Nforce4 with PCI-Express and SLI "in a few weeks"

[housecat]

Um the x800 PE is $600 (if you can find it). You can get a 6800GT 256mb for $380 on pricegrabber.

Show me more than one dealer with a $499 X800PE IN STOCK.

$220 is a big difference, esp considering the GT did beat the XTPE in a few launch benchmarks (which shouldnt have happened at all).. the OGL ones IIRC. Even tho OGL is NV's land (because ATI cant/wont do the driver work necessary), its sad.

Most everyone would take the $380 GT and if they have a NF4 rig throw another one in someday.

People are grossly underestimating how many people are going to upgrade to the NF4 SLI and a NV video card. Your petty overclocked X800PE results arent going to influence anyone.

 

[endyen]

<A HREF="http://www.ati.com/buy/pricespcusa.html" target="_new">http://www.ati.com/buy/pricespcusa.html</A>

Show me 1 dealer with a real 6800GT for under$400. I dont mean a 128meg version, with shitty ram and low speed chip.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by endyen on 10/21/04 04:20 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[coylter]

That was a dumb argument

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[c0d1f1ed]

http://www.ati.com/buy/pricespcusa.html

I see XT's and XT PE's clocked at 520 MHz. Can anyone shed light on this? I heard the XT PE's never really existed and were only handed to reviewers, while the XT's got the XT PE label before they were sold to the public. The ATI site also doesn't have any regular XT's.

 

[Johanthegnarler]

That's why i don't have one. I think 300 for a card is still too much.

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46,510 , movin on up. 48k new goal. Maybe not.. :/

 

[trooper11]

well i dont think its very fare to crown nvidia king of performance on the behalf of sli. yes, putting two 6800gts or ultras up against a x800xt PE would win out, but really is that like something no one doubted? lol i knew that would be the case. what you guys arent mentioning is price/performance.

now personally, if i had the money, sure i would drop down for two sli cards, thats becuase im an enthusiast lol, but most of the mainstream will not be buying a two card system. So ATI wont loose out by being delayed with some kind of response. SLI will remain at the top of the niche market for sometime, unless ppl start to consider 2 6600's, but i doubt most that want sli will be.

lets also remember shader 3.0 for nvidia and shader 2.0c for ati is a wash, niehter is picked up by a ton of games, and by the time they do, youll likely see shader 3.0 on both offereings. also lets remember all the numbers showing nvidia in leads is mostly from a few games, like doom 3. ati still leads in some games, and will likely lead in hl2 on single card comparisons.

sli could be a big hit, i just dont see the justification for the mass market. the whole upgrade later position is tough to push when youll have newer and better single card solutions that could outweigh upgrading later. thats why this seems more like a high end addition, like dual cpus, and will stay that way for a while. but that doesnt mean i wouldnt want a set lol, but it also doesnt make me upset with ati for not offering an option for it yet.

 

[noko]

Considering the drought of high end video cards, where can someone buy two SLI 6800Ultras from? Especially many places have them over retail price that is if they have them at all. Still getting one and then buying another later when available and hopefully cheaper is a good option. Since DX9 is here to stay for at least 2 years while DirectNext waits on Longhorn which is sometime in late 2006 if not later. SLI makes alot of sense. It is not like the old days where DirectX was changing every year or so making any hardware obsolete. Even when Longhorn arrives DX9 will still be predominant probably for another 2 years. Look how long games took to actually use DX9, about 2 years. So a SLI computer could last a very long time and be up to date all through it with plenty of power to spare most of the way. In the end it may well indeed be the cheaper route to take.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by noko on 10/22/04 01:34 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[c0d1f1ed]

Here's the real opponent of the factory-overclocked X800 XT PE: <A HREF="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19132" target="_new">Gainward's Ultra/2600 450 MHz air cooled flier</A>. Even though it's still clocked lower than ATI's chip, it performs significantly better. Just like the AMD versus Intel story, this means that NVIDIA still has a lot of headroom. I wonder what will happen when the start using 90nm technology...