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Nvidia's New Line of Video Cards (7800 GTX)
June 22nd, 2005

Posted on 06/22/2005 4:45:04 PM PDT by Sofa King

Nvidia's latest line of graphics cards are out.

Some links:
anandtech
Tom's Hardware Guide
Product Page


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: videocard; videogames
Looks nice, but expensive.
1 posted on 06/22/2005 4:45:04 PM PDT by Sofa King
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To: Quick1; indcons; somniferum

Video game ping (just started)!

If you want on or off this list, Freepmail me


2 posted on 06/22/2005 4:45:46 PM PDT by Sofa King (MY rights are not subject to YOUR approval.)
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To: Sofa King

I wonder if there's such a thing, as an external graphics card? My laptop could use the upgrade. Sand might be a problem for me - then, it's a problem for everybody...


3 posted on 06/22/2005 4:47:10 PM PDT by Old Sarge (In for a penny, in for a pound, saddlin' up and Baghdad-bound!)
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To: Old Sarge

A friend was telling me about some of the laptops used in Iraq, said one was blown out of a hummer by a IED.
It still worked, hard case, tough, shockproof, waterproof.
That's what I want.


4 posted on 06/22/2005 4:50:11 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Old Sarge
I've never hard of anything like that, although they do make cards for laptops.
5 posted on 06/22/2005 4:50:22 PM PDT by Sofa King (MY rights are not subject to YOUR approval.)
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To: tet68

My younger bro, a FReeper as well, built me a custom laptop - used a Dell Inspiron as the base, and upgraded the bejeezus out of it. It stood up to temps in the Mojave, last month.

The apps we use, though, are graphic heavy, and 64MB of video memory is the problem - I'm asking the CPU to drink from a firehose.


6 posted on 06/22/2005 4:52:39 PM PDT by Old Sarge (In for a penny, in for a pound, saddlin' up and Baghdad-bound!)
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To: Sofa King

Put me on that list. I love gaming.


7 posted on 06/22/2005 4:53:37 PM PDT by KoRn
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To: Sofa King

Hmm. Clicked on the link, good stuff. I have an NVidia at the house, but the laptop coming with me has an Intel driver.

I just wonder if it could be connected via a USB port, or something...


8 posted on 06/22/2005 4:55:16 PM PDT by Old Sarge (In for a penny, in for a pound, saddlin' up and Baghdad-bound!)
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To: Old Sarge

Yow! 64megs! Must be awesome.


9 posted on 06/22/2005 4:56:11 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Old Sarge

Well, I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think that there's anything other than directly plugging the card into your montherboard that would work very well. One of the constant bottlenecks in modern computing is memmory. The video card needs to get data from the computer as quickly as possible, and USB would probably be WAY too slow. The only ways of hooking the card into your computer I know about are AGP and PCI express.


10 posted on 06/22/2005 4:59:05 PM PDT by Sofa King (MY rights are not subject to YOUR approval.)
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To: tet68
Here you go.
11 posted on 06/22/2005 5:02:32 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: tet68

It is... and it's not enough...

Some graphics apps use the hardware, instead of a RAM chache, and if the app doesn't see enough hard memory, it chokes up.


12 posted on 06/22/2005 5:03:28 PM PDT by Old Sarge (In for a penny, in for a pound, saddlin' up and Baghdad-bound!)
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To: Sofa King

Hmmm... and part of that NVidia link mentions PCI express.

Hmmm...


13 posted on 06/22/2005 5:04:12 PM PDT by Old Sarge (In for a penny, in for a pound, saddlin' up and Baghdad-bound!)
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To: Sofa King

14 posted on 06/22/2005 5:10:59 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Sofa King

Please add me to your ping list.

Thanks.


15 posted on 06/22/2005 5:11:41 PM PDT by Duke Nukum (They will be as lost as Carthage, Scoured by the Romans with fire and salt.)
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To: All; Safrguns

For anyone interested in actually gaming online with other freepers, there is a growing pinglist over here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1425821/posts
Hopefully we can get some freepers paired up and fragging each other.


16 posted on 06/22/2005 7:11:15 PM PDT by cabojoe
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I used to use ATI until a friend (who I swear has fibre wired from his brain to his home broadband -- Thanks R.G.) turned me onto Nvidia. My X has never run better..
17 posted on 06/22/2005 7:48:55 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: Michael Barnes

My first computer had an ATI card which had the most wonderfull habit of crashing every 5-20 minutes, no matter what I was playing. I swear, I haven't had as many crashes in the three years since I switched to Nvidia as I used to have in one day with that card.


18 posted on 06/22/2005 7:51:55 PM PDT by Sofa King (MY rights are not subject to YOUR approval.)
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To: Sofa King

haha..I don't doubt it..I purchased one of those ATI video capture card's (el cheapo), man that thing could crash ANY OS!


19 posted on 06/22/2005 7:58:32 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: Brett66

Do you hear that sound? It's the sound of nVidia eating ATI's lunch.


20 posted on 06/22/2005 10:50:48 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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