Originally posted by: toyota
well the card is good for the money and has plenty of perks for for oem comps.Originally posted by: Azn
It's obvious that 128 bit bus and 8 ROP does have a toll. It's much better than 8600gts or 9500gt but it doesn't quite handles midrange price segments like the gso gt or 3850. Once these boys are overclocked it will easily dust the 4670 with 128 bit bus.
also the 4670 will beat the 3850 even more with higher settings and AA in most of the benchmarks I have seen. overall the 9600gt is easily a better card but its much larger and needs external power. if you have a decent power supply and case then the 9600gt is a no brainier especially since they can be found for under $100. other than that the 4670 appears to be a much better card for the money than a 3850.
yes in every way possible.Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
HIS version for under $100
So, this card will best my 2006-era eVGA 7900GT?
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
HIS version for under $100
So, this card will best my 2006-era eVGA 7900GT?
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
HIS version for under $100
So, this card will best my 2006-era eVGA 7900GT?
yeppersOriginally posted by: Kai920
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
HIS version for under $100
So, this card will best my 2006-era eVGA 7900GT?
I assume it also beats my 2005-era 7800GTX?
yeah the 4670 is about the coolest running card you can buy so that is silly. also spending more money at this price point defeats the purpose of the card.Originally posted by: razor2025
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
HIS version for under $100
So, this card will best my 2006-era eVGA 7900GT?
Dual Slot cooler seems over-kill / useless for such cool running GPU.
Originally posted by: toyota
yeah the 4670 is about the coolest running card you can buy so that is silly. also spending more money at this price point defeats the purpose of the card.Originally posted by: razor2025
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
HIS version for under $100
So, this card will best my 2006-era eVGA 7900GT?
Dual Slot cooler seems over-kill / useless for such cool running GPU.
well pretty much every review has said the stock fan is basically silent. yeah Im holding off to see where the prices settle in a week or two. hopefully Best Buy will have these in stock soon and they normally have a sale on Visiontek cards every few weeks.Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
Originally posted by: toyota
yeah the 4670 is about the coolest running card you can buy so that is silly. also spending more money at this price point defeats the purpose of the card.Originally posted by: razor2025
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
HIS version for under $100
So, this card will best my 2006-era eVGA 7900GT?
Dual Slot cooler seems over-kill / useless for such cool running GPU.
just because it runs cool doesn't mean it runs quiet, going to dual slot would would allow quieter operation
however I'd agree, paying more seems silly to me - I'd rather pay less for a stock reference and then add on my own aftermarket cooling if I felt that noise was a problem
I still wouldn't bite too early because I'm convinced we'll start to see rebates or at least some reasonably priced versions with quiet(er) (if not passive/silent) cooling solutions
Originally posted by: toyota
yeah the 4670 is about the coolest running card you can buy so that is silly. also spending more money at this price point defeats the purpose of the card.Originally posted by: razor2025
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
HIS version for under $100
So, this card will best my 2006-era eVGA 7900GT?
Dual Slot cooler seems over-kill / useless for such cool running GPU.
Originally posted by: JAH
My HTPC (AMD 4400+/7600GT/Hauppauge 1250) cannot handle OTA HD decoding at all (stuttering video and sound), so would getting this card help or do I need new CPU also?
Originally posted by: Phynaz
Originally posted by: will889
This would actually be the perfect card for those still using a CRT scaling res down to about 1280*960.
Or those of us with 1280x1024 LCDs and smallish power supplies.
This is the card I have been waiting for.
Newegg wants list price plus $8 shipping for the thing though.
Originally posted by: nerp
Originally posted by: Phynaz
Originally posted by: will889
This would actually be the perfect card for those still using a CRT scaling res down to about 1280*960.
Or those of us with 1280x1024 LCDs and smallish power supplies.
This is the card I have been waiting for.
Newegg wants list price plus $8 shipping for the thing though.
HMm, this might just be the card for me to upgrade my x1950 pro
Anyone know how much this would trounce my x1950pro?
Originally posted by: nerp
Sweet. I'm going to wait a week or two and see if inventory / price / cooling options expand/change, etc and pounce on the next deal I see.
This is a great card it seems for 1280x1024 gaming (me) and low power requirements. I'm blown away at how power efficient it is.
Originally posted by: toyota
well pretty much every review has said the stock fan is basically silent. yeah Im holding off to see where the prices settle in a week or two. hopefully Best Buy will have these in stock soon and they normally have a sale on Visiontek cards every few weeks.
the fan I have on my EVGA 8600GT is the stock reference one and its dead silent. I had a 7600gt for ONE day before that noisy thing drove me crazy so I exchanged it for the 8600gt.Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
Originally posted by: toyota
well pretty much every review has said the stock fan is basically silent. yeah Im holding off to see where the prices settle in a week or two. hopefully Best Buy will have these in stock soon and they normally have a sale on Visiontek cards every few weeks.
Well that'd be something for me to see for myself as I have owned several single slot heatsink/fans and none of them have been quiet enough for me. Perhaps they're silent relative to the rest of the noisy fans any reviewer is making a claim of silence for, but that is probably not good enough for me. Another draw back for single slot fans is that they're usually higher pitched/whinier which can usually still provide an annoying presence over otherwise loud ambient noise.
Besides, if these these really do run as cool as the reviews say, then it certainly shouldn't be hard to passively cool them.
Originally posted by: daveybrat
I'll bet Asus will release a nice Fanless version of this card as they seem to really be on top of the silent computing market.