Nvidia has announced this weekend the availability of the world's fastest consumer graphics card, the Geforce GTX 690.
The card is powered by dual Kepler architecture-based GeForce GPUs and has a new "industrial design."
CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang made the announcement at the NVIDIA Game Festival in Shanghai, and it came as a surprise to many who expected the card to be released ... [ read the full article ]
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MYeah.....way to stay "practical" and competitive Nvidia.......NOT!
Who the f would buy a card that claims this kind of "durability"?? My XFX cards don't fall apart and are super quiet. This will sell to neurotic egghead losers. What a damn waste! Bet my ass this will NOT sell, especially in this economy.
I bought a $750 card when I built my computer. It was so big it covered up 3 other slots on the motherboard and required a custom height cpu fan. It was so hot it could cook an egg (consumed like 400 watts at idle). The computer crahsed every time it booted. Built a computer the other day with onboard graphics and will never buy a graphics card again.
Originally posted by grathan: I bought a $750 card when I built my computer. It was so big it covered up 3 other slots on the motherboard and required a custom height cpu fan. It was so hot it could cook an egg (consumed like 400 watts at idle). The computer crahsed every time it booted. Built a computer the other day with onboard graphics and will never buy a graphics card again.
You have a great point if it meets your needs. I think we would agree games have and will always drive the need for better and better graphic cards. That said if you don't do e-mail an other stuff one your machine, compared with an on board integrated graphics card, to get an AT1 or nvld1a you'll be over building and throwing money away. But if you play games then you still need one of these beasts.
A couple months ago i built a new system with the latest and greatest 2700k i7. For a week or two I used the on board graphics card, for normal stuff, Word, e-mail, Visual Studio, SQL, (ya i'm a developer and geek ;) everything seemed perfectly fine. But i'm a gamer too and compared the windows performance index jumped from 5.2 up to 7.6 with an AT1 7900. Strange to see now the memory and CPU are the limiting factors at 7.6, the index number for the graphics card is 7.9. HAHA Crazy.
Does this also turn your computer into an EZ Bake Oven?
Sorry, but as fast as video cards advance I rather sacrifice a few FPS, save hundreds of dollars, and have a video card that can fit nicely inside a modest case. Then in a couple years maybe do the same with what new technology brings.
Funny how this card costs virtually the same as the rest of the components. well, if you were going with a middle of the road AMD based system anyway... but then you would have probably smoked the equivalent weight of hash to put one of these cards in said machine in the first place as well.
Personally, the most I've ever spent on a video card was probably $300 & I almost felt guilty for having spent that. I take that back... I spent $230 for 2 SLI cards ($460 total), but haven't exactly felt the need to upgrade 'quite' yet.
Of coarse that may very well change seeing as the new Max Payne & Diablo 3 are due out, but I can also deal with it. $1000 can buy just enough gasoline to get me to the discount store to pick up those two titles...
