Originally posted by: thilan29
Originally posted by: taltamir
hybrid SLI is not hybrid power. Hybrid power is already available with GF9 + 5 amd chipsets from nvidia...
From the Daily Tech article:
"The basics of Hybrid SLI aren't very difficult to understand. The term itself envelopes two different NVIDIA technologies, GeForce Boost and HybridPower."
I tried searching but was unable to find motherboards based on those 5 chipsets. Got any links to places selling any of them?
Originally posted by: geokilla
Seems like AMD will finally beat NVIDIA with a SINGLE GPU. I'm looking forward to see what this card has in store for us.
What's the point of offering GDDR5 and GDDR3 when they could've kept it to GDDR4. GDDR5 should be expensive since it's so new...
Originally posted by: BFG10K
I'm glad this will keep ATi afloat but realistically my next card will probably be a GT200.
Originally posted by: allies
Originally posted by: BFG10K
I'm glad this will keep ATi afloat but realistically my next card will probably be a GT200.
What basis is this claim made upon?
Originally posted by: BFG10K
I'm glad this will keep ATi afloat but realistically my next card will probably be a GT200.
Originally posted by: taltamir
interesting... I see that newegg only carries ONE:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813135085
An ECS based on the GeForce 8200 chipset, it doesnt have any with 8100 or 8300 or nforce 720a or 730a.
Originally posted by: taltamir
Originally posted by: thilan29
Originally posted by: taltamir
hybrid SLI is not hybrid power. Hybrid power is already available with GF9 + 5 amd chipsets from nvidia...
From the Daily Tech article:
"The basics of Hybrid SLI aren't very difficult to understand. The term itself envelopes two different NVIDIA technologies, GeForce Boost and HybridPower."
I tried searching but was unable to find motherboards based on those 5 chipsets. Got any links to places selling any of them?
interesting... I see that newegg only carries ONE:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813135085
An ECS based on the GeForce 8200 chipset, it doesnt have any with 8100 or 8300 or nforce 720a or 730a.
And I haven't managed to find any reviews of hybrid power in action so I don't know how easy it is to use and activate.
I haven't bothered looking for those specific motherboards before because, quite frankly, AMD is not a serious player ATM in the CPU market. If they sliced the cost of 4x phenom by a LOT (and raised the mhz) then I could take them seriously, but not until then. (that, or release a reasonable x2 processor that competes with wolfdale).
I wonder why there are practically no boards available with those chipsets though. Demand can't be THAT low...
EDIT: I found out that asus lunched a 8300 based board:
http://www.asus.com.tw/product...model=2181&modelmenu=1
And it is not available anywhere...
This is absolutely made for a low power HTPC.
According to specs HD4870 should be like HD3870 X2's theoretical performance numbers on single GPU and GT200 should be GT200-30 should be 9800 GX2 on single chip.Originally posted by: allies
Originally posted by: BFG10K
I'm glad this will keep ATi afloat but realistically my next card will probably be a GT200.
What basis is this claim made upon?
Originally posted by: thilan29
Originally posted by: taltamir
interesting... I see that newegg only carries ONE:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813135085
An ECS based on the GeForce 8200 chipset, it doesnt have any with 8100 or 8300 or nforce 720a or 730a.
Good to see. Too bad it's out of stock but options like Hybrid power are always good since most time is spent at idle anyway. My next motherboard will definitely be one of the Gigabyte ones with Dynamic Energy Saver (DES) tech. I think it was tweaktown that did a review and it showed a tangible decrease in power usage at idle, which I'm all for...heck I even turned on thermal management for the 1st time ever in an effort to keep power usage down.
Is there any specific name for the Intel tech that turns off the discrete GPU? I'd like to read up a bit on it.
Originally posted by: Rusin
According to specs HD4870 should be like HD3870 X2's theoretical performance numbers on single GPU and GT200 should be GT200-30 should be 9800 GX2 on single chip.
At this moment 9800 GX2 eats HD3870 X2 alive in game benchmarks. Even 8800 Ultra wins it
Originally posted by: n7
Knowledge of past products, release cycles, release tendencies, market knowledge, & accurate guesswork?
Obviously, i'll let BFG answer that himself, but i'm with him.
I look forward to this new series from AMD, but i'm all but certain it will be beaten by nV's next series lineup.
Of that i have no doubt...you can mark these words
Originally posted by: phexac
If this new card indeed offers better performance than NVIDIA's 8800 Utlra and 9800GTX and proves better than the GT200 series, it may be my first ATI video card.
Originally posted by: n7
Originally posted by: allies
Originally posted by: BFG10K
I'm glad this will keep ATi afloat but realistically my next card will probably be a GT200.
What basis is this claim made upon?
Knowledge of past products, release cycles, release tendencies, market knowledge, & accurate guesswork?
Obviously, i'll let BFG answer that himself, but i'm with him.
I look forward to this new series from AMD, but i'm all but certain it will be beaten by nV's next series lineup.
Of that i have no doubt...you can mark these words