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Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter
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Originally Posted by HunterICX
Yep,
not impressed by these cards,
They need to think how to save power for more perfomance instead of making it just bigger and suck more power.
HunterICX
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Well that's ideal, but not reality lately. What you are witnessing is only marginal GPU improvements over the last couple generations, and the way they are getting an increased FPS over the earlier generations is basically overclocking the board. This results in a much more power hungry product, adn stuff you could do as a consumer yourself if they weren't forcing an overclocked product down your throat.
I should point out however that the way things have been going lately will not be the way it is in the new future.
Now my
'shocking' prediction is about to be said:
I hereby say, that soon, very soon, either ATI or NVidia will not exist in its present form. The winds of change are in the air, and I can't tell which one is going down. If this were a chess board, it is NVidia's move and this move will determine the fate of one of these said companies. If NVidia makes the wrong move, it will cease to exist in its present form. If it makes the right move, ATI and even AMD will cease to exist in its present form.
The chips are on the table and I am a bit worried. No matter how this plays out, the days of ATI vs. NVidia are at a close. Also, no matter how this plays out, we the consumers seek to lose from either proposition. Gone are the days of the $200 super GPU boards like we've seen of late between the 3800 and the 8800 series.
What is about to happen in the next year or two boads bad for all of us in the computer market. Maybe SHV we will be playing on a console.
-S