Well i just got an email saying my PC has been shipped and will be here early this week so just a big thanks to everyone who helped me with my purchase
Glad to be of help. I would hope we are helping and not just a bunch of windbags preaching our favorite technology. (I know it gets that way sometimes.)
1. 1280x1024 (SXGA) was like 1995s 17 and 19" display res (5x4, 921Kpixel display.) $240 modern 21 and 22" LCD usually do 1600x1200 (UXGA, 1.9Mpixel;) the wide screen 1600x1050 (WSXGA, 1.75Mp.) HDTV is 1920x1080 2Mp. That is more the region of $700 +25 to $1K 32" displays where the standard is 2048x1536, QXGA, 4x3, 3Mp; and widescreen 2580x1600, WQXGA, 16x10, 4Mp... one can NOT believe what a display in 2580x1600 DX10 looks like compared to the antique 1280x1024 DX8.
But those huge 2 to 4Mpixel displays need serious gpu posting powers dual and quad core SLI/CF.
CRT are largely nolonger produced, like LCD replaced them and soon LED will replace the LCD while holo will replace LED five or six years down the line... if the world survives 2012ad.
2. With AMD to launch its Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics card featuring dual RV670 GPUs on the 23 of this month, and Nvidia is also planning to launch the GeForce 9800 GX2 on February 14 which will be include two G92 GPUs, it looks as though 2008 will become the year of dual GPU cards, at least for the high-end market.
In the past, GPU makers would normally design for the highest-end GPU first and then reduce chip speeds and functions to create a product range targeting the different market segments. However, with high-end chip design taking longer, while at the same time graphics card product-cycles have got shorter, AMD and Nvidia will both change their strategy, and now use their respective CrossFireX and SLI technologies to help prolong the life of their chips, detailed the sources.
GeForce 9800 GX2 cards will have a total of 256 stream processors and adopt a double PCB design. The two GPUs will share the same PCI Express port by using Nvidia's BR05 chip; a similar design solution to that employed in AMD's Radeon HD 3870 X2. The performance will be 1.3-1.5 times faster than that of a single GeForce 8800 Ultra card, noted the sources.
The GeForce 9800 GX2 will keep SLI support for quad GPU configurations. Pricing will be set at US$449.
However, due to the low market acceptance of dual GPU graphics cards, the makers are currently still conservative over the two upcoming dual GPU products. Most makers will only order in small volumes and will not order any more after they have sold out, according to the sources.
Nvidia is insisting card makers eat some of the manufacturing cost of 8800GT to make them compatable with R3800 price war, while refusing to lower it's profit margin. Nvidia G94 launch Feb '08 (GF 9600, D9P, $170, 64 stream processors, 65nm, 256bit memory bus) vs AMD's HD R3850 (RV670pro)
3. If one does not have a huge display ( > 1400x1050) then the single R3870 should be adequate. GPU reference to see how the desktop graphic cards compare.
4. Intel has announced the discontinuation of the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 and the Intel Core 2 Duo E6700, E6600, E6300, E6420 and E6320 processors in January 2008. QX6700 Core duo T2700, T2600, T2500, T2400, T2300, T2300E already droped Nov '07. By March '08 the C2D T7600, T7400, T7200, T5600, T5500, L7400, L7200; Core duo ULV U2500, U2400; Core solo U1500, U1400; Intel also droped four Pentium D and three P4 cpu models. Soon to add to the list is the C2D E6400, E4300, P4 651 and Celeron D 352 cpu. Intel is gearing up for the 45nm C2Quads consider 16 new processors !
Intel will launch Nehalem-based notebook CPUs at the end of the second quarter of 2009, including the quad-core Clarkefield and dual-core Auburndale series. Auburndale will have integrated graphics, while the power consumption of both CPUs will drop significantly.
Soon on the market will be 8GB sticks of DDR2, just as the more expensive DDR3 for the X48 mobo come to market.
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Well i just got an email saying my PC has been shipped and will be here early this week so just a big thanks to everyone who helped me with my purchase
Glad to be of help. I would hope we are helping and not just a bunch of windbags preaching our favorite technology. (I know it gets that way sometimes.)
Good luck and Happy Gaming!!
D.
1. 1280x1024 (SXGA) was like 1995s 17 and 19" display res (5x4, 921Kpixel display.)
$240 modern 21 and 22" LCD usually do 1600x1200 (UXGA, 1.9Mpixel;) the wide screen 1600x1050 (WSXGA, 1.75Mp.)
HDTV is 1920x1080 2Mp. That is more the region of $700 +25 to $1K 32" displays where the standard is 2048x1536, QXGA, 4x3, 3Mp; and widescreen 2580x1600, WQXGA, 16x10, 4Mp... one can NOT believe what a display in 2580x1600 DX10 looks like compared to the antique 1280x1024 DX8.
But those huge 2 to 4Mpixel displays need serious gpu posting powers dual and quad core SLI/CF.
CRT are largely nolonger produced, like LCD replaced them and soon LED will replace the LCD while holo will replace LED five or six years down the line... if the world survives 2012ad.
2. With AMD to launch its Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics card featuring dual RV670 GPUs on the 23 of this month, and Nvidia is also planning to launch the GeForce 9800 GX2 on February 14 which will be include two G92 GPUs, it looks as though 2008 will become the year of dual GPU cards, at least for the high-end market.
In the past, GPU makers would normally design for the highest-end GPU first and then reduce chip speeds and functions to create a product range targeting the different market segments.
However, with high-end chip design taking longer, while at the same time graphics card product-cycles have got shorter, AMD and Nvidia will both change their strategy, and now use their respective CrossFireX and SLI technologies to help prolong the life of their chips, detailed the sources.
GeForce 9800 GX2 cards will have a total of 256 stream processors and adopt a double PCB design. The two GPUs will share the same PCI Express port by using Nvidia's BR05 chip; a similar design solution to that employed in AMD's Radeon HD 3870 X2.
The performance will be 1.3-1.5 times faster than that of a single GeForce 8800 Ultra card, noted the sources.
The GeForce 9800 GX2 will keep SLI support for quad GPU configurations. Pricing will be set at US$449.
However, due to the low market acceptance of dual GPU graphics cards, the makers are currently still conservative over the two upcoming dual GPU products.
Most makers will only order in small volumes and will not order any more after they have sold out, according to the sources.
Nvidia is insisting card makers eat some of the manufacturing cost of 8800GT to make them compatable with R3800 price war, while refusing to lower it's profit margin.
Nvidia G94 launch Feb '08 (GF 9600, D9P, $170, 64 stream processors, 65nm, 256bit memory bus) vs AMD's HD R3850 (RV670pro)
3. If one does not have a huge display ( > 1400x1050) then the single R3870 should be adequate. GPU reference to see how the desktop graphic cards compare.
4. Intel has announced the discontinuation of the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 and the Intel Core 2 Duo E6700, E6600, E6300, E6420 and E6320 processors in January 2008.
QX6700 Core duo T2700, T2600, T2500, T2400, T2300, T2300E already droped Nov '07.
By March '08 the C2D T7600, T7400, T7200, T5600, T5500, L7400, L7200; Core duo ULV U2500, U2400; Core solo U1500, U1400;
Intel also droped four Pentium D and three P4 cpu models.
Soon to add to the list is the C2D E6400, E4300, P4 651 and Celeron D 352 cpu.
Intel is gearing up for the 45nm C2Quads consider 16 new processors !
Intel will launch Nehalem-based notebook CPUs at the end of the second quarter of 2009, including the quad-core Clarkefield and dual-core Auburndale series. Auburndale will have integrated graphics, while the power consumption of both CPUs will drop significantly.
Soon on the market will be 8GB sticks of DDR2, just as the more expensive DDR3 for the X48 mobo come to market.