Gamecube x700

[Preti9cboi]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23155

 

[Amplifier]

Is ATI that stoopid or are the people who buy 512mb cards that stoopid?

 

[imported_Kensai]

512MB cards aren't stupid... In the future, if you *never* buy a card with 512MB or more ram, I'll give you 200$.
I've tested a system with two reference 512MB 6800Us and hell do they run fast in Doom 3 at ultra settings with everything cranked up.

 

[ddogg]

Originally posted by: Kensai
512MB cards aren't stupid... In the future, if you *never* buy a card with 512MB or more ram, I'll give you 200$.
I've tested a system with two reference 512MB 6800Us and hell do they run fast in Doom 3 at ultra settings with everything cranked up.

lol....512MB is not stupid....its just too early for its time!! the time will come when 512MB will be needed probably for the U3 engine....but by that time the 6800U and X800XL will be hopelessly outdated making the 512MB on them a no brainer.

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

512 on them still won't make performance better. they know that "oh, if we add more memory to the same card, even if its older like the x700, people will buy them because they always want the biggest and best numbers." thats how americans are. the time will come when 256 mb cards are going to run out of memory (not any time soon) and 512 will be useful. not now though.

 

[Amplifier]

You're talking about an X700 doods. A 6800u is at least powerful enough to make use of the extra memory.

See X800XL 512

 

[bjc112]

I'm glad they are already starting to adopt 512 more and more..

I would still prefer faster memory over more memory..

Although 1ghz GDDR3 is pretty quick!

 

[hans007]

512mb on an x700 is stupid. 512mb on other cards is not.


then again 256mb on a fx5200 was also stupid, and so was 128mb on a geforce4mx440

and people bought them.


people are stupid. the general populous of america and the world is stupid enough to believe 90% of the things you tell them because they are ignorant of most things technological. and big numbers are simple.

businesses dont care, they are here to make money , and taking advantage of stupid people makes tons of money.

 

[Cheesetogo]

Generally, with people who don't know computers well at all, they tend to think that memory is what matters, so ati will get rich off of stupid rich people who know nothing about computers.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

512 has to be phased in some how, even if its on lower end cards that could never use it.

 

[Munky]

IMO, 512 MB on any current card is stupid, by the time games actually require 512 mb (and not D3, with it's uncompressed ultra textures that only waste memory), the gpu itself will be too slow to run them with all the eye candy that would take up 512 mb.

128mb gf4200 = stupid
256mb 9800 pro = stupid
512mb x800xl = ? (hint: rhymes with stupid)

Of course, if they can sell these cards, and they do, then only the ppl who buy them are stupid, and the manufacturers are smart enough to profit from the consumer's stupidity.