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   #86. Posted at 06:06 PM on Mar 14th 2006, Edited at 06:09 PM on Mar 14th 2006 Edit   Reply
GeForce6200
Curious. Would a 420watt ps work for a 7600gt for a while. My system specs are.
MSI Neo-4f Motherboard
AMD Athlon3000(939)
2X512 pc2700
Gigabyte GeForce 6200
and a HD, with two DVD drives

Should I wait till DX 10 comes out. My 6200 works great right now. Plays BF2 on high.(no aa)
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#86, Check the amperage output on the +12v rails. Wattage doesn't...  :  absinthexl  (#87)  «
#87, I think it is 13 amp. Not sure. It is just a simple raidm...  :  GeForce6200  (#89)  «

   #88. Posted at 08:01 PM on Mar 15th 2006 Edit   Reply
GeForce6200
The amp is 13
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   #65. Posted at 05:30 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
zqw
Then to find out that the driver has an overclocking bug...
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/03/09/ati_and_nvidias_same_day_meg...

Is there any more info on that anywhere? (Tom's didn't explain it.)
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#65, Are you sure the explanation wasn't between some of the ads?  :  Crackhead Johny  (#84)  «
#84, I didn't want to read it, but I did text search for overc...  :  zqw  (#85)  «

   #26. Posted at 11:04 AM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
flip-mode
Yum,

Very tempted to try EVGA's trade up program and switch from the 6800gs to the 7600gt.
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#26, If you have the receipt and box, and it's less than three mo...  :  Forge  (#80)  «
#80, That's cool! I'm actually wondering if it will be worth i...  :  flip-mode  (#83)  «

   #50. Posted at 02:35 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
totoro
Is the 7800GT to 7900GT upgrade really worth it?
I could sell my old (like 2 months) card and get really close to a 7900GT price.
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#50, If you can sell the 7800gt and only lose $50 or so i'd say g...  :  kfc  (#53)  «
#53, Thanks, that's about what I figured. I think I'll hang ont...  :  totoro  (#55)  «
#50, Just think of the 7900GT as a 7800GTX, it should make your t...  :  Forge  (#82)  «

   #28. Posted at 11:50 AM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
Alanzilla
My little brother did most (if not all) of the work on the memory subsystem for the 79xx series chips. Whee!
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#28, Long time no see! Tell your little brother thanks for the go...  :  Forge  (#81)  «

   #78. Posted at 10:10 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
DrDillyBar
Sweet. /me loves options.
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#78, Kudos on the cards pic  :  DrDillyBar  (#79)  «

   #74. Posted at 07:40 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
Vera
hooray! Time to get rid of this Ti4800SE <sucks
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#74, its better than my fx5600 < sucks so bad; its funny. lol  :  BoBzeBuilder  (#75)  «
#75, The FX5600 "Ultra" (whatever that means) wasn't all bad w...  :  ludi  (#77)  «

   #76. Posted at 08:56 PM on Mar 9th 2006, Edited at 09:01 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
Fighterpilot
As a follow up on the whole "X" labelling thing....
Forceware,Detonator and Catalyst are all cool names for drivers and such...imagine how much more fun it would be to read the latest TR report that said"We can confirm that the new ATI BallCrusher series cards are faster then the current NVidia Buttkickers" LOL
Or perhaps "Nvidias latest Predator card proved superior to the ATI Obliterator in BF3 etc....sure beats the crap outta all those stupid and confusing Xs and strings of meaningless numbers.

Number75#....I feel your pain.I had an FX5600S as my last Nvidia card and it was...ahem...less than stellar.
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   #69. Posted at 06:41 PM on Mar 9th 2006, Edited at 06:46 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
Fighterpilot
Wow lucky u slipped in with the quick Ninja edit then....I was just about to press the post button lol
Also Im not so pedantic that you need to go to decimal places on the FPS numbers,rounding off is near enough..and furthermore I think that "crushed" sounds way more fun than "It outperforms by 10.7fps"
Obliterated is another goody...I gotta remember that one for the Conroe release day tests results lol
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#69, Yes, I was looking at the xt and not xtx numbers for the ave...  :  Convert  (#70)  «
#70, Well I have to agree the whole "X" thing is way outta han...  :  Fighterpilot  (#73)  «

   #72. Posted at 07:23 PM on Mar 9th 2006, Edited at 07:25 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
rwolf
It will be interesting to see if ATI will use GDDR4 and Virtual memory in the near future since support for those features is in the new memory controller.
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   #71. Posted at 06:53 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
Bensam123
You know 32x AA is very nice but what I'm more worried about is the optmizations people have seem to forgot about that have been in video cards since the Radeon 8500s. You know where anything 10ft infront of you in game is blurry and looks like graphics from four years ago?

I would trade ANY amount of AA to get that crap turned off. Games would look so much nicer if 'optmizations' like that were optional or just didn't exist.

Then again these 'next gen' cards wouldn't be spitting out these kinds of framerates would they?
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   #57. Posted at 03:57 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
Fighterpilot
This is the long awaited 1900 series beater and it still gets crushed in F.E.A.R and BF2?
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#57, 66 to 63 is crushed?  :  Lazier_Said  (#59)  «
#59, You will have to excuse him, he is a ATI fanboy. 3fps in ...  :  Convert  (#61)  «
#61, If you had actually read the results I mentioned you m...  :  Fighterpilot  (#66)  «
#66, Of course I read the results. There is a 10.7fps di...  :  Convert  (#68)  «

   #67. Posted at 06:10 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
crose
Interesting review but with performance not being that big of a difference it would have been more interesting to take a closer look at HD playback capability (H.264) and PureVideo vs. Avivo. Is Avivo's transcoding out of beta now?
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   #60. Posted at 05:04 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
kfc
7900GT w/512MB would get me interested.

256MB + DX9 when 512MB and DX10 will be soon needed just isnt worth it to me. That is unless I didnt care about UT2K7, Crysis and other games are shortly around the corner.

This is not the time to upgrade boys!
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#60, It depends on where you come from. If you are on a GF4 Ti420...  :  Flying Fox  (#64)  «

   #63. Posted at 05:17 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
rgreen83
Never heard anyone complain about there being too many types of cars for sale!
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   #58. Posted at 04:50 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
Convert
Nice cards and nice review. The 7600/7900 series looks pretty solid, most of all though I am happy to see these cards at retail at low price points.
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   #42. Posted at 02:02 PM on Mar 9th 2006, Edited at 02:03 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
Zenith
"More notably, the setup will have a total of 15.6 gigatexels/s of fill rate and 153.6GB/s of memory bandwidth."

So what you're saying is, there finally exists a computer graphics subsystem capable of rendering Chuck Norris? BRILLIANT!
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#42, Chuck Norris cannot be rendered by any machine. The roundhou...  :  totoro  (#44)  «
#44, I hope Our Man Chuck is really enjoying his fifteen minut...  :  ludi  (#48)  «
#48, it's been more than 15 minutes. :P in fact, i'm kind of...  :  eitje  (#52)  «
#52, The worst was seeing it in Guild Wars. Funny, but in...  :  totoro  (#54)  «
#52, Cyril must be banging his head against the keyboard...  :  absinthexl  (#56)  «

   #3. Posted at 08:31 AM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
Ruiner
And this brings the number of video card types to 100....

wtf?
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#3, Why complain? Choice is good for the consumer. So long as yo...  :  Vrock  (#5)  «
#5, For performance users, video cards are NOT toothpaste, wh...  :  ludi  (#51)  «

   #49. Posted at 02:33 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
Hattig
Nice.

I can afford the lower end ones there. If I had an up to date system, anyway.

It would be nice to see some price/performance graphs though. There are so many options now my head spins.
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   #29. Posted at 11:52 AM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
A_Pickle
Are we going to see a Pentium D vs. Athlon 64 X2 vs. Core Duo benchmark anytime?

-Pikl
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#29, Is the G and C in GPU vs CPU that similar to the fanboys?  :  Flying Fox  (#32)  «
#32, No... I was asking if there would be a review. There is o...  :  A_Pickle  (#34)  «
#34, No... I was asking if there would be a review. There i...  :  Flying Fox  (#40)  «
#40, Sometimes Mr. Wasson passes by this area.... so... ...  :  A_Pickle  (#43)  «
#43, Do it in the forums or PM?  :  Flying Fox  (#46)  «
#46, He has a forum user account? ...yeah... I gues...  :  A_Pickle  (#47)  «
#29, Cornrow in yer FACE d00d!  :  Buub  (#36)  «
#36, Cornrow. Too funny.  :  Delta9  (#45)  «

   #41. Posted at 01:57 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
kfc
3DMark06 - Vertex Shader - Simple - 1280x1024

GeForce 6800 GS SLI is the fastest card. Beats 7900GTX SLI and 1900XTX CrossFire. How?

http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/geforce-7600-7900/3dm-vertex-s...

Other than that good review. So far I like TR and Guru3D's take on it. [H] sucks ass.
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   #10. Posted at 09:32 AM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
Deathright
Does anyone really need a Quad-Sli?
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#10, I was pondering again how awesome it would be for Matrox's S...  :  swaaye  (#38)  «
#10, Most people don't "need" any of the crap they have. :-)  :  PRIME1  (#39)  «

   #11. Posted at 09:37 AM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
madlemming
Quad SLI, wow.
Needing a kilowatt of power is crazy, and booking at the specs of PCP&C's kilowatt PSU; it looks like theres going to be a wall pretty soon. The draw for that PSU at full load is 15 amps, so unless we start plugging computers into 20 amp outlets, It's going to be hard to get more juice.
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#11, Seeing TR's test system pull 267 watts wall current with one...  :  Lazier_Said  (#23)  «
#23, http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/viewproduct.php?sh...  :  Forge  (#24)  «
#23, People like big numbers. And there is an insane amount of...  :  swaaye  (#37)  «

   #35. Posted at 12:28 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
Dposcorp
Excellent article.
I look forward to picking up a second used 7800GT to try out sli for the first time.

A used 7800GT at $200 or less would rock.
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   #30. Posted at 12:02 PM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
Jigar
i was expecting 79 series to be 32 pipline .......... anyways card looks good..... Lets see how it performs against x1900xtx....
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#30, Read the article, and you'll find out. ;)  :  Flying Fox  (#33)  «

   #2. Posted at 08:18 AM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
Krogoth
7900GT = Most factory clocked 7800GTXs for the masses! :)

AS5+7900GT= T3h mad overclocks that can probably yield close to 7900GTX performance. Althought, I suspect that the memory will be the bottleneck.
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#2, You'd think so, until you saw this: XFX GeForce 7900GT 256MB ...  :  Lord.Blue  (#9)  «
#9, OMG that is a awesome deal.... Wish I had some money to pl...  :  mesyn191  (#15)  «
#15, Apparently you're not the only one who thought it was ...  :  Lord.Blue  (#31)  «

   #27. Posted at 11:42 AM on Mar 9th 2006 Edit   Reply
Chaos-Storm
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814133166

7900GT for $300, wheras the 7800GTX 256 still sells for like $450 - $500. Looks like a good deal to me.
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