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06-26-2008, 07:19 PM
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Lord Techie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 6,354
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Thanks Ste...
and Wildside, tbh I don't see newer drivers making a massive difference to performance. But we can hope  free performance increases are always nice
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06-26-2008, 07:52 PM
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Wizard Techie Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Somewhere inbetween FL and NY Posts: 3,025
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Originally Posted by Wildside  hold up Drizzt5, u have to remember, there isnt any decent drivers yet for the 4850 n 4870, so they can do a lot better with better drivers, these benchmarks we see are early ones. | Ya, and since im comparing the 4850 and 4870 in crossfire, newer drivers may make the performance jump. But this isn't one of those Nvidia vs ATI comparisons. This is a comparison of 2 ATI cards in crossfire. Any performance increase for one, should be expected for the other. So I still think 2x 4850's is gigantic bang/buck compared to 2x 4870's.
Which isn't bad either .
Oh, and I'm sick of the 'BUT WAIT FOR THE DRIVERS!" screams from everyone after products are released to the public. Companies should start making a practice of releasing products with good drivers so we don't have to speculate on how they will perform later.
It seems like I usually hear this about ATI products, but lately I've been hearing it about the gtx280.
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06-26-2008, 07:56 PM
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Not Worth The Explanation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Mount Prospect, IL Posts: 8,878
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Drizzt5: Drivers can always always always be improved, no matter how much work goes into them before release..
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06-26-2008, 09:34 PM
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Master Techie Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: NB, Canada Posts: 2,174
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Aye. when I had my 8800 it was still getting performance boosts from every new driver set that came out, and the card was released years ago. I'm not talking leaps and bounds with each update or nothin, but boosts for newer games and such that come out.
Though it would be nice if they just performed at 130% right off the line >.>
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06-26-2008, 09:52 PM
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Hard Gay Nahalem! Fooo! Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Bellflower, CA Posts: 10,114
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hey remember when ati's drivers made my hd2900 loads better!!! man was i ever happy i waited for those drivers...
oh wait... that didnt happen... 2900 still blows...
lol.. lets hope history doesnt repeat itself
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06-27-2008, 12:42 AM
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Wizard Techie Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Somewhere inbetween FL and NY Posts: 3,025
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The thing is these cards are already beast, so I wouldn't have a problem with drivers not making the card loads better.
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06-27-2008, 12:53 AM
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Not Worth The Explanation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Mount Prospect, IL Posts: 8,878
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Added a 4870 review from Overclockersclub
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06-27-2008, 01:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Drizzt5 The thing is these cards are already beast, so I wouldn't have a problem with drivers not making the card loads better. | I think ATi and nVidia just released something like yesterday (like a bunch of hours ago [its 1 here])
So maybe the performance jump is already happening?! Quote:
Originally Posted by NosBoost300 hey remember when ati's drivers made my hd2900 loads better!!! man was i ever happy i waited for those drivers...
oh wait... that didnt happen... 2900 still blows...
lol.. lets hope history doesnt repeat itself | lol dude
but I liked the fact that they released cut downed HD 2900XT's (aka the Pro) which was kind of nice to soft-mod
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06-27-2008, 02:29 PM
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Not Worth The Explanation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Mount Prospect, IL Posts: 8,878
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Who else is going more insane while waiting for the X2's??
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06-27-2008, 04:12 PM
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a clean slate Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Embrun ontario canada. Posts: 5,753
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im maxishines reveiw of the gtx280 vs the 9800gx2 the gtx280 has nearly double teh performence of the 9800gx2 in ut3 cod4 and crysis. i trust him mroe over then others as he heavily over clocks his cpu liek the most of us, and he is an end user. looks liek the gtx280 hasnt been given enough credit. YouTube - Single GTX 280 vs 9800GX2 Maxishine Review
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