The Next-Gen Review Thread!

[veedubfreak]

SLI is absolute crap. I really wish all these places would factor in the headaches and trash that come from using SLI and nvidia chipsets along with the game having to support it. Playing AoC i actually have my SLI disabled now because i keep getting lockups. The 280 has roughly the same performance as SLI 9800GTX in age of conan but it wont have the constant freezing i get with it. Most likely at this point i'm going to just get a single gtx280 and probably an x38 board and toss SLI to the curb like the dirty wench it is. After the 4870 reviews that is.

 

[Poizen22]

im really liking my 750i ftw veedub thanks for recomending it, i have yet to oc on it but, this north bridge is way cooler then my old x38 at 52c idle while this one is at 24c idle.theres also the conundroum of me having duel monitors i forgot about that one... the problem is that the gtx280 is so expensive when sli 8800gts will only cost me another 250$. is it really all that many head aches veed?

 

[veedubfreak]

All depends on what game you are playing. I have had AoC locking up on me repeatedly and i couldnt figure out what was causing it. So upon the suggestion of a guildie that i disable SLI because AoC "doesnt support it" i tried it just for the heck of it, and the lockups went away. Now i barely have 25-30fps but at least i dont have to worry about the game freezing in the middle of a fight.

 

[dhgunit]

Gtx 260 ftw

 

[veedubfreak]

I'm leaning towards x38 and crossfire at this point.

 

[Poizen22]

none of these reviews had a descnet cpu over clock at all, im vey very dissapointed, and now curious of what the gtx280 is capable of.

 

[Wildside]

found a quick video of the GTX 280 being taken apart n compared to the HD 3870 x2 n 9800 GX2:

VIDEO: Taking apart the GeForce GTX 280 | Features | Custom PC

one big *** GPU!

 

[Shumway]

Price isn't looking too hot for the GTX 280's $650 usd

Newegg.com - Computer Parts, PC Components, Laptop Computers, Digital Cameras and more!

 

[Poizen22]

its sad to say we wont really know how fast they truely are until one of us gets our hands on one, and over clocks our cpu's close to 4.0 so looks like either I, Veed, noss, or hhammen need to pick one up. allthought im preaty sure hhammen will be buying 3 for tri sli, should be considerably faster then sli 9800gx2.

 

[sinci]

GTX 280
MaximumPC - Hands-On with Nvidia's new GeForce GTX 280!


ATI 4850
Tom's Hardware, accidental early release on Amazon