I thought the ATI X850 was the best.... Why is it not?

[moonboy403]

Originally posted by: McManCSU
Ya I have a PCIe. I think I really bought more like 9 months ago for around $400, so, whatever. Anyway, if the newer cards arent way better than what I have now, I can live through it for a year or more.

the current cards that are ready to be replaced by G80 and R600 is like double the performance of a x850xt

 

[McManCSU]

But can you do SLI on them, or just crossfire which, from what Ive gathered requires a Crossfire compatible mobo vs an SLI mobo?

 

[dreddfunk]

The newer cards are a decent amount better than the x850--BUT, as many others have mentioned, a big change is about to take place as the industry switches to DX10 compatible cards. Even though DX10 games are still a ways out, the introduction of new (and much more powerful) GPUs over the next 3-5 months is going to change the price/performance landscape drastically.

Although nVidia's upcoming new flagship products (8800GTX & 8800GTS) are getting a lot of folks excited, I'm really curious to see what gets released in the mid-range.

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: McManCSU
Ya I have a PCIe. I think I really bought more like 9 months ago for around $400, so, whatever. Anyway, if the newer cards arent way better than what I have now, I can live through it for a year or more.

Sorry to break it to you man but the new cards are 2-3 times as fast as the X850XT. Here is a pretty decent review that shows the newest cards and a 7600GT. It's in French but the graphs speak for themselves. Hardly any modern reviews have the X800 series cards anymore but it should be pretty close to a 7600GT.

 

[moonboy403]

Originally posted by: dreddfunk
The newer cards are a decent amount better than the x850--BUT, as many others have mentioned, a big change is about to take place as the industry switches to DX10 compatible cards. Even though DX10 games are still a ways out, the introduction of new (and much more powerful) GPUs over the next 3-5 months is going to change the price/performance landscape drastically.

Although nVidia's upcoming new flagship products (8800GTX & 8800GTS) are getting a lot of folks excited, I'm really curious to see what gets released in the mid-range.

decent is a HUGE understatement

 

[McManCSU]

Ok, so the new cards are much faster, etc. I assume they do not do SLI, but rather Crossfire, right? Therefore I need a Crossfire enabled MOBO to do SLI (for ATI cards). Are GeForce the SLI cards?

 

[moonboy403]

Originally posted by: McManCSU
Ok, so the new cards are much faster, etc. I assume they do not do SLI, but rather Crossfire, right? Therefore I need a Crossfire enabled MOBO to do SLI (for ATI cards). Are GeForce the SLI cards?

correct....but doing crossfire or sli now is not worth it

just wait for the new releases as they will probably be twice as fast as current generation cards (trend)