ROFL! I love that cynicism (spelling? ._.). I totally agree with you, I however didnt wait, and boy am i glad i didnt! Rather than waiting for an actually impressive card, i’m going to draw the line and purchase another 8800GTS (G92) for SLI.

Comment by James - April 3, 2008 @ 12:13 pm

You spelt cynicism just right James, and I share it.

To be absolutely fair, *maybe* there is some power saving element to the 9800 Series that I don’t know about, but since there’s nothing out there that can really hack Crysis, which I don’t own anyway, I had no qualms going with a Radeon HD 3850 as my very first PCI-E card. Ebuyer’s dropping the price to £83 sealed the deal for me.

Comment by Ken - April 10, 2008 @ 1:04 am

Nivida seem to have got into the habit of only making major changes every two series changes.
There was a big jump between the 5 series an 6 series. A small jump up to the 7 series. A big jump again up to the 8 series, followed by another small jump up to the 9 series.
Hopefully in a year or so when they bring out the 10 series, (or whatever it’ll be called) there’ll be another major performance jump again.

Comment by l3v1ck - April 14, 2008 @ 8:32 pm

Aren’t you glad you waited for the 9-series to launch before upgrading your graphics? You really needn’t have bothered.

Really? what could i have bought that would equal my gx2?

Comment by russ - April 18, 2008 @ 12:27 am

2 gtx’s will eat your gx2 and 3 ultras is the fastest setup you can have so um yah gx2 is kind of point less if you already have a decent card.

Have the dirvers imporved yet when i saw a gx2 it still could not be overclocked and do you water cool it or put up with the fan scream.

Comment by Cool_CR - May 3, 2008 @ 1:14 am

thanks cool_cr for your great reply, your right
if you just happened to own a gtx or an ultra your right you could buy another for £200 - £400
or two more for £400 - £800
But remember for triple sli you will need a 1100 watt psu at a cost of approx £200
and a 790i board approx £240

A gx2 is a “single” card and runs fine on a 600 w psu its been overclockable for a good month and at 70 -100% fan speed it makes noise but wouldn’t 2/3 oc’d gtx/ultras
This link below will show you the massive gains you mentioned from two ultras

http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=541&pageid=13

Looks like quad sli (2 x gx2 ) is the fastest not 3 ultra’s

Comment by russ - May 17, 2008 @ 1:10 am

looks like g280 isn’t much different to gx2? a bit better in some cases a bit worse in others.

Comment by russ - June 19, 2008 @ 4:24 pm

Hiclaave yes, i agree a gtx 2809accorxing to cpcs benchs are abit slower and a bit faster in some cases than a gx2. Although, the last nvidia card i had was a geforce 6, it worked fine, I was still running a windows xp sp2, and a athlon xp 2600+. i had only 512 ram, but i think this old box was so reliable, my dual core amd doesn’t seem to be as reliable(I omly have 2 extra progs in the sys tray). It was also so quiet, my x2 is REALLY loud.

I like the days before the exponential increase in chipsets band gfx card models. i am still thinking about getting(for my x2) a 9600gt with hdtv, but i don’t think 8800gs(384mb) has hdtv. At the moent if i want a tuner, a combined gfx card and tuner is the cheapest way.

I don’t know whether in time i will think of my x2 with as much fondness as my 2600. CPU’s are too loud, and mobos cost too much.

i don’t know if a 3850 will fit my needs. I was thinking of forgetting gfx card religion and getting whatever works(80% sure nvidia).

i csn’t afford a 4850, even online. some 3850 modles are more expensive than the 4850 though!.

I plasy battlefield 2142 and coh:opposing fronts. don’t do gaming very often. with the new avg, and all the little progs inthe sys tray my dal core slows to a crawl sometimes. I think the two worst offendrs are itunes and avg. maybe sa reinstall woukld be a good idea.

Anyway, with 2 real gfx cards out now, i hope prices will drop even further faster.

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Comment by wazhim - July 19, 2008 @ 9:53 am