NV40 to have 16full pipelines

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Who cares how many pipelines Nvidia comes up with. As long as their cards
have
poor to mediocre image quality, Ati has no worries.
 
Nobody_of_Consequence said:
Who cares how many pipelines Nvidia comes up with. As long as their cards
have
poor to mediocre image quality, Ati has no worries.
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If you loaded up a Geforce recently you would see that there is little
difference in image quality between ATI and Nvidia. Even NV's 2D (which used
to suck) is as good as ATI's nowadays.

Disclaimer: I'm an ATI owner.

K
 
I am also an ATI owner; 9800 Pro. For two days I owned a BFG 5900 but took
it back after deciding I didn't need such a big card. I told my young
nephews that I bought the 5900 and they were like...uh thats nice. Then
after I returned it and bought the ATI they were like AWSOME!!! You have a
9800 Pro? Wow!! :) They both came over to play some games.

If the NV40 has six fans, weighs 5 pounds,heats up the entire house, sounds
like a chain saw and takes up four PCI slots I won't be interested. My Pro
looks so small in comparison to the 5900 it made me appreciate the ATI way
of doing things. Nvidia will have to do alot more that talk..........
 
papasurf said:
I am also an ATI owner; 9800 Pro. For two days I owned a BFG 5900 but took
it back after deciding I didn't need such a big card. I told my young
nephews that I bought the 5900 and they were like...uh thats nice. Then
after I returned it and bought the ATI they were like AWSOME!!! You have a
9800 Pro? Wow!! :) They both came over to play some games.

If the NV40 has six fans, weighs 5 pounds,heats up the entire house, sounds
like a chain saw and takes up four PCI slots I won't be interested. My Pro
looks so small in comparison to the 5900 it made me appreciate the ATI way
of doing things. Nvidia will have to do alot more that talk..........
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I tried out a FX5900 recently. My 9700Pro looked like a cheap little budget
thing compared to the monster that is the FX5900!!

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Les
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Herc 9700 Pro
XP Barton 2500 @ 2700 180x12
1024 MB corsair platinum 3500
A7N8X Deluxe
 
Why have you got your CPU overcloked so little ?


XP Barton 2500 @ 2700 180x12
1024 MB corsair platinum 3500

With that ram you can get 3200 :)
 
We Live For The One We Die For The One said:
Why have you got your CPU overcloked so little ?


XP Barton 2500 @ 2700 180x12
1024 MB corsair platinum 3500

With that ram you can get 3200 :)
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It becomes unstable above 180 fsb :(

Only since I added the second stick of 3500. I think its the mobo as its
only the 1.6 version. With 1 stick of the XMS in I can get to 205 fsb. At
the current setting it gets unstable at 12.5 on the multiplier, more :(
 
Who cares how many pipelines Nvidia comes up with. As long as their cards
have
poor to mediocre image quality, Ati has no worries.
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The 5900 and Ti4200 I have here along my ATI9800 look just about as
good or the same... TheTi4200-64mb is not in the same performance
area of the ATI9800 - but it does well.
 
I tried out a FX5900 recently. My 9700Pro looked like a cheap little budget
thing compared to the monster that is the FX5900!!
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YEP.... Hell, my TI4200 is BIGGER than my 9800Pro.... its a tiny card
heheh - this saved money by the way.
 
Hhhmm, R420 may not "0wn" the NV40. Any one know more about this?

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14373
Tritium
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Not worried about it... nobody should be...

The ATI 9700/9800 PRO technology is well over a year old - and gams
are just now bringing those cards down.

The NEW cards will NOT be bringing ADDITIONAL effects to the video
gaming market, they are simply going to ADD SEVERE HORSE POWER.

The GF4Ti 4x000 series cards were the beefed up versions of the DX8
Gf3 card... nothing more. Its perfected.

The GF2-GF1 cards are the first Dx7 cards, but only offered more
performance for TNT users. It would take a while before developers
actually USED the abilities of the GForce cards.... basiclly when the
GF4 series hit the market.

So, like the fx5800.... I say its STUPID to guess or specualte who
will KICK WHOSE ASS.

1 - Nvidia users said the R300(ATI9700Pro) will be a piece of junk...
but it murdered the GF4 series.

2 - Nvidia users said the 5800 will KICK the ATI9700 in the nuts over
and over again... but it comes out on DISPLAY 3+ months late, and
doesn't ship for another 2-3 months... in which by that time, it
didn't touch the ATI series of cards.

3 - the vastly improved 5900 did not blow away the ATI9800... worse
yet, in most cases - the 5900 was slower than the 9600 in many cases!!
After a few months, Nvidia's "PERFECT" drivers are fixed - which
helped a WHOLE LOT. They are typically within the same performance of
an ATI, but not always faster. I recommend both types.


So... UNTIL tomshardware and anandtech.com get their hands on these
cards and tell us what they KNOW... I could care LESS what bullshit
comes out from ATI or Nvidia.

Remember... Nvidia "The 5500 is made to fill the void between the 5200
and 5600" (When both the 5600 and 5200s have mixed performances
against each other [some 5200s are faster than some 5600s) - but most
of these cards ($60~180) are slower than the 2yr old Ti4200.
 
Darthy said:
YEP.... Hell, my TI4200 is BIGGER than my 9800Pro.... its a tiny card
heheh - this saved money by the way.
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Well there is not much more needed then a small card to do the work,
that nvidia has to put extra functions on it that require more
patchwork..ah well...
 
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