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Nvidia GTX295 Information

I think it looks a great card, at the end of the day it's going to be pretty fast and it's just plug's into a single slot, whats not to like really?
 
EvilOne said:
Wait till you see the price :rolleyes:
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Well fast cards have always been expensive, your never going to get top trumps performance for little money, but if you were buying a new PC, it's probably going to work out cheaper buying this, than a SLI Mobo and 2 x 260s

As to if it's worth the premium over a 4870 X2 thats another story, and time will tell, but if you specifically want 260s in SLI this seems like a good 1 stop shop card for your needs

And if you don't have a SLI mobo and want a cost not an issue, really fast single slot card, this looks like a good choice there too, it really all comes down to what you want from a card, and what's important to you performance?, price? longevity? brand?, everyones going to have differant criteria

Personally i think this looks a fine card for someone wanting an simple plug in SLI solution, the 200 series have proved good overclockers and i see some good gains being made on this card in that respect aswell
 
Well it's taken them this long to respond. Will be interesting to see what ATI now!

Edit: Actually, most of the time it doesnt do much better than the 4870X2! Certainly not as good as the Nvidia "Benchmarks", lol! If Nvidia had brought this out sooner I would have bought it. Shame it took this long.
 
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Hope NV do more driver work in the meantime as the 4870X2 is not that far behind at all in some of the tests.

For all the hype I was expecting an absolute monster and this looks like 2 x GTX260-216s 55nms on a single slot.

Slightly disappointed really.
 
Wow, that is one insane looking graphics card!!

It kinda does resemble an old VHS tape though!!!! :D

Also, doesn't support PhysX, or is it Havok that does the physics for ATI?

I just remember readong in a motherboard review that it supported CrossfireX, two cards were for graphics rendering and the other card dealt with all the physics in the game...

So they have maybe made a comparison to Nvidias Physics engine and ATI's physics engine, and just misprinted it.... I dunno I am just having a guess....

Still though, I can see these cards costing anywhere around the £550 to £650 region when they first hit the shelves... I can safely say I won't be getting one, I have never been a fan of dual GPU video cards, you are better off just geting a high powered single GPU card, and if you want then you can just buy another card at a later date and run them in SLI/Crossfilre, because I have always heard bad things about dual GPU card getting to hot....
 
Is anyone else disappointed that they've gone the multi-GPU route?

After my brief experience with 4870x2 and having heard about similar SLI problems (mainly poor compatibility) I'm not a big fan of Crossfire/SLI at all.
 
mmj_uk said:
Is anyone else disappointed that they've gone the multi-GPU route?

After my brief experience with 4870x2 and having heard about similar SLI problems (mainly poor compatibility) I'm not a big fan of Crossfire/SLI at all.
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Well i think more cards going this route will result in improvements to the software support/compatability in the longer term, if more single slot cards start to go the dual GPU route with onboard Xfire/SLI then it will become a more mainstream teck, and good drivers for dual GPU boards will become a bigger priority and get better support in future
 
I still cant afford a GTX 280 :(

Don't think a GTX 260 will be much of a stepup from what I have now to be worth the money tbh.
 
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