NVIDIA's NEW CHIP......

[Toxic_Tweekie]

:D :D :D Look it what we "GAMERS" have to look forward to www.tweak3d.net (http://www.tweak3d.net) . This is gonna be what we all have been lookin' for. :x :x GeForce FX :x :x Toy Story type graphics!!! Holy ****!!!!! Can't Wait :D :D What about you guys? Will you get it, if and when it ships?:confused:

[tony_j15]

Already several threads about this in the video card forum. Yeah, I can hardly wait either.:x But 300 to 400 is a lot of scratch. Don't plan on spending that much.

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Yep, I'll get it. When its $100.00 I mean $400! You guys save all that dough going AMD then blow it on a stupid vid card that in a year is 1/4th the cost. Were is the value in that. Nope can get a kick **** cpu for that much, even half that much. So whats the point? Without a good cpu backing it, its just a lump of $ sleeping in your pc.;)

[Izdaari]

Yep, whatever new card you get it's a waste without a strong CPU backing it up.

The new Nvidia chip I'm excited about it is the nForce2 chipset for AMD mobos. I'm thinking an Athlon XP 2400+ on an Asus A7N8X. No price advantage over an Intel 2.4GHz, so the reason for preferring it is overclocking potential. At around 2.5GHz real it'll likely outperform a P4 3.0GHz.

The NV30 (aka FX)? Great stuff, but out of my price range, but I'll buy a Radeon 9700 when the NV30 pushes it's price down enough.

[$1500-P4 gamer]

"The NV30 (aka FX)? Great stuff, but out of my price range, but I'll buy a Radeon 9700 when the NV30 pushes it's price down enough."
Hmm, seems we have the same plan...
:D

[bdmst16]

See I don't know if it's going to blow our socks off. CNN had a article on it stating that NVidia claimed that it was getting 45 some fps on Doom III and ATI 9700 could pull 35 some fps and the Geforce 4600 was getting 18 fps.

Now if these numbers are correct, thats only a 24% increase from the 9700. While that is great, I doubt its going to give us PIXAR or ILM type graphics.

Plus I don't have that type of dough :p

[Andthensome]

bdmst16, where it will really shine is in next gen graphics that call for a lot of pixel shading. Plus, the ones that will really be fast are the NV31 - NV34, which will debut a few months later (think May 2003+).

If they had used a 256 mb bandwidth pipeline instead of 128, they could have REALLY blown the doors off of the Radeon 9700 pro, but would have raised the price of the card... I think they wanted to keep it within the $300 - 400 range. That's why it's not as potent as many were hoping it would be. It's still head and shoulders above anything we really need now though.

I'm going to stick with my Geforce 4 ti 4400 I got like 5 months ago until fall of 2003, then I'll see what's out there. Prices on the NV30 - NV34 will have dropped by then.

[Baby Arm]

Originally posted by bdmst16
it was getting 45 some fps on Doom III and ATI 9700 could pull 35 some fps and the Geforce 4600 was getting 18 fps.

:p

If I pay 400 bucks for a video card and 50+ bucks for doom3, I had better get more than 45 fps. I paid 200 bucks for a gf3 ti200 less than a year ago and it's already obsolite 2 times over. Are there going to be any games other than doom 3 that take advantage of these 300-400 dollar cards before they are obsolete too?

[bdmst16]

Heheheh I hope so. I'm pretty sure that Doom III still needs to be optimized before release, and thats why top-end rigs are pulling such low numbers (I hope)

I've come to the conclusion that when Doom III does come out that my GeForce 4 4200 will have to be replaced. I just hope the rest of the requirements aren't too high.

[chubtub]

I paid 200 bucks for a gf3 ti200 less than a year ago and it's already obsolite 2 times over.

That is the reason why I always stay a step behind. I do not thnk that it is worth it to get a 400 dollar card that only one game can take advantage of. Plus it saves you cash to stay one stepping stone behind, not to mention that the card stablity tends to get better after awhile with the release to battle tested drivers.

I used to try to keep up and if I had the money I might. Athough I do look forward to the gfx quality that this card offers I can not afford to slow down enough in any fps game to look at the pretty pictures. I will be dead if I do.:eek: