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Daily Tech has the scoop of two new NVIDIA parts, the

7600GT and

7900GT. Both cards target very different segments of the market and should be worthy successors to cards like the 6600GT and 7800GT respectively. NVIDIA's newest GPU, dubbed G71, will debut at CeBit 2006 in Hannover in a few weeks.

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lmer · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject:

5900XT, 4200 and GF3Ti200. Those were good examples of powerfull cards for the mainstream. Those kind of models are missing now. Something with 12 pixel pipelines and a 256-bit memory bus would be nice in the 7xxx series. I'd buy one of those straight away. Period.

I can't run PS intensive games on my 5900XT anymore on full detail, but with 256bit memory bus i have on it i can still crank up the antialiasing and anisotropic filtering all the way up in a geometry filled scene and have the performance close to all turned off. IMHO, the scene looks better with nice properly filtered high-res textures and no jaggies than a shader full scene, all jagged up, and visible artifacts on textures cause of the fact that antialiasing and texture filtering is turned off because the card lacks the potency to process basic things such as texturing.

12 pixel pipelines is just enough to run any new PS based game on max details and have a playable frame rate, but if the scene is (over)loaded with geometry, like in Far Cry, you'll think your card can't run shaders while in fact your card will be choking on geometry, especially if you additionaly turned on antialiasing and anisotropic.

7900/7800 to expensive, 7600 to weak for the money! (i'd presume)

I'm in no hurry. Next please.

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Sabot · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject:

xxxx, this is what i have http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143037 BFG 7800GT 256mb $309 It blows every game i have out the water with AA & AF on and 1600x1200 res. We're talking FEAR,X-3,Sant Andreas, Rome:Total war.

For the price it's superb! and a card that will take you into future games with SM3.0

You could also get the incredible XFX GeForce 7800GT at $295 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150108

these will blow away 2 6800GT SLI

lmer · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject:

@Bill: Actually i'm comparing it to the 7600. Just saying that a two generations old GFX card can perform better than some of the new ones in certain cases.

@Stumpus: yes it's tempting Smile

. But i'm still satisfied with the performace of my overvolted Gainward. 6xxx should go down in prices now. Dunno, will see.

devilhood · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:16 pm Post subject: