NVIDIA GF106 GPU Fermi Architecture - NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 GF106 Video Card

Benchmark Reviews: ^ | Sunday, 12 September 2010 | Olin Coles

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 GF106 Video Card

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fyi

[Paladin2]

But will it vastly improve F@H daily scores?

[utherdoul]

wouldn’t you know it I just ordered a gtx 470 off of newegg.

[ConservativeMind]

Since “Bumpgate”, I have instructed, and assured, that no one I know buys Nvidia again.

Even their current crop of chips is grossly overrated and requires extraordinary amounts of power.

I had one of the bad chips. It almost wasn’t covered under warranty.

[darkwing104]

Will it work with Windows?

[smokingfrog]

Just what I need for playing Solitaire.

[Eldon Tyrell]

Nice card for $130

I hope NewEgg is giving you a kickback - I’m salivating.

[RandallFlagg]

Soooo, if I got 2-3 of these suckers, I wouldn’t have to shell out the $600 for the 5970 to play Crysis at max settings?

[RandallFlagg]

Sorry. I meant the 5870 card.

[mowowie]

I’ve had a GTX 260 for a long time now and the thing still does it’s job quite well.

Besides, there really isn’t a PC game market anymore that needs these crazy 500+ dollar cards......Which kinda pisses me of royally!

[GraceG]

I like AMD better....

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P*** at who...the gamemakers?

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My local Fry’s has them I believe.

[battousai]

Since “Bumpgate”, I have instructed, and assured, that no one I know buys Nvidia again.

Even their current crop of chips is grossly overrated and requires extraordinary amounts of power.

Yup I have gone back to an ATI for my newest card, a Radeon HD 5850, after many generations of Nvidia. However I have never been a fanboy for either brand so more power to competition and I look forward to better cards to come whoever may build them.

[battousai]

Besides, there really isn’t a PC game market anymore that needs these crazy 500+ dollar cards......Which kinda pisses me of royally!

Yup us PC gamers have become the red headed step children of the industry, we are not worthy of even receiving the collectors editions of many titles, they only release those for the consoles.

But there are some games that they just cannot get off the PC, like starcraft for examples so that's all I care about ;)

Shame really because graphics on a good PC are still better than a console, and I'll take a keyboard and mouse over the controller any day. So where there is a choice I always get the PC version, failing which the PS3 version being next best and then the 360, of course it can't be helped for their proprietary titles like Halo :(

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Well.... see this review from HardOCP...they like the ATI's and Cross Fire :

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 SLI Video Card Review

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My interest is the Architecture...:

Each Fermi CUDA processor core has a fully pipelined integer arithmetic logic unit (ALU) and floating point unit (FPU).
And there is PHYSX.

[mowowie]

Yea the game makers.

I was planning on picking up Madden 2011 and NHL 2011 but it turns out they are no longer made for the PC anymore along with most new MS Xbox games that could easily be ported to the PC.
All i can say is the upcoming Battlefield 3 game better be on the PC and NOT be a crappy console port like BF: Bad Company 2 was!

I imagine it’s piracy that destroyed the PC game market.

I just wish they would come out with a new Wing Commander game! :)

[mowowie]

I have a PS3.
Awesome machine but i just cannot get used to the controlers while plaing FPS games.
Which is like 80% of the games.
I need a mouse and keyboard like the way they were meant to be played.

PS3 driving and sports games on the other hand are great.
I love Motor Storm, etc.