GT200 GTX280/260 "official specs"

psychas · 18 May 2008 at 23:14

kylew said:
£350 for a 2900 1GB! That sounds like you got bumped! My 2900 was £240, and I bought it basically on release.

OcUK ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT SILENT Heatpipe 1024MB GDDR4 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £0.00 1 £289.99
Parcelforce Euro 48: £22.00
VAT: £65.52
Order Total: £377.51

in this web

shaffaaf27 · 18 May 2008 at 23:25

:O

omg....RIPPED

psychas · 18 May 2008 at 23:26

i think it was first day of release should have waited more tbh but meh it was long time ago have to just forget about it

edit : 350.50 without a delivery

Perfect_Chaos · 19 May 2008 at 00:45

is SLI more refined this time around?

i might wait until the refresh cards for an upgrade, seeings as 1 game (crysis) isnt worth buying a new card or cards for. everything else runs at blistering speed, and i dont think anything graphically intensive is coming any time soon.

i didnt know 8800 gtx was over 500 quid, what a rip off.. no way im gonna spend that much, imagine buying 2 cards then like a month or 2 later u could have saved 100 quid

Perfect_Chaos · 19 May 2008 at 00:56

Duff-Man said:
I would go for the single card solution every time, even if it were more expensive.

which means when graphic intensive games like crysis come along, single card users are screwed until the next gen.. which is why i always hate these game developers that make games either poorly coded or too intensive for the current gen gpu.

or nvidia can shoot for the moon and up their specs more, instead of offering rubbish hardly quicker ultra cards at stupid prices

shaffaaf27 · 19 May 2008 at 00:57

there is also supcom and that game beginging with E that taxes cards aswell.

tutu · 19 May 2008 at 01:53

Perfect_Chaos said:
which is why i always hate these game developers that make games either poorly coded or too intensive for the current gen gpu

Well if it wasn't for them we would be stuck. Where would we be without Quake II, Doom 3, Farcry, Half-life 2 and Crysis. Every generation there has been an FPS pushing the 3D GPU market. I will even add 3DMark to that category but mostly for epeen.

I'm not paying more than £150 for a GPU or CPU or more than £80 for a motherboard anymore. Or falling for hyped up launch prices

Perfect_Chaos · 19 May 2008 at 02:32

tutu said:
Well if it wasn't for them we would be stuck. Where would we be without Quake II, Doom 3, Farcry, Half-life 2 and Crysis. Every generation there has been an FPS pushing the 3D GPU market. I will even add 3DMark to that category but mostly for epeen.

I'm not paying more than £150 for a GPU or CPU or more than £80 for a motherboard anymore. Or falling for hyped up launch prices

Half life 2 and doom 3 didnt run as badly as crysis from what i remember on top cards at the time like 6800 ultra.

Hyped up launch prices? maybe but if you wait for a price drop, how long do you wait? most of the high end cards are bound to be £350-400

800 quid if you want 2 cards

Duff-Man · 19 May 2008 at 02:42

Perfect_Chaos said:
which means when graphic intensive games like crysis come along, single card users are screwed until the next gen.. which is why i always hate these game developers that make games either poorly coded or too intensive for the current gen gpu.

or nvidia can shoot for the moon and up their specs more, instead of offering rubbish hardly quicker ultra cards at stupid prices

I'd rather developers put some extra graphical detail in to allow better detail levels with future hardware, than to cap things off unneccesarily. If the performance isn't to your liking, you can always turn the detail levels down. I mean, if the "ultra high" setting on crysis wasn't available, no-one would be batting an eyelid. No-one is forcing you to use it.

Also, you seem to have a short memory. Being able to run the latest games at 40fps+ in full resolution with AA/AF is, historically, not a normal thing. It's only been the past 4 or 5 years or so that this has been the case (back in the 9800pro days and earlier it wasn't exactly the norm).

As for the comment against nvidia - they're consistently producing hardware which is double the *performance* every 18 months or so. Where else in the world do you see this? Even in other areas of computing we see double the number of transistors (to keep up with Moore's law), but rarely anywhere close to double the performance. Outside the computing industry it's completely unheard of. Nvidia and ATI have been doing an impressive job for a good number of years now, and I for one hope they manage to keep it up for another 3 or 4 years, although I fear that we are rapidly approaching practical physical limits on thermal capacity and process size. I generally ignore the small incremental revisions (which exist mainly for marketing purposes), but the 12 to 18-month revisions tend to be worthwhile investments. I've kept my GTX for 18 months now (since launch day), and it's served me well.

easyrider · 19 May 2008 at 09:08

Duff-Man said:
Nvidia and ATI have been doing an impressive job for a good number of years now, and I for one hope they manage to keep it up for another 3 or 4 years,

Thats what they want you us believe.

They drip feed us technology.

Duff-Man · 19 May 2008 at 09:43

easyrider said:
Thats what they want you us believe.

They drip feed us technology.

If you say so, easyrider...

Sure, nvidia have been delaying the introduction of their high-end part due to lack of competition from ATI. But if you think they've been sat on their hands or giving each other piggy-back rides round the office in the meantime you're very much mistaken. The high-end R+D is always 3 years or so ahead of the release products, and this is what fundamentally drives the market.

Dutch Guy · 19 May 2008 at 09:55

easyrider said:
They drip feed us technology.

Totally agree, they can make much faster cards but they don't as they need to have new technology/features ready for the next card.

JediFragger · 19 May 2008 at 10:20

Duff-Man said:
But if you think they've been sat on their hands or giving each other piggy-back rides round the office in the meantime you're very much mistaken

I want a piggy-back

dagwoood · 19 May 2008 at 11:52

milkinc13 said:
....and if the companies can get the stock out

***!! With NvidIa and ATI falling over themselves to get their cards to the market first, I can see the 8800GT fiasco happening all over again; we could end up with an effectively paper release for these new cards.

Duff-Man · 19 May 2008 at 12:27

JediFragger said:
I want a piggy-back

Actually... If there are a few of us working late, we've been known to have chair-races around the office. We do 3 laps and time each other. We tried a classical race once, but the carnage was a bit too much!

...one of the advantages of working in an academic environment I guess

But I doubt they do it at nvidia.

tutu · 19 May 2008 at 13:53

easyrider said:
Thats what they want you us believe.

Perhaps this is the subject of the X-files 2 movie

Monkeynut · 19 May 2008 at 17:27

Don't you mean The DirectX Files?

Duff-Man · 19 May 2008 at 17:30

Monkeynut said:
Don't you mean The DirectX Files?

*groan*

straxusii · 19 May 2008 at 20:08

Monkeynut said:
Don't you mean The DirectX Files?

OK, get out

titaniumx3 · 19 May 2008 at 21:30

I think if nvidia really wanted they could release a card that is 3 to 4 times as powerful as the 8800GTX, but it would be economically unviable; probably cost several thousand quid or something and no one will buy it.