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Nvidia's Geforce GT 240 launches November 17th
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the problem is there is more money in doing this than bring out a "new" top end card
little change to orignal just rebranded and these will sell so many more in the mainstream than any new card would and profit is so much more
little change to orignal just rebranded and these will sell so many more in the mainstream than any new card would and profit is so much more
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meh, Nvidia are in a real mess at the moment
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lolol, Fud actually went a few days a couple weeks back where he actually appeared angry at Nvidia and almost pro ATi with a few of the remarks he was saying.
Then he promptly went into Nvidia spin mode again, and now, the GT240 might do well in its target segment? really, its more expensive and slower than 4850, it will likely only just undercut the 5750 in price yet be noticeable behind it in performance, even overclocked, with far fewer features.
You'd have to be utterly mad to buy any of the 40nm refresh of old gen Nvidia parts, non of the gt220/gt240 parts can compete on cost/performance/features at all. IF and its a huge if, you can find one significantly lower in cost than its ATi equivilent and you don't need the features then maybe, but basically you can find better ati alternatives for cheaper, which makes their entire range pointless.
Then he promptly went into Nvidia spin mode again, and now, the GT240 might do well in its target segment? really, its more expensive and slower than 4850, it will likely only just undercut the 5750 in price yet be noticeable behind it in performance, even overclocked, with far fewer features.
You'd have to be utterly mad to buy any of the 40nm refresh of old gen Nvidia parts, non of the gt220/gt240 parts can compete on cost/performance/features at all. IF and its a huge if, you can find one significantly lower in cost than its ATi equivilent and you don't need the features then maybe, but basically you can find better ati alternatives for cheaper, which makes their entire range pointless.
Who cares about DX11 yet though? Probably just the people who bought new radeons, not that it's even important yet.
Don't quite understand all the comments about nvidia being so terrible recently, I'm sure they have something new in the pipeline (excuse the pun). After quite a few years with them being top dog with the 8800 series and the GTX2xx series being well up there too, it's like everyone's forgotten about that. Senseless fanboyism from people who have no idea what they're talking about.
Don't quite understand all the comments about nvidia being so terrible recently, I'm sure they have something new in the pipeline (excuse the pun). After quite a few years with them being top dog with the 8800 series and the GTX2xx series being well up there too, it's like everyone's forgotten about that. Senseless fanboyism from people who have no idea what they're talking about.
Not really, Nvidia had the DirectX10 spec cut down, DirectX10.1 is what it should have been, Nvidia couldn't make it so had bits cut out of the spec, so now we have underwhelming effects in DirectX10 games, also, with all the dodgy business practices such as removing DirectX10.1 from Assassins Creed as they couldn't do it, and then making anti aliasing only work on Nvidia cards in Batman, and it could work perfectly fine in ATi cards as a recent hack proved. Not only that, PhysX in that game also only ran on one core meaning it gave their GPU PhysX tech an artificial boost which it shouldn't have. It's Nvidia ****ing their consumers off with cutting down specs, dirty buisness practices and having underperforming, overpriced cards, and they're getting everything they deserve IMO.
Well all I can say is, don't buy their cards then. The endless rebranding and questionable business practices are one thing, but the quality of the graphics cards and their product lineup isn't the same. I can understand not liking the company, but their products have been good. Just not a problem to me, though I just buy whichever card seems best at the time, I've owned radeons and geforce cards alike, I just dont like this jumping on the hate nvidia bandwagon, it's so tiresome. One day ATI will do something similar and everyone will jump on the hate ATI bandwagon. Sigh.
I think it's more about value for money when quality is mentioned.
nVidia make good products, we all know this, but they lack value which makes them poor products.