What current state? even if it only gives comparable performance I'd buy one over the ATI 5 series, I'm not personally bothered by price or heat/power issues. Although I don't plan on buying the first gen GF100 cards anyhow unless a proper DX11 title comes along.
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Nvidia 480GTX's power usage lie...
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Well erm... http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/...e_Pull_Stride_Next_Quarter_CEO_of_Nvidia.html that type of thing
Just out of curiosity why?
Personally I don't give to monkeys who makes the card, I buy whatever suits me at the time, but I can't see much reason why you would want one of the latest Nvidia cards over the ATI 5 series, unless i've missed something.
I think I ll land up with Radeon again anyways
reason for 3 monitors you need 2 fermis...expensive, and quite hot and I have a X48 mobo
besides i would perfer to wait for the benchis for these, they are sounded to be a white elephant tbh
reason for 3 monitors you need 2 fermis...expensive, and quite hot and I have a X48 mobo
besides i would perfer to wait for the benchis for these, they are sounded to be a white elephant tbh
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Because Rroff has magic eyes, he sees things other people don't.
Oh god here we go.
Before everyone starts describing their personal anecdotes as absolute fact and consensus of opinion and technical truth, I'm going to make one request: Pepsi challenge or gtfo.
Power consumption is pretty much what you would expect for a high end card, 40a 650w psu reccomended - thats pretty much entry level for a PSU in a gaming rig. I honestly cant see what all the fuss is for, yes ATI equivelent cards may use less under load, but when you translate that into actual money saved on your electric bill, its irellevant, especially for a gaming rig. :/
Because Rroff has magic eyes, he sees things other people don't.
Like pink elephants perhaps?
Because Rroff has magic eyes, he sees things other people don't.
Occasionally he also doesn't see something everyone else can.
it does make me laugh sometimes that on an overclocking forum where most of us have turned off all the power saving features of our CPU's just to get an extra few MHz out of them that we are so worried about the power usage of our graphics cards.
just food for thought.
just food for thought.
Probably because even heavily overclocked, a modern CPU still typically draws nowhere near 200W (let alone 300!) by itself. Also because lower power consumption typically indicates one or more of either better overclocking potential, quieter cooling, lower failure rate or less heat output.
yes thats correct.
plus is costs more to heat house via GPU than normal central heating solutions, lol
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GeForce GTX 480 : 512 SP, 384-bit, 295W TDP, US$499
GeForce GTX 470 : 448 SP, 320-bit, 225W TDP, US$349
Above pricing information taken from here.
I have to admit, it's not as expensive as I thought it was going to be. I'll just wait now to see if the 480 actually is the "Fastest GPU in the World"...
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Could just be the case that Nvidia thought '**** the power issues, we need the card to actually beat the 5870', even if just marginally. Or that whoever said it was a 480-core card got the wrong end of the stick when reading the name.
Edit: Ohhhh the original reporter of that rumour was BSN. Haha. BS News indeed.
Edit: Ohhhh the original reporter of that rumour was BSN. Haha. BS News indeed.
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