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Post by Renown on Mar 12, 2006 13:30:27 GMT -5
For those of us still living in the past, the AGP-past that is, nVidia has gone about releasing the acclaimed 7-series video cards for us. It's a most impressive card, I grabbed it up during it's first week launched...but this isn't about me, it's about the card. Having full support for DirectX 9 and SM 3.0....this card whether it be for AGP or not, it's definitely high-spec.
Superscalar GPU 375 MHz core clock speed 256-bit GDDR3 memory interface 38.4 GB/sec. memory bandwidth Dual 400 MHz RAMDACs 1.2 GHz memory data rate 6 million texels/sec. fill rate 562.5 million vertices/sec. setup 16 pixels per clock Open GL 2.0 support Full Shader Model 3.0 support.
With that said, I've got another reason to wait until later on this year to make the move to PCI-E (not to mention a better motherboard)
EDIT: It's quite ironic for me to have a nVidia card, but I'm still using an AGP motherboard, and well...all other AGP cards suck!
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Post by Renown on May 27, 2006 21:24:34 GMT -5
What I find weird is on the 7800 GS' box is specifically states it's "optimized for Windows Vista" call me crazy, but how can that be? By time Vista rolls around next January or February AGP will be closer to being obsolete than it is now. In fact, AGP motherboards may be pulled off the market, permanently. What's even more ironic is the description appears to be quite serious about the GS' capabilities.
I ask how can something that's pretty much outdated have "locked" abilities? When Vista is released won't the GS require you to flash the BIOS? Why do that when you can just go out and buy the GeForce 8?
...We shall see my friends.
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