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I try not to copy people. I don't believe I did there, and am sticking to that.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3649&p=2

intresting!

P55CF vs X58 with the DX11 card 5870.

about a 10% drop.

also shows that CPU speed only matter with CF.

a 2.66GHz i7 is practically the same at a 4.2 in games, BAR when using CF.

 

Also 5850 benches in.

10%-15% les performance, BUT over 30% less cost!

THIS is the card to buy IMO.

 

Too general, depends on the game.

 

HD5850 around 80-85% of the HD5870 performance, generally beating the GTX285, but for £199. A new value champion then, I agree.

 

Geforce 300 specs:
# 3.0 billion transistors
# 40nm TSMC
# 384-bit memory interface
# 512 shader cores [renamed into CUDA Cores]
# 32 CUDA cores per Shader Cluster
# 1MB L1 cache memory [divided into 16KB Cache - Shared Memory]
# 768KB L2 unified cache memory
# Up to 6GB GDDR5 memory
# Half Speed IEEE 754 Double Precision

looking more like a CPU! where as CPU are more GPU like, with the multiple threadadness and even incorperating a GPU into a CPU

 

@Sam


From Arstechnica

So you probably would not have had the problem if your last play was late 2008. I use cracked exes for every single game I own, whether or not I have a hard copy(unless I play MP). And my copy was definitely nuked. Sure it's an easy fix but I shouldn't have to do ANYTHING to play a game I PAID $50 for. And the software industries wonder why we pirate? LOL It's actually way less hassle to play downloaded games these days. Remember Mass Effect and Bioshock? I paid full price for both and now neither work because I've installed them more than 3 times. DRM can kiss my white American ass.

And you know what else they still haven't fixed the game either.

 

Wow...thats gonna hit them hard

 

Remember what the R600 looked like on paper. Let's wait and see how it turns out for real - Such a monstrous GPU looks suspiciously GTX280-like, if not worse, so it isn't likely to be dualable. In such an instance, it has to be big on performance when it's going to be going up against the HD5850X2 or HD5870X2 if they make one.

 

First statistical test results have come through, these are HD4890-base unified, resolution weighted performance equivalences for the HD4890, GTX285, HD4870X2, HD5850, HD5870, GTX295, GTX285 SLI and HD5870 crossfire cards, courtesy of techreport.

Far Cry 2 - general trend: Favours ATI DX11 hardware
HD4890: 1.00
GTX285: 1.18
HD5850: 1.25
HD5870: 1.47
HD4870X2: 1.50
GTX295: 1.63
GTX285 SLI: 1.99
HD5870 CF: 2.58

Wolfenstein - general trend: Favours nvidia hardware
HD4890: 1.00
HD5850: 1.19
GTX285: 1.28
HD4870X2: 1.40
HD5870: 1.43
GTX295: 1.87
HD5870 CF: 2.07
GTX285 SLI: 2.17

Left 4 Dead - general trend: favours ATI hardware
HD4890: 1.00
GTX285: 1.06
HD5850: 1.20
HD4870X2: 1.38
HD5870: 1.41
GTX295: 1.45
GTX285 SLI: 1.70
HD5870 CF: 1.84

H.A.W.X. - general trend: favours ATI DX10.1 hardware
GTX285: 0.93
HD5850: 1.00
HD4890: 1.00
HD5870: 1.16
GTX295: 1.34
HD4870X2: 1.55
GTX285 SLI: 1.74
HD5870 CF: 2.02

Sacred 2: Fallen Angel - general trend: favours ATI hardware
HD4890: 1.00
GTX285: 1.04
HD5850: 1.25
GTX295: 1.36
HD4870X2: 1.54
GTX285 SLI: 1.82
HD5870 CF: 2.50

Crysis Warhead [Enthusiast] - general trend: Nothing remarkable
HD4890: 1.00
GTX285: 1.00
HD5850: 1.15
HD5870: 1.35
HD4870X2: 1.35
GTX295: 1.50
GTX285 SLI: 1.75
HD5870 CF: 1.90

 

g300 fermi:

 

Looks much the same as any other recent nvidia GPU really - single 8 pin connector? That's not a very sensible idea.

 

Way to go dude. Put your oily, static infested fingers on the connection points LOL!

 

connection points are on the side, not on the bottom of a PCIe connection.

 

What I mean is, he's touching a static sensitive area...

Isn't he? Or is the PCIe section of the card not sensitive?

 

anyone running this will have a single 8 pin. whats wrong with it? IMO better than 2 6pins

 

also these are the tesla crads

 

I assume most circuit boards are sensitive to static electricity. Much like Cpu's and Ram are. Without being grounded that is...

Does newegg carry antistatic wrist rap? Gonna have to look for that tonight.

 

Only better for SLI. I imagine more people will have one of these than two, and most basic PSUs with one connector have a single 6-pin, not 8. You need a two-connector PSU to get 8-pin connectors, and some PSUs even only have two 6-pins (rare but it happens).
The area the guy's touching isn't really static sensitive, no moreso than the outer plastic casing.

 

even the HX450W has 2 x 6+2 pcie connectors.

aparently on that one, there is a 6pin aswell, on the side.