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1st Fermi review

mame said:
I think I am the only person here who thinks anything more than £200 for a graphics card is insane:confused: Ideally £150 is better:o
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Depends, some people spend a lot of money on drinking, or cars, or gambling etc.. If your main hobby is computers then even £300+ for a card that will last probably 12+ months is not that bad.

I've never spent more than £150 on a card myself, but i can easily see why some people choose to.
 
gurusan said:
I don't know if that's the case. It's a bit faster than a 5870 but I have a feeling these will be dreadful overclockers, yet the 5870 can easily breeze to over 1GHz. Not to mention the price :/ seems like a 480 would be a poor choice in my opinion.
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Early days though to get this much performance out of the first revision Nvidia obviously ran the numbers & know its going to only improve otherwise they would have delayed again.

They probably do not even need to overclock as the drivers must be a lot more complex to allow for the onboard CPU cache which I can guess will act as a prefetcher for the frame buffer or pre-render the next frame which could get very interesting......
 
You could buy a 5870 and add a second old/cheap Nvidia card such as a 240 or 9600 for physx. Thats less than the likely price of the 480. And will probably use less power.

If review sites are going to insist on benching with physx on, then they should do this.
 
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p0rks0da said:
Depends, some people spend a lot of money on drinking, or cars, or gambling etc.. If your main hobby is computers then even £300+ for a card that will last probably 12+ months is not that bad.

I've never spent more than £150 on a card myself, but i can easily see why some people choose to.
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This. I choose to spend a fair bit of cash on pc stuff once a year or so, worked for the money etc.
 
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Looks impressive.
 
Yes there bias results. But who cares what people wanted to see was to see what the card do and we saw that (even with PhysX on) Seriosuly if you had an nVidia card adn you had the option to turn on PhysX you would turn it on to make the game run better :)
 
Some very nice numbers there with the physicsx enabled and we all know a lot of games do infact use it lol. Will be interesting to see benchies with it disabled compared to the 5870s plus a benchmark with it enabled vs a 5870 with a physics card in the same rig
 
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