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Sqrl on 21 October 2007
z64dan said:
Man who cares? Videocards are instantly out-of-date when they come out anyway, just deal with lesser settings guys. I think 2004 top-end graphics is about where I stopped caring if it looks any more awesome.

I've got a 7800 GT since 18 months ago and in 6 months I'm gonna buy another 7800 GT and do some SLI baby! The 7800s are only $125 right now too, teehee!

 I'm in a similar boat, my rig is set up for SLI as soon as I get a new card.  Bought a beefy PSU with modular cables and a nice Motherboard to make sure I could get a nice upgrade once the 8800 GTS comes down in price.

But I have to say I haven't really had any problems with running things at max settings in HD resolutions (1680x1050). 
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ihira on 21 October 2007

Gameboy:
Sure looks good on paper but I'll believe it when I see real time benchmarks.
ATI hyped up R600 with all the high specs and speculation and what we got in the end was a 6 month late power hungry, loud card that couldn't quite match the 8800GTX.
And no I'm not a Nvidia fanboy. I'm loving my X1900XT and really hope the 3800 delivers something good this time.



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ssj12 on 21 October 2007
Entroper said:
Crossfire and SLI are useless unless you're building a $3000+ gaming rig that you want to sound like a jet airplane.

 I think you never sat next to a PC with SLI or Crossfire. 

 

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BenKenobi88 on 21 October 2007

I used to be a big ATI person...but lately all I hear from ATI fanboys is "CROSSFIRE!" which is 100% useless to me because A) Crossfire isn't that great anyway...it doesn't make up for no DX10, extra shaders, whatever, and B) I'm not going to buy TWO subpar graphics card for much more money than one good graphics card.

I'll buy whatever card's best for the price...and while ATI's have been pretty cheap...a good 8800 is only a bit more than ATI's best, and it performs much better.



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omgwtfbbq on 21 October 2007

ATi has released the full specs of their graphics cards with no NDA required



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Entroper on 21 October 2007
ssj12 said:

I think you never sat next to a PC with SLI or Crossfire.


Nope.  I wouldn't want my money to go to waste.



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epsilon72 on 22 October 2007
Game_boy said:

The open-source drivers are progressing well, and ATI will add AIGLX support to their fglrx driver this month which will support Compiz Fusion, adding to the across-the-board 100%+ performance improvement last month.

I hope they do match the "nvidia" driver soon.

 When the new driver is out though, there's always they issue of me being too lazy to "emerge -C nvidia-drivers, emerge ati-drivers, edit etc/X11/xorg.conf...blah blah blah..." whereas if the 8800GTS drops in price and I buy it, I just install the card and I'm done!