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your mother on 27 September 2007
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ssj12 said:
your mother said:
Entroper said:
your mother said:

I'm waiting for the next series of DX10 cards to come out that don't require vacuum-cleaner fans or occupy 21 free slots - probably by Christmas season, but by now there should at least be rumors of new cards coming out.

What's up with that? The GeForce 8800GTX XXX is STILL the fastest card out there, and it's been how many months since any upgrade?


The DX10 selection sucks.


WORD.

Which is why I'm still hanging on to my 1650 and 6600 - both are fanless, one-slot wonders, something that ALL GPUs should take into consideration when they are designed.

I mean, it's actually misleading to everyone (but the most diehard fans who follow up on this information): a DX10 2400 that can't keep up with a DX9 1950? Does that even make sense?


actually theres a reason for that, the 2400 is a 1900 with a higher number, look it up its the truth. AMD/ATI screwed up big time with it, jsut like the x2900xt.

But regardless, it's been a very long time since a bona-fide sucessor to the 8800 and 1950 were released. The 2800 can keep up with the 8800 but it's just not a good design - fan blowers, dual slots, insane watt requirements, special PSU - come to think of it, sounds just like the 8800 - another reason why I refuse to buy any of the current crop of DX10 cards.

That's my gripe - not that there aren't any fast cards, but that the cards haven't evolved in the slightest. It's the same 8800 that sounds loud as a vacuum cleaner, occupies one slot too many, and just about requires its own generator to run. That doesn't sound like a good design to me.

My 6600 and 1650, on the other hand, are fanless, take up one slot, and do not require any additional connectors. Nice and neat - and silent! - that's the way I like it, and that's how I feel it should be.