New ATI cards out in less than month?

[deusexlumina]

I currently have a pretty decent system for the games I play, but want to upgrade my card for operation flashpoint among other things....am I likely to see bottle necks with the new GPU with this system:

E6600 @ stock
Intel badaxe 2
2gb ddr2 ram

I will be moving up from a 8800GTS. I know it is hard to tell at this stage, but any ideas? Should I revamp the rest of the system or get more ram at the same time?

if you buy a high performance card a bit of a bottleneck will be present, you might want to upgrade/ overclock the processor a tad

 

[The Asgard]

I currently have a pretty decent system for the games I play, but want to upgrade my card for operation flashpoint among other things....am I likely to see bottle necks with the new GPU with this system:

E6600 @ stock
Intel badaxe 2
2gb ddr2 ram

I will be moving up from a 8800GTS. I know it is hard to tell at this stage, but any ideas? Should I revamp the rest of the system or get more ram at the same time?

Even the current high end cards would see gains if you upgraded / overclocked your cpu.

 

[Booner!]

I haven't overclocked for about 3 years now! I just bought the system when those parts came out and left it at stock. The last system I overclocked had parts I bought from you Asgard! I will have to browse some guides online to overclock my cpu then.

 

[The Asgard]

The last system I overclocked had parts I bought from you Asgard!

It would have been good kit then. I only go for the best Must have been a while ago? What was it?

 

[sxndy]

Thats the problem with buying stuff, there is always something new just around the corner.

 

[xman01]

not if you buy it as it releases, then it's around the block

 

[Mr Goat]

If you can wait, and that's a big if, then wait for various sites to test the kit when it comes out. Within a few days the Internet will be awash with info about the cards including what hardware it will or won't work on.

Be patient my boy

 

[Frame352]

Is this still speculation? I heard a rumour of a July release for Ati's next gen, but thought it was still pretty much speculation.

If it's true however, I'll probably be buying, along with pre-ordering a copy of Windows 7. Then make another upgrade or two (SSD perhaps), when the OS is available in October. That should keep the symptoms of upgraditis at bay for a while

 

[Booner!]

I have been! Waited nearly 3 years I don't upgrade often, but when I do...I do it properly!

 

[mrk]

Oh snap, so much the next 8~ weeks!

Windows 7 is being bought anyway, now I see new DX11 cards are going to be out too. Time my GTX260 got considered for sale then

 

[MoRT489]

Any date for phase EOL of i7 920?

 

[drunkenmaster]

Well everyone thought it would be available by Win 7, but Ati were saying it would be sooner than you think so wouldn't be surprised to see them before then at all.

It looks like Nvidia's dx11 parts are a good 6 months away if not 8-9 months. THe laughable excuse of a dx10.1 card from Nvidia coming with 40nm in maybe August or later, are going to be, wait for it, 24 stream, and 48 stream parts.......... meaning 2 in sli will give you half the juice of the original 260gtx, ok at least Nvidia finally have some low end up to date cards to compete with. No idea why they've so completely ignored the segment for 2 years.


Just a kick in the teeth that a LOT of whats going to be great about dx11, should have been in dx10 in the first place thanks to Nvidia

I don't like Nvidia, their practice, their paying off game dev's, but I'll still buy one if its majorly faster. Finding it hard to imagine them competing when bringing out a card thats going to be sooo damn late. The more we shift into programable shading styles, the easier and easier it will become to leverage the full juice out of the "units" of shaders that ATi has and the less of an advantage that single shader units have, so Nvidia's huge expensive cores really isn't the way to be going right now.

I honestly hope Nvidia have had a large redesign and have gone more ATi like with a small efficient die, otherwise they'll be overly expensive again and while AMD/ATi have done the right thing and priced very competitively rather than undercut Nvidia by a bit and make more money, how long they can continue to do so I don't know.

 

[cHk4]

Well last card I got was the 7800 the day it was released so I will hold out for one of these, I think I will notice the upgrade from a DX9 card to a DX11 card

 

[Tute]

I can't see this being any more than a die shrink of the HD4000 series with Dx11 added.

It's just too early, and with nVidia probably not ready to add their offering until at least Q4 there's not a lot of point in doing anything else.

 

[Dauthi]

i thought nvidia were going to release a refresh with dx 10.1 to try and see them through to there dx 11 cards?

 

[ray liotta]

Noob question. But would a DX11 card improve a game like ArmA 2 much?

Or will we only get the full benefit of DX11 when a game is built around it?

DX10 was utter utter horse poop. I just hope this don't go same way.

Im guessing my 1k game rig budget will have to be increased to nearly 2k to get all this new stuff when out But couple of weeks to save so should be ok.

 

[Mr Goat]

My understanding is that unless a game is coded for a specific directx version then there's no benefit. i.e. arma2 won't benefit from dx11

 

[ray liotta]

My understanding is that unless a game is coded for a specific directx version then there's no benefit. i.e. arma2 won't benefit from dx11

Cheers, guessing it be 2 years before any game takes advantage of DX11 in reality.

 

[The Asgard]

My understanding is that unless a game is coded for a specific directx version then there's no benefit. i.e. arma2 won't benefit from dx11

It might not benefit from DX11 but it will certainly benefit from the additonal grunt of the hardware.

 

[TommyV]

Just as i order a 4890 XT. *******!