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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
4.5 stars
"What Vista?"
Pros: Fast, available now.
Cons: $600 price is high but competitive with SLI set ups
Summary: It seems like the only bad thing CNet has to say against the card is that it does not support DX10 and Vista. But there are currently no cards on the market that support DX10. The card outperforms or equals SLI/Crossfire set ups that cost much more and it uses less juice to do so. Less money, more performance, lower power consumption and the possibility of quad SLI in the future. Yes the GX2 is not perfect but it is pretty damn good. Unless CNet is really recommending to buy nothing and wait, I think Nvidia did a good job on this one.
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I'm building a computer and was about to purchase this card before I read this review. Are they saying I'm better off getting a crummy card and waiting for a DirectX 10 card? Will the first DirectX 10 cards really be better than this card???
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$600-$700 is not expensive for a video card...
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it has 1GB of mem. thats equal to 2 of the best cards previously released by nvidia and ATI. put 2 of them and u get 2 gigs.
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Actually, CNET is saying that its not worth it to buy a 600 card when could buy a cheap card now, and wait a few months and then buy a 600 card that will support direct x 10. That way, your net cost is somewhere below 1000, whereas if you buy the 600 card now, and then want to have one that supports direct x 10, you will be plunking down another 600+.
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Granted, six months of top-end use before becoming outdated actually isn't bad for a vid board, but $600+ is still a big chunk of change to swallow. I would think that if a person's a serious hardcore gamer but who's one that's can't upgrade with every new product, they'd go ahead and wait for DirectX 10-compatible cards, rather than knowingly spend six bills now knowing that they'll have to spend another huge roll in a few months time to get the most out of the DirectX 10 games that roll out with Vista.
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There is Direct X ten built into only one card available so far. But it is not for PCs. Confused, it's the Xbox 360's GPU that had Direct X 10 built in. Not only that but it has Unified Shader Architecture which is ahead of its time and 10 mb of EDRAM. But obviously it isn't available for PCs. Yet....
