Originally posted by: neocon
Does anybody know if the day the new cards come on the market, that reviews will start showing up on websites like this. I need parts right away, but I want to hold off for any reviews.
Originally posted by: geoffry
Originally posted by: taltamir
Well, playing mass effect PC i forced AA in the drivers on my 8800GTS 512... I was getting single digit FPS on 16x... ended up playing the game at 2x AA.
With a beastly GTX 280 I could have probably forced 16x AA and still had smooth experience.
16X AA?
That seems a bit extreme to me. What would the difference in IQ be between 16 and say 4 or 8?
Would it be noticable?
Originally posted by: Extelleron
http://img175.imageshack.us/im...idayjune1320082sg7.jpg
The GTX 280 beats the 9800GX2 in Crysis, HL2: Episode 1, and World in Conflict; the 9800GX2 beats the GTX 280 in 3D Mark 06 and Company of Heroes.
Originally posted by: HOOfan 1
Originally posted by: Extelleron
http://img175.imageshack.us/im...idayjune1320082sg7.jpg
The GTX 280 beats the 9800GX2 in Crysis, HL2: Episode 1, and World in Conflict; the 9800GX2 beats the GTX 280 in 3D Mark 06 and Company of Heroes.
where did that PC Gamer article come from? It took them 3 months after the 9800GX2 was out to come up with a reveiw...and they somehow found that it lost to the HD3870X2 in all of their benchmarks but one
I can't imagine they would have a GTX280 reveiw this quickly.
Originally posted by: Extelleron
Originally posted by: neocon
Does anybody know if the day the new cards come on the market, that reviews will start showing up on websites like this. I need parts right away, but I want to hold off for any reviews.
Reviews should be out on Monday (June 16). GTX 280 will be available on June 17th, and supposedly GTX 260 won't be available until June 26th.
Here are benchmarks of the GTX 280 and a magazine review:
http://img175.imageshack.us/im...idayjune1320082sg7.jpg
The GTX 280 beats the 9800GX2 in Crysis, HL2: Episode 1, and World in Conflict; the 9800GX2 beats the GTX 280 in 3D Mark 06 and Company of Heroes.
Originally posted by: gigahertz20
Originally posted by: Extelleron
Originally posted by: neocon
Does anybody know if the day the new cards come on the market, that reviews will start showing up on websites like this. I need parts right away, but I want to hold off for any reviews.
Reviews should be out on Monday (June 16). GTX 280 will be available on June 17th, and supposedly GTX 260 won't be available until June 26th.
Here are benchmarks of the GTX 280 and a magazine review:
http://img175.imageshack.us/im...idayjune1320082sg7.jpg
The GTX 280 beats the 9800GX2 in Crysis, HL2: Episode 1, and World in Conflict; the 9800GX2 beats the GTX 280 in 3D Mark 06 and Company of Heroes.
It looks like a legit review, if so it seems like the GTX 280 will be a fast but expensive piece of hardware.
Originally posted by: nitromullet
Originally posted by: gigahertz20
Originally posted by: Extelleron
Originally posted by: neocon
Does anybody know if the day the new cards come on the market, that reviews will start showing up on websites like this. I need parts right away, but I want to hold off for any reviews.
Reviews should be out on Monday (June 16). GTX 280 will be available on June 17th, and supposedly GTX 260 won't be available until June 26th.
Here are benchmarks of the GTX 280 and a magazine review:
http://img175.imageshack.us/im...idayjune1320082sg7.jpg
The GTX 280 beats the 9800GX2 in Crysis, HL2: Episode 1, and World in Conflict; the 9800GX2 beats the GTX 280 in 3D Mark 06 and Company of Heroes.
It looks like a legit review, if so it seems like the GTX 280 will be a fast but expensive piece of hardware.
Interesting that they mention 1920x1200 in the text, but not in the benchmark results.
Originally posted by: taltamir
I! WANT! HYBRID! POWER!
How damn hard is it for those stupid ass companies to understand that I don't a jet engine wasting 70watts, making noise, and heating up my room for the 10 hours a day I use the computer for NON gaming reasons...
Turning off the video card is the most sensible thing ever conceived in the video card industry... and yet AMD can't do it AT ALL... and nvidia requires that you use a specific AMD mobo (no intel? no thanks!) and only supports it on 9800GTX and above...
This is beyond ridiculous
Originally posted by: Extelleron
Originally posted by: taltamir
I! WANT! HYBRID! POWER!
How damn hard is it for those stupid ass companies to understand that I don't a jet engine wasting 70watts, making noise, and heating up my room for the 10 hours a day I use the computer for NON gaming reasons...
Turning off the video card is the most sensible thing ever conceived in the video card industry... and yet AMD can't do it AT ALL... and nvidia requires that you use a specific AMD mobo (no intel? no thanks!) and only supports it on 9800GTX and above...
This is beyond ridiculous
I understand why some people might want it, but I could care less about Hybrid Power. Especially since the GTX 280 supposedly uses ~25W in idle. That's nothing to be concerned about.
I really don't care about power consumption for GPUs at all.... obviously there are limits, but power is the least of my worries when selecting a GPU.
Video cards don't make a ton of noise when idling...even under load my 8800GTS 512MB is never noticeable while gaming.
Originally posted by: taltamir
I am here surfing the forums and I can hear the fan on my video card, this should not be the case!
Originally posted by: taltamir
Originally posted by: Extelleron
Originally posted by: taltamir
I! WANT! HYBRID! POWER!
How damn hard is it for those stupid ass companies to understand that I don't a jet engine wasting 70watts, making noise, and heating up my room for the 10 hours a day I use the computer for NON gaming reasons...
Turning off the video card is the most sensible thing ever conceived in the video card industry... and yet AMD can't do it AT ALL... and nvidia requires that you use a specific AMD mobo (no intel? no thanks!) and only supports it on 9800GTX and above...
This is beyond ridiculous
I understand why some people might want it, but I could care less about Hybrid Power. Especially since the GTX 280 supposedly uses ~25W in idle. That's nothing to be concerned about.
I really don't care about power consumption for GPUs at all.... obviously there are limits, but power is the least of my worries when selecting a GPU.
Video cards don't make a ton of noise when idling...even under load my 8800GTS 512MB is never noticeable while gaming.
25 watt in idle? I'll beleive that when I see it.. also, the GTX 280 will have hybrid power. And will cost 650$... I wonder how much the 4870 will take. or the x2.
Ofcourse it is not noticeable when gaming, you have explosions and music blasting out of your speakers... I am talking about idling noise. I am here surfing the forums and I can hear the fan on my video card, this should not be the case!
Originally posted by: nitromullet
Interesting that they mention 1920x1200 in the text, but not in the benchmark results.
Originally posted by: nitromullet
Interesting that they mention 1920x1200 in the text, but not in the benchmark results.
Originally posted by: tynopik
3-way SLI GTX 280 Scores P21350 In 3DMark Vantage
http://www.vr-zone.com/article...Mark_Vantage/5866.html
Originally posted by: Extelleron
Here are benchmarks of the GTX 280 and a magazine review:
http://img175.imageshack.us/im...idayjune1320082sg7.jpg
The GTX 280 beats the 9800GX2 in Crysis, HL2: Episode 1, and World in Conflict; the 9800GX2 beats the GTX 280 in 3D Mark 06 and Company of Heroes.
Originally posted by: Extelleron
Here are benchmarks of the GTX 280 and a magazine review:
http://img175.imageshack.us/im...idayjune1320082sg7.jpg
The GTX 280 beats the 9800GX2 in Crysis, HL2: Episode 1, and World in Conflict; the 9800GX2 beats the GTX 280 in 3D Mark 06 and Company of Heroes.