Caporegime
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- 18 Oct 2002
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i would say get a gts 640mb over the gtx. mainly because at some point you'll end up wanting to buy the next generation of cards and the gtx is a lot cheaper and will depreciate in value a lot less. say a gts might sell for £150 at the end of the year 2nd hand but a gtx would only get £180-200. save that money for next upgrade 
and get a e6600 now, or april anyway for like £160, then end of year get a quad version for £160ish also.
as for the G90 or 8900's, whatever its called the specs are THE SAME. the only reason they "might" call it a G90 is because they "MIGHT" be able to make it on a 65nm process, same pipes, probo gddr4 and 1gig of it,128 or 96 shaders. they can release it as a G5000 if they want but doesn't change whats under the hood.
unless there actually part of the core not working right and ATi have completely screwed up the card will be faster, matches the G80 in all specs but also add's a wider bus, more mem, faster mem and faster core speeds. i doubt it will manage get more than 20% faster. can only see G90/8900 being faster if it does get to 65nm and even then its not gonna get hugely faster, it will have a narrower bus(most likely) and realistically not hugely faster clocks than a R600.
and get a e6600 now, or april anyway for like £160, then end of year get a quad version for £160ish also.
as for the G90 or 8900's, whatever its called the specs are THE SAME. the only reason they "might" call it a G90 is because they "MIGHT" be able to make it on a 65nm process, same pipes, probo gddr4 and 1gig of it,128 or 96 shaders. they can release it as a G5000 if they want but doesn't change whats under the hood.
unless there actually part of the core not working right and ATi have completely screwed up the card will be faster, matches the G80 in all specs but also add's a wider bus, more mem, faster mem and faster core speeds. i doubt it will manage get more than 20% faster. can only see G90/8900 being faster if it does get to 65nm and even then its not gonna get hugely faster, it will have a narrower bus(most likely) and realistically not hugely faster clocks than a R600.
But, i can't afford any yet, ain't got any money. 
I'm saving though 