Quote: Originally Posted by Zaltan Well I sent mine off about 2 weeks ago... As I applied for my course late and direct with the university.

Got mine a couple of weeks ago. Only had £650 left when it came in...damn the computer industry!

Oh no... I just read that RV670 (HD2950's) cards are going to be single slot cards. This is very tempting to me, but also very annoying as I don't know if I should wait for a HD2950PRO or not now.
ATI RV670 Promo Doc Leaked - XtremeSystems Forums

hrmmm.....

Phenom, Plus those 2900's....hmmmmm

think i am going to cry...

Scan have them instock now... £164.49 which is a tenner cheaper than OCUK.
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Think I'll just wait until the end of the year and get a GeForce 9800. Better to get new technology really.

Quote: Originally Posted by reflux Think I'll just wait until the end of the year and get a GeForce 9800. Better to get new technology really.

Are you sure there'll be releasing a new line by the end of the year? Their meant to be doing a 8900 series. I'm thinking of getting a 2950PRO because there meant to be single slot cards, which I like.

Quote: Originally Posted by Zaltan Are you sure there'll be releasing a new line by the end of the year? Their meant to be doing a 8900 series. I'm thinking of getting a 2950PRO because there meant to be single slot cards, which I like.

I've heard nothing about an 8900-series lately...I presumed Nvidia had canned it because ATi were so slow bringing a DX10 GPU to market. 9800 is slated for november:

Rumour control: Nvidia G92 to launch in November | News | Custom PC

Also, an interesting article on the 2950:

Rumour control: New Radeon as fast as 2900XT, but half the price | News | Custom PC

Looks like it might be make or break for ATi

G92 is 8800GT not a new high end part... and thats due on the 12 November.
VR-Zone : Technology Beats - Nvidia G92 is GeForce 8800 GT
Also RV670 is just a die shrink of R600... Theres nothing else different. Which is also due mid November.
ATI RV670 Promo Doc Leaked - XtremeSystems Forums

Quote: Originally Posted by Zaltan G92 is 8800GT not a new high end part... and thats due on the 12 November. VR-Zone : Technology Beats - Nvidia G92 is GeForce 8800 GT Also RV670 is just a die shrink of R600... Theres nothing else different. Which is also due mid November. ATI RV670 Promo Doc Leaked - XtremeSystems Forums

Hmmm...didn't realise that, thanks for the heads-up. The lack of a new line from nvidia is disappointing, but at least it means they're giving ATi a chance. I might go for two 2900s then, but I worry about the performance limitation of my second PCI-E slot - it's only 4x. Custom PC did a test with the Asus Blitz and found out that adding an extra four lanes (giving 8 total) gives around 13% better performance, so imagine what 16 full lanes would do.

At the end of the day, it's probably down to Crysis, presuming it's a decent game. If I can't run it at high settings with a little AA and AF @ 1680x1050, I'm getting new graphics card(s).

I'm getting a G0-Q6600 tomorrow, I want 3.6ghz everyday stable! Crysis needs as many frames as possible, it is not being CPU-limited. Now I need to find someone to sell my pristine B3 to.

Quote: Originally Posted by reflux At the end of the day, it's probably down to Crysis, presuming it's a decent game.

Thats my main thing that I'm waiting for. I want max performance from it, on my 1440x900 monitor. I don't think you need to worry about it being good though.

My card arrived today: Tasty!

Waiting for this Jericho Demo to finish to give it a go

Well im pleased to report that Crysis (the third Beta anyway...) runs fine on an 8800GTS 320Mb at 1680x1050.

Was playing happily at between 25-35 fps yesterday, with all settings on high (no AA though).

Hopefully they're working on lots of optimisations and nVidia are hopefully at work tweaking their drivers.

Quote: Originally Posted by Dex Well im pleased to report that Crysis (the third Beta anyway...) runs fine on an 8800GTS 320Mb at 1680x1050. Was playing happily at between 25-35 fps yesterday, with all settings on high (no AA though). Hopefully they're working on lots of optimisations and nVidia are hopefully at work tweaking their drivers.

They better do; everytime I play it it's fine for about five minutes and then if I go into certain areas I get about one frame a second, and I have to give up. Crashed my entire PC last night, had reboot. Graphics are nice though, but I want to see destructable trees!