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- kingkilr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+53Uhh this card can put out at 2560*1600, 1080p is nothing.
- LiquidIse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25Just as an FYI, 1080p = 1080p if its on a 23" comp lcd or a 65" plasma. just because the screen is bigger doesnt mean anything about the processing power about the card. I'm not downing the 8800, just pointing out something.
- TheDreadDiggerD, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17dear consumer:
We don't care.
sincerely,
nVidia - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+23"Overall, nothing else can touch the 8800 GTX at the moment"
Um, how about 2 8800GXT cards in SLi! - jotux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15"The funny part is in 6 months it'll be in a 10" laptop. Why can't they just make it that small to begin with?"
Yeah, and computer used to take up entire rooms! why couldn't they just make them as small as they are now? Oh wait, that's dumb. - Shirk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Weird, I use Adblock Plus with Filterset G and didn't see a single ad.
- treyd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I just realized how much I miss digg back in the day when 100 diggs was a huge amount and there was like 10 comments per story. So much calmer back then...
- BuddyDoQ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@LabThug
DVI
If you own a 1080p TV, it'll most likely have DVI. (Mine is a HDMI/DVI port that I need a converter for). - Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6HDMI uses DVI for transit; they're protocol-compatible, just not pin-compatible.
The solution is a very simple (and cheap) adapter that just maps the pins from DVI to HDMI. You can buy them for $13 online, and they let any computer with a DVI port output to any HDMI TV.
That's why there's nothing special about this. Any video card with DVI out (so long as the DVI port supports digital, there are super rare analog-only DVI ports) can output to any TV with an HDMI port.
Heck, my laptop has a GeForce Go 7900gs in it, and a DVI port on the back. And I'm aching to try it out on my friend's HDTV (don't have one myself)... It's just hard to justify spending $13 to hook my laptop up to somebody else's TV just once ;) - sztuka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Just about any game made in the last 2-3 years. FarCry, Oblivion, FEAR, Quake IV, Doom3, HL2 etc.
- humanseemer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Its funny how with the HDTV craze its popular to spew buzzwords like 1080p. PCs have been outputting these resolutions for over a decade. I have a pentium 3 500mhz in the basement, with a 32 meg video card, and it can output images in higher resolutions than 1080P, that must mean it has better hardware right?
- KlayBorg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"God I hate having 3 large tower PC's in my room."
Put them in another room? - hrdcregmer808, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Imagine playing WoW or Battlefield 2 on that screen...... (I know you can play Battlefield 2 on the 360 but Modern Combat ain't good as the original one) That's crazy!!
- lacronicus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3a 6800 could likely play full motion video at 1080p. likely it could render a few games at that too. i can run ocarina of time emulated at 720 at like 100fps, so its not that big a deal to be hd on a pc. 1600p is where its at. go 30" displays. but really. that is the benchmark for high end gfx cards nowadays. not a big deal.
- shakyguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Also, that port is not standard s-video. It is proprietary. My 7900GT came with a dongle which plugged into that port, and provided component outputs.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Your CPU is probably holding you back.
These newer cards are VERY CPU dependent to get the best framerates.
I'm running my 8800-GTS (not the GTX) in an Athlon x2 4600 box with 2gig at 1680x1050 and its as smooth as, well, something thats VERY smooth indeed, with a capital SMOO no less! Certainly getting above 50fps with it! - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Where to find my gpu temps?
- mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I've had my 7900GT running Linux playing WoW and BF2 on my Samsung 56" 1080P DLP.
Yes, it is nice.
I don't see why this is front page digg news though. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@stefan15, I totally agree.
I had a 7800GT SLi setup when those cards were God and at the time SLi was just not really a stable option and didn't help at all in many games the driver didn't have a profile for. My 7950GX2 (2x7950 cards in a single slot) was great, but got too hot and cost way too much, my current 8800 is almost as fast as the GX2 but actually works all the time.
Will I SLi the 8800, not on your life! I already sold my left arm to pay for one of them, I need the other for gaming and masturbation. - ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@zybch... pffff.... Quad-Sli is now possible.
- stefan15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@zybch
2 8800 GTXs? Seems like a really bad cost-to-benefits ratio over just the single. I never really understood how anyone can justify the price of a high-end SLi system, at least for the current cost of the card. - knyghtryda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3yes, us PC guys know that, but could your said 500mhz PC play full motion video at 1080p? Could it play quake anything at 1080p? Its not just about outputting still images at 1080p or higher. It is only recently that 1080/24p video and gaming was possible, and that is why this buzzword (number?) is way overused.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Yeah, I know.. heaven forbid they actually make a profit or pay the bills and break even, huh? You could always have to pay for good content with subscription services. Would that be cool? Last I checked they didn't look like a charity organization on that site....
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It would only fit in my large Thermaltake Soprano case when I sacrifice a hard drive slot. Same with the GTS.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can't have AA and HDR on together in Oblivion (unless there is a patch I don't know about), and I really am getting those frame rates.
I tried the HDR for a bit, but found that AA along with the bloom lighting effect looked better and am just using those instead now. That might have some bearing on the speed. Both my CPU and GPU are overclocked, I have virtually nothing running in the background, and my mouse is black! - DatoeDakari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Holy ball-sack, Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec): 86.4
- goat2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@MojoKid
no its not. hdmi is pretty much 100% the same compared to DVI - Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1N64 emulators are bad examples; they're CPU limited, not GPU limited. I'd bet I could run OoT on my laptop (1920x1200) at native res with a Radeon X300, let alone my laptop's 7900gs (which has no problem running N64 games at 1900x1200 with 6xAA). N64 games are incredibly low-poly. I don't recall the figures for the N64, but the DS is similar, and it only supports 4000 triangles per scene. Modern games feature hundreds of thousands (or millions). A single model in a modern game might have several times more polygons than the N64 was capable of rendering, and there might be many such models onscreen at a time.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ChileanGoD, yeah, but with this card??
The GX2 was created for quad gaming, but when a single 8800 card beats dual 7950 (the GX2 is just 2 of these in SLI) why the hell would you stay with the GX2, especially when it doesn't have DX10. - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pretty sure e6600 > 4600+
Also, are you on max settings with AA and HDR on? I am. I expect more since I am only at 1280x1024. - TigerClaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If I had this card, It would definitely fit on my Lian Li case, I have no use for the hard drive cage at the bottom. One Hard Drive is on one of the drive bays, While the other one is on the smaller one underneath the floppy drive. So if I had this particular card or the GTS one, I wouldn't run into any problems.
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am loving my 8800GTX.
Anyone gettin like 40-55FPS at only 1280x1024 on Oblivion? e6600 @ 2.9GHz
I should be gettin more, right? - sztuka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, 1080p on a PC with games is nothing. I've had a 7800 GTX for a year and a half with a 3Ghz P4, 1GB memory and I could play FarCry, HL2 etc at 1920x1200 on my Dell 2405 FPW. The only video content, that I knew of, that was 1080p (and this is before BluRay and HD DVD) were WMV-HD movies. They ran on above rig. MS reccomended that you have at least 3GHz/1Gig of mem and vid card with 128MB ram to run them smoothly.
Anyway, all this heavy breathing over "1080p" on a 8800 is ridiculous. - Chicken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its not CPU dependent, Rather the CPU is bottlenecking the GPU's performance.. its just that simple.
- Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The 8800 itself will never be in any laptop (nVidia has said as much, they draw too much power and produce too much heat), however you will see the lower-end 8x00 series in laptops. If you want the performance of the 8800GTX in a laptop (even a desktop laptop) you're going to have to wait another generation.
- Hamsterpotpies, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1***** that card is fat. Looks like you would need a construction team to put up supports for that card.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm using AdBlock (not that 'plus' ***** either) with filterset G and the site has nothing annoying. Flashblock also helps with those damn flashing things!
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How about the TV out overlay thing? NVIDIA has a bug in this, doesn't support it, and it is causing everyone headaches because it is stretched for other cards and unsupported for 8800. See http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=17158 for details. :(
- anasazi, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7dear nvidia:
have not and will not ever purchase any video card that takes up two slots, no matter how fast it may be.
sincerely,
consumer - goat2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1yeah its kind of a spinny description.
- lacronicus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1the x2 series is a beastly overclocker. im pretty sure its the other way round. but really. turn up the gfx. youll get the same framerate, coz youve got gpu headroom
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Careful, you'll upset the 'buzzword fairy' and make her cry!
Its all, of course, about making people buy crap they don't need or already have, nothing more nothing less. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Perhaps but decent output quality at 1080p over HDMI and on a big screen TV is a different ball of wax compared to running a computer monitor LCD panel. All output interface hardware with this configuration is definitely NOT created equal, nor are TVs being driven from computer graphics cards for that matter.
- eje211, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I use Privoxy only and I didn't get any ads. (I find it much better than AdBlock. AdBlock used to have huge memory leaks.)
- Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Size doesn't matter, in this case.
65" is a stupid stat to throw out. The screen could be 100 ft big, as long as its 1080p, MOST video cards should handle this resoltuion handily. Most might not drive a 3D game well at that high resolution, but its still only 1920 × 1080 resolution. Not a far stretch from the 1680 x 1050 resolution many video cards have been driving for years. - 022A, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, god forbid that thing take up the empty space between my SLi slots or worse, one of the 3 PCI slots I'll never use.
Seriously now, what do gamers put in cases these days besides a GPU and soundcard? - johnlandes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0time for the HD porn!!
1080 wrinkles - Scynet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Eh, I'd say most new ones. If not natively then with a bit of tweaking. It's not about which games run at that resolution, it's about the PC being able to handle it. You need a rather modern system for smooth FPS and eye candies at that level.
- Terc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Holly banner adds, Batman!
(and this is with adblock turned on) - splinecl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@LabThug
Isn't HDMI just DVI with audio? So DVI does the job just fine. -
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