Is 9800 GX2 the speed bump we needed?

[uvarvu]

Is 9800 GX2 the speed bump we needed?

Yes but...
The nvidia drivers will likely let the card down as they have done with the 8800 x cards.
The cards aren't so great at heat dispersal

Do we still want more power?

Yes
..without having to resort to multi-core
..with quiet cooling solutions
..with quality driver support
..at a good price!

 

[willhub]

Yes but...
The nvidia drivers will likely let the card down as they have done with the 8800 x cards.
The cards aren't so great at heat dispersal


Yes
..without having to resort to multi-core
..with quiet cooling solutions
..with quality driver support
..at a good price!

Multi-Core is the future..

8800 cards are great, drivers are abit shabby but do the job fine on the decent sets.

And, how is the 9800GX2 the speed bump we need? Its not it still does not run crysis and all its good for is people wanting to run most other games on 30" monitors.

 

[gurusan]

the 9800gx2 doesn't run crysis

The leading score the bench thread is 85 something fps....

 

[willhub]

the 9800gx2 doesn't run crysis

The leading score the bench thread is 85 something fps....

Ok lets see how many fools buy a 9800GX2 for 1280x1024 res..

For the price that card is, no it does not run crysis, lets see some benchmarks of it in DX10, 1680x1050, Very high, then all the other high res, be interesting to see what it does, but it will show, no the 9800GX2 is not the speedbump we need we need more to play crysis perfectly at 1680x1050.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

the 9800gx2 doesn't run crysis

The leading score the bench thread is 85 something fps....

Thats not fully maxed out, and is not using AA.

You buy top end cards like these to max details out and use AA.

 

[gurusan]

I would imagine that at 1680x1050 Very high it would get at least 30fps though, no?

 

[willhub]

I would imagine that at 1680x1050 Very high it would get at least 30fps though, no?

Possibly, thats not a performance jump we want to pay 350+ quid for, the performance jump means playing it at 40+ WITH AA.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Possibly, thats not a performance jump we want to pay 350+ quid for, the performance jump means playing it at 40+ WITH AA.

and at a higher res than that to on the GX2.

You may as well shove 2x in quad and run at 800x600 if you wanna waste.

 

[gurusan]

Well we are all waiting for GT200 and RV770 I guess Meanwhile I got another 3850 for crossfire to tide me over, I'm bummed that I have to wait til tuesday to receive it so stoked to try out my first dualgpu setup