I'm gonna wait for PCI Express before making any major GFX Card purchases.

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Our very existence is at stake

I'm not sure at this point, but you may be waiting for a long time...

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

I'll likely be waiting a year or two for a graphics upgrade. That Unreal 3 video is sweet as all hell, but I'll be happy with my 256mb 9800 Pro at the FarCry/HL2/DOOM3/STALKER graphics level for a few years.....that and spending that much money on a top end card more than every few years sends my buyers guilt into overdrive

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Corrupting the kiddies since '97

[This message has been edited by Jaiph (edited April 14, 2004).]

But you'll be boosting the economy!



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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

Thats-a nice-a card.

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I may pick it up around christmas or something. It's been a while since I spent a lot on a video card.

I as much as I hate to admit it, my Geforce 4 TI 4200 64mb can still take on any game.

Upgrading now would be stupid. I'll wait R420 comes out and the price for Nvidia's second best card drops to ~200, and then buy. (Or even by the fat 6800 for ~300, hopefully...)

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The 6800U does beat the 9800XT, but look at the tradeoff:

http://www20.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040414/feforce_6800-46.html



9800 wins in my books.

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B'tduz: A popular dwarfish game which consists of standing a few feet apart and throwing large rocks at one another's head.

"Yes, it's a bloody flying alligator setting fire to my city!" - His Grace His Excellency the Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes.

Morituri Nolumus Mori

NEVER.GO.TO.TOMS.HARDWARE.FOR.BENCHES.OR.OTHER.SUCH.INFO.BIAS.CITY

I have spoken.

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I don't much care for Toms Hardware as I generally find sites like HardOCP have better quality articles, but simply screaming never to use it when ever someone posts something from there is going a bit far.

In this case the page he linked to provides detailed comparison source images, so unless they are faked I don't really see the problem with Nazgul raising the issue.



....holy **** man! That sucker eats a LOT of power. Good lord, ten years from now we may need small nuclear reactors to run our computers

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Cantina Cloud | BCF | The Massassian 1, 2 & 3 | Gonkmeg
Corrupting the kiddies since '97

[This message has been edited by Jaiph (edited April 15, 2004).]

Because everyone knows anandtech is awesome.

Firing Squad did a pretty good one too

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Yes, it does have 2 molar connecters on the back for power, but it doesnt use as muc has youd think. In fact, it uses less power than the 5700.

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I used to believe that we must fight the future, lest change come without our consent. I was wrong. The truth is that we must embrace the future, for only with change can we remain the same.

I've heard of it running fine on 420W.

Chances are my 400W, just because it's not some cheapass PS that can't actually achieve its rated output, could probably handle it.

The 480W recommendation is probably considering the fact that some people buy really crappy brand power supplies.

Um... I only have a 400W power supply. So I can't even use this card?

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Nevertheless, I don't feel like taking a risk. My 400W power supply is made by a brand called 'icute'. I have no idea if it is good or bad.

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Chances are if the name has i, e, or x as a prefix, it's sucky. =P

Even worse, the i is in italics...

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It also depends on how many things you have installed. If you have a cd drive, a dvd drive, two hard drives, two floppies, a bunch of usb things, etc., you should probably get a new ps to run it. If you just have a couple of things, no biggie most likely. And if you don't have enough power, it doesn't hurt your machine, it just warns you that it's running in low-power mode. You are one of the extreme few who are able to get ati drivers working.

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I'm disappointed with the ATI drivers. I *still* can't get mine to work, after 3 weeks.

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

I can whole-heartedly second that.

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I would just interject here and make some sort of statement of my disappointment of the quality of ATI's drivers . . . but Id just get flamed...

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I used to believe that we must fight the future, lest change come without our consent. I was wrong. The truth is that we must embrace the future, for only with change can we remain the same.

You might have been forced to eat your shorts.

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ATIs drivers may have been problematic in the past (aside from Linux drivers at the moment), but they are super now.

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FANBOIISM 4 EVAR!

L33tz0rz l0l0l0l

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