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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Bobulator VII Reply #30 - Dec 26^th, 2007 at 12:43pm Quote: EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 512MB Video Card (the new one!) You bastard. GOGO 90-day step-up program.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Bobulator VII Reply #31 - Dec 26^th, 2007 at 1:06pm Yeah, but do you want to have a system without a video card for two weeks? If I had a spare PCIe card, I'd consider "stepping up" to a 9800 when they're finally released. I can't wait to see DX10 performance with one of those bad boys... -b0b (...9800Ultra, FTW!)
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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Bobulator VII Reply #32 - Dec 26^th, 2007 at 2:03pm Quote: Yeah, but do you want to have a system without a video card for two weeks? hmm, ok I have an idea. You buy two of them, give me one, then I use the step up on mine, and when I get my other one back I run SLI. Everyone wins.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Bobulator VII Reply #33 - Dec 26^th, 2007 at 3:09pm Something sounds a little fishy about that plan, but I can't quite place it... -b0b (...hmm.)
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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Bobulator VII Reply #34 - Dec 26^th, 2007 at 4:19pm Come on bob, this plan seems legit. Don't be a pussy!
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Bobulator VII Reply #35 - Dec 27^th, 2007 at 5:47pm Last post from the Bobulator VI! -b0b (...faints.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Bobulator VII Reply #36 - Dec 28^th, 2007 at 6:55pm First post from the Bobulator VII! Video at 11! -b0b (...well, maybe not!)
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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Bobulator VII Reply #37 - Dec 28^th, 2007 at 7:16pm 4 hours...and counting eeeeee X
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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Bobulator VII Reply #38 - Jan 4^th, 2008 at 12:43pm And bob...doesn't deliver. Surprised? This does though! What's that? 1GB VRAM, 256 stream procs, dual GPUs, and I'm spent.
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Reply #39 - Jan 4^th, 2008 at 3:49pm

Wow, that's... uh... mildly disappointing. They just took an 8000 series GPU, beefed it up a bit, and threw two of them on a PCB.

Unless the 9800 GTX/Ultra line is a significant improvement (which I highly doubt), I'm guessing the 9800 series will be much like the FX/5000 series - a dismal failure. Like that series, I'll probably skip over the 9800's and wait for the 10800 (or whatever they call it) to hit the market in a couple years.

We can probably thank AMD/ATI for this. This is the result of Nvidia not having any competition. They're holding their best stuff in reserve and relying on a two-year old design to carry them through the next generation.

-b0b
(...grumblecakes.)

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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Bobulator VII Reply #40 - Jan 4^th, 2008 at 7:40pm Yeah I pulled a bob and only read the highlights. But the 65nm GPUs have only been around (well able to buy) since mid december. It isn't that old of technology.
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Reply #41 - Jan 4^th, 2008 at 11:13pm

I've got a 65nm GPU sitting in my case right now. I just think it's misleading to slap together two 8800 series GPU's on two different PCB's, glue it all together on a single megaboard, and call it a 9800 series. The real 9800's won't be available until this summer or early fall, so why confuse consumers by marketing this crap as a 9800?

If the earlier GX2's are any indication, nVidia will never release a stable driver for this thing and will drop support for it in three or four months. Read up on the 7800GX2 debacle to see what I'm talking about.

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Re: Bobulator VII
Reply #42 - Jan 11^th, 2008 at 4:28pm

I just bought the collector's edition of World in Conflict today. I can't wait to try it out.

I normally don't buy "collector's editions" of anything unless the additional content is really worthwhile. When it comes to World in Conflict, I think the extra $10.00 was really well spent because it comes with this...

In case you can't tell, it's a fragment of this...

Is it just me, or is that the coolest collector's edition add-in ever?

-b0b
(...will take pictures once he gets home.)

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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Bobulator VII Reply #43 - Jan 11^th, 2008 at 4:56pm Look at the size of that crack rock!
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Bobulator VII Reply #44 - Jan 11^th, 2008 at 5:03pm Here's some screenshots I stole from the Interweb... This game is just dying for some LANnage! -b0b (...drools.)
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