I can hardly wait for the NV30!

[RussSchultz]

Mostly because then I won't have to read page after endless page of speculation based on preconceived notions born in the world of fanboyism.

I suppose it won't end everything, because there's gits arguing about NV35 vs. R350 and beyond, but still...

Of course, there's also the endless whining about the endless speculation.... but I guess we can't have everything.

 

[darkblu]

it goes with the age, russ.

 

[mboeller]

Mostly because then I won't have to read page after endless page of speculation based on preconceived notions born in the world of fanboyism.

I suppose it won't end everything, because there's gits arguing about NV35 vs. R350 and beyond, but still...

Of course, there's also the endless whining about the endless speculation.... but I guess we can't have everything.

So you prefer endless bashings and hatred talks about the spec differences and performance differences of the R300 and NV30 8)

 

[antlers]

Yes, the worst period will be the endless interval between the time some concrete facts about the card appear and the time of the first benchmarks...

 

[Bambers]

You'd seriously better hope that the cards are not close in performance then

 

[maskrider]

May not be related or may be a hoax, a web site is up with such a name

GeforceFX

http://www.geforcefx.com/

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[g__day]

For anti - marketing I'd love to see a serious side by side benchmark of a 9700 pro and a NV30 using 3d Mark on the oldest 286 they could find

Look NV30 scored 5 3D marks compared to 9700's 4 - so from that we can conclude NV30 is 25% more powerful!!!

I wonder what an otherwise hefty system powered by a 286 / 386 would score with one of these wondercards??? That would show CPU scaling

 

[no_way]

I wonder what an otherwise hefty system powered by a 286 / 386 would score with one of these wondercards??? That would show CPU scaling

I believe you'd need AGP-enabled chipset, first ones were 440LX from Intel and VP3 from VIA. Both supported PentiumII processors only.

 

[McElvis]

You could still stick in a 233 cacheless celeron (or was it a 266?).

 

[no_way]

You could still stick in a 233 cacheless celeron (or was it a 266?).

Twas a 233 cacheless Pentium II
Celeron came later

 

[Hyp-X]

I believe you'd need AGP-enabled chipset, first ones were 440LX from Intel and VP3 from VIA. Both supported PentiumII processors only.

Get a Super7 VIA MVP3 motherboard. You can stick a 75MHz Pentium in it.
I think thats the slowest config with AGP support.
I doubt that a R9700 would work in that mb though...

 

[Dio]

Yeah, the modern AGP cards need a 1.5V AGP slot, while the LX (and BX, I think) only supported 3.3V AGP IIRC...

 

[g__day]

Maybe a TYAN Super 7 Motherboard with the slowest AMD K6 (not the -2 versions) might do at AGP 1x to keep within the AGP specs?

Either that or put it in a modern system and set the multipler down to 0.5x