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Anonymous at 06:00pm 02/19/2006
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ya chaining cards together to get power is fucktarded... make
something with multicores... or actually fit 4 &&&& cards onto one
card...... who the #!&# wants to chain 4 cards together.... not very
cost effective..... pay 300 bucks a card... and put 4 cards
together... PLEAASE!....
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Viperman5686 at 07:38am 02/19/2006
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This is #!#%@%@@. A single 7800 GTX can run any game at the max so
why do I need four? The only thing I can think of is a big e-penis
in 3dmark06.
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Swaid at 02:05am 02/19/2006
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Don't get caught up in quad 7800's. They just used that GPU as a
proof of concept. Same thing can be said for any and all current
SLI/CF setups. And clearly this is not for you if you are only
going to be gaming on a 19" CRT.
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Anonymous at 10:52pm 02/18/2006
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On my NEC MultiSync 97f I don't notice any difference past
1280x1024. At that resolution I can see a bit of difference with and
without AA but any level of FSAA at that resolution is unoticable to
me. Yeah it makes a difference at 1024x768 but at 1280x1024 on my
19" CRT FSAA dosn't make a difference to me. Four 7800 GPU's is
really just a waste of money to me, especially when in 12-18 months
there will be one card that will outpreform that 4 card setup, but
then this is a country where people drive hummers just to get the
groceries and pick up the kids.
Sure I think it's insane to spend almost a months pay for quad
GPU's, especially since by the time you need to upgrade from a 7800
GT there will be a single GPU out that will provide the performance
of that Quad core setup. If you can waste the money now fine go for
it, spend that money and keep the economy going. If you can only
afford one to two 7800's don't have a panic attack. Unless ATI and
NVidia slow down in a few months there will be an even faster card
that you can waste your money on.
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Anonymous at 03:32pm 02/18/2006
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I stand by my LCD. It requires more frequent upgrades to keep it
running at good FPS at native res, but you can't put a price on your
eyes.
And as long as devs keep the lowest common denominator in mind (ie.
average gamer), they can string as many cards together as they want
with SLI. Progress be damned, I'm too cheap to buy all these cards.
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Anonymous at 02:44pm 02/18/2006
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"In case you’ve been living under a cave the past month"
I think the expression you're struggling for is, "living under
a rock" or maybe, "living in a cave".
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Anonymous at 11:13am 02/18/2006
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you're the ƒucking dumb@ss. graphic processors are already highly
parrallelized. what do you think ati and nvidia have been doing for
the past several years? they have been increasing how many pixels
can be handled at any one time
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Anonymous at 07:14pm 02/17/2006
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why the f- use sli? why not multicore... or atleast fitting all
these cards together then makin a bus that can handle all the
data... buying all these fing video cards is %$!!!!#@..... make
something that isnt so dumbassly designed...
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Anonymous at 06:30pm 02/17/2006
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i think teh biggest benefit to the average gaming community is the
extra power of sli for game devs.
imagine trying to program fear on a ti4400. now imagine programming
fear on quad ti4400 adn then quad 9700 then quad 6800 see. i would
think all that graphics horsepower has got to make things alot
easier one devs who are always shooting far into the future.
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Anonymous at 03:42pm 02/17/2006
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Resolution is configured per game a$$hat. If your system can't
support a decent FPS at 1600x1200 you can drop it to 1280x1024?
What's hard to understand?
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