DirectX10

Jaap74 · 24 Jul 2006 at 12:00

any idea when the DirectX10 capable cards will be coming out ?

TLJester1 · 24 Jul 2006 at 12:03

Sometime after lunch

Stelly · 24 Jul 2006 at 12:05

Sometime next year mate, first quarter

Stelly

LoadsaMoney · 24 Jul 2006 at 12:08

End of the year ive heard, DX10 can't be used till Vista comes out anyway, and thats supposedly January, or sometime in the first quarter of the year as said above.

TLJester1 · 24 Jul 2006 at 12:17

Didnt Gibbo say in another thread that OCUK are expecting deliviery of nVidia 8000 series around Oct ?

HicRic · 24 Jul 2006 at 12:20

TLJester1 said:
Didnt Gibbo say in another thread that OCUK are expecting deliviery of nVidia 8000 series around Oct ?

They are not DX10 cards as far as I'm aware.

lay-z-boy · 24 Jul 2006 at 12:29

HicRic said:
They are not DX10 cards as far as I'm aware.

what?
where did you hear that?

g80 and r600 are both dx10

ROfu · 24 Jul 2006 at 12:30

I'm a little confused, as i thought the G80 IS a dx10 card.. and from all the news on most websites their not due till april next year.. or possibly sooner to coincide with the release of Vista.

Ive seen a few posts now talking about the g80.. and no one seems to know exactly what the state of play is.. i guess nvidia are holding back the info - this tends to suggest their not being released soon.

Myself and a few others seem to be considering upgrades in the near future. would be very helpfull to know if anyone at OcUK has a good ball park date/month on thier release

Cheers
ROfu

TLJester1 · 24 Jul 2006 at 12:44

Here's Gibbo's post http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=7504679&postcount=9

Gibbo said:
Hi there

X1950 will be in shops no doubt mid-end September.

Then in late September/October GeForce 8000 will appear.......

ted34 · 24 Jul 2006 at 13:00

Think this is wrong but i read that for dx10 you need compatible cpu as well. Is that correct as i always thought it was vista and gpu

killer_uk · 24 Jul 2006 at 13:15

ted34 said:
Think this is wrong but i read that for dx10 you need compatible cpu as well. Is that correct as i always thought it was vista and gpu

No, you don't need a compatible CPU.

HicRic · 24 Jul 2006 at 13:35

lay-z-boy said:
what?
where did you hear that?

g80 and r600 are both dx10

My bad, need to wake up more before posting on the 'net.

I'm wrong, they are dx10.

locutus12 · 24 Jul 2006 at 13:57

Jaap74 said:
any idea when the DirectX10 capable cards will be coming out ?

USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION....

can anyone count how many of these damn posts weve had in the last 4 weeks ?

Jaap74 · 24 Jul 2006 at 14:57

why would you read this thread then if you've seen it that many times ?

Killajaz · 24 Jul 2006 at 16:52

locutus12 · 24 Jul 2006 at 17:46

Jaap74 said:
why would you read this thread then if you've seen it that many times ?

i read it to check it wasnt something new and to tell you to use the search function, one of these threads is put up every couple of days, i dont mean to get on your case, im just saying use the search function as youl find a lot of information about directX10, this threads simple doubling the information already available.

some examples...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17596699&highlight=directX10
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17571568&highlight=directX10
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17558904&highlight=directX10
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17592966&highlight=directX10

and thats just the tip of the ice berg

Jaap74 · 24 Jul 2006 at 18:10

yeah now worries

thanks for the links

i'm asking as i'm upgrading around conroe prior to christmas and want to know if its worth waiting for the new card..... like anything else you can wait forever for the next piece of new technology i suppose.....

locutus12 · 24 Jul 2006 at 18:42

personally i wont be going directX10 till at least feb / march 2007. there wont be many games out there that use DX10 till at least half way through 2007.

3 of the biggest anticipated games for several years are all DX9....

Spore - DX9 <---- possibly one of the most innovative games in the last 10 years.

Unreal tournament 2007 - DX9 <---- meh, first person shooter with HDR and a blade runner look to it, not my cup of tea, no thought required to play.

Supreme Commander - DX9 <---- the greatest Real time stratergy ever created, keep your eyes on this.

and they will all be out between november 2006 and march 2007.

SiriusB · 24 Jul 2006 at 19:25

There is also the fact the Vista will be a buggy piece of crap when it's released, so I wont be touching it until at least the first service pack. No DX10 for me for a while. But I don't care, in the grand scheme of things I have only had my X1900 5 minutes

SiriusB

locutus12 · 24 Jul 2006 at 22:06

SiriusB said:
There is also the fact the Vista will be a buggy piece of crap when it's released, so I wont be touching it until at least the first service pack. No DX10 for me for a while.

quoted for truth, now im off to place a bet on how long it will be after Vista`s release before they find a security whole the size of texas. im betting 14 days tops.