Whos feels like they've had thier 8800gtx for like an eternity................

Tom|Nbk · 17 Jul 2007 at 16:25

lowrider007 said:
I have, I honestly don't think I've ever owned a graphics card as long as this before, even though it seems to handle most games allright I'm still starting to get bored of it, I really want to sink my teeth into to something new, the graphics card market seems to have seriously stagnated atm, whens the next big gpu gonna be on the block ?

2900

[TW]Fox said:
Stop buying CPU's and stuff. As you have discovered from the fact none of the stuff you buy is any quicker other than in synthetic benchmarks, it's completely pointless.

Buy funky screens or something instead. I mean, seriously, when a 50 quid E4300 will do 3.2Ghz and there is no real perceptable performance difference with a C2D, as you admit, between 3.2 and whatever you get out of a £300 CPU, why spend the cash?

Your words are wasted here

HEADRAT · 17 Jul 2007 at 16:33

lowrider007 said:
Dirt and Lost Planet for example

From what I read Dirt really benefits from a beefy CPU, maybe Lost Planet is similar.

HEADRAT

Mr_T · 17 Jul 2007 at 16:36

Just a fantastic card, looks like it will be good enough for the next gen of games too

Black Dog · 17 Jul 2007 at 16:39

The longer a card lasts the better, sick of new cards coming out every 6 months.

I wouldn't complain at all. You've just got the upgrade bug.

Gas Panic! · 17 Jul 2007 at 16:44

My GTS640OC2 eats everything at 1680*1050, I can only imagine the GTX absolutely destroying it. It's a good thing, it makes a change to not have to upgrade every few months or so. I hope future cards are like this - this really is the 9700 of this generation.

LoadsaMoney · 17 Jul 2007 at 16:48

You can't blame the likes of the 8800's etc... for not running poorly coded games like R6 Vegas, Dirt, Stalker, Lost Planet (which is a ****** Ubiport) etc.... well.

We may as well all start blaming the 9800 GTX, and ATi's R700 now for not running these games very well either even though they aint out, as the cards can do absolutely zip to poorly coded games, they will always run crap on whatever card, even cards in 10 years time will struggle to run Vegas at a crappy 40fps at a push .

Things change I've changed · 17 Jul 2007 at 16:49

got dammit people, I want to upgrade and your not helping, stop being happy with your cards, I order it :mad:

Fx-Overlord · 17 Jul 2007 at 17:00

Well, i bought my GTX in January for £360 and it's went down £8. Even though i've had my GTX for what seems a long time, the prices are stable and i'm not going to complain about that. Hopefully the say around the same, so i can fleebay it to some naive person for a handsome sum of money, just before G90 comes out

Reality|Bites · 17 Jul 2007 at 17:21

I'll upgrade after I get UT3, Well maybe i'll see how my SLI 7900GT's perform first

matt100 · 17 Jul 2007 at 17:43

lowrider007 said:
this is what I don't get and I don't mean to be rude or turn this into an FPS debate, but I hear quite allot "it still eats everything" or words to that effect, I really have to disagree, theres no way that the latested games run on the GTX @ 1920x1200 maxed at a comfortable frame rate, Dirt and Lost Planet for example are hardly playable @ that res, now I'm not saying I demand a billion fps rate or anything but the games I listed a few posts up are definitely in need of a performance boost.

i should probably justify my statement, I've been playing farcry, quake4 and cod2 maxed out but they are 2 or 3 year old games!

Then again I tried ARM:A with a 7950GX2, it looked awful and it played awful, just badly coded I guess.

The simple fact is love it or hate it the 8800GTX/Ultra is the fastest card out so unless you want a disproportionately small gain by doubling the amount of cards you'll just have to live with it

We all love a bit of an upgrade but only when there's an "up" to "grade"!

Tom|Nbk · 17 Jul 2007 at 17:49

Fx-Overlord said:
Well, i bought my GTX in January for £360 and it's went down £8. Even though i've had my GTX for what seems a long time, the prices are stable and i'm not going to complain about that. Hopefully the say around the same, so i can fleebay it to some naive person for a handsome sum of money, just before G90 comes out

I agree the GTX has held its price extremely well.

FreeStream · 17 Jul 2007 at 19:49

X1900XTX is the longest own graphics card

10 months now! :cool:

LoadsaMoney · 17 Jul 2007 at 20:07

Tom|Nbk said:
I agree the GTX has held its price extremely well.

Only because its got no competition, if ATi had released a competitor to it i doubt it would still be highly priced, but seen as theres no alternative to it, the price just aint gona budge, if you want the fastest cards, Nvidia is your only option, so they'll make damn sure you pay for them.

We've just got to hope ATi can start competing at the highest level again, or were ******.

LoadsaMoney · 17 Jul 2007 at 20:09

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Should have edited the above, not quoted myself.

Tom|Nbk · 17 Jul 2007 at 20:11

Concorde Rules said:
X1900XTX is the longest own graphics card

10 months now!

I had mine for 1 year :cool:

LoadsaMoney · 17 Jul 2007 at 20:12

I had my x1800 from the day they came out till the day the 320mb GTS came out, well over a year that was, longest its been for me. :cool:

Cotti · 17 Jul 2007 at 20:16

Hmm Ive had my 6800gt for 3 years.....

But Ive got a GTS8800 sitting right here just waiting for a CPU to cuddle up to

eracer2006 · 17 Jul 2007 at 20:19

i hope weve reached an end to the expensive gfx wars, in which case ill pick up an ultra or another gtx and be happy for over a year

fish99 · 17 Jul 2007 at 20:34

lowrider007 said:
this is what I don't get and I don't mean to be rude or turn this into an FPS debate, but I hear quite allot "it still eats everything" or words to that effect, I really have to disagree, theres no way that the latested games run on the GTX @ 1920x1200 maxed at a comfortable frame rate, Dirt and Lost Planet for example are hardly playable @ that res, now I'm not saying I demand a billion fps rate or anything but the games I listed a few posts up are definitely in need of a performance boost.

This reminds me of when people in the monitors forum ask "I'm getting a new 22 inch screen will my X1800 XT (or something similar) be enough for 1680*1050" and up pipes everyone with the reply "Yes of course it will" and "My X1800 runs everything smooth in that res", and I have to wonder what planet these people are from, because I don't call 15 fps in Oblivion 'smooth', and there's several more demanding games than Oblivion around now.

MumboJumbo · 17 Jul 2007 at 20:36

grr rich people. "I cant believe ive had the most powerful card for so long ooo no i gota spend more money so i can brag some more".

lol.