ICYC (In case you care) -- The New Tech Stuff Thread

[legionaire45]

02/15/08 --- Meowkips. (http://www.techpowerup.com/52684/ASUS_EN9600GT_Retail_Video_Card_Pictured.html)
Geforce 9600 GT. Looks awfully similar to another Nvidia card if you ask me.
http://www.techpowerup.com/img/08-02-15/en9600gt3.jpg
http://www.techpowerup.com/img/08-02-15/en9600gt4.jpg

I think I'll throw all my "lol new GPU today" shit into this thread from now on.

[DrunkenSamus]

That looks orgasmic.

[Bodzilla]

it looks exactly the fucking same as the last series.
Stop being Lazy Nvidia and actually develop a NEW card.

we have enough 8 series cards as it is, why do we want another hole series of 8 series cards called "9 series".

C'mon ATI take advantage of there fart assing around and blow them outta the water with something new, exciting and with a much greater performance increase.

[odseraphim]

it looks exactly the fucking same as the last series.
You are wrong. You are SO DAMN wrong.
Look at the picture again. Did you even LOOK at it? There is a DVI dust cover on one, and there is NOT one on the other card.

TBYP. THINK BEFORE YOU POST <:mad:>

[Bodzilla]

it's too early for me to tell if your using sarcasm or not D:

:(

[Haloking365]

Call me naive, but who gives a crap what the card looks like? I care about what it makes things look like. Its just going to sit in the case, not very exciting. :(

[legionaire45]

Call me naive, but who gives a crap what the card looks like? I care about what it makes things look like. Its just going to sit in the case, not very exciting. :(
It gives us a pretty good idea of what to expect when we put the card in our comps. Aka last gen features, last gen performance and last gen power draw for current gen price :D.

Nvidia's MSRP for this card is either $150-200 or $200-250, but knowing them it's probably going to be closer to $300.

[Limited]

Maybe they are waiting for the new amazing looking card for 10000, or whatever they will substitute it for.

[Con]

argh, those video cards are retarded. I'd rather not buy a billboard, ty.

[Phopojijo]

it looks exactly the fucking same as the last series.
Stop being Lazy Nvidia and actually develop a NEW card.

we have enough 8 series cards as it is, why do we want another hole series of 8 series cards called "9 series".

C'mon ATI take advantage of there fart assing around and blow them outta the water with something new, exciting and with a much greater performance increase.They probably couldn't, and neither could ATI.

The GeForce 8 was inches from self-implosion. There's no way they could have upclocked it 90% without serious architecture changes.

The 8800GT and GeForce 9 series is nVidia's refresh of the Geforce 8 series... smaller transistors and all-round perf-per-watt tweaks. ATI has the exact same issues.

Basically it took nVidia and ATI a generation to get their videocards to a position where it will not explode when you blink in it's general direction or have the gull to actually run a game on it.

It was a necessary evil... something had to give. That being said -- now that their architecture is optimized -- I'm betting you next year's refresh will utterly beat the crap out of everything... now that they actually have headroom in stability, power, and heat.

[Cortexian]

I won't be upgrading to anything new till nVidia comes up with a card that is at least 2x as good as the 8800 GTX. That being said, I also won't upgrade to a GX2 series, I want a single core GPU that will out perform my 8800 GTX.

I may however buy two of the same 8 series cards for SLI when the price drops.

[Bodzilla]

They probably couldn't, and neither could ATI.

The GeForce 8 was inches from self-implosion. There's no way they could have upclocked it 90% without serious architecture changes.

The 8800GT and GeForce 9 series is nVidia's refresh of the Geforce 8 series... smaller transistors and all-round perf-per-watt tweaks. ATI has the exact same issues.

Basically it took nVidia and ATI a generation to get their videocards to a position where it will not explode when you blink in it's general direction or have the gull to actually run a game on it.

It was a necessary evil... something had to give. That being said -- now that their architecture is optimized -- I'm betting you next year's refresh will utterly beat the crap out of everything... now that they actually have headroom in stability, power, and heat.
i agree with you
i just dont like it now that the Price per Perf tweaks are in the complete opposite spectrum.

that and i'm Praying that ATI comes out with something awesome soon. Now that Nvidia has bought out that Physics card company, and has had such great success with the 7-8 series, i'm worried about them becoming a monopoly.
last few years ATI has had it fucking hard and i'd like them to bounce back to keep the competition going so that it benefits us users.

[Lateksi]

Kind of an offtopic but I don't think nVidia will name the Geforce 1000+ series like 1000+ series ^^

[itszutak]

I'm still waiting for a game to come out that requires me to get a new graphics card.

I've kept this card for two years, and I still get top settings in all the games I have (Oblivion, Portal, etc.).

It also runs quietly and at only 350w.

Nvidia 7800 GTX <3

[legionaire45]

Ouch. (http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/18/nv-release-woes)

[flibitijibibo]

Need moar 8800GT price drop. I'm fucking sick of waiting for a new high-end card.

Can you say Akimbo?

[legionaire45]

Cocks (http://www.techpowerup.com/53051/Confirmed_9800GT_Will_Support_3-Way_SLI.html) in a bocks. (http://www.techpowerup.com/53014/Radeon_HD_4000_Series_in_June?.html)

Every week or so I guess I'll make a list of shit or something.

[Monopoly]

The 9600GT was released, and it's only 179.99 while being only slightly less powerful than the 8800GT or G92.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130328

[Bodzilla]

it's less powerful then an older series card?

Laff.

[legionaire45]

It's meant to replace the 8600 Series, yet it costs a lot more then them.

Nvidia needs to start actually designing a new damn chip instead of overclocking/cutting shaders and calling it a new core. The 9-series and the 8-series are the same damn thing, except the 9 series has a bigger model number and Display Port support. Oh joy.

[Warsaw]

Fail nVidia, fail. :fail:

[alby]

Here is a review (http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/501/) on how it preforms against other cards, and against different manufacturers.

[4RT1LL3RY]

Hmm, I really think I should sell my 8600GT now and grab that, its twice as good for $50 more. Or I could wait and eventually get a nice high-end card, yeah I think I'll do that.
With 256-bit the standard for the card can we expect really massive onces for the high-end cards?

[Warsaw]

512-bit is probably what you will get.

[legionaire45]

Considering Nvidia is just tweaking old designs expect them to keep the 256bit bus until they actually get off their assess and design something new.