Thanks for the additional technical details. Great review as usual. ;)
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Originally Posted by KMS-oul Thanks for including the 640mb version of the gts in your review. Somehow the majority of GT reviews I have read have ommited it from their benchmarks.
Seconded / fourthed / ...
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Originally Posted by jase4772 Bit of a git after not long having bought my 320mb GTS thinking it was the best mid range card, and thats after not being an early adopter. Wonder how many other people will feel hacked off by this cards release?
My rule for myself is that once I've made a purchase I stop looking at prices until I'm ready to replace that part - otherwise I'm almost guaranteed to be disappointed. (I bought a 640MB GTS two months back)
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Originally Posted by BigD79 One word "Office Frisbee".
Great review btw bit-tech ;) only just stumbled on the site the other day and been loving all the articles!
Welcome to Bit-Tech (but "Office Frisbee" is two words:p)
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Originally Posted by Redbeaver as an owner of a GTS640MB, a little part of me deep inside my heart is crying...............
....but the rest of me is actually pretty excited to see what's gonna come next with this new family of G9x :D
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You have my sympathy - I'm in the same boat and feeling the same things.
Tim, how bout adding an overclocked GTS640 in there? clock it as fast as the GT. using Rivatuner u can clock the shader individually, giving (i assume) an identical freq set.
i'd love to see the comparison, because currently my GTS is at 675/1450/975, and its blistering fast, nearly as fast as GTX but still not fast enough (but i play exclusively at 1680x1050 tho, except 3dmark06 of course). my guess would be it would loose out abit in lower res and 0xAF, but will win out on higher texture and 16xAF. due to 640mb vs 512mb.
plus, did u guys try to oc'd the GT at all? i mustve missed that in the review........
Got my 8800 GT today, just tried Crysis and Bioshock quickly and it ran both fine with everything on high @ 1680x1050 (no AA). Well chuffed so far :D (need to test Crysis a bit more)
Originally Posted by FIBRE+ Got my 8800 GT today, just tried Crysis and Bioshock quickly and it ran both fine with everything on high @ 1680x1050 (no AA). Well chuffed so far :D (need to test Crysis a bit more)
Originally Posted by Redbeaver Tim, how bout adding an overclocked GTS640 in there? clock it as fast as the GT. using Rivatuner u can clock the shader individually, giving (i assume) an identical freq set.
i'd love to see the comparison, because currently my GTS is at 675/1450/975, and its blistering fast, nearly as fast as GTX but still not fast enough (but i play exclusively at 1680x1050 tho, except 3dmark06 of course). my guess would be it would loose out abit in lower res and 0xAF, but will win out on higher texture and 16xAF. due to 640mb vs 512mb.
plus, did u guys try to oc'd the GT at all? i mustve missed that in the review........
Can i get an amen here, fellows? :D
The latest drivers unfortunately break the current version of Rivatuner and you cannot use it for overclocking, only for detecting clockspeeds using the monitoring tool. I love Rivatuner and use it almost exclusively for clock setting, overclocking and monitoring clock activity.
We've not done any overclocking with the reference cards, but we have a bunch of retail cards in that we will be overclocking. This was merely an architectural review, meaning we compared everything at stock speeds. For the roundup (if that's what it ends up being), I won't be testing as many games as I'll be looking more at percentage increases over the reference card, but if there's time I can add in a 8800 GTS 640 at 550 without a problem...
Originally Posted by sandys Rivatuner 2.06 works fine as does Ntune, but with ntune you can't change the shaders clocks and mine crap out Not much after 1800.
Yep, that's only been released since finishing the review - I believe 2.06 was either released yesterday or the day before.
So typical,
ordered a gecube radeon 2900xt 512mb that will arive tomorrow. Then I saw this. 33% cheaper than my 2900xt and quite a different in performance, thats my usual luck. And ordering the 2900 not long before the release of 3800 cards, could I have picked a worse time?
Well It seems I will have to try to send it back and buy this instead.
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Why didn't you guys run it with the 2.10x patch? Too many cards to re-test? It adds loads of goodies and tweaks that came with the expansion
I completely forgot about that patch, but I'll be swapping the game out for Opposing Fronts soon as it's a bit more current. :o
i'd love to see the comparison, because currently my GTS is at 675/1450/975, and its blistering fast, nearly as fast as GTX but still not fast enough (but i play exclusively at 1680x1050 tho, except 3dmark06 of course). my guess would be it would loose out abit in lower res and 0xAF, but will win out on higher texture and 16xAF. due to 640mb vs 512mb.
plus, did u guys try to oc'd the GT at all? i mustve missed that in the review........
Can i get an amen here, fellows? :D
Best £150 i've spent on my pc in a while :)
Good to hear, glad you like it!
The latest drivers unfortunately break the current version of Rivatuner and you cannot use it for overclocking, only for detecting clockspeeds using the monitoring tool. I love Rivatuner and use it almost exclusively for clock setting, overclocking and monitoring clock activity.
We've not done any overclocking with the reference cards, but we have a bunch of retail cards in that we will be overclocking. This was merely an architectural review, meaning we compared everything at stock speeds. For the roundup (if that's what it ends up being), I won't be testing as many games as I'll be looking more at percentage increases over the reference card, but if there's time I can add in a 8800 GTS 640 at 550 without a problem...
Yep, that's only been released since finishing the review - I believe 2.06 was either released yesterday or the day before.
ordered a gecube radeon 2900xt 512mb that will arive tomorrow. Then I saw this. 33% cheaper than my 2900xt and quite a different in performance, thats my usual luck. And ordering the 2900 not long before the release of 3800 cards, could I have picked a worse time?
Well It seems I will have to try to send it back and buy this instead.
/GNU
Also, is it a whiney fan, or a deep loud fan please!
What card do you currently have?