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- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -3/+46Looks like this is card is $660 from newegg. Limit 1 per customer.
The price tag makes it limit zero per me. - andy101, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28Thanks for letting us know. Repeat after me: you are not your PC specs.
- lordblue, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24Once again, a stellar review from the guys at Techreport.com
- lcmatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Thats one hell of a review for a graphics card!
- smb3d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17The prices seems like a lot, but compared to the SLI rigs that it outperforms it's a bargain.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Its basically just the elimination of having 2 different discrete shader processing thingies (vertex and pixel) and instead having one large pool of shaders who's function can be either vertex or pixel.
If a game works best with vertex shaders, well the unified arch is able to use all of its unified shader units as vertex units rather than just a fixed number (while unused pixel shaders go totally un-utilized, a waste of good silicon). - noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9It's not the future of graphics if you can buy it now. :|
- lonnieh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I have a PowerGlove™. It's so bad.
- Muncher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I'll be waiting for the 8900 GTS... or maybe the X2900 XT.
- Shadewell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Thats what happens when technology leaps a generation, the transistors double and your hardware becomes even sexier.
- theblindman2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7That's the point, I can't buy it now...
- eleven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Awesome! Once they move to a smaller die the power consumption should also come down a bit. That is one huge card.
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6" the future of graphics today"
The future as in a week from now? - JayRod, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I've had Nvidia cards that are capable of SLI but I never got the second card. I would just upgrade to a newer video card instead. It seems that you don't even need to have this card in SLI. It's powerful enough by itself. That's what I like about it. Only thing that sucks is that it might be too long for some cases.
- tastypastry, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11And people have the nerve to call the PS3 expensive.
- smb3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4CTRaider:
True, but it's pretty darn close. Close enough for me to stick with a single card setup. - Maurs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Laserline, a PSU rated for 700W does not necessarily pull 700W out of the wall, it is just (ostensibly) capable of doing so if the components need that much power. What is more important is efficiency; a 400W power supply that is 70% efficient draws more power to juice the same computer that is using an 80% efficient 600W PSU. Anyway, the 8800GTX has a much better power/performance ratio than most SLI setups.
- vagarach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's an important step in terms of design direction, with a unified architecture. Granted, this is from directx 10, but still, they've shown that the concept works, which is important. Remember the 5800 days? Those were also expensive cards, and nvidia could *not* delivered. Here they have, even while taking into account a completely new architecture to design.
- jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6So this unified architecture.. help me understand.. is it a combination between a motherboard chipset and the card or just a new method for the card to talk to its components?
Sorry if the article covered this I might have missed it. - Nicolay77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow sponeil that stuff you do is amazing.
Except the squared last pic. - wetheperson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2my gts is on its way.
- LaserLine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Great Review and great looking card, but is it just me or does anyone else think that power consumption is getting out of hand. They listed their power consumption review here http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q4/geforce-8800/index.x?pg=16 and it seems like the graphics card has a lot to do with people needing more powerful power supplies. I have a 350W power supply and it's great! However, I'm going to have to spend a lot more on my upgrade because I'll need a new PSU and not to mention, more importantly, on my electricity bill if I'm going to need a 500W+ PSU. They used a 700W! 700 Watts are you serious? Am I the only one who thinks that this is getting out of hand?
- AwRy108, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3At least I'll get a solid 5+ years out of my PS3--it may be out-dated to hardcore PC gamers, but at least I only have to spend $600 one time...
I'd love to have a super-powerful PC, but I don't think I could handle spending so much money all the time. Jeesh. Seriously, think how much bigger the PC gaming market would be if upgrading wasn't such a frequent, costly event. I love putting PC's together, but I'd sure love it a whole lot more if I knew the hardware wouldn't "behind the times" two weeks after installing it. Meh. - unversed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes. If you can afford to buy that card and put it into a system to use it I don't think you're going to worry about the power bill.
- Promantarius, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Heh just imagine, you're going to have to upgrade every time a new version of DirectX comes out if you want the latest and greatest effects, that card won't last too long once there's a steady stream of revisions coming out = (DirectX 10+ will require hardware changes for each version apparently, and 10.1 is scheduled for something like six months after DirectX 10 isn't it?)
- Stranger2001, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3it already runs in SLI mode
- macgoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'll admit I am a bit of a Nvidia fanboy. Its great to see the team back in front. Although I am sure ATIs next release will be just as awesome if not better. When it comes to gaming rigs does anyone really care how much power they suck! Just give me more frames damn it!
- gtlogic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@tastypastry
Well given that this thing has twice the graphics horsepower as ps3, I'd say the price is justified.
@ctraider
Two 7900 GTX's are not faster than this card, cannot do dx10, can't touch it in image quality, and don't have the compute functionality. Happy shopping. - pozzoe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4What do you mean with powerful enough??? you'll eventually have to upgrade it... when I bought my 6800gt pci-e it was powerfull enough... and I thought "well... I'll buy another one when I need more power". But now I find that another one is not enough because is the technology that has changed, my card won't be DX10 even if I used 4 of them :D.
Any new card is enough if you are willing to pay for it. So this is enough the same way any new card is enough...
Anyway... why am I being dug down? at least could somebody be so kind to enlighten me? - pozzoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So.. the future of graphics is faster and with better antialiasing... who would have thought?
News is when intel pulled the core 2 duo. That was something amazing. Better performance, less heat (less heat!!!! please!!! my cpu is on fire and I only have ONE 6400GT) and cheaper (even if at the end I had to change the motherboard...). - Shadewell, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I'm sorry, I don't know what your definition of "blow away" the competition is, but this card is getting frame rates almost twice as high as the 7900GTX in gaming tests and benchmarks, thats blowing away the competition in my book.
- aboutblank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That is one big card.
- macgoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I couldn't even run my new AGP 7600GS on my 450W PSU. Then again it was a cheap generic. Its now running sweet on a brand name 380W!
- Nicolay77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Heh, I'm waiting for the 8300GT or the 8600GS :P
(something in the $100 - $150 range) - brownspank, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I have a 5500, but no one gives a *****, either.
- cynicist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1macgoo, yeah thats the point. There are more important things than the rated wattage, but thats whats marketed the most by psu manufacturers
- H2SO4, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"That memory is 768MB of Samsung GDDR3 clocked at 900MHz"
not enough to play Second life. :( - jacenat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1native dx10 games have still to come
really, your best option for crysis would be to just by another 6800
that is, if you can endure the inferior sampling quality. but in my opinion, render speed ist still much more important than image quality. if i want perfectly rendered images, i use oflline rendering, but in videogames, framerates dropping below 45fps are just killing the fun for me. - sponeil, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1God, what a dumbass. This card isn't for people like you, it's for people like me: http://sponeil.org/. Graphics/game developers buy the $600 cards as soon as they come out so they can start writing games that take advantage of the new features early. You can't start writing the code if you have nothing to test it on.
You're not impressed? That's too bad because no one cares. The developers are impressed, and they're the people who matter at this stage of the game. - Axeman20, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and just when im wondering if i should buy the geforce 7900, this comes around XD
must save more money for it! ^_^;; - cynicist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why was I modded down? People can and do run sli systems on 350w psu's.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article265-page4.html - chintal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why dont any of these reviews come with how hard it'll be to install the drives on linux?
I know that people will have to get down to actually writing drivers that work, but the review _could_ compare it with cards and drivers that already exist and how much work its going to take to make these things run. - Tansons, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I guess it's time to upgrade my 6600GT AGP
- jrbrewin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1weren't nvidia bad mouthing ati and the xbox360 gpu for having a unified architecture, a year+ ago? Isn't it odd how these things work out, and is it odd that people should now start to see why the ps3 doesn't piss all over the xbox360. :-)
- pozzoe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2damentz is exaggerating it... but it is true. They always release a cheaper card that produces similar results in the games.
- natmaster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2For more information on dx10:
http://digg.com/hardware/What_DirectX_10_is_all_about - cynicist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2LaserLine, computers really don't use that much power. The wattage of your psu isn't that important these days, its mostly used to push products to extreme gamers who "need" that 800W psu for their sli configuration.
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