Recent content by Majestic12

Just don't tell anyone about it.

Always get the single card.

My 3000+ Venice from Spring 05 capped at 2.65 ghz @ 1.65 V.

It shoudln't even come close when OCed.....the stock GTS vs stock GTX loses by 30-40% in some cases. Clock speed increases shouldn't overcome the less memory, less bandwidth, and less shaders.

Well, the top end has gotten more expensive, yeah. But CPU's have partially gotten cheaper (an A64 3000+ for $60 is an acceptable gaming CPU), sound is more integrated, and other stuff hasn't increased in price much. Performance gains have been huge, doubling and redoubling over the course of...

Yup, I got a PNY 6800 GT on its release date. Hit well past Ultra speeds and ran it for 2 years before i sold it.

ATI has, recently at least, been lost and confusing with the midrange segment. The 9500 Pro was a nice card, the 9600 pro was decent. The x600s, x700s, x1600s, were all mediocre or had problems of some sort. I guess they've had some success with high end cards cut down (like the x1800 XT...

My guess is Nvidia really didn't like the 6800 GT cannibalizing the 6800 U, and to a lesser degree 7900 GT/7900 GTX. So, this time around they're really trying to differentiate the 2 products. Cutting pipelines seems to be the better business proposition.

Matters to who? You? I'm glad you decided to choose what every consumer wants when he/she buys a product.

I don't think power was the main concern with the G71....they were more interested in cost savings.

We are rather close to release. And if they're shipping out borked parts like the NV40, that's a problem. Tons of gamers had a 6800 card paired with an Athlon XP at the time, which wasn't fast enough to decode some of the WMVHD on its own. Which made the card's non-accelerating a problem.

I think that's ok as well, the people that piss me off are those who return perfectly fine cards that don't OC "well" enough, or the ones who voltmod and such and fry the card.

zipzoomfly

Worked great for me, as well as many forum users around here. I reached 430 core on the stock cooler. Hardocps review: "it seems in our gameplay evaluation the BFGTech 6800GT OC is starting to edge out the X800Pro performance-wise in real world gameplay." There are tons of reviews with...

Similar, but generally behind, and the 6800 gt was better with overclocking. The x800xt was a nice card, but like I said difficult to find, and the $450-500 market is significantly smaller than the $320ish (on sale) 6800 gt market.