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G80 specs finally confirmed! NOT old news!
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Caporegime
Dx10 is not gona be worth having for about a year+ yet, so thats a mute point.
Im not biased to ATi, ive been saying since the x1950 came out that it was a load of crap, if ATi were releasing a £500+ DX10 card now, then id be on that to, there is no point in releasing a DX10 card 3-4 months before D10 can be used, G80 is only good for DX9 to giv you a few more frames, but £500 is not going to be worth it, yes it has DX10 features, but it wont be £500 for long, and by the time DX10 is released it will be peanuts as the faster refresher will be coming, if you want a G80 get one, just wait a week or so for the price to drop, don't pay £500.
Im not biased to ATi, ive been saying since the x1950 came out that it was a load of crap, if ATi were releasing a £500+ DX10 card now, then id be on that to, there is no point in releasing a DX10 card 3-4 months before D10 can be used, G80 is only good for DX9 to giv you a few more frames, but £500 is not going to be worth it, yes it has DX10 features, but it wont be £500 for long, and by the time DX10 is released it will be peanuts as the faster refresher will be coming, if you want a G80 get one, just wait a week or so for the price to drop, don't pay £500.
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LMFAO. 
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8036333&postcount=63
And also he said he wanted DX10 features, so that's a mute point.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8036333&postcount=63
And also he said he wanted DX10 features, so that's a mute point.
Caporegime
Well if he wants Dx10 features, then as i said give it a week or so and dont pay £500, or wait till DX10 is out if you want the features and buy a card then, not like hes going to be missing out on Dx10 is it if he buys a DX10 card when DX10 is released. 
yes but by the looks of it the g80 wont run dx9 uber fast will it?naffa said:LMFAO.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8036333&postcount=63
And also he said he wanted DX10 features, so that's a mute point.
i am not a ati fan boy , but simply 2 x1950xtx destroys any other dual card set up at the moment! pure and simple
regards the laughing at the 64bit cpu , we have 64 bit operating systems now , so the 64bit cpus are not usless , why run out ot get a dx10 card when the release of dx10 will be 3 months away at the soonest and another 3 months before any games take advantage lol
well said loads , why do you want a dx10 card , you wont SEE ANY DIFFERENCE hahahaha if its to say nananana i can get 10.5k in 3d 06
some one with an uber sli or cross fire set up will come along and say ananana i get 12k lol
Caporegime
How many ppl are gona be gutted after shelling out £500 on a G80 only to see it down to about £400 after a week or so.
thats ture , look how long 64 bit computing has taken to catch on , xp64 was crap , all the promise of huge games enviroments etc , it has never come offnaffa said:
vista 64 might be the same for a while
if dx10 takes as long , then dx10 cards will be even more of a mute point
Will Vista is going to RTM the middle of next month and only volume license customers will be able to order systems with it. There is an embargo on all the OEM's not to ship to the general public until the launch day in January. But I will tell you this, the only thing stopping the OEM's from shipping early is possible fines from MS, which MS didn't implement when Gateway shipped XP early. I can tell you now with 100% certainty that all the OEMS have systems ready to ship with every flavour of Vista and are beavering away doing production runs using RC2. So all it takes is one OEM to ship Vista next month (which they will almost definitely do) and the likes of Dell, Gatway, HP, Fujitsu, Acer etc.. will all be following them. There is just too much money at stake in November which is the most busy month of the year for nearly every PC manufacturer. If MS deliver final RTM code Vista will almost definitely ship next month.
Where I am going with this, is the question of DX10 games support. Surely Nvidia have done deals with some games developers to have DX10 games shipping in January ? Otherwise it seems the G80 is just an exercise in having a card out a bit faster in DX9 then any single card solution at a really really expensive price with DX10 features that will be marketed but not used until the G80 refresh comes.
Where I am going with this, is the question of DX10 games support. Surely Nvidia have done deals with some games developers to have DX10 games shipping in January ? Otherwise it seems the G80 is just an exercise in having a card out a bit faster in DX9 then any single card solution at a really really expensive price with DX10 features that will be marketed but not used until the G80 refresh comes.
m8 nvidia just wanted to be first out before ati with a dx10 card , crysis is the only game to use dx10 so far , apart from the dx10 only halo 2 and alan wake.......Flanno said:
dont think any deal can be made with games produceres to have dx10 games out in january , crysois developers said dx10 is a nightmare at the moment as microsoft keep releasing new api code to them , so they have to start from the beginging again
posted further on in that thread ......naffa said:
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 35 Re: DirectX 10 Titles
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Actually none of the games listed are DX10.0. They are all DX9.0c where SM3.0 are barely explored. It's big misunderstanding here. The game might require DirectSound component of DX10.0 for example, but it doesn't mean it's DX10.0 game. The bottom line is that there will be no visual difference running any of these games using DX9.0c vs DX10.0 card...but only in performance...
LMFAO.rippling said:Actually none of the games listed are DX10.0. They are all DX9.0c where SM3.0 are barely explored. It's big misunderstanding here. The game might require DirectSound component of DX10.0 for example, but it doesn't mean it's DX10.0 game. The bottom line is that there will be no visual difference running any of these games using DX9.0c vs DX10.0 card...but only in performance...
64bit CPUs anyone?