Nvidia Geforce 7800GTX Review Round-Up (Verdict: The Bestest Yet)

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:56 pm

The NDA wraps come off Nvidia’s super-hot new 7800-series graphics cards today. The short take is this: it’s really, really fast—so fast, in fact, that most.....

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops-pcs/nvidia-geforce-7800gtx-review-roundup-verdict-the-bestest-yet-109482.php

impuresoul2k3 · Post by **impuresoul2k3** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 3:46 am

You'll have to copy and paste link for it to work

HEY, FIX YOUR LINKS

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 6:32 am

Fixed, sorry.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 6:00 pm

not that impressed really. gana wait to see what ati offers....again

Greg

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:46 pm

DAM - so if you’ve got $600 one can be yours - that be a hard one to justify at my house anyway !

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:05 pm

Originally posted by bellringer
DAM - so if you’ve got $600 one can be yours - that be a hard one to justify at my house anyway !

Jesus man! $600 for a video card? Does it come with a BJ to? Like Bellringer, I'd be hard pressed to spend that kind of money for a video card, knowing in 90 days, it will lose half it's value.

123cool · Post by **123cool** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:58 am

think ill get that 6800 ultra now then when all the prices come down cause of this cards realise..

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:00 am

I was hard pressed to rationalize the purchase of a $350 ATI x800 Pro several months back .

Seriously, according to Valve's Steam hardware survey the vast majority of people are running a Radeon 9800 Pro (or NVidia equivalent). I have a 9800 Pro in my LAN party rig and it plays everything just fine.

Having a really fast card is no longer a big deal. Most modern games (unlike older games) automatically scale themselves to the hardware, which is good for gamers. Heck I have a friend with a Geforce Ti4400 and he can play HL2 on it.

Id's say the cost/performance sweet spot right now is the x800 pro if you can rationalize spending $250. Otherwise get an x700 Pro if you need PCI-E or a 9800 Pro if you need AGP (I'm not up on NVidia but someone can post whatever the Geforce equivalents are).

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:09 pm

Yah.. i'm still on a regular 9700... and still not complaining

Playing at 1024 just fine.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:32 pm

my 9800 pro play BF2 fine at 1024 medium settings - I could put the settings a little higher in HL2 - but I really don't care as long as I get some of the eye candy and a decent frame rate