What's Your Video Card?

[Dredd2099]

No time in your hands? It's s'ok. Once a gamer, always a gamer. 

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eh heh

got 4 kinda old unopened games sitting here

well, make it 3

imma open 1 then try rowing thru all of em asap

[azrach187]

eh heh

got 4 kinda old unopened games sitting here

well, make it 3

imma open  1 then try rowing thru all of em asap

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Welcome back, brother! As in "back" to gaming!

[BlackWizard]

ATi Radeon 9800

[johnlove]

Thanks Azrach, I used to think that consoles offer the best technology for gaming. Their marketing team is so good that a lot of people buy their products.

[joeglens]

I use ATI Mobility RADEON 7000 IGP at 128MB

 

7th gen consoles (xbox360,ps3) does offer technology to produce better graphics at a lower cost, since they already had 128-bit computing.

 

The problem right now is that the technology is new that developers are still n00bs at maximizing the power of the system. I'll still wait a year or two to see progress in the developers community and if it still doesn't meet up to expectations then that's the time i say that Microsoft and SONY are nothing but moneygrabbing assholes

 

I can still remember the release of initial games for PS2 and i can say that the quality of graphics improved as time goes by. This just tells that developers are developing l33t skillz in making use of the hardware at its maximum.

[azrach187]

A scary thought:

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/azrach187/quad.jpg

 

Four NVIDIA® GeForce® 7900 GPUs and an NVIDIA nForce®4 SLIT MCP combine to take NVIDIA® SLIT technology to the next level

 

- 48 gigapixels/sec. of raw graphics performance and 6 teraflops of compute power·

- pixel pipes and 2 GB of on-board graphics memory for stunning visual effect

 

Turn it ALL on

- Run your favorite games at extreme HD resolutions

- Crank up the resolution to an unbelievable 2560x1600 while maintaining silky smooth frame rates

- 32x antialiasing and 16x anisotropic filtering raise the bar for image quality

- Maximize your shader and texture settings for a truly immersive gaming experience

 

Handcrafted for excellence like a Ferrari Enzo

- Elite technology delivers performance in a class by itself

 

Avg. cost to run this monster? $4,500

 

It is a good news for gamers and developers alike:

 

First, the hardware developers - they aren't pressured to develop the next "better" gaming card. Although the technology would still move forward for singular cards, multiplying the power of one would now means more quality instead of rushed issued cards (usually followed by driver releases).

 

Second, game developers - they now have more freedom to capitalize on existing game engines to develop graphics demanding applications. Some award winning engines that would be using the full potential of SLIs - Crytek (Far Cry), Unreal 2.0 engine (A.Army, Unreal Tournament), Havok 2.0 (Painkiller) and Source (HL2, CS:Source and DoD:Source)

 

As for the gamers, well, they could upgrade their system without waiting for the next card as usually is the case. I don't forsee those with Quad SLI to upgrade soon to a better card, especially if they have 7900GTs on the Quad.

[joeglens]

A scary thought:

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/azrach187/quad.jpg

 

Four NVIDIA® GeForce® 7900 GPUs and an NVIDIA nForce®4 SLIT MCP combine to take NVIDIA® SLIT technology to the next level

 

- 48 gigapixels/sec. of raw graphics performance and 6 teraflops of compute power·

- pixel pipes and 2 GB of on-board graphics memory for stunning visual effect

 

Turn it ALL on

- Run your favorite games at extreme HD resolutions

- Crank up the resolution to an unbelievable 2560x1600 while maintaining silky smooth frame rates

- 32x antialiasing and 16x anisotropic filtering raise the bar for image quality

- Maximize your shader and texture settings for a truly immersive gaming experience

 

Handcrafted for excellence like a Ferrari Enzo

- Elite technology delivers performance in a class by itself

 

Avg. cost to run this monster? $4,500

 

It is a good news for gamers and developers alike:

 

First, the hardware developers - they aren't pressured to develop the next "better" gaming card. Although the technology would still move forward for singular cards, multiplying the power of one would now means more quality instead of rushed issued cards (usually followed by driver releases).

 

Second, game developers - they now have more freedom to capitalize on existing game engines to develop graphics demanding applications. Some award winning engines that would be using the full potential of SLIs - Crytek (Far Cry), Unreal 2.0 engine (A.Army, Unreal Tournament), Havok 2.0 (Painkiller) and Source (HL2, CS:Source and DoD:Source)

 

As for the gamers, well, they could upgrade their system without waiting for the next card as usually is the case. I don't forsee those with Quad SLI to upgrade soon to a better card, especially if they have 7900GTs on the Quad.

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:boo: Now that's what i call a monster hardware :cool:

 

although at $4,500 i could buy myself a new 1U Dual Xeon 2Ghz blade server with 2GB of RAM and 2 Terabytes of HD space to host all my pr0n

[Dredd2099]

although at $4,500 i could buy myself a new 1U Dual Xeon 2Ghz blade server with 2GB of RAM and 2 Terabytes of HD space to host all my pr0n         

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oh shizzle

in!

hahahahahha

[Dredd2099]

Welcome back, brother! As in "back" to gaming! 

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oo nga, pahamak ka eh

hahahahahha

 

kakatapos ko lang 'pariah' single player (next time na MP)

next unopened game, Deus Ex: Invisible War

 

hala hala, baka ma adok na naman ako

:grr:

[Kurtsky Keigee]

So far geforce is good

[owten]

geforce fx5900 lang akin pero pwede sa modern games now

[Kurtsky Keigee]

Mahal naman nung quad na un

[cheesekeso2004]

as requested by Azrach and another fellow mtc member

 

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/9570/dsc014131vp.th.jpg

Just fitting my mobo, vc, psu before I mod the casing Pretty plain, yuck

 

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/8118/dsc014149yq.th.jpg

The XFX 7900GT Extreme Edition is SLI mode One has a Zalman cooler, since the lower part tends to be hotter due to the Audigy 2 just below it

 

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3658/dsc014168sg.th.jpg

CM Stacker in its plain yucky glory

 

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/679/dsc014185me.th.jpg

After taking the pics, I realized that cable management will be hell, so I shifted the Power buttons/USBs to the lowest slot, then move the CM Aerogate at the top This will allow less obstruction in the airflow, and with the mod in mind, it'll be easier to hide the wires that way

[KeniPo]

tanong lang po about vid cards.. how would i know kung ung vid card na gusto kong bili supports Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM)?

 

XFX Geforce 6800 XTreme PVT42EUDE3 Video Card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814150130

 

thanks..

[azrach187]

tanong lang po about vid cards.. how would i know kung ung vid card na gusto kong bili supports Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM)?

 

XFX Geforce 6800 XTreme PVT42EUDE3 Video Card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814150130

 

thanks..

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This is from my home forum, Click here.

It requires membership to view the actual Vista screen shots.

 

To be honest, that would all depend on Microsoft. It would not make sense if Microsoft develops the new Vista without support from (expecially hig-end) current video cards. Since the Vista OS is still on a "needs-to-know" basis, Microsoft would have raised the flag on hardwares not supported by Vista, as not to limit the consumers once they launch it next year.

 

I have read on a tech forum not long ago that Vista do utilize the vid card more effectively than any of the past OS, because of the new fully interactive menu system and of each windows translucency mostly available to hi-end vid cards users nowadays.

 

Basically, you might be in trouble (if you aren't come across any problems yet) with the new Vista if your hardware is at the low-end of the spectrum and dated. For now, I would say, it isn't worth losing sleep over. When I was building my current rig, there were rumors circulating that Microsoft would soon issue "compatibility" seals to hardware manufacturers, but that was early this year, and none ever showed up.

 

Here's a Window's Vista Demo