Gainward 8800GT 1024MB

I think it's a total waste on an 8800GT... I think it would be much better suited to a GTX / Ultra with the wider memory bus. Plus, I don't know many people that are going to be playing games at the kind of resolutions required to eat up that much memory on an 8800GT, probably not gonna play all that well.

Nice try Gainward, I'm sure you'll get a few noobs to buy it. :beerchug:
 
I'd be interested to see benches. The extra ram might make a difference after all! If it does, should be a quality card.
 
name='SBB' said:
I'd be interested to see benches. The extra ram might make a difference after all! If it does, should be a quality card.
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Just about to say that SBB! :)

Frag has a fair point.. but I would like to see some benchies before I make my decision.

Maybe a review in the future?
 
Some extreme resolutionists may find it usefull. But I think they`d struggle to use a gig.

Thought the 768 was a bit much tbh.

Don`t see the GTX types needing it anymore than the others, it`s mostly for mapping graphic info than anything to do with speed.

It`ll sell.
 
name='Rastalovich' said:
Some extreme resolutionists may find it usefull. But I think they`d struggle to use a gig.

Thought the 768 was a bit much tbh.

Don`t see the GTX types needing it anymore than the others, it`s mostly for mapping graphic info than anything to do with speed.

It`ll sell.
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To people who have to much money :p
 
Its useless, 2900xt 512mb compared to 2900xt 1gb, no difference on ANYTHING beacuse nothing uses 1gb of memory.

Absolutly useless.
 
I remember when people used to say 1gb of system ram was useless and now its up to saying 4gb of ram is useless so get 3. Having more ram is never useless if its at a reasonable price.
 
It is if the latencies are high. Just depends if they have had to loosen them to have 1GB. Also if you notice it has a 256bit bus width, so in order for more RAM to be used effectively this should be increased (like ATI's 512bit ringbus design)
 
I dont think 1gb is totally useless but 99% of people dont need that much memory.

Its nice that this technology is available for that small percentage that do need it though.
 
name='PP Mguire' said:
I remember when people used to say 1gb of system ram was useless and now its up to saying 4gb of ram is useless so get 3. Having more ram is never useless if its at a reasonable price.
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Trust me, 4GB pwns. :worship:
 
haha im still looking forward to stepping up from my x1900gt to a 8800gt 512mb :yumyum:

bit of a boost + no more ati drivers...i mean amd drivers xD
 
name='Kempez' said:
It is if the latencies are high. Just depends if they have had to loosen them to have 1GB. Also if you notice it has a 256bit bus width, so in order for more RAM to be used effectively this should be increased (like ATI's 512bit ringbus design)
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Exactly. The bus already causes problems at high res with AA on, if they had bothered to up the bus width this would have been a sweet card.

As it stands I doubt there will be much of a performance increase, I guess only a review will tell.
 
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