***9800 GX2 reviews and overclocking in here***

[Marek]

Hmm, soon nobody will have any money anyway due to current economic crisis. Nvidia and ATI can release cards capable of running Crysis at 200FPS with everything on ultra high. Nobody will be able to afford these cards because we all will be busy thinking about our rents, food and energy prices.

 

[Rackerz]

Looks like its the 174.53's that Nvidia's gona up today then, better keep my eye out for em.

You had better mister!

 

[easyrider]

Where's the test agains two 8800 GTS in SLI?

 

[Electronic Punk]

I guess we will have to see what price happens.

No-one has yet mentioned muliple monitors and SLI either, only fair seeing as ATI/AMD can do it.

Also the audio out from HDMI sounds pretty cool on the AMD cards.

 

[inactionman]

Where's the test agains two 8800 GTS in SLI?

Probably not allowed to do them, as it would perform almost identically.

 

[Guardsmon]

to be honest though I don't think the price is too bad, that is if we are lucky enough to get it at anything need $600 - 650 . My 8800GTX wasn't that far off that 8 months back and the ultra still isn't far off that if you can find it.
For what it is at the suggested US costs it is a very good card. I won't be getting one, but it does what it was built to do - beat AMD.

 

[easyrider]

9600 GT in SLI is near the same as GX2 in COD 4 @ 2560x1600 at the cost of 200 quid.

 

[edgedemon]

I knew it would happen, there I was, perfectly happy with my OC2 8800GT and now looking at these fps charts, Im not happy and I want one...

 

[RavenXXX2]

Where's the test agains two 8800 GTS in SLI?

http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/NVIDIA_nForce_790i_SLI_Ultra_and_GeForce_9800_GX2/?page=15

Here's a review i found with the GTS in SLI, GX2 seems a real quality card pushing out some high frame rates, even being on bigger process than the X2 it uses less power at load.

 

[FreeStream]

Couldn't give a monkies.

SLi/Crossfire doesn't work in FS-X so means nothing :/

 

[easyrider]

http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/NVIDIA_nForce_790i_SLI_Ultra_and_GeForce_9800_GX2/?page=15

Here's a review i found with the GTS in SLI, GX2 seems a real quality card pushing out some high frame rates, even being on bigger process than the X2 it uses less power at load.

8800GTS in SLI is faster and cheaper then

 

[Guardsmon]

--nothing-- *Sorry*

 

[kylew]

The GX2 is the new single card two beat in terms of performance now, not surprising really. Shocking performance of three X2 cards in XFIRE though, even the 9600's in SLI put it to shame, now who said XFIRE scales better than SLI.

You can't crossfire 3 X2s, it's 3 GPUs as in an X2 and a 3870

 

[LoadsaMoney]

The GX2 is the new single card two beat in terms of performance now, not surprising really.

Its not a single card, its 2x Stuck together.

Probably not allowed to do them, as it would perform almost identically.

GX2 would be slower id have thought, as they downclocked the 2x GTS's to GT speeds.

 

[straxusii]

Added anandtech http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3266&p=1

Plenty more showing up here: http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=250841

 

[inactionman]

Yeah, looking at the review that contrasts between the GX2 and the GT, there isn't much in it, and on the price/performance stakes SLI GT's win hands down.

The GX2 is an idiotic product tbh, far too overpriced.

 

[easyrider]

Its not a single card, its 2x Stuck together.
.

Don't go there!

Anandtech

"As far as single card solutions, the 9800 GX2 is currently the alpha dog"


Its still a single card Solution

 

[HeX]

Good performance, quite impressed actually. But very very overpriced when you look how close the SLi 9600's are in many of the tests, and you can get a pair of those for less than half the price of a GX2...

 

[Secret_Window]

it has pretty good performance, but when you consider the cost effective performance it loses out to the 9600 GT sli'd.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Its true though, it is 2x cards bodged together, theres no getting away from it, the X2 is a single card.