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Originally posted by: apoppin
With your current card - your are limited to DX8.1 . . . . the 9800p will be significantly faster than your card PLUS display all the DX9 "eyecandy" - i.e. complex shadows and lighting and the beautiful water textures and reflections that your card so sorely lacks.

Why not sell your card? . . . i guess you could get $40-$50 for it . . . . a 6600GT woould be a very nice upgrade and even faster then the 9800p (plus you get SM 3.0).
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What is SM3.0?

Also, I noticed on Anandtech's GPU cheatsheet article that the 9800pro's are all PS2.0, whereas the newer ATI cards are PS2.0b... what is PS2.0 and PS2.0b?

One more thing... can anyone explain the difference between a card having 8 pixel pipelines and 1 textures/pipeline versus 4 pixel pipelines and 2 textures/pipeline? (or provide a link to an article that explains this?)

I'm comparing a GF-fx5700xt to an ATI 9800pro-128 they are within $2.00 in price, and the only difference in specs on the anandtech cheatsheet is this pixel-pipelines and textures/pipeline... (well, that and the inate differences between NV cards and ATI cards, e.g. the algorythms for anisotropic filtering, etc.)

Thanks...

 
I recently found an FX5900 Turbo (QV) (256 MB FX5900) for only 165 dollars on EBay. It runs rock-solid at 505/995 MHz with the 5950 BIOS. I can play all my favorite games at 8x/4x AA/AF without issues.

The revision 1 Albatron 5900 turbo (QV) 256mb can be flashed with the Albatron 5950 256MB BIOS and run (like mine) at insane speeds. It is far far faster than a 5900XT, for only a few dollars more.
 
Originally posted by: KieranCoghlan
And Moore's "law" (the so-called doubling of speed every 18-months) is not a law, in fact it's been highly distorted since Moore stated it. Besides, video cards have not been doubling in speed every 18 months. The fastest geforce right now is the 6800UE, which has a core speed of 450MHz. The GF4 ti4800 came out over 2 years prior to it, and had a core speed of 300MHz.
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Moore's law shouldn't be applied just to MHz; you have to look at performance as a whole. More has improved than clock speed.
 
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