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G80 specs finally confirmed! NOT old news!

Uriel said:
People that buy the first wave of a new product get stung.
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how is it that they get stung, I've never used Purevideo and I never intend to, I don't care much about sli (even tho it's being fixed before the cards being released) and HDCP being borked (even if that's true) is'nt going to effect no one, I just want this G80 to run my games fast, nothing else.

fornowagain said:
What a joke. Wait for the refresh. It'll be cheaper and there'll actually be DX10 to use it with.
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Whats the joke ? :confused: and who's buying this card for DX10, I'm certainly not, I'm getting sick to the teeth about all this DX10 talk :mad: , this card will kill anything curruntly avaliable in DX9 also AND ?
 
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  • SLi Broken... but will be fixed before release = Not bothered about this then.
  • HDCP... hmm, interesting as it perhaps would have been a good thing to have. Will now wait till more information arrives before purchasing one. Play it safe.

but the main thing which I care about...


  • The complete removal of the old CP in the 95.xx forceware drivers! :eek:

Complete?! As in, now I can't choose and I have to use the new one, which although looks nice is no where near as functional as the old CP.

Now that I am not happy about. :mad:
 
rippling said:
eh? did i mention ati? no , dont know why you think i am ati fan boy i have a NVIDIA card just now! god!
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both comanies are know for releasing unfinished or borked hardware promising something that it just cant do , i got a 6800gt because of the hardware encoding and decoding , to find after i bought the 6800 gt (on day of releae) that the bloody card cant do it!
Nvidia is worse than ati ......at certain things , ati are worse on others!
 
Firegod said:
    • The complete removal of the old CP in the 95.xx forceware drivers! :eek:

    Complete?! As in, now I can't choose and I have to use the new one, which although looks nice is no where near as functional as the old CP.

    Now that I am not happy about. :mad:
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  • I must admit that is a little annoying, surely there will be hacked versions of the drivers that will allow you to use the old CP, do you think ?
 
lowrider007 said:
I must admit that is a little annoying, surely there will be hacked versions of the drivers that will allow you to use the old CP, do you recon ?
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it is a shame you have to use hacked drivers at all though isnt it :eek:
 
lowrider007 said:
I must admit that is a little annoying, surely there will be hacked versions of the drivers that will allow you to use the old CP, do you think ?
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that will depend. the original cp files would have to be include in the driver set for it to be hacked
 
its all about moving on guys , or so the graphics card companies would have you believe ,
dont know why they changed the first CP there was nothing wrong with it , but the new one looks very pretty , nice nvidia logo spinning with jaggies till you up the aa !
 
Duff-Man said:
Just to add more fuel onto the rumour-fire: :p




The above is from one of the 'master gurus' at guru3d forums ( http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=201168&page=2 ). Pinch of salt time as always, but I have a feeling these will turn out to be roughly correct. I'm assuming the numbers at the end are 3dmark 05/06 scores...
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I hope the above performance of the G80 is realistic, as I have two GX2's that will be getting the shove off to EVGA and replaced with two G80's :p
and I don't even care about DX10, and especially not Vista. :)

I hope they charge no more than £400 for the G80 as then EVGA would have to pay me to upgrade :D :p
Hopefully the prices will be good by mid December when my step-up is due.
 
LEUVEN said:
I hope they charge no more than £400.
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I wouldn't count on it, lol.

Check out my thread about the leaked Asus packaging and card pictures, the same source says that the 8800GTX will be selling for $540 FOB and someone else in the thread pointed out that FOB is tallied up long before MSRP.

If you take into account that this is dollars and that we in this country usually get ripped off on prices even before tax, you're not looking at a cheap graphics card.
 
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Firegod said:

  • but the main thing which I care about...

    • The complete removal of the old CP in the 95.xx forceware drivers! :eek:
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  • Oh dear, gota use modified drivers then if you want the old CP, hmm im sure someone else has to do that if they don't want the new CCC, who was it now, nope sorry, minds a complete blank. :p
 
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Information overload here.

Is it really worth getting excited about this card? better revisions are bound to come out soon after!

I could have kicked myself for jumping in feet first and not making the most of some of my previous hardware, especially graphic cards.
 
 
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I think they'd put more effort into the cooler tbh. This is the first DX10 card ever to be released, I'm pretty sure it'll look more enticing than that.
 
I can't believe we're talking about how it looks.
It's most likely made that way to keep it cool enough >_<.
Gawd!
 
That's a lot of PCB fixings.


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Check out the core. Big enough for 700M transistors?

 
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