"Arriving 11th August we have NVIDIA's latest graphics card with stock available to purchase on the day. Prepare to be amazed once again." So what's this all about then? As far as I can see it would probably combine memory bus, attachment bus and drivers as 3 standards, presumably PCI express, a new generation of drivers, and... XDR RAM? If anyone knows any more about this 'new' concept let me know. After hunting around some other forums i found a few interesting speculative arguments, one person suggested the idea (and it wasn't a bad one either) of harmonizing an integrated GPU along with two SLI cards. Others thought of three SLi cards, which would be obscene. This "three standards" business seems to be the way ahead for nVidia, so what does it mean to consumers?
Three SLI Cards.....LOL. I can barely afford one. I agree that it is a good idea to have an integrated GPU between two SLI cards. I think this wouuld effectively turn it into on 32x PCIe card.
3 you say? Crikey! I have 2 7800's and to be honest I can barely notice a difference in ANY game yet. I've played Far Cry, Half Life 2, Doom 3 etc and the difference is almot non existent. In fact some games are slower and jumpier. It's the biggest waste of £400 I've ever spent. 3DMark 03 scored at 24'900 though but what good is a number if games are not improved!
I'm hoping to see the standard 7800, and a 7800gt and of course the already released 7800gtx all available for agp and pciexpress.
AGP is 'old technology' now - as nvidia's advert goes, "you don't listen to a gramophone, you don't use a typewriter, so don't buy old graphics for your PC" If there's anything remotely old about GPUs, it's those that use the AGP bus. Fortunately, unlike nVidia, ATi still support AGP for their most powerful single card, but obviously AGP restricts you to one card. To be fair, the only people who benefit from more than one card are those who have monitors capable of displaying 1600x1200 or more. Those capped to 1280x1024 (i.e. most people, and almost everyone who uses a TFT) won't probably get any gain until next year-ish. One question however, "Three SLI Cards.....LOL. I can barely afford one." If you only have one, it's not really SLi is it, it just potentially could become SLi. But anyway, I'm not here to slag people off, since I only have an AGP Motherboard and GPU. It seems that nobody really knows, and we'll just have to wait until thursday...
