Gibbo is getting an R600!!

The Asgard · 4 Apr 2007 at 19:37

Gibbo,
Great news! I look forward to your results and more importantly what you think about the card.

I think its safe to say that along with performance a lot of people will be interested in knowing how loud the card is under load? Oh and how well the thing overclocks

Have fun mate.

uvarvu · 4 Apr 2007 at 22:57

I don't care if R600 turns out to be "old tech". At least it will probably work in vista...lol. Plus I can stick two of them on my badaxe 2

Nelly · 4 Apr 2007 at 23:55

Nahema said:
I don't care if R600 turns out to be "old tech". At least it will probably work in vista...lol. Plus I can stick two of them on my badaxe 2

We wont know that untill it's actually tested in Vista. As long as the results are accurate to the actual retail product - I'm hoping he does have a retail card in his hands then I & like many others will be more happier.

Have to agree though, it better beat the 8800GTX by around 20%, personally Id rather have a graphics card that DOES properly, also whose to say how well either the Nvidia cards or ATI R600 will do when running actual DX10 games. . . . ?

There isnt any way to test these with DX10 Games is there!! so no conclusive evidence as to how these cards really perform.!!!!!

Alexrose1uk · 5 Apr 2007 at 00:55

Gibbo said:
Hi there

Your talking to someone who used to be a 3D Mark worldwide record holder, I won't dismiss such settings.

I didnt think you would, I remember you saying about such things before, but Im sure we all know too well the power of excitement and presales!

Good luck and lets see these things go.

Providing ATI bring out some nice competition in either the speed, or in price: perf departments, at the end of the day there'll be a lot of happy people!

If they're 10-20% faster, excellent, if they produce the same performance at 4/5ths of the cost, excellent, if they can do one of those two (or better) then Im sure a lot of the doommongers for ATI will change thier tunes; and if not, then at least we will still at least have some price competition for Nvidia on our hands which is better for us all!

Go go Gibbo!

Btw, if you want to benchmark some demo's for us, fraps is very easy to use, as you can set it to display average fps etc, and then take screenprints etc

lay-z-boy · 5 Apr 2007 at 02:27

Shocky-FM said:
What planet you on? stalker and SupCom NOT graphically intensive? Lol

I would add to the list tomb raider legend if possible as currently the 8800 series is the only card that can really handle it in next gen mode and it would be interesting to see how R600 compares. I think theres a demo but not sure if you can enable next gen mode or not.

Read my post again, perhaps the whole thread as well.

Perfect_Chaos · 5 Apr 2007 at 06:46

Gibbo said:
Hi there

Our technical department have some games, but how to benchmark them I ham clueless on.

Why not just look up on google how to record the fps? you can use fraps

and this little piggy stayed home

Shocky-FM · 5 Apr 2007 at 08:34

lay-z-boy said:
Read my post again, perhaps the whole thread as well.

lay-z-boy said:
Last time i looked you had to pay for those games and they are not exactly graphically intensive either. (demo doesn't tax modern machines)

Shocky said:
What planet you on? stalker and SupCom NOT graphically intensive? Lol

Gibbo said:
If there are other programmes/benchmarks which are available free to dowload, post me a link and we shall happily run that too. Please bear in mind we won't be going out buying games but if anyone provides a link to a free legal download we shall happily test that too.

Shocky said:
I would add to the list tomb raider legend if possible as currently the 8800 series is the only card that can really handle it in next gen mode and it would be interesting to see how R600 compares. I think theres a demo but not sure if you can enable next gen mode or not

Take your own advice...

SkeeterUK · 5 Apr 2007 at 08:46

Alexrose1uk said:
Gibbo, just as a small point (I know its easy to forget; not intending this post as an insult), when benching the R600, make sure you go into the ATI drivers and set the card to performance settings, rather than the standard 'balanced' ATI's cards are usually set to in drivers as default

Just saying as its customary to benchy at performance not balanced settings, and I know its an easy setting to overlook when waiting excitedly to test a card (or presell a product )

I always bench at stock settings and thought most did.

Vogon · 5 Apr 2007 at 08:58

SkeeterPSA said:
I always bench at stock settings and thought most did.

Me too, if you are pushing for a WR then you use every trick, but performance for me is no good if it looks poor, I would rather it was done at stock driver settings, having said that 3DM06 is not going to give us an example of how games run TBH.
Can someone tell me when the NDA is due to be lifted Plllllleeeeeeeeease ?

SkeeterUK · 5 Apr 2007 at 10:31

Probably at release.

FirebarUK · 5 Apr 2007 at 10:47

BS.

I'm very surprised by those SupCom figures tbh :eek:

Noto · 5 Apr 2007 at 11:30

Gibbo said:
Hi there

Your talking to someone who used to be a 3D Mark worldwide record holder, I won't dismiss such settings.
__________________

Saleen S281 - 30-130mph in 13s - 60-130mph in 10.5s - 532BHP

Here is the question... when the R600 arrives what will you be doing? spending a good few hours with the R600 or Mrs Saleen. when you choose can i borrow the one your not gonna use

SteveOBHave · 5 Apr 2007 at 11:54

Noto said:
Here is the question... when the R600 arrives what will you be doing? spending a good few hours with the R600 or Mrs Saleen. when you choose can i borrow the one your not gonna use

LOL Dreams are free

mmj_uk · 5 Apr 2007 at 12:01

Alexrose1uk said:
Gibbo, just as a small point (I know its easy to forget; not intending this post as an insult), when benching the R600, make sure you go into the ATI drivers and set the card to performance settings, rather than the standard 'balanced' ATI's cards are usually set to in drivers as default

Just saying as its customary to benchy at performance not balanced settings, and I know its an easy setting to overlook when waiting excitedly to test a card (or presell a product )

I would rather have a measure of the cards true performance, it may be customary amongst the benchmarking fanatics but I'm sure the people on this forum want to see what the card is like at stock without such cheats/tweaks.

Dave · 5 Apr 2007 at 12:06

Noto said:
Here is the question... when the R600 arrives what will you be doing? spending a good few hours with the R600 or Mrs Saleen. when you choose can i borrow the one your not gonna use

As a completely OT post, I saw Gibbo's Saleen outside OcUK last week when I popped in for some DVD-Rs and an SD card for Mum - very nice! (made my Rover pale in comparison

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Schnippzle · 5 Apr 2007 at 12:43

mmj_uk said:
I would rather have a measure of the cards true performance, it may be customary amongst the benchmarking fanatics but I'm sure the people on this forum want to see what the card is like at stock without such cheats/tweaks.

I agree. However it would be nice to see a range of results under a range of conditions, if anything to satisfy the needs of the multitude of variations of users on this board.

furnace · 5 Apr 2007 at 12:45

I'm not suggesting you do of course - but what are the consequences of breaking a NDA?

Down1oader · 5 Apr 2007 at 12:54

furnace said:
I'm not suggesting you do of course - but what are the consequences of breaking a NDA?

Major factor i guess is he'll never be offered to test products again.

Schnippzle · 5 Apr 2007 at 13:08

Down1oader said:
Major factor i guess is he'll never be offered to test products again.

Which is when he sends out his ninja-monkeys to nab the stuff anyway so he can tell us how great it is =D

Perfect_Chaos · 5 Apr 2007 at 14:07

will be great to see how well these things overclock, especially on water.