okay dramaqueen, I'll go slow just for you in response to your last post for me:
1) joshBrainLess? You're trying too hard.
2) Future proof pieces of hardware can't exist. There is always an advancement in technology that makes that hardware less useful or useless. HDCP is available on the card, but not in every monitor. Yes, there are monitors out that support it now and we'll have to wait untill more of those monitors become mainstream before most are enjoying it. Vista will be HDCP compliant, but also DX10 based. The 7950GX2 is only HDCP compatable, not both HDCP and DX10. G80 and R600 (both DX9, HDCP, and DX10 capable) are supposed to be coming out in 3-5 months, and will prove to be more all around useful than the 7950GX2.
3) I wasn't bringing up that stupid accusation of yours in a previous thread for revenges' sake. I brought it up to indicate that while you may think I have a small brain, it is working better than yours because it knows who it is talking to.
4) Nothing is wrong with using people just like nothing is wrong with using "most" people. I was just saying that to prove the point that you were being a tightass. You get on my case for making overgenealizations then do it yourself?
5)
Barely as in 3-5 frames. The room for error in Anandtechs benches is roughly 5%, so if you incorporate a 5% difference to the results, it is fair to say that a 7900 SLI ties a 7950. (Even if you don't want to incoporate this 5%, 3-5 frames is NOT noticable to the naked eye)
Again, you can't read. I said that for those who already have a 7900 card, they could dump roughly $300 for another one and get the same performance as a 7950. $300=$600/2. Same performance for half the cost.
Besides, even if one does not have a 7900 card, a quick search on newegg yeilded this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150144
2x $240=$480. That's $120 dollars in savings for the same performance. Plus you could overclock them like mad if you so desired and get about the same as 7900GTX SLI performance all while saving money and peforming the same if not better. That is my point.
6) Quad SLI is a benefit for the 7950GX2, if you want to spend $1200 dollars for 3-5 more months before G80 and R600. Not ony that, Quad SLI is about as acrobatic as Dick Cheney. It is very ineffecient and a 7900GTX SLI or X1900XT Crossfire setup beats it. The 7950's overclocking head room is not going to be very good since no aftermarket cooling is yet available. Yes, in the future there might be some aftermarket cooling available, but how soon? 3-5 months?
7) That is fine if you think HDCP is more important than HDR + AA. Its your opinion.
8) While I'm not going to go into details of the other thread where you stopped becoming beggerking and became dramaqueen, I will say that I am not trying to derail the thread whatsoever. I simply don't see the value in the investment for a 7950. There are cheaper routes to take that would yeild the same performance. Even if the buyer doesn't have an nF4 mb, the $120 in savings that would be left over from the link I provided would be enough to get a decent nf4 mb if they wanted to. That would then be two cards and a newer mb all for the price of a single 7950. The fact that the new mb would allow them to run two G80's when they launched is an even bigger advantage. All of that is possible with about $600 dollars, yet you seem to continue to say that the 7950 is the best buy?
9) I'm a shill? For doing what, recommending other Nvidia hardware against other Nvidia hardware? In your eyes, anyone who recommends something other than what your recommending is a shill and stupid. Only idiots see things in an absolute.
1) joshBrainLess? You're trying too hard.
2) Future proof pieces of hardware can't exist. There is always an advancement in technology that makes that hardware less useful or useless. HDCP is available on the card, but not in every monitor. Yes, there are monitors out that support it now and we'll have to wait untill more of those monitors become mainstream before most are enjoying it. Vista will be HDCP compliant, but also DX10 based. The 7950GX2 is only HDCP compatable, not both HDCP and DX10. G80 and R600 (both DX9, HDCP, and DX10 capable) are supposed to be coming out in 3-5 months, and will prove to be more all around useful than the 7950GX2.
3) I wasn't bringing up that stupid accusation of yours in a previous thread for revenges' sake. I brought it up to indicate that while you may think I have a small brain, it is working better than yours because it knows who it is talking to.
4) Nothing is wrong with using people just like nothing is wrong with using "most" people. I was just saying that to prove the point that you were being a tightass. You get on my case for making overgenealizations then do it yourself?
5)
Barely as in 3-5 frames. The room for error in Anandtechs benches is roughly 5%, so if you incorporate a 5% difference to the results, it is fair to say that a 7900 SLI ties a 7950. (Even if you don't want to incoporate this 5%, 3-5 frames is NOT noticable to the naked eye)
Again, you can't read. I said that for those who already have a 7900 card, they could dump roughly $300 for another one and get the same performance as a 7950. $300=$600/2. Same performance for half the cost.
Besides, even if one does not have a 7900 card, a quick search on newegg yeilded this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150144
2x $240=$480. That's $120 dollars in savings for the same performance. Plus you could overclock them like mad if you so desired and get about the same as 7900GTX SLI performance all while saving money and peforming the same if not better. That is my point.
6) Quad SLI is a benefit for the 7950GX2, if you want to spend $1200 dollars for 3-5 more months before G80 and R600. Not ony that, Quad SLI is about as acrobatic as Dick Cheney. It is very ineffecient and a 7900GTX SLI or X1900XT Crossfire setup beats it. The 7950's overclocking head room is not going to be very good since no aftermarket cooling is yet available. Yes, in the future there might be some aftermarket cooling available, but how soon? 3-5 months?
7) That is fine if you think HDCP is more important than HDR + AA. Its your opinion.
8) While I'm not going to go into details of the other thread where you stopped becoming beggerking and became dramaqueen, I will say that I am not trying to derail the thread whatsoever. I simply don't see the value in the investment for a 7950. There are cheaper routes to take that would yeild the same performance. Even if the buyer doesn't have an nF4 mb, the $120 in savings that would be left over from the link I provided would be enough to get a decent nf4 mb if they wanted to. That would then be two cards and a newer mb all for the price of a single 7950. The fact that the new mb would allow them to run two G80's when they launched is an even bigger advantage. All of that is possible with about $600 dollars, yet you seem to continue to say that the 7950 is the best buy?
9) I'm a shill? For doing what, recommending other Nvidia hardware against other Nvidia hardware? In your eyes, anyone who recommends something other than what your recommending is a shill and stupid. Only idiots see things in an absolute.
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