What's up with the new charts? 280 GTXs sli losing to 8800 GTS sli

[JAYDEEJOHN]

You know whos been getting the scoops? Toms far east site. Theyve done well, and I wish theyd do more from there, only IF they wont use NA

 

[L1qu1d]

Sigh....

 

[one-shot]

It doesn't surprise me at all if these charts are based off of this article:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-geforce-comparison,2007.html

That review had to be the worst review ever posted on Toms. They were using a CPU that was not clocked fast enough to feed the cards, so their charts are all over the place . They also used old drivers and a questionable power supply. I would look at the charts from some other sites before making any decisions. There are plenty of other sites who have done valid benchmarks on the new cards.

Sigh...Coolermaster's upper PSU's are fine. Real Power is the only PSU line I would buy from them. The rest I wouldn't even consider it. They have used that 850 Real Power PSU on lots of reviews on this site. Research a little.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

I dont really want to knock my european friends, so dont take it that way, BUT, since theyve gone euro, weve been handed trash. Maybe they need to start working 40hr weeks, and then they wouldnt have started so early, using outdated drivers, non included cards, imature cf/sli drivers showing multi worse than single etc etc. Tsk tsk, shame on Toms for putting this out, as this puts only a larger blackness on the only good eye Toms has left

 

[shortstuff_mt]

Sigh...Coolermaster's upper PSU's are fine. Real Power is the only PSU line I would buy from them. The rest I wouldn't even consider it. They have used that 850 Real Power PSU on lots of reviews on this site. Research a little.

Just because Tom's uses the Real Power PSU in it's reviews doesn't make it a good PSU. That is kind of the point of this thread. I don't really have anything against that particular PSU, but is seems like some of the problems they ran into with their SLI/CF setups may possibly be traced to a lack of power as well as their CPU bottleneck. IMO a SLI GTX 280 rig should be packing a little more juice just to be safe.

 

[snipingkid]

Well, form personal benchmarking, the latest cards show no change in FPS in a change of resolution I only start seeing a difference in 1080p and 1200p.

My old 7950GT gets better FPS at low settings and low resolution than my 9800GX2 or GTX280... So these are for 1680x1050 and above, wouldn't buy them with lower resolutions.