PAX: Nvidia Takes GTX 480 Directly to Gamers

[hundredislandsboy]

I hear what you're saying that both camps are self-righteous fanboys.

But dude, in this gamer war against overpriced, underperforming 3D cards, you can't practice neutrality with your Zen-like detachment. Besides, pick a side, any side because it's much more fun to be self-righteous and force your opinion on people, ram them down their throats before they can type a word out (sarcasm).

Seriously, you have a good point, drop the fanboy game, be practical, andl buy the best that you can afford based on real usage needs and on the fanboy alter ego, even though half the fun in the fanboy bragging game is wasting cash on constant upgrades to the latest released hardware.

 

[pojih]

umm, did I miss something?

I'm not a fanboy of either camp, but you just talked about
"be practical, and buying the best that you can afford based on real usage needs"

No one "needs" sli 480s, but thats pretty much the only thing the fermi is worth at the moment

AMD is the ONLY LOGICAL choice at the moment, unless you just really want to spend 300 more on video cards for a nominal performance gain.

 

[lowguppy]

I was at the launch event at PAX. Drew didn't seem particularly familiar with the technology, going so far as to compare the number of transistors on the 480 (3 billion) to that of CPUs. Still, they did show some snazzy stuff. I'm not hugely impressed by 3d, but exploding a bridge into 1 million particles was neet. As a top end video card, it pretty much assumes you have $1k worth of displays that need a V8 of a graphics card to power them at full res.

I got a "Crank that S#!t up!" t-shirt, because no one else really wanted it when it was thrown near me.

 

[jodpel]

I think it's funny that the Nvidia fanboyz call the ATI enthusiasts fanboyz. Nerd rage is always entertaining.

Anywho, I'm pleased with my 5870 which was my first ATI card. I certainly don't see any FPS benchmarks for these new cards that make me jealous. If anything, I'll crossfire my current setup before I'll blow money on one of these.

 

[captaincharisma]

[citation][nom]jodpel[/nom]I think it's funny that the Nvidia fanboyz call the ATI enthusiasts fanboyz. Nerd rage is always entertaining.Anywho, I'm pleased with my 5870 which was my first ATI card. I certainly don't see any FPS benchmarks for these new cards that make me jealous. If anything, I'll crossfire my current setup before I'll blow money on one of these.[/citation]

I still won't get an ATI card because of there crappy drivers

 

[hundredislandsboy]

Nvidia uses the inaugural PAX East event to launch its next generation of GPUs.

PAX: Nvidia Takes GTX 480 Directly to Gamers : Read more

PAX: Nvidia Takes GTX 480 Directly to Gamers


Next week, can you do an article on how much gamers are taking to the GTX 480? Check with your sources (not Nvidia) and tell us how may sold in 2 weeks?

 

[zak_mckraken]

I was at PAX and I attended the nVidia conference. Overall, the 3D demo was interesting. No more, no less. However, the part with World of Warcraft was totally underwhelming. Not only we couldn't see any 3D effect, the game itself was really choppy. We're talking about a game that is 5 years old now! It was so slow that it must have been a bug, a driver problem or a config error, but still... Needless to say, Mr. Henry went on without asking the crowd what was their impressions.