Hardware Analysis - SLI back with a Vengeance, Has Nvidia come to a Road block

Re: SLI back with a Vengeance, Has Nvidia come to a Road block

Christopher Fields — 2004-07-18T22:52:37-05:00

Refering to the shader 3.0 theory of the "I have to have it now!". In my line of work and gaming experience a true gamer never uses the same card for more than 6 months. If you have a gaming card that is not as new as the FX 5950 or the ATI 9800XT, you are not considered a true hard core gamer. Reason for saying this is I own and operate Com-Tek Services here in Salt Lake City and I beta test several different games with clans and communities along with Gearbox on the Halo CE side of PC 1st person shooters.

Game players are fighting to get a 30 fps with their ATI 9600XT and The FX 5700 video cards, and the cards have to clearly work way to hard to get this frame rate. I am finding better game play a x800 XT and FX 6600 series cards than any other card. The key objective though is how deep is our pocket$.

ATI and Nvidia have all these neat toys sitting in their closets just waiting to release them to us. But here is the huge current problem in my opinion, they have released to much too soon. There is no gap for PCI Express.

What does a person do? Buy an x8000 XT PE (Platinum Edition) for $750.00 U.S. Dollars? or wait for the PCI-Express release? Answer? Buy every 6 months and sell your card on e-bay to the next wannabe hard core gamer.

For replies or comments about this article please e-mail me at christopher@comtekservices.net

Christopher Fields
Com-Tek Services

Re: SLI back with a Vengeance, Has Nvidia come to a Road block

The Real Robert Jones — 2004-07-02T14:52:13-05:00

Haha it's Pixel Shader 3.0
(I thought i was PlayStation 3 before i did some researching )

Re: SLI back with a Vengeance, Has Nvidia come to a Road block

Roman I — 2004-07-02T14:38:22-05:00

What exactly is PS 3?

Re: SLI back with a Vengeance, Has Nvidia come to a Road block

Koen Kwak — 2004-07-02T14:23:20-05:00

As reported in the daily column Far Cry already has a PS3.0 patch

Re: SLI back with a Vengeance, Has Nvidia come to a Road block

ad asdf — 2004-07-01T05:55:48-05:00

nvidia 6800 is better than ati r420 chipset since ati is missing pixel shader 3.0
the benchmarks are very close, but ps3 gives nvidia the edge; even tho ati keeps on saying that
"ps3.0 will not be required until 2k5". umm ya right, i dont want to buy a card that doesnt support next gen technology.

(just to let u people know i got nothing against ati , i am canadian as well )

munis b.
http://www.back2games.com

SLI back with a Vengeance, Has Nvidia come to a Road block

Gopinath Billavara Annu — 2004-06-30T11:25:08-05:00

Yes SLI has come back and everyone knows what and how good it is. The question now is about NVIDIA trying to catch the king of the hill thing. Everytime nvidia has come up a new card the next rival ati spanks back with its latest card, which is now the current king. What nvidia has come up is this SLI thing, combination of two pci-e cards. Here everybody is wooed by the frames rates it may do by this dual card. My feeling is

1) This does not prove that nvidia has brought up a new powerful card in its pocket
2) What if ATI does the same double pack (This may beat the nivida double pack)
3) This technology is not new, if any chance a guy with 2 previous nvidia cards can achive the same frame as the current single fastest nvidia cards.(theory)
4) This may bring down the GRAPHICS WAR. Any one wants more power just keep on adding another card
say now we have double pack, next triple so on.....want more power just fix another card..just like expanding your RAM modules
5) Now i have a double pack say Ge 5800, next year I wanna more power to play DOOM 5 ;-). How do i upgrade it buy another Ge 5800 , make a triple pack or what. What if a new GE 7000 card has come up I wanna use this. Then i have buy two of them eh?. We keep this aside for a while

Yes for any gaming freak the graphics card is his heart/soul. No war no Pun. This can be looked in a different way also

1) Wanna more fps add a new card, again lot of questions on this
2) price will come down

Sure having said all this, I am really late and i am off to play my latest games