GeForce 6800 Ultra 512 MB...

[Damien_Azreal]

Alienware is selling rigs with PCI express 512MB 6800 Ultras. You can get them with a single card or SLI. Here's a link...

http://alienware.com/intro_pages/6800ultra_512.aspx

Just thought some people would be interested.

[Cerberus_e]

then you can play doom 3 with real ultra quality http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Steve]

Holy shit.

[scorpian007]

Holy shit indeed...

[ZuljinRaynor]

No, you just run it in Ultra and get this mod from d3files. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Jeff]

I'll keep my Radeon X800 Pro. Thank you. Runs fast enough for what I use it for.

[Joonas]

http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/gwsli2.jpg

...

*drool*

[ZuljinRaynor]

jeffbthomson said:
I'll keep my Radeon X800 Pro. Thank you. Runs fast enough for what I use it for.



We're not forcing you to want this SLI. It's just what we want.

[Evil Angel]

ZuljinRaynor said:

jeffbthomson said:
I'll keep my Radeon X800 Pro. Thank you. Runs fast enough for what I use it for.



We're not forcing you to want this SLI. It's just what we want.



When the first UE3 games hit the shelves I think everybody will want.

[Raidomarek]

any reviews yet?

[Damien_Azreal]

jeffbthomson said:
I'll keep my Radeon X800 Pro. Thank you. Runs fast enough for what I use it for.



I'm running a X800 as well... and I think I'm gonna stick with ATI, but I'm waiting for the PCI express 512MB X800's to start shipping. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Cerberus_e]

Evil Angel said:

ZuljinRaynor said:

jeffbthomson said:
I'll keep my Radeon X800 Pro. Thank you. Runs fast enough for what I use it for.



We're not forcing you to want this SLI. It's just what we want.



When the first UE3 games hit the shelves I think everybody will want.



a geforce 6600 is well capable of running that engine.
but then again, Carmack said a geforce 3 would run doom 3 good too http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[ZuljinRaynor]

Cerberus_e said:

Evil Angel said:

ZuljinRaynor said:

jeffbthomson said:
I'll keep my Radeon X800 Pro. Thank you. Runs fast enough for what I use it for.



We're not forcing you to want this SLI. It's just what we want.



When the first UE3 games hit the shelves I think everybody will want.



a geforce 6600 is well capable of running that engine.
but then again, Carmack said a geforce 3 would run doom 3 good too http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif


Originally GeForce 2 (even 1) was supposed to run Doom3.

[Kristian Joensen]

Imagine what graphics will look like when this becomes the minimun standard !

[TerminX]

Damien_Azreal said:

jeffbthomson said:
I'll keep my Radeon X800 Pro. Thank you. Runs fast enough for what I use it for.



I'm running a X800 as well... and I think I'm gonna stick with ATI, but I'm waiting for the PCI express 512MB X800's to start shipping. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif


I love seeing posts where people say they're sticking with ATI -- it means there are more NVIDIA cards for people who actually need decent cards with decent drivers.

[Joonas]

TerminX said:

Damien_Azreal said:

jeffbthomson said:
I'll keep my Radeon X800 Pro. Thank you. Runs fast enough for what I use it for.



I'm running a X800 as well... and I think I'm gonna stick with ATI, but I'm waiting for the PCI express 512MB X800's to start shipping. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif


I love seeing posts where people say they're sticking with ATI -- it means there are more NVIDIA cards for people who actually need decent cards with decent drivers.



http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/thumbsup.gif

[Nessus]

Since a 6800GT will run any game in high quality with AA and AF, why spend all the money for 2 cards at this point?

[TerminX]

Nessus said:
Since a 6800GT will run any game in high quality with AA and AF, why spend all the money for 2 cards at this point?


Simply put: some people shit money. However, I can see SLI being useful in a couple of years when the 6800GT is showing its age -- just pair it with another and bam, instant huge performance boost.

[NutWrench]

How can you run a pair of 6800's in SLI mode if there's only 1 16x PCI-Express slot? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[TerminX]

NutWrench said:
How can you run a pair of 6800's in SLI mode if there's only 1 16x PCI-Express slot? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif


SLI motherboards have 2 16x slots.

[Crispy Critters]

When you bridge the cards, don't the two slots slow to x8?

[DudeMiester]

Yes, unless you have an Nforce 4 Pro with the 2200 HT tunnel, then you have 40 total PCIe lanes, which means 2 16x graphics slots and 8x more channels to divide as you choose.

[Joonas]

Crispy Critters said:
When you bridge the cards, don't the two slots slow to x8?



Not supposed to happen. That's the way PCI works, the bandwidth is shared between all devices, PCIe gives full to all. (Not that you'd notice any difference between 16x and 8x...)

[NutWrench]

I was looking at these benchmarks (http://www.gen-x-pc.com/pcie_VG_Review.htm) and I was surprised how little difference there was in performance between the PCI-Express cards and the AGP cards. There just aren't any cards right now that take advantage of all that extra PCI-Express bandwidth.

Unless someone comes out with a video card with multiple cores, SLI might be the best short term solution to faster framerates.

[groovie]

Crispy Critters said:
When you bridge the cards, don't the two slots slow to x8?



I have an SLI setup on an Asus A8N and Yes it does slow to 8x

[dark_angel]

NutWrench said:
I was looking at these benchmarks (http://www.gen-x-pc.com/pcie_VG_Review.htm) and I was surprised how little difference there was in performance between the PCI-Express cards and the AGP cards. There just aren't any cards right now that take advantage of all that extra PCI-Express bandwidth.

Unless someone comes out with a video card with multiple cores, SLI might be the best short term solution to faster framerates.



I am running a Geforce 6800 GT on a 4xAGP Bus and I got 5441 in 3dmark2005 ( CPU 2.4 B GHZ @ 3.0 GHZ).

[WillisDM]

NutWrench said:
I was looking at these benchmarks (http://www.gen-x-pc.com/pcie_VG_Review.htm) and I was surprised how little difference there was in performance between the PCI-Express cards and the AGP cards. There just aren't any cards right now that take advantage of all that extra PCI-Express bandwidth.

Unless someone comes out with a video card with multiple cores, SLI might be the best short term solution to faster framerates.



8x AGP bandwidth is the equivilant to 4x PCIe.

You are correct in saying there single AGP cards are still comparative to PCIe single cards. However, one of the biggest differences is power, PCIe was designed to power its devices better, a problem AGP has running into a lot (most high end AGP cards require one or two molex connectors with a dedicated +12V line) Which also leads the the ATX 2.0x power revision with move +12V power.

However, there are already multicore vide cards on the market, I believe Gigabyte already has a 6600GT available, and other companies are working on a mutli-core 6800GT/Ultra.

[85pHotpot]

I stick with Nvidia basically due to their commitment to support 3d stereo which apparently was a good move as George Lucas is currently remaking the Star Wars movie 'A New Hope' in 3d stereo for cinemas. The movie will utilise the electronic LCD shutter glasses that 3d gaming currently use.

[DudeMiester]

However, even Nvidia's support is shakey at best.

[WillisDM]

85pHotpot said:
I stick with Nvidia basically due to their commitment to support 3d stereo which apparently was a good move as George Lucas is currently remaking the Star Wars movie 'A New Hope' in 3d stereo for cinemas. The movie will utilise the electronic LCD shutter glasses that 3d gaming currently use.



I stick with nVidia for there superior OpenGL support. OpenGL is a much more stable and broad rendering method which has incredible multi-system ability, whereas DirectX is Windows only which only gets you so far. And nVidia's drivers are also far better with nearly constant beta drivers which almost always perform incredibly.

[elloehpipati]

Great http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif now all i have to do is rob a bank and pray that i dont get caught.

[Gatinater]

Don't need it.

[Drazula]

I've learned my lesson when I bought two Voodoo 2's running in SLI. A few weeks later, the Voodoo 3 came out and blew them away! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tinyted.gif