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hallucinogen at 06:14pm 09/14/2005
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XBOX IS A USELESS PIECE OF SHlT, GET A REAL PC YOU FLIPPING CU_NT!
and STFU! ARGH
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elh at 01:27am 06/29/2005
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Hi, I honestly consider FS to be one of the best if not the best
hardware reviewing sites.
I was wondering if an improvement can be made to include minimum FPS
in all the games tested.
In my humble opinion nowadays testing the average FPS is pointless.
Since the days of first UT, I remember scores in the range of 170fps
and that going below 25fps during battle heat.
I would much rather have stable 60fps than that, I'm sure you will
all agree.
This is especially true nowadays with 6600 and 6600GT cards: they
put some impressive scores in 3DMarks and high D3 avg fps, yet
subjectively speaking the game experience isn't that smooth.
If I were to buy a new card these days, I would much rather made
sure it will protect me from slideshows than have 250fps when
there's nothing on screen.
If I'm not mistaken that's exactly the case with 6600 architecture:
narrow 128bit bus and fast memories, which makes processing data
fast when there isn't much to do, but when the real heat comes in
the bus is the bottleneck and the memory won't help.
To sum it up, I would be very glad to see the lowest fps scores in
every test I read.
I've seen such tables at the bottom with some test at FS already and
that's the step in the right direction.
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Anonymous at 04:05am 06/28/2005
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lol the pc industry would instantly be dead as we know it.
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Anonymous at 09:11pm 06/27/2005
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imagine if the xbox 360 was pc compatible...
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vanzagar at 01:33pm 06/27/2005
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wow, I guess that cards available right now... usually it takes
awhile from launch to availability. I bet it won't drop by more than
$100 to $150 by xmas though...
Vanz
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gauntalus at 12:22pm 06/27/2005
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All very good points, you're right about not needing the 7800 for
most apps, I guess I got in a bit of a PC vs. console kick and
forgot we were talking about a video card here. And don't get me
wrong, the pricetag is completely outrageous, I will never spend
more than $250 or so on a video card.
I still feel a bit justified in my lifetime argument. I can still
play all of the newest games (aside from farcry) on my laptops
measely Radeon 9000, a chipset which is reaching four years of age.
Not to mention I use the video cards OpenGL support for 3D Modeling
apps, level editing apps, etc. You can always find new uses for old
video cards (though they might not be as impressive as the latest
and greatest), the aren't going to stop making 3d computer apps.
But they straight up stop making Xbox games once its lifetime has
passed.
But I still have to wonder, who pays that kind of money for a video
card... Really... Granted I am in about the worst money point in my
life being your stereotypical starving college student, but still?
If I'd asked my parents for a $600 dollar video card when I was
little they would've laughed for days. I was REALLY lucky to get
$50 bucks for a new game every now and then. Really, is anyone
participating in this forum who has ever dropped that kind of cash
on a video card, and don't you have more meaningful places to put
that money? I mean I envy you without a doubt, but how can you
justify it?
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vanzagar at 12:06pm 06/27/2005
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Ya but you don't need a 7800 GTX to do most of those things, you
could buy a $20 vid card for MS word or excel. Let's talk apples to
apples we are only talking about playing games. So the extra
versatility you talk about is meaningless in this comparison.
Also, as for the pricing and availablity I believe both will be
available around fall of this year (maybe the 7800 will be a little
earlier) at the prices quoted. That card will be at or near $600
when the xbox 360 is released, don't kid yourself...
As for the lifetime that's another crock of crap. The 7800 will be
replace by a 8800 in I would guess 12-18 months if nvidia and ATI
keep up with their current pacing, whereas the xbox360 will probably
have a life of about 5 years. Micrsoft wanted the first xbox to have
a 5 year life but it will have a 4 year, so they predict pretty
reasonably.
Don't get me wrong here I don't own a console and have been an avid
PC gamer for the last 20 years (upgrading every 2 years or so),
since my first TI99/4a and Commodore64, but for the first time in my
life I think I will actualy buy an xbox 360 and get a black market
keyboard and mouse controller. I am feeling more and more left in
the cold by gaming companies and now by hardware manufactures. I
feel nvidia is ripping me off with this product, and I simply can't
jsutify that price tag for a gaming card...
As for recyceling parts, that's your only valid point I recognize,
but I already have 3 PC's - one main gaming machine, a server and a
dedicated downloading machine. I won't cry the death of PC gaming
cause I've heard that for the last 10 years but this trend is really
starting to worry me. Not t
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gauntalus at 10:14am 06/27/2005
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Well you have to remember that you can't buy an Xbox 360 yet. By
the time you can, prices for the card will surely have dropped to,
well, not reasonable, but levels more than likely to be less than
that of the Xbox 360.
You're going to get a lot more versatility out of buying a video
card for your computer too. You still have to buy other parts to
get everything running at a good clip, but just remember all of
those things that you do on your computer that you couldn't touch
with an Xbox.
Another thing that I just thought of is the actual lifetime of each
of the products. In a few years, your Xbox360 will once again be
obselete, they will stop making games of it and you'll heap it into
your closet. With a computer, you can always recycle the parts into
servers, or set them up for grandma and grandpa. I'm currently
running a few servers with parts as old as 10 years, granted they
crawl. But I could never use my nintendo for the same thing.
I'm just rambleing now, peace.
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Anonymous at 09:44am 06/27/2005
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MS is NOT the end-user of the XBox 360, therefore they don't stand
to loose that much. They get some pretty good deals on the parts and
peices they use to make an XBox 360 compared to what you and I would
have to pay.
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Anonymous at 09:39am 06/27/2005
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Firing Squad we need a 7800GTX CPU scaling article. Not all of us
out here are 55FX owners let alone A64 3500+
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