Originally posted by: techgamer
even if you got an 8800gt cant you just step up to these new ones?
Originally posted by: MarcVenice
Hmz 1gb for 1080p is overkill, although more then 512mb might be needed. We'll see when the reviews hit the web. Not sure if I should be sad though, I had my 8800gts 320mb since the start of july. Right now the 8800gt kills it though, so I've enjoyed my 8800gts for 4 months. Meh, hardware sucks
Originally posted by: paesan
According to daily tech posted by Anand: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9474, the new gts's are to be released early December with up to 1 gig ram. Glad I waited and did not jump to get a 8800gt. I run 1080p resolution and 1 gig ram would be great for me
Originally posted by: thejez
Originally posted by: techgamer
even if you got an 8800gt cant you just step up to these new ones?
yep you sure can... so it doesnt matter one bit it you got the GT... enjoy it until Dec!
Originally posted by: Azn
What's the point of getting these over the gt? Can this play crysis @ very high? No@#$*()~!
Originally posted by: pcslookout
Originally posted by: Azn
What's the point of getting these over the gt? Can this play crysis @ very high? No@#$*()~!
No one knows yet. Though I think even if nvidia does release a new high end card that even beats the Geforce 8800 Ultra the real speed king that will really knock all our socks off won't until next year.
Though its a great stepup plan because you get two high end video cards over a short period to give Crysis all the power it needs and even more.
Originally posted by: pcslookout
Originally posted by: Azn
What's the point of getting these over the gt? Can this play crysis @ very high? No@#$*()~!
No one knows yet. Though I think even if nvidia does release a new high end card that even beats the Geforce 8800 Ultra the real speed king that will really knock all our socks off won't until next year.
Though its a great stepup plan because you get two high end video cards over a short period to give Crysis all the power it needs and even more.
Originally posted by: SniperDaws
What happens to the graphics card you had when you use the Step up program?
Well the point was that it's named 8800 GTS. 8800 GT 512MB already comes close to beat 8800 GTX, which ain't far from 8800 ultra so I think it would be supricing if that G92-GTS wouldn't beat 8800 GTX and Ultra anywhere anytime. I mean that GT comes close with 112SP and 28 TMU and 16 ROP. This new GTS will have 128SP and most likely higher clocks than GT and more TMU and ROP units + higher memory clocks to add some width to that bottleneck.Originally posted by: pcslookout
This one is based off the G92 so its not really another gts I don't think sense it will beat the Ultra. Though something else that is even faster is coming out soon after I am sure.
Originally posted by: SniperDaws
Originally posted by: pcslookout
Originally posted by: Azn
What's the point of getting these over the gt? Can this play crysis @ very high? No@#$*()~!
No one knows yet. Though I think even if nvidia does release a new high end card that even beats the Geforce 8800 Ultra the real speed king that will really knock all our socks off won't until next year.
Though its a great stepup plan because you get two high end video cards over a short period to give Crysis all the power it needs and even more.
Ill tell you now, No the new GTS wont allow you play Crysis any better than the current 8800, the new 8800GTS should be slightly faster than the GTX and maybe faster than the ultra, so considering that even the 8800GTX and the ultras perfrom shite with Crysis dont get your hopes up.
Its not the graphics cards its Crysis.
The best thing people can do is to play Crysis at Medium settings and enjoy the story or forget Crysis exists untill this time next year when hopfully we should have much faster systems to chew through it.
Originally posted by: cputeq
With Stepup, you send in your old card (you pay shipping) and you get the card you chose as a step up (after they "process your card", which takes 3 business days). I'm guessing they have to test the card to make sure it works, etc. You also pay shipping back to you.
Once you've used EVGA's stepup, you can't use it again with the replacement card.
It's really not a bad deal, especially if you time your purchases just right.
I bought my 8800-gts640 at the end of sept, and for about $30 I'm upgrading to a 8800GT (too impatient/scared to try to wait for the GTS-512). Not a bad deal.
Originally posted by: dunno99
Quick question for everyone here:
Why do people believe that they need more ram for higher resolutions? The difference between 1600x1200 32-bit output and 1920x1200 32-bit output is only 1500KILObytes (which is slightly less than 1.5MB). Even if you consider what the OS reserves for the output buffer, double buffering for your game, additional deferred rendering requirements, that's only 6 times more, which is roughly 9MB. How do people think that games out there will actually borderline on that 9MB, and therefore hit the PCIe bus? From my understanding, most of that RAM is used for textures only. If you don't change the quality of of the textures, the game would therefore only take 9MB more going from 1600x1200 to 1920x1200. Am I missing something?