Video card recommendation

"zeffa" <> wrote in message
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> --- !!! 2 things iv'e learned ---
>
> #1 never by an NVIDIA VIDEO CARD UNLESS IT is made by the
> " EVGA " NIVIDA company .
>
> # 2 it is not always required but it doesn't hurt if you buy a video
> card that is the same brand as the chip set in your north
> bridge of your motherboard .

Erm why to both?? I've used every video card manufacturer and they all do
the job, I've had cards fail through review testing and I can tell you EVGA
don't fair that well although they are do make nice high end cards, now if
you want a recommendation for vid cards then you can't go far wrong by
choosing a Leadtek or a Gainward card, both are very reliable and OC very
well.
And running a vid card the same as your chipset makes no difference at all.
--
VRG Scotty

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If you have the money, I would suggest forgetting about SLI'ing cards and get
the nVidia Tesla C870. It's a 128-core GPGPU (general purpose graphics
processing unit) with 1.5GB of VRAM. If you have even more money, I'd suggest
moving up the line to either the D870 w/ 256cores/3GB VRAM or the best of the
best, the S870 at 512 cores/6GB VRAM.

But why would you need such an extremely powerful card?
I thought that 8800 with 1GB VRam would be more than enough even for all the
modern games.

"G.Freeman" wrote:

> If you have the money, I would suggest forgetting about SLI'ing cards and get
> the nVidia Tesla C870. It's a 128-core GPGPU (general purpose graphics
> processing unit) with 1.5GB of VRAM. If you have even more money, I'd suggest
> moving up the line to either the D870 w/ 256cores/3GB VRAM or the best of the
> best, the S870 at 512 cores/6GB VRAM.

"vistauser" <> wrote in message
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> But why would you need such an extremely powerful card?
> I thought that 8800 with 1GB VRam would be more than enough even for all
> the
> modern games.
>
> "G.Freeman" wrote:
>
>> If you have the money, I would suggest forgetting about SLI'ing cards and
>> get
>> the nVidia Tesla C870. It's a 128-core GPGPU (general purpose graphics
>> processing unit) with 1.5GB of VRAM. If you have even more money, I'd
>> suggest
>> moving up the line to either the D870 w/ 256cores/3GB VRAM or the best of
>> the
>> best, the S870 at 512 cores/6GB VRAM.

You don't, Gordon was just saying, if money is no object, these cards will
amaze you. Keep in mind you'll want a high end 30" LCD that supports those
high end 2560x1980 resolutions (may have those numbers wrong), not to
mention a computer with a couple quad core Phenoms in there.

8800's with 1gig? I assume you mean 2, 8800GTXs. There are reasons why a
"Tesla" single card would be phenominally faster than 2 seperate cards.
While in theory, 2 cheaper cards sounds like you're doubling your video
speed, you really aren't, there's a bunch of stuff I don't even know about,
but basically it's like running 2 Hard Drives in RAID-0 configuration, you
don't really get double the speed. It's close, but not quite.

SLI seems like a major scam (IMO), unless you're getting your cards for
free, why bother?

Dude. I've seen a computer with one of those tesla cards, and it's so
freaking fast! I so wish I had one of them. Also, another side of the tesla
series is that they're essentially a supercomputer cramped into a
card/tower/blades. with a C environment, it's like having a BlueGene inside
your very own computer.

"Andy [YaYa]" wrote:

> "vistauser" <> wrote in message
> news:58314CA7-47B7-48C4-8EB6-...
> > But why would you need such an extremely powerful card?
> > I thought that 8800 with 1GB VRam would be more than enough even for all
> > the
> > modern games.
> >
> > "G.Freeman" wrote:
> >
> >> If you have the money, I would suggest forgetting about SLI'ing cards and
> >> get
> >> the nVidia Tesla C870. It's a 128-core GPGPU (general purpose graphics
> >> processing unit) with 1.5GB of VRAM. If you have even more money, I'd
> >> suggest
> >> moving up the line to either the D870 w/ 256cores/3GB VRAM or the best of
> >> the
> >> best, the S870 at 512 cores/6GB VRAM.
>
> You don't, Gordon was just saying, if money is no object, these cards will
> amaze you. Keep in mind you'll want a high end 30" LCD that supports those
> high end 2560x1980 resolutions (may have those numbers wrong), not to
> mention a computer with a couple quad core Phenoms in there.
>
> 8800's with 1gig? I assume you mean 2, 8800GTXs. There are reasons why a
> "Tesla" single card would be phenominally faster than 2 seperate cards.
> While in theory, 2 cheaper cards sounds like you're doubling your video
> speed, you really aren't, there's a bunch of stuff I don't even know about,
> but basically it's like running 2 Hard Drives in RAID-0 configuration, you
> don't really get double the speed. It's close, but not quite.
>
> SLI seems like a major scam (IMO), unless you're getting your cards for
> free, why bother?
>

There is a 8800 with a gig of VRAM

"Andy [YaYa]" wrote:

> "vistauser" <> wrote in message
> news:58314CA7-47B7-48C4-8EB6-...
> > But why would you need such an extremely powerful card?
> > I thought that 8800 with 1GB VRam would be more than enough even for all
> > the
> > modern games.
> >
> > "G.Freeman" wrote:
> >
> >> If you have the money, I would suggest forgetting about SLI'ing cards and
> >> get
> >> the nVidia Tesla C870. It's a 128-core GPGPU (general purpose graphics
> >> processing unit) with 1.5GB of VRAM. If you have even more money, I'd
> >> suggest
> >> moving up the line to either the D870 w/ 256cores/3GB VRAM or the best of
> >> the
> >> best, the S870 at 512 cores/6GB VRAM.
>
> You don't, Gordon was just saying, if money is no object, these cards will
> amaze you. Keep in mind you'll want a high end 30" LCD that supports those
> high end 2560x1980 resolutions (may have those numbers wrong), not to
> mention a computer with a couple quad core Phenoms in there.
>
> 8800's with 1gig? I assume you mean 2, 8800GTXs. There are reasons why a
> "Tesla" single card would be phenominally faster than 2 seperate cards.
> While in theory, 2 cheaper cards sounds like you're doubling your video
> speed, you really aren't, there's a bunch of stuff I don't even know about,
> but basically it's like running 2 Hard Drives in RAID-0 configuration, you
> don't really get double the speed. It's close, but not quite.
>
> SLI seems like a major scam (IMO), unless you're getting your cards for
> free, why bother?
>

He's right. Getting two cards do NOT double your speed. Even nVidia only
claims a 80% increase in performance, not 100%.

"Andy [YaYa]" wrote:

> "vistauser" <> wrote in message
> news:58314CA7-47B7-48C4-8EB6-...
> > But why would you need such an extremely powerful card?
> > I thought that 8800 with 1GB VRam would be more than enough even for all
> > the
> > modern games.
> >
> > "G.Freeman" wrote:
> >
> >> If you have the money, I would suggest forgetting about SLI'ing cards and
> >> get
> >> the nVidia Tesla C870. It's a 128-core GPGPU (general purpose graphics
> >> processing unit) with 1.5GB of VRAM. If you have even more money, I'd
> >> suggest
> >> moving up the line to either the D870 w/ 256cores/3GB VRAM or the best of
> >> the
> >> best, the S870 at 512 cores/6GB VRAM.
>
> You don't, Gordon was just saying, if money is no object, these cards will
> amaze you. Keep in mind you'll want a high end 30" LCD that supports those
> high end 2560x1980 resolutions (may have those numbers wrong), not to
> mention a computer with a couple quad core Phenoms in there.
>
> 8800's with 1gig? I assume you mean 2, 8800GTXs. There are reasons why a
> "Tesla" single card would be phenominally faster than 2 seperate cards.
> While in theory, 2 cheaper cards sounds like you're doubling your video
> speed, you really aren't, there's a bunch of stuff I don't even know about,
> but basically it's like running 2 Hard Drives in RAID-0 configuration, you
> don't really get double the speed. It's close, but not quite.
>
> SLI seems like a major scam (IMO), unless you're getting your cards for
> free, why bother?
>