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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18631 |   GX-Brandon (252) Dec 09, 2007 - 11:05 am
| | I don't think you're going to see 8800 GT prices rise any further. Remember that an unannounced new G92 GPU variant is almost upon us. So that's going to create a ceiling for 8800 GT prices, or at least it should on paper. We'll see what availability is like in the real world. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18631 | GX-Brandon (252) Dec 09, 2007 - 10:58 am
| I think the 90% score is fair -- for an extra $20 you're getting a nice boost in performance over the stock 8800 GT 256MB. That's where the number comes from.
In terms of value in comparison to the 8800 GT 512MB, you're definitely going to get more bang from your buck with the 512MB. The question is do you want to pay $250-$300 for the 512MB. For some ppl the answer to that question is no. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18309 | GX-Brandon (252) Nov 15, 2007 - 12:55 pm
| | I decided to take that graph out for the time being. Unfortunately I don't have that particular testbed setup anymore so I'm not sure if it was a testbed error or an error on my part (with all these launches stacked on top of one another I've been averaging 3-4 hrs sleep/night for the past few weeks). Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18309 | GX-Brandon (252) Nov 15, 2007 - 08:27 am
| | I've heard conflicting reports on when we'll see higher-end cards from NVIDIA. Sorry but I can't give you an answer on AMD. I agree though, now that the mainstream cards are largely caught up with the high-end boards, it would be nice to see some faster high-end cards. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18309 | GX-Brandon (252) Nov 15, 2007 - 08:04 am
| Actually, the XFX Alpha Dog runs at the stock GeForce 8800 GT speeds (!)
You are thinking of XFX's Extreme or XXX product lines. We went over all this in our GeForce 8800 GT review article, I suggest you check that article out for more info. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18141 | GX-Brandon (252) Nov 02, 2007 - 06:53 am
| Yes, you are right that with OC'ing the budget rigs can perform even closer to the high-end PCs. But don't forget that the high-end rigs can be OC'ed as well...
(In fact, with their higher-end mobos, you could probably OC them a little further. All this is sort of a moot point anyway though because you'll be GPU-bound at higher res) Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18112 | GX-Brandon (252) Nov 01, 2007 - 04:05 am
| Anakris: In general I think you will find that TVs are more competitively priced in comparison to home speakers. Even at Best Buy or wherever, you generally don't have to pay full MSRP for a TV (unless of course you're shopping for a model that just came out).
I've got B&W speakers in my home theater setup for instance, and when shopping for them all the dealers charged the same extraordinarily high prices with the huge markup Alan is referring too. Fortunately I was able to find a nice deal on my mains, but I did pay full MSRP for the rest of my speakers, including the speaker stands. :D
In my case it was something I REALLY wanted, so it took me about 2.5 yrs to save up and buy everything. It was worth it in the end for me though. As Alan and Alexis pointed out in the article, speaker tech doesn't move very fast, so it's a component that will last a long time in your setup. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17953 | GX-Brandon (252) Oct 21, 2007 - 01:29 pm
| Your statements are conflicting, at first you ask for more reviews, but by the end your favorites you listed are all the more general articles. :)
Look, we're not going to be able to please everyone, our audience has grown so big that everyone wants something different. We try our best to provide a mixture of some of the best of everything, but we don't have the time or manpower to review every single product, or dedicate a new article to every single news item. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17953 | GX-Brandon (252) Oct 21, 2007 - 09:12 am
| » knuckles
Well, the stats for the Transformers article were higher than the CoD 4 performance article, despite the fact that the transformers article was just 3 pgs long. So yes, clearly there are a lot of ppl who are reading these comparison articles.
I think the reason the traffic is so high on them is because we're the only ones who have managed to capture HD DVD/Blu-ray screenshots and ppl have been wanting to see image comparisons for the past year now. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17886 | GX-Brandon (252) Oct 17, 2007 - 09:30 am
| | Alan's images are coming directly from the source, so it wouldn't make a difference if he used an HDTV or projector. I honestly don't know why he listed that in there, that would be the equivalent of us listing the monitor used in a GPU review. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17869 | GX-Brandon (252) Oct 15, 2007 - 05:48 pm
| Marvelous: I don't understand why you're upset then. For mainstream and budget cards I do test at 1280x1024. Check out the BioShock article for proof. I've never tested an 8600 GTS-class card at 2560x1600 in any of our articles.
For a high-end setup like 8800 GTX SLI though, 1280x1024 just isn't a res that someone with that kind of PC would run at. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17869 | GX-Brandon (252) Oct 15, 2007 - 03:13 pm
| Marvelous: When you're testing this many different cards there's only so much time in the day for testing (remember I'm doing 7 runs per resolution). So I choose to include more graphics cards rather than more resolutions. I honestly don't think the final conclusion would change all that much if a 1280x1024 graph were added.
What 19" monitor is limited to 1280x1024 anyway? Even an old 19" CRT should be more than capable of running 1600x1200 at 85Hz or better. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17824 | GX-Brandon (252) Oct 11, 2007 - 09:50 pm » Edited on Oct 11, 2007 - 09:55 pm
| Yep. I remember seeing one of his Ferrari's parked in the garage at one of the NV Editor's Day's a few years back. It was a brand new 612 Scaglietti.
EDIT: I believe it was the G70 Editor's Day. I remember because I had to catch a flight to an ATI event later that night. That was the red eye flight from hell. His car was valet parked at the hotel us media types were staying at. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17674 | GX-Brandon (252) Oct 02, 2007 - 03:27 pm
| This article is really, really, REALLY old! When Kelt wrote it NVIDIA's Vista drivers were still terrible, particularly when it comes to SLI vs CrossFire which is why his argument made sense.
It's now October and things are quite different. I believe the original article was posted back in June or early July... Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/46 | GX-Brandon (252) Sep 26, 2007 - 02:21 pm
| I think around this time next year is when you might start seeing the first signs. For the enthusiast shooting for the highest clock speeds, you will see them picking up DDR3 even sooner.
I really don't think DDR3 is going to hit critical mass for at least a year though. When you see Intel release a DDR3 chipset for the mainstream segment, that will be the 1st sign that DDR3 has really arrived.
That's going to have to be the last question for this chat session. It was nice talking with everyone! Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/46 | GX-Brandon (252) Sep 26, 2007 - 01:23 pm
| Really it's the RTS genre who have taken the lead on this. RTS games like Supreme Commander and World in Conflict are definitely pushing quad-core CPUs. In the FPS arena, the most notable quad-core game atm is Lost Planet, although I really haven't seen a tremendous performance boost w/ quad-core from that game. I guess Valve's EP2 is going to utilize quad-core, although I dont know what kind of boost we'll get from quad in that game. Crysis is of course, another game pushing quad-core CPUs.
I really don't think this is the year for quad though. I don't think quad-core is going to really take off until 2008. That's when the apps will really be there, and the CPUs will be priced right. The Q6600 is pretty tough to beat though, if I had to make a purchase today that's what I'd get personally. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/46 | GX-Brandon (252) Sep 26, 2007 - 12:56 pm
| » 2900 Pro
I should also add that I haven't exactly given up on reviewing the 2900 Pro. But I can't give an exact date on when a review would go up just because this is such a limited launch.
Again, because availability is so limited, my guesstimate is this will keep street prices a little higher than the MSRPs announced yesterday. That's just the nature of the beast unfortunately. Flag this | Edit this post |
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