I think crossfireX could be the current way to go if you are looking to multiple card upgrade now until nvidia pull their pants up with there releases in late 2008.

Also lets be honest, with the current state of gaming requirements bar crysis, does the customer really need an expensive multiple card setup, when performance can be satisfied with a good single card/2 x 'cheaper' card setup? You can see from the 'cheaper card' setups that people have here on this forum, that they can pull out performance equal to and beyond a ridiculously expensive setup, so to purchase a card like the 9800X2 it has to offer a massive increase on what the user currently has, and I cannot see this particular card doing that for the people here.
 
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You cant do 3x9800GX2. The max Nvidia will allow is quad sli. Which is 2x9800GX2. If i remember correctly.
 
It might be the fastest card on the planet and by how much and at what cost? We don't have any proper benchmarks or definitive specs for that matter so I wouldn't go round claiming 50% better performance just yet (even if it is true). Performance boosts are good and all but if the premium you are paying for it doesn't reflect the performance you're gonna get, it won't be very popular. Also the gx2 only has one sli connector so no tri-sli.
The only good point I can see about the 9800gx2 over sli 8800gts is that you won't need an sli mobo(correct me if im wrong), which don't seem too popular on these boards.
 
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You cant do 3x9800GX2. The max Nvidia will allow is quad sli. Which is 2x9800GX2. If i remember correctly.
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ive read that tri-sli is possible with the 9800GX2

the website is banned on here but

Over on the Foxconn booth, we spotted the new Dreadnought mainboard fitted with Foxconn's 9800GX2 graphics card.

But the poor thing looked so sad on its lonesome, especially as the Dreadnought board is capable of running three 9800GX2 cards! However, we've been assured that at least one more card is on the way to join the party when CeBIT proper starts tomorrow.
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sunlitsix said:
ive read that tri-sli is possible with the 9800GX2

the website is banned on here but
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From some of the pics of the gx2, it only has one sli connector so I doubt tri sli will work. The link probably meant that you could physically put three of them on the board but it wouldn't necessarily work. Wasn't there a picture a long time ago with four 7950gx2 on one board?
 
50% such a big statment to make and he has not even got his GX2 yet.

(BTW i do beleave it will be better than a x2 which i own myself but paying for it PFT)
 
OCOCOC said:
Well, maybe it's too expensive and not so worthy to some people who have been 'spoiled' by 8800GT/S G92:p So you guys can always look away and enjoy yourself.

But for other people are after the best card in the planet(I would say the card money can buy), 9800GX2 is the only choice. It eats 3870X2, 8800Ultra, 8800GTS G92 for breakfast. I would say it is at least 50% ahead of all others according to the leaked benchies.

OK, probably you guys would say, 'I can SLI 2x 88GTS G92 and beat this bloody money waster.' Well, in that case, some people could SLI 3x 9800GX2 (it supports 3-way SLI with 790i as far as I know) and blow everything away. Just as same as the story that an overclocked 8800GT would never beat an overclocked 8800GTSG92:)

With another angle of views, as 'Makunouchi' mentioned, a 9800GX2 would save you a bit of money on buying a SLI board and some electricity bills. If you going to buy 2x 8800GT and a nVidia 750i/780i, it would cost you same kind of money with some efforts setting up and more noise from the fans.

So that's it. I'm standing firm by my 'coming' 9800GX2 :)

Edit: I haven't seen any complaints against Intel's QX9650, QX9770 and QX9775 for god's sake. They are selling way more expensive than 9800GX2 and give you much less actual improvement compairing with oced Q9450 or even oced Q6600.

Edit2: 9800GX2 only supports 2x SLI. Thanks for the lastest info from 'jaykay'!
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Yeah, but how much will 3x 9800gx2 or even 3x 9800gtx cost compared to 2x 8800gts in sli?
Money is the limiting factor for most of us.;)
 
Aye Karumba, Cor Blimey, Struth....

I've got this thing called a "cup of tea" down stairs, you gotta see it guys!!! Its 75% nicer than coffee. I don't care if you lot don't like it. I think its brilliant, I don't even care if you don't even care that I care!!! Thats just how much I care....I don't know why I'm posting....ahhhhh help quick I don't know whats wrong with me...why am I posting this stuff!!!! Why whats going on....

Uhhhhh, right, defo gonna make that cuppa....hmmm just b4 I make that cuppa, one thing the GX2 is good for is a kinda of pseudo SLI, lol we don't even have to use an nvidia mobo for it which is the only thing going for it...well until we know how it really performs
 
Edit: I haven't seen any complaints against Intel's QX9650, QX9770 and QX9775 for god's sake. They are selling way more expensive than 9800GX2 and give you much less actual improvement compairing with oced Q9450 or even oced Q6600.
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We all took the mick out of the Intel 'Extreme' series years ago when the Pentium 4 EE 'Gallatin' first hit the shelves. :p
 
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