NVidia's Geforce 7800 GTX

[Xaroxantu Zero]

Take a look at the review here.

The benchmark results are amazing. You should check out the tech demos at NVidia's site as well. If only I had $810.

[ciscoboi]

Watch that video card churn out some impresive Freecell and Solitaire numbers...

[b_t]

wow, it performs so well... but it costs SOOOO much money! why does this shit have to cost so much?

[Kamen]

Well...it's not THAT much if you think about it...besides, price will drop accordingly.
My 6600GT can still max out pretty much anything so meh for now

[hampstor]

from what i've been told, this will NOT replace the 6600 line at this time... merely be ontop of the 6600 w/o affecting the prices below it significantly.

[Xtrema]

Well that'll definitely hit the 6800 line since fanboys are abandoninit.

Which also explains why there are some many Sub-$400 6800 on the market lately.

[Xaroxantu Zero]

Originally posted by hampstor
from what i've been told, this will NOT replace the 6600 line at this time... merely be ontop of the 6600 w/o affecting the prices below it significantly.

Just wait till the 7600 and 7200 comes out. xD

[seer_claw]

Keep in mind that the review was also on Toms Hardware, a site notorious for slightly skewed outlooks on some vendors.

[hampstor]

having seen the cost of the new 7800 gtx... wow. I don't know who on earth is going to buy this...

However, an FX-57 + a 7800gtx would be a killer rig

[ZEDGE]

$800 for a goddamn video card....



Thats just sick.

Pc gaming will die when new consoles come out.

[BerserkerCatSplat]

Originally posted by ZEDGE

Pc gaming will die when new consoles come out.

Somehow, I really doubt that.

The 7800 is more or less the same as the RSX unit found in the PS3. When the PS3 comes out, it will have amazing graphics. But then again, so will computers. And then computers will advance, as computers do, and the computers will regain the technology throne.

PC gaming is going nowhere any time soon.

[b_t]

no kidding, every time a new generation of consoles come out everybody says computer gaming is going to die but it still seems to be going strong to me not to mention computers have had far superior graphics to anything on the PS2 for the past couple years now.

[Xaroxantu Zero]

Don't forget that strategy games and MMORPGs are strongest on the PC platform, as well as FPS games. Can you mod console games? Well, there ya go.

All new high-end video cards are expensive. The Geforce 2 GTS was mad expensive; the Geforce 3 Ti was; the Geforce 4 Ti was; the Geforce 5950 was and the Geforce 6800 was. Now that the Geforce 7800 came out, it's gonna be mad expensive (and it is). So chances are, when they're gonna release the 8800 (or similar) in the future, it's gonna be mad expensive.

[ZEDGE]

I think it will be a couple of years before there is a home pc more powerful than the new consoles, and even then it will cost 10x as much.

And with 20+gb hd on 360, possibly ps3, there could be mods for console games. Xbox already has downloadable content now.

[ZEDGE]

Originally posted by b_t
no kidding, every time a new generation of consoles come out everybody says computer gaming is going to die but it still seems to be going strong to me not to mention computers have had far superior graphics to anything on the PS2 for the past couple years now.

fair enough but a ps2 can be had for 200, how much does it cost to build a pc that can play todays games at full detail?

$1000? More?

yea

[b_t]

Originally posted by ZEDGE


fair enough but a ps2 can be had for 200, how much does it cost to build a pc that can play todays games at full detail?

$1000? More?

yea

mine was $1500 with windows XP installed
and last I checked, PC games at full detail look far better then any console game out right now and just as good as the few screenshots released for Xbox 360 games. as well, PC games come from a different school of design - do you think playing Halo 2 in a map ten times the size of Coagulation with four times as many players would work on an Xbox?

[ZEDGE]

Originally posted by b_t


mine was $1500 with windows XP installed
and last I checked, PC games at full detail look far better then any console game out right now and just as good as the few screenshots released for Xbox 360 games. as well, PC games come from a different school of design - do you think playing Halo 2 in a map ten times the size of Coagulation with four times as many players would work on an Xbox?

thats fine but..

gameplay > graphics

*Fact*

[b_t]

Originally posted by ZEDGE


thats fine but..

gameplay > graphics

*Fact*

Half Life 2 > anything on consoles except maybe God of War
Total Annihaltion is eight years old and still one of the best strategy games to come out, I don't see Falcon 3.0, Grand Prix Legends, Flight Simulator, Rise of Nations, Farcry, Dark Forces II, etc etc etc coming out on consoles. and remember, Grand Theft Auto started out on computers. plus, there are thousands more free games on the computer then there is for any console, and some of those free games are better then 90% of the garbage that comes out on consoles.

[BerserkerCatSplat]

Originally posted by ZEDGE


thats fine but..

gameplay > graphics

*Fact*

Thank you for basically proving my point. Have you ever tried playing a good strategy game (ie RTS) or FPS on a console ,then switched over to PC? The difference is incredible.

Strategy games are near-impossible to control well using a controller.
FPS games are much easier to control with a mouse.

This pretty much leaves RPG's for the consoles, which is fine by me. I'll wait till it's ported to PC.


BTW:

[sync]

yeah, keyboard and mouse owns dpad every single time.

it would be a complete fucking slaughter if they had people on putes going up against consolers and their controllers in first person shooter multiplayer games.

a complete slaughter.