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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Other => Topic started by: spengo on November 09, 2006, 09:47:00 am

Title: first direct x 10 graphics cards now availabl
Post by: spengo on November 09, 2006, 09:47:00 am

Check out this beautiful babe: http://www.gpureview.com/GeForce-880-GTX-card-474.html
sexy, no? :lol:

Direct x 10, shader model 4, 768MB dedicated video ram, 86.4GB/s memory bandwidth, and an utterly ridiculous amount of pipelines! This thing more than triples the performance of the previous top cards! :gah: (it also costs $50-$800 on newegg :wacko: ) I may need to reserve some funds from next summers working-ness to build a desktop. o.o

Title: first direct x 10 graphics cards now availabl
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 09, 2006, 01:19:00 pm

now if only my motherboard supported PCI express and AGP cards...

Title: first direct x 10 graphics cards now availabl
Post by: rivereye on November 09, 2006, 03:30:00 pm

there are going to be DirectX 10 AGP cards?

Title: first direct x 10 graphics cards now availabl
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 09, 2006, 03:52:00 pm

i doubt it, but i meant my pc only support normal PCI cards (not PCI-E) so all i could get is a radeon 9250 card (128 MB), there was nothing else avaliable in stores

Title: first direct x 10 graphics cards now availabl
Post by: spengo on November 09, 2006, 04:17:00 pm

Yeah, pretty much everything has switched from AGP to PCI-E these days. :o

Title: first direct x 10 graphics cards now availabl
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 09, 2006, 04:26:00 pm

if only computer stuff didnt kept changing all the time..., ppl wouldnt need to get a new computer every 5 years

Title: first direct x 10 graphics cards now availabl
Post by: spengo on November 09, 2006, 04:47:00 pm

hmm... I upgrade every 3 years or so. :o But then, I consider it time to upgrade when the newest game either does not run or only runs on low settings on my computers. :) Sometimes, however, computers can still be pwning up to 5-6 years and all you need is to upgrade the graphics card and ram.

Title: first direct x 10 graphics cards now availabl
Post by: crzyrbl on November 09, 2006, 07:13:00 pm

For those w/ AGP, I wouldnt count on them releasing an AGP card.  Consider yourselves lucky that you got a decent one last time.

Title: first direct x 10 graphics cards now availabl
Post by: Spellshaper on November 09, 2006, 08:26:00 pm

Mmmmm... curvy graphics card... more p0w3r...

gna? *coughcough* now THAT's a price...

Title: first direct x 10 graphics cards now availabl
Post by: spengo on November 09, 2006, 10:04:00 pm

Ehh, well it was the same the radeon x1950's came out. :P They will be cheaper soon trust me. :) Graphics cards depreciate in value very very rapidly.

Title: first direct x 10 graphics cards now availabl
Post by: Spellshaper on November 09, 2006, 10:22:00 pm

heh. I am a Radeon fan, so I am gunna wait for the R600.  *huggles ATI*

I want 3dfx back *sniff* *Spellshaper scrambles around to find his old V5 and huggle it *sniff*

Title: first direct x 10 graphics cards now availabl
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 10, 2006, 02:49:00 am

QuoteBegin-crzyrbl+10 Nov, 2006, 1:13-->

QUOTE (crzyrbl @ 10 Nov, 2006, 1:13)

For those w/ AGP, I wouldnt count on them releasing an AGP card.  Consider yourselves lucky that you got a decent one last time.

 AGP/PCI is discontinued anyway. I seriously have no idea why they installed a normal PCI motherboard in this computer, especially since it's pretty recent (summer 2005), it has no support for PCI express and AGP at all

Title: first direct x 10 graphics cards now availabl
Post by: spengo on November 10, 2006, 06:35:00 am

Hmm well my last two graphics cards have been ATI, (9600xt and now x700) so I think next time I'll give nvidia a shot again. :o I'm good for now as I can run all the stuff I want to on high settings, but I have a feeling that won't last very long with dx10 out. o.o

@xlibman: http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Category.asp?Category=20's got some cheap motherboards for $40 and less with AGP. Poke around for one that supports the cpu and stuff you have. :) Oh there's even some with PCI-E for $65-ish. I seriously have no idea why you bought a pre-built computer. o.o Build it yourself for half the price!

Title: first direct x 10 graphics cards now availabl
Post by: Spellshaper on November 10, 2006, 09:07:00 am

QuoteBegin-spengo+10 Nov, 2006, 18:35-->

QUOTE (spengo @ 10 Nov, 2006, 18:35)

Build it yourself for half the price!

*Spellshaper seconds that. And with some silver vernish, one can do INSANE overclockingzzzzz!!!!!oneone1

Title: first direct x 10 graphics cards now availabl
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 10, 2006, 02:11:00 pm

i have no experience in computer building i always screw up things so i would need to get a professional to build it anyway

Title: first direct x 10 graphics cards now availabl
Post by: spengo on November 10, 2006, 04:02:00 pm

Nah, all you need is irc and 50 computer nerds. :) Everything is plug-and-play these days anyways, so all you really have to do is make sure everything is compatible with everything else.