September 29, 200619 yr Hi Guys, Pictures of the new GF8800 series cards. Is this DX10? Go here:http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MjE1...CxobmV3cywsLDE=It's monsterous! Water cooling! May not fit all cases! May indeed draw 300W! I'm glad I have not upgraded yet! Cheers,Noel. 11th Gen i9-11900K @ 3.5GHz | nVidia GeForce RTX 3080 | Corsair 64 GB RAM | Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB | Asus 27" RoG G-Sync Track IR5 | Thrustmaster Warthog | CH Products Pedals
September 29, 200619 yr Oh Schweet!!! Thanks!!Man that sucker is Long!! I think I can Make Room!! he heAhhhh...Soo That's Why PC Power&Cooling's new 1kw powersupply has 4 PCIex power cabels...Nowww I see...I was thinkin'..What the Heck??
September 29, 200619 yr I am not sure, but I think I read that the 8800 series cards are still DX9, and will be the last DX9 cards for nvidia. Many people questioned the need for nVidia to put out one more DX9 card. I'm sure it will be a screamer though.That card looks like a Trident 16kb video card from 1990. BIG and LONG. That's why they had the plastic helper risers for long cards back then. In the era of ever-shrinking-size flash drives and hard drives, we have ever-growing-size gfx cards.RhettAMD 3700+, eVGA 7800GT 256, ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, etc. etc. Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
September 29, 200619 yr I thought the G80 core was gonna be the DX-10 card's?? Maybe that's changed?? Oh well...I'll put my cutting tools down now... :-bang
September 30, 200619 yr Well, at least people can't say they weren't warned. I keep seeing all these posts about new computers with 500W PSU's and just shake my head. I'm surprised they have it down to "only" 300W. I can only say again, it can be a really expensive mistake to base an upgrade now on assumptions about DX10 card requirements. Doug Intel 10700K @ 5.1Ghz, Asus Hero Maximus motherboard, Noctua NH-U12A cooler, Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 3200 MHz RAM, RTX 2060 Super GPU, Cooler Master HAF 932 Tower, Thermaltake 1000W Toughpower PSU, Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit, 100TB of disk storage. Klaatu barada nickto.
September 30, 200619 yr I can only say again, it can be a really expensive mistake to base an upgrade now on assumptions about DX10 card requirements.QFTGreg
September 30, 200619 yr From what I've read the G80 series are the swansong DX9 product but have a nod in the direction of DX10 - they will support universal shaders, making them DX10 COMPATIBLE, but not quite DX10 COMPLIANT. But information on that is scarce, so I may be wrong.The advantage for us mere mortals is that the scramble to upgrade to these cards may release some very nice used top end 7950 cards into the market at reasonable money for an interim FSX upgrade. But I certainly wouldn't invest in these cards for FSX without knowing for sure they will handle the DX10 upgrade perfectly.Could be good!Allcott
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