I need rumors on GT300 please

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OKKKKKKKK, I feel underwhelmed by the 5870's performance against the 295, so the immediate purchase plan I had to replace this aging 7900GS is now out the window....

So, I would like so information regarding the GT300s please, never mind the performance or other things, I just want to know if they are going to be fully DX11, and if they are going to hit the stores before COD err i mean MW2 or SCII, aka before mid-November or at the latest, before 2010.






 
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Like you plan when the GF8800 came out, then the GTX280?

Dude if you haven't upgraded now, then you're not the type of person to buy a new card anyways, especially since you have a weak 7900GS to begin with.

Seriously talk about overstating your case. :sarcastic:

It's like someone saying, "I saw the new GTR and was planning on upgrading to it from my 2004 Toyota Yaris, but I don't like the Grill on it and they didn't have any at my local dealer on launch day, so I'm waiting for next year's EVO and see if I like it".

I bet that scenario plays out alot with...
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😴 😴 😴 😴 😴 😴 Waits for lower prices and job. 😴 😴 😴 😴 Dreams about 5850 😴 😴 But also thinks about 5770 😴 😴 😴 Wakes up and looks for job, not much work in town :sweat: might get job next week. Gets impatient and buys 5870 😀
 
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Exactly how I feel, the 5870 is great and some people are DISAPPOINTED!? Besides it WILL pwn the GTX 295 in the coming months and that is not to mention DX11 performance. It is a double in performance, that is the most you can hope from any card. So if the G300 will be a double in performance we are only looking at a little over the 5870. Oh well.
 
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Also, the 5870 is a SINGLE card vs the 295... while they are similar in performance, I can tell by personal experience that the Quad SLI scaling will not keep up with 5870's in crossfire....
 
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Like you plan when the GF8800 came out, then the GTX280?

Dude if you haven't upgraded now, then you're not the type of person to buy a new card anyways, especially since you have a weak 7900GS to begin with.

Seriously talk about overstating your case. :sarcastic:

It's like someone saying, "I saw the new GTR and was planning on upgrading to it from my 2004 Toyota Yaris, but I don't like the Grill on it and they didn't have any at my local dealer on launch day, so I'm waiting for next year's EVO and see if I like it".

I bet that scenario plays out alot with you. :pt1cable:

And if you don't like having little stock on launch date, you're gonna hate any G300 they launch this year, you won't see one in Canada if they can't get any to the US. :pfff:
 
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I am hoping the Lucid HYDRA puts a end to scaling crap with crossfire/SLI. If it works like they claim, hell if it works half as good then we should see a end to that.
 
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True....

IF it works...


I'm a great believer in the old adage - if its too good to be true... it probably isn't.
 
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Well a few places have gotten working boards in the past few months, and they do work with mixing Nvidia and ATI and different series cards, but we will have to wait and see on the performance side of things.

Hopefully it works at least as well as SLI/CF as far as scaling and performance because then it will change the upgrading game quiet a bit.
 
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The problem with Lucid, is it's only in limited closed-door tests and in a handful of applications that are controlled demos.

In theory it should work on anything and easily, if it still only demos on a small handful of games (for the 100 series UT3, Crysis-DX9; 200 series Bioshock & Fear2) then it's far from ready for prime-time. They say 100 games out of the box with initial artifacting that they fied, but I'll believe it when I see the product ship in the 30 days mentioned and that there are no issues in those games, let alone any others.

It's great in theory but we need to see more. The PPU was great in theory, but fell a little short. And with lucid @ a premium to board vendors of $1.50 a pcie lane, it's pretty expensive with $72 being the add-on for a typical current chipset (let alone higher if they add a 60+ lane later), so it better deliver in the lifespan of the mobo.
 
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It is expensive, but I think if it works vendors will not care, they can see the market this is aimed at. This works great for those on a budget, who want a new build (maybe core i5) and don't want to drop a ton of money on a new GPU or don't want to be tied to 1 company or the other for Crossfire/SLI in the future.

And for the high end I can see a ton of very happy people to think they can run our and get a 5879 and still run it with their 4870x2 in Hydra mode.


I guess, as with all things, only time will time but if it works, even half ass well (in the way a software update might fix later on) I myself might pick it up for a 2nd computer build later on.
 
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My replacement cycle is 5 years. and i had a 6800GT that died and was replaced for free by evga with the 7900GS, I allocate around 500-600 CAD for gfx each purchase
 
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Driver cleaning / Reinstall windows every time.....

DCing is easy, but if it needs a reinstall then its FUBAR


BTW I have no brand loyality, so I go from nvid to ati all the time and vice versa

EDIT had to add in the vice versa part b4 some rtard misunderstands it

 
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Poor lancer, just buy a 5870 and forget about it heheh.
Just remember, nVidias been able to keep up with its x2 cards, and thats about all, so unless something changes here, it wont be that much better than the 5870, if at all, since the 5870 will catch the 295 with better drivers
 
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Ah, let him do the rational thing (wait). There isn't any huge rush as, in my opinion, there aren't really that many good games that require new supercards YET. Hopefully that will change in 6 months, but by then 380's will be out and 5870's will be cheaper. And who knows, maybe NVidia has an ace up their sleeve (or not, doesn't really matter to me. I'm eying a 5850 for about January).
 
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It's true, there is no huge rush.

But also true is waiting on nvidia releasing the g300 doesnt make sense. Doing that would be the same as back in May, instead of buying a gtx275 wait for a 5870 instead. That was a while ago, if you bought a gtx275 you were probably quite happy about it, until the 5870 was released now you feel like you have a card that just doesn't measure up.

You can keep the same arguments about dx9 too. The point is, waiting on a mythological card being released before you splash out makes no sense.
 
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I dont see how anybody can actually believe the g300 will be out before new years.

Computex 2009 was 4 months ago, that is when we first saw the 5890 in demos. Before then we had tons of rumour, and continuing rumours too.

The silence around g300 is deafening.
 
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Yep, i agree that if you always wait for the next great tech, you will end up buying nothing. So, if one needs a new card (currently running into problems, too slow, etc.) then I think the 5870 is a fine choice and reasonable price too. However, if one already has a 4800 or 260/280, then reallythat person is set for current games and might as well wait for future games to materialize. That said, I certainly do dive for new tech on release day, though I admit to myself beforehand it is probably irrational. The only time I'd say it wasn't was the 4850 on release day. There were plenty on release, so they weren't overpriced, and they took a while for the prices to fall significantly.
 
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