Why no talk about X850 yet???
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chavvdarrr
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afaik fbuffer was never made accessible, so should be considered pr-only ?ChrisRay said:
I find it somewhat amusing that people are so negatively focused on the new cooler (if indeed that is the new board and not some clever image manipulation work). I suppose it is inevitable that this will receive the brunt of comments given that other speculations include uninspiring clock increases; if there is nothing positive to focus on, spill all your feelings on the one negative.
Am I the only one glad to see the new cooling solution? It seems we have come full circle from the Geforce FX 5800 Ultra. That design made a lot of sense in many ways. Granted, it was loud and obnoxious, but the principles were sound (oh...the pun...the pun!). Ejecting heated air or drawing fresh air by using a dual slot solution makes sense in my book. I have no major gripes with the 6800 Ultra reference cooler, but I must admit I am somewhat perplexed as to why Nvidia decided to only widen the card without using that volume effectively with a 'dustbuster'. Even if the core or memory of the board do not require the extra cooling it is an excellent way of keeping the ambient temperatures down and keeping the rest of the system happy.
Am I the only one glad to see the new cooling solution? It seems we have come full circle from the Geforce FX 5800 Ultra. That design made a lot of sense in many ways. Granted, it was loud and obnoxious, but the principles were sound (oh...the pun...the pun!). Ejecting heated air or drawing fresh air by using a dual slot solution makes sense in my book. I have no major gripes with the 6800 Ultra reference cooler, but I must admit I am somewhat perplexed as to why Nvidia decided to only widen the card without using that volume effectively with a 'dustbuster'. Even if the core or memory of the board do not require the extra cooling it is an excellent way of keeping the ambient temperatures down and keeping the rest of the system happy.
EasyRaider
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I like the new cooler, too. Dual slot coolers should be standard, IMNSHO. Who needs 6 PCI slots anyway?
EasyRaider said:
Not 6 perhaps, but I for example need 3, 4 if I would dualboot to Win9x, 1 for sound card, 1 for tv card, 1 for Voodoo2, 2 for Voodoo2's in SLI if I would dualboot to Win9x.
I could also need one more for another NIC.
That would equal 4 or 5.
edit: Also many use separate RAID cards
DerekBaker
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My 16pipe X800Pro VIVO when clocked at 400/500 gives:CJ said:
3DMark05 4593
Aquamark 3 63115
DerekBaker
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Ostsol said:
See where I said 16pipe X800Pro?
DerekBaker said:
Thanx.
That 3DM2K5 score seems to be pretty much on par with a GF6800GT at default speeds. Give or take a few tweaks to the R430 core and it should be able to do a bit better than the GF6800GT. If it scores comparably to the GF6800GT in real games and is available for $349 than this is probably the card that many people have been waiting for.
Except most of them won't have a PCIe mainboard!
I've got some questions in about that. If you have the latest briefing presentation they list the product line-up at the end and there are some curiousities in there.
Kaotik said:_xxx_ said:Kaotik said:
It's 2004, y' know?
And yet, even though it's 2004, we don't have Glide wrappers/emulators doing all the things right or at least not working in all games
What for? I can't think of any Glide-only games "worth playing" except Pandemonium and Tomb Raider 1.