Buying a new video card? WAIT A MONTH!!!

[Imperil]

Welp this week nVidia pulled out the bigs guns so I would highly suggest waiting a month no matter which card you want to buy.

With the FX series all nVidia has done is "keep up" with competition, where is normally is obliterating the competition, and something seemed odd. Well... this is no more.

Quotes from reviewers all over, as well as Tom Miller (Lead Software Engineer for MS DirectX) are praising the new FX card calling it "2006's card two years early". Also this card is 1 1/2 years ahead of nVidia's roadmap with hardware displacement mapping, DOUBLE the video features of all-in-wonder cards, etc.

While XGI, ATI, etc have been playing catch-up to nVidia for years and finally caught up with the latest FX series, this puts us back in the era right after 3DFX where the nVidia cards were untouchable and the other manufacturers were your "low end" guys.


Already the 6800 BETA drivers are TRIPLING performance of the 9800XT in many games, and DOUBLING performance in all the others. The price is also going to be $25 more than the 9800XT and price-pointed to drop to less in the near future. Especially the benchmarks in Call of Duty.. now play in 1600x1200 with full ansi/anti and twice the frames of todays highest-end card.

What most people are saying is that this is a guerilla tactic against other card manufacturers.. and I totally agree.

So if you are in the market for a new card I would HIGHLY suggest waiting, because the FX6800 is a million times the card we have on the shelves today. And if you aren't in the market to shell out the big bucks for the highest end card, I would still wait because on release it should push the 5900 and 5950's down in price, and those are still insanely fast cards and my current favorite.

Here is one of the links to the new card:
http://www20.tomshardware.com/graphic/2 ... index.html

I would link to the nVidia demos on their site, or the other review sites but they are all getting hit really hard atm from these reviews and the servers are up and down all the time. Took me 20 minutes to get to the hardocp page, and the nVidia demos page just times out.


Here is a quote from Tom's:

"Summary: NVIDIA has seemingly pulled out all stops in an attempt to deliver cutting edge graphics with its GeForce 6800 Ultra. After gamers for too long have had to be content with mere incremental improvements to graphics performance, NVIDIA new card delivers a performance jump not seen for a long time. The device is also solidly engineered as well as insanely fast. "

[Archangelus]

You're too slow.....

[Imperil]

bah i know I just saw. I was too busy reading all the reviews and quote.

Yo go check out the demos Arch.. you'll puke they are so good.