NVidia's latest offering 7900GTO equals or nears 7900GTX's performances

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Hauk

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Don't go there hans. Everyone knows the x1900xt is a good buy...
 
Zebo

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The x1900xt is arguably the faster card dispite the French benchmarks.. I mean a underclocked GTX winning Oblivion..and by a good margin too? uh huh sure.

However the GTO should be given serious consideration because it uses less power and much less noise with that fat slow rpm 92mm fan on there.

I also prefer nv drivers for thier low profile and features, for example still can't do centered mode with ATI with is important for those many LCD's w/o hardware centering available.

IQ is a wash.

512MB ram could come in handy if you use dxtweak triple and quad buffering and high AA&res

Really I could go either way. Both excellent deals.
 
Hauk

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And if it's good enough for Zebo, it's good enough for me. :)

So that's a 92mm fan on there? I thought it was an 80mm. Nice!

Man, if these were next gen w/DX10 support, I'd scoop up two of these and go SLI (somthing I've sworn never to do).
 
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With all this G71 liquidating, any chance we'll see prices fall on the 7950 GX2? getting ready to buy one this Friday or Saturday.
 
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Originally posted by: Zebo
The x1900xt is arguably the faster card dispite the French benchmarks.. I mean a underclocked GTX winning Oblivion..and by a good margin too? uh huh sure.

However the GTO should be given serious consideration because it uses less power and much less noise with that fat slow rpm 92mm fan on there.

I also prefer nv drivers for thier low profile and features, for example still can't do centered mode with ATI with is important for those many LCD's w/o hardware centering available.
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Yeah, I went to CompUSA the other day and looked at their 30" Apple monitor with their G5. It had a 7300 in it but what I noticed was the scalability of the monitor and I think it was the way the Nvidia drivers forced them. I could put in a 4:3 resolution and everytime it would scale out the unused area. It was like the picture originated from the center of the screen going outwards and blacked off the area it couldn't reach to. As of now, my NEC 20WMGX2 can only really scale perfectly at 1152x960 or something like that.

IQ is a wash.

512MB ram could come in handy if you use dxtweak triple and quad buffering and high AA&res
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There's quad buffering? Does it help frames even more?
 
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Originally posted by: Zebo
Josh - for quad buffering DXTweaker you'd type "3" in backbuffer count in the "Present Changer" module. "triple buffering" is really only 2 back buffers. Quad is 3.
http://www.ocworkbench.com/2006/articles/DXtweaker/
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I don't use DXTweaker since it caused Punkbuster issues with BF2 and made Oblivion randomly crash. I've used ATI Tray Tools and it has worked great, do you know of any tweak to do from within that that does the same thing?
 
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Originally posted by: Madellga
I have 2 from MSI on the way, let's see what I'll have to say later in the week.
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Good lord you change hardware like i change my socks.

You've had what, four mobos, in the past month?

/wishes he was rich :p

And now SLI GTOs :Q
 
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I have one (one of the MSI ones).
After about one days use the fan seems to have jammed at max rpm making it pretty noisy. Even riva tuner can't slow it down, will have to rma :(
 
lopri

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Huh? What's jammed? If something phisycally touches the fans, it'll always make noise, running fast or not. Did you take a close look to the HSF?
 
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Originally posted by: lopri
Huh? What's jammed? If something phisycally touches the fans, it'll always make noise, running fast or not. Did you take a close look to the HSF?
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Yes, nothing is touching the fan - it's just decided to run at max rpm all the time meaning its pretty noisy.
 
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So I pulled the trigger, twice. I just ordered a second one from Mwave (ZZF is out of stock). Have never done SLI before, so I'm justifying this expenditure as an educational expense. Now how to cleverly word it so I can include it on my resume...

Interfaced multiple graphical hardware products, nearly doubling vision system throughput
 
Zebo

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Holy smokes! GTX SLI for what one GTX costed a week ago! How do you know can be purchased anyplace?
 
Zebo

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Originally posted by: josh6079
Originally posted by: Zebo
Josh - for quad buffering DXTweaker you'd type "3" in backbuffer count in the "Present Changer" module. "triple buffering" is really only 2 back buffers. Quad is 3.
http://www.ocworkbench.com/2006/articles/DXtweaker/
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I don't use DXTweaker since it caused Punkbuster issues with BF2 and made Oblivion randomly crash. I've used ATI Tray Tools and it has worked great, do you know of any tweak to do from within that that does the same thing?
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No AFAIK any buffering does not work in D3D dispite what control panel says must use DXT
 
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