Their in!!!!!!!

[eracer2006]

Yeah, you sure???. If they do you will pay through the roof and wait much longer.

Yeah go and die AMD woot .

Actually I can see it being better, coders would be forced to release their next gen games for a single technology (say, c2d, and nvidia 8800GTS/GTX/ULTRA) and therefore we get better coded and optimised games.

Like with consoles!

So would be cheaper for us in the end as we wouldnt need to keep upgrading

 

[jaykay]

Actually I can see it being better, coders would be forced to release their next gen games for a single technology (say, c2d, and nvidia 8800GTS/GTX/ULTRA) and therefore we get better coded and optimised games.

Like with consoles!

So would be cheaper for us in the end as we wouldnt need to keep upgrading

No it wouldnt coders are no where near powerful to say that. Nvidia would just say **** off if you dont like the card.

 

[eracer2006]

No it wouldnt coders are no where near powerful to say that. Nvidia would just say **** off if you dont like the card.

Powerfull enough to say what ?

You dont think crytek for instance or UT3 engine is good enough ?

 

[LoadsaMoney]

ever since AMD took over ATI, they have been going down the pan big time.

Have to agree, ATi used to be absolutely fine, they were always releasing quality cards that competed, and were sometimes better than their Nv counterparts, x800's/6800's (even from further back from the x800's), x1800/7800, x1900/7900 etc... then AMD come along and all they do is release a card to compete with Nv's GTS, nothing, zip, to compete with the much faster GTX or the faster Ultra, and also they release **** poor cards that can't even compete in the mid-low range, and to top it all off say they aint releasing another card till next ******* year

THANKYOU AMD

Im glad Intel have decided to step into the GPU market, we'll get some competition back for Nvidia then so they can't do what they like.

 

[steve258]

Powerfull enough to say what ?

You dont think crytek for instance or UT3 engine is good enough ?

If there wasn't a competition going on between ati and nvidia we won't even have the level of graphics we have at the moment.

 

[ergonomics]

loadsa ill have to agree with you there. i hope intel can up the anty and enter the high end gpu market as well as the low end. then we can see better tech being used in products and of course better prices.

 

[fastwunz]

PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB GDDR4 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

800MHz Core, 256MB 2200MHz GDDR4 Memory, 120 Stream Processors, Crossfire Ready, 3yr Warranty with Powercolor/OcUK.
PowerColour Pre-order £79.99
(£93.99)



2200mhz on the mem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for under 100 nicker?

 

[RobertN]

128bit bus but so a waste of fast mem really

 

[jaykay]

Im thinking of getting one as the 2600xt is much beter at dx10 compared to 8600gts and i want to be gaming on crysis with the next card i buy.

 

[willhub]

Im thinking of getting one as the 2600xt is much beter at dx10 compared to 8600gts and i want to be gaming on crysis with the next card i buy.

If your going to be playing crysis, I would not bother with a 2600 or 8800GTS in DX10, even an 8800 or HD2900

 

[jaykay]

But Crysis have been working with nvidia and maybe ati to get it highly optimised and work well with thier cards.

 

[V F]

Have to agree, ATi used to be absolutely fine, they were always releasing quality cards that competed, and were sometimes better than their Nv counterparts, x800's/6800's (even from further back from the x800's), x1800/7800, x1900/7900 etc... then AMD come along and all they do is release a card to compete with Nv's GTS, nothing, zip, to compete with the much faster GTX or the faster Ultra, and also they release **** poor cards that can't even compete in the mid-low range, and to top it all off say they aint releasing another card till next ******* year

THANKYOU AMD

Im glad Intel have decided to step into the GPU market, we'll get some competition back for Nvidia then so they can't do what they like.

Thats quite a mouthful!

I'd have to agree, but I'm also thankful I got ATI when they best were or rather the best card they had, the X1950XTX (a pair of them in fact).

I have not been one bit impressed with their new cards (not that I'm looking for one). It sounds brutal in the AA/AF scene for the HD series. Which it looks as if no driver is going to sort it, which seems to be a hardware problem.
Not only that ATI's drivers are quite crap since Vista came on the show, between lock ups, screen corruption, driver stops responding and blue screens or washed out colours and hot fix versions of drivers. And here we are 6 months later and not much has changed.
Though I'm thankful they haven't botched up XP's drivers, Yet!

One was so bad 7.5 that took out my Vista install, after installed and rebooted BSOD's page faults and win32k.sys errors on every start up. Just before the Vista orb was about to load. Endless blue screen loops, even after uninstalling them and using driver cleaner it never sorted the problem. Only way to fix it was a clean install, but my install was perfectly fine up until those 7.5 entered the system. (I now remain to use the built in default Vista drivers, until ATI sorts out all this chaos. Which I wont be going through again!)

I just wish I had created a system restore point the first time around. Oddly enough Vista did not create one either. As normally soon as any driver is about to be installed it would automatically create one like XP does. Or so you would think.