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There doesn't appear to be a lot of news today, so I thought I'd drop a video card (P)review on you. Anandtech has reviewed NVIDIA's latest creation, the Geforce 7800 GTX.

Overall, we consider this a successful launch. Aside from the performance of the 7800 GTX, we can infer that the PS3's RSX will be even more powerful than the G70. As RSX will be a 90nm part and will still have some time to develop further, the design will likely be even easier to program, faster, and full of more new features.

If you'd like to read other (P)reviews of the card, just browse to websites like Tech-Report and HardOCP.

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#36939 Posted on: 06/24/2005 12:33 AM I'm not all that impressed with the 7800GTX. 121 total Ghz, 304GB in total memory... Arch Linux - stable : 3930k @ 4.4Ghz, 64GB DDR3, 120GB Samsung 840, HX850 DAS - Norco 4020 - 20x Seagate 3TB, 1KW PSU FBSD 10 ZFS server - SM Chassis, SM X8DTE, 2x L5520 Xeons, 48GB Reg DDR3 ULP, IBM 5015 w/ 512MB DDR2 cache, RAID-50 - 42TB storage Dell C6100 - 4 nodes, 2 1.1KW psu's, 2x L5520s, 6x e5530s, 192GB reg DDR3 (48GB each), F@H, etc

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#36940 Posted on: 06/24/2005 06:22 AM and they called the X800 an archeological dig from 2003 (or whenever it was..) :P Ebay feedback Heatware Feedback www.fnx.se Dual Opteron 244 @ 1.9 - 2Gb DDR400 ECC/REG - MSI K8T Master2-FAR Dual Opteron 852 - 2Gb PC2700 - Tyan Tiger K8W

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#36941 Posted on: 06/24/2005 07:49 AM I dunno, the technology is good so just give them time to polish it up a bit more. They use less power than the 6800U with better performance and that's a good thing. Now when the prices of those 6800GT/Us drop, thats an even better thing. Iwill DH800, 2GB (2x1024) OCZ4002048PFDC-K 2.5-3-3-8-1t Dual Prestionia Xeons 2.4 M0 @1.50v 220Mhz 3.3GHz Location: 42.3 N 122.9 W Medford, Oregon, USA

Slaughter111 Registered User Posts: 728 Joined: 2002-12-22

#36942 Posted on: 06/24/2005 10:26 AM it also uses less power than the X850. the reason some are not impressed is because some wanted to see large frame rate increases in current games. nvidia built this platform for the future, and it will shine more with newer games. so if you want to play current games, the 6800GT is your card (maybe). but if you want future-proof power, then the 7800GTX is the one. i think the 7800GTX is a great alternative to a 6800Ultra-based SLI setup, though. will deliver par+ performance and draw less power. A+ | MCSA | MCITP | CommVault CVSA/CVSE | VMware VCP 4 Heatware: Slaughter111

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#36943 Posted on: 06/24/2005 02:04 PM Nice card, if only the PureVideo that they've (supposedly) finally got right on that one was implemented properly on my 6800GT Now that 3D performance is more about raw floating point ability more that specific features, I think that it would be nice to see a bit more effort go into the video side of video cards. On-the-fly HD encoding in hardware anyone? My Computers|2CPU.com SETI@Home Stats|My eBay feedback|My Heatware|Have you seen the future?

dilidolo Registered User Posts: 175 Joined: 2004-01-13

#36944 Posted on: 06/24/2005 10:29 PM Originally posted by Calum Nice card, if only the PureVideo that they've (supposedly) finally got right on that one was implemented properly on my 6800GT Now that 3D performance is more about raw floating point ability more that specific features, I think that it would be nice to see a bit more effort go into the video side of video cards. On-the-fly HD encoding in hardware anyone? PureVideo works very well, I barely see CPU usage over 10% when watching videos. Then I have 2 opterons. It's cpu bonded, when you run game at 1600x1200 with 4AA and 8xAF, all the details turnd to highest, you then really see the power of the card, amazing, no lag, super high image quality.

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#36945 Posted on: 06/24/2005 11:31 PM Until they have rotated sampling matrix antialiasing, I'd still say ATIs are better for games. NVidia's AA sucks. RMN ~~~

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#36946 Posted on: 06/28/2005 03:57 AM AA is for rpgers. Nexus7 enhanced combat/pleasure model.

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#36947 Posted on: 06/30/2005 10:20 AM I would love to upgrade my 5900 to the 6800 Ultra for AGP. The price is Slowly coming down

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