Best video card in the world?

lovely? · 01-30-2008, 06:52 AM

Tomshardware.com

Well i guess Nvidia has finally been beaten, thats good to hear lol.

The card, the 3870 X2, has the same general theme as a 7950 GX2 going on, so it was only a matter of time untill this happened.

it seems that it games better, stays kinda cool, and doesnt draw much more power then a full-on 8800ULTRA, which is great. another great point is that it costs much less, at a price of 450$.

WhiteFireDragon · 01-30-2008, 06:58 AM

wow i didn't know video cards are entering the dual cores now. in a few years, i'm predicting quad cores too...

Iluvpenguins · 01-30-2008, 07:04 AM

Well the first well known one I can think of is the 7950GX2...which wasn't that great.

lovely? · 01-30-2008, 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Iluvpenguins

Well the first well known one I can think of is the 7950GX2...which wasn't that great.

yeah i remember playing around with two side-by-side systems, one with a GTX and the other with a GX2 and the frame rate difference was very minimal...

maroon1 · 01-30-2008, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by lovely?

Tomshardware.com
it seems that it games better, stays kinda cool, and doesnt draw much more power then a full-on 8800ULTRA, which is great. another great point is that it costs much less, at a price of 450$.

Actually it consume more power than Ultra at full load

http://techreport.com/articles.x/13967/10

It have higher noise level as well

And that video card is not much faster than 8800GTS 512MB, and sometimes it performs worse

Kornowski · 01-30-2008, 11:16 AM

Wow, I didn't know that two HD3850's in crossfire were only as good as one GTS in Crysis, either

PunterCam · 01-30-2008, 12:20 PM

it looks a bit shit to me really. Slightly faster than an older nvidia card sometimes, louder, older tech... It's price seems to be its only real advantage

[-0MEGA-] · 01-30-2008, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by WhiteFireDragon

wow i didn't know video cards are entering the dual cores now. in a few years, i'm predicting quad cores too...

They had them in the past, IIRC there was a dual-GPU 6600GT also, in addition to the 7950GX2.

bigbird · 01-31-2008, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by WhiteFireDragon

wow i didn't know video cards are entering the dual cores now. in a few years, i'm predicting quad cores too...

ATI has been doing this for years! See here:http://www.tweakers.net/ext/i.dsp/973786432.jpg

01-30-2008, 06:52 AM	#1 (permalink)
lovely? Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: California Age: 15 Posts: 3,817	Best video card in the world? Tomshardware.com Well i guess Nvidia has finally been beaten, thats good to hear lol. The card, the 3870 X2, has the same general theme as a 7950 GX2 going on, so it was only a matter of time untill this happened. it seems that it games better, stays kinda cool, and doesnt draw much more power then a full-on 8800ULTRA, which is great. another great point is that it costs much less, at a price of 450$. __________________ E4500 @ 2.93GHZ ASUS P5K-DELUXE 2GB OCZ Reaper CL3 @ 800MHZ 3-4-4-15 eVGA 8800GT OZC GameXStream 700W PSU 320GB WD Caviar SATA, 80GB WD Caviar IDE Sometimes scientists make things alot harder than they need to. All they've gotta do is put a big spring on the ground where they think it's gonna land, or send a mission to the moon to erect a sign that says "Welcome to Earth".

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