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The Leadtek 280 Extreme

Gibbo said:
HI there

We pass on merely what the manufacturer tells us. At the time I did not question the speeds as I've not played with a GTX 280 so was unaware the clock speeds are well beyond whats generally attainable. Leadtek informed me they hoped to have had some shipping to us but its obvious they are speed binning cards and clear that none have yet passed at these speeds and hence the latest is still none have shipped.
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This would be all well and good if it weren't for the fact OCUK charge a credit card the moment a pre-order is made. Several confidence marks lost from me if this is the way you proof check your pre-order spec claims.
 
As OCUK is the only supplier in the world to advertise the Leadtek 280 Extreme we need more of an explanation than Gibbo gives. OCUK is in the position of a cinema advertising the world premier of a film that it cannot show and when the paying customers complain the cinema manager says I have just been on the phone to the Hollywood studio and they say the film is not back from the chemists yet.
 
helmutcheese said:
Its a buggy coded POS, if you knew anything about it TBH m8.

Lets all throw our PC's in the bin cause they can run Crysis. :p
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Yeah, I think you're kind of missing the point...

It doesn't matter how well written or enjoyable the game is - if it highlights instabilities in the GPU where other programs don't, then it's doing its job as a stability tool.

If "hello kitty island adventure 3" came out, with an engine that looked like crap and ran at 3fps on top of the range rigs, then I would still use it as a stability test if it exposed weaknesses that other programs did not find. A GPU in a particular confiuration is, after all, either stable under all circumstances, or not stable.
 
Deluxe1 said:
I couldnt care less about Crysis never have never will,its a overhyped pile of poop.
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Fully agree, no one plays the thing anyway, they just bench the ****. :D

All you bloody see on here, i got me new card, so heres the mandatory crapsis bench, then its going back in the cupboard to collect even more dust, ill dig it out again when the next gen arrives and i get one, and tell yer i still can't run the ****, get in, i can't ******* wait. :p
 
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Funny, I DO play Crysis.....but only for the "wow" value of the graphics, the gameplay's awful and the AI cheat like f(orgot I was in polite company).......empty entire clip into a guy from his groin to his head, turn to engage 2nd bad guy and get shot in the back of the heed by the geezer you just put 30+ rounds in.
Engage Maximum Cheaat :lol: Abd cue wandering around watching sunsets through forrests from under water.



Must say though, not seen anything else quite so amazing looking, if anyone can suggest such, I'd be VERY interested.....especially since, it's run better by all accounts.


Part of what makes it run SO badly, if you ask me, is that, unlike most FPS games, the 3d world does not extend for maybe 500m, with a 2d wallpaper behind it....look at that scene with the collapsing mountain, that's gotta be what? 3Km away (meant to be further but I assume the gameworld compresses scale a bit).

Still, it's definitely the new Operation Flashpoint in terms of cacky writing (when I first got OF, my machine of the time ate everything else no worries, and OF was about 4fps with any kind of decent detail).



On the subject of this card..........you can hardly blame OC if Leadtek's rep's been talking a load of spherical objects. They COULD cancel the pre-orders, but how much MORE of an outcry then if the thing turns out to be real?
 
Dr_Fartypants said:
Yeah, I think you're kind of missing the point...

It doesn't matter how well written or enjoyable the game is - if it highlights instabilities in the GPU where other programs don't, then it's doing its job as a stability tool.

If "hello kitty island adventure 3" came out, with an engine that looked like crap and ran at 3fps on top of the range rigs, then I would still use it as a stability test if it exposed weaknesses that other programs did not find. A GPU in a particular confiuration is, after all, either stable under all circumstances, or not stable.
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With helmut opinion comes before anything else even if it's contrary to all facts.
 
I've had dodgy gfx glitches in many tiger woods versions, with no overclocking at all.
It becomes more noticeable the higher res you go. 2560 has lots of shimmering going on at far out viewing distances.
I think this is more a problem with the engine itself than anything else. The games are intended for consoles with PC being an after-thought. The devs are probably not even aware 2560x1600 even exists.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Fully agree, no one plays the thing anyway, they just bench the ****. :D

All you bloody see on here, i got me new card, so heres the mandatory crapsis bench, then its going back in the cupboard to collect even more dust, ill dig it out again when the next gen arrives and i get one, and tell yer i still can't run the ****, get in, i can't ******* wait. :p
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well at least someone finding a use for crysis :p
 
Dr_Fartypants said:
Yeah, I think you're kind of missing the point...

It doesn't matter how well written or enjoyable the game is - if it highlights instabilities in the GPU where other programs don't, then it's doing its job as a stability tool.

If "hello kitty island adventure 3" came out, with an engine that looked like crap and ran at 3fps on top of the range rigs, then I would still use it as a stability test if it exposed weaknesses that other programs did not find. A GPU in a particular confiuration is, after all, either stable under all circumstances, or not stable.
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Your missing the point, the game is not well written, they have even gave up trying to patch it. ;)
 
helmutcheese said:
Your missing the point, the game is not well written, they have even gave up trying to patch it. ;)
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And what, exactly, has that got to do with stability testing?

A piece of hardware, be it CPU, GPU, memory, mobile phone or whatever, is either stable - in which case it will process all data passed to it without calculation errors - or it isn't. It's a simple concept really.

If a software tool - be it a game, an overclocking utility or whatever else - exposes instabilities in a piece of hardware it is a useful stability testing tool, in particular if it exposes instabilities that other programs do not. It's quality (or lack thereof) in its other functions is irrelevant as far as its utility as a stability testing tool is concerned. I thought you might have gleaned this rather simple concept from my satirical 'hello kitty island adventure' example, but apparently not.
 
I gauge my Overclocked CPU's stability on its ability to run all aspects of Orthos and then pass 3Dmark without errors.

I feel you need to play your games more instead of OC'ing a GPU that does not for now need OC'ing and seem more obsessed with this than enjoying your games.

I'm sure we can get CM to mess up GRID (for example) with more patches if you want to artifact or crash your PC, does that mean that the PC is in the wrong or the game ?. ;)

I know apart from the bad code job above and a few console ports I can run any game at 1920x1440 with full AF+AA with very good FPS (that's 16x of each not 8x like some n00b the other day tried to **** me about posting screenies of benches at ONLY 8x with far higher FPS than 16x would get).

I would assume your on a lesser RES of 1920x1200 so you should not have issues on a GTX280.
 
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