Nvidia Launches 7800 website!

This is stupid. I can't even afford a 6800, let alone this beast. I wish technology would wait a while before hurtling into more expensive depths. If PC developers were any good, they'd focus not on utilizing new flashy hardware, but squeezing the very best out of existing hardware. The rapidly increasing price of PC gaming will be it's own undoing.
 
Kangy: They do... The GeForce4 Ti series is just starting to not get used anymore (first game bieng BF2), and that is almoost a 3 year life for the card (which is almost the life of a console - usually around 4 years)

Yes PC gaming will always be more expensive than Console Gaming, but it's the price (no pun intended) you pay for having the top effects (graphically, physically, etc). So you could always end up buying a new bare min spec GPU each year for around 60 bucks or so, or you could spend a few hundred dollars and not have to buy another card for another 3 years (which is a long time).

I can't wait to see what ATI will unveil :D
 
Biggest pile of stinking bullshit I've seen in a while. Nvidia unveils a new card in the wake of a collaboration with EA to cut out geforce4 users from BF2.

You can bet Nvidia won't let another geforce4 happen to them again. A card that lasts for 4 or 5 years running games at near top quality? It's bad for business. You can rest assured that the new nvidia cards are feature-locked and actually purposely designed to be outdated in 2 years, rather than built to last as long as their hardware.


Don't be an nvidia sheep.
 
FictiousWill said:
Biggest pile of stinking bullshit I've seen in a while. Nvidia unveils a new card in the wake of a collaboration with EA to cut out geforce4 users from BF2.

You can bet Nvidia won't let another geforce4 happen to them again. A card that lasts for 4 or 5 years running games at near top quality? It's bad for business. You can rest assured that the new nvidia cards are feature-locked and actually purposely designed to be outdated in 2 years, rather than built to last as long as their hardware.


Don't be an nvidia sheep.
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Isn't that how the entire world works?

Everything you see in stores is shoddy, so they can push more at lower production costs, and so that it ends up sucking in the near future and your forced to buy a new one.
 
Yeah but it sucks that all people don't realize that, and also we're in a key transition between made-to-last computer hardware and engineered-for-suckage video cards. We should at least say "wtf!"
 
FictiousWill said:
You can bet Nvidia won't let another geforce4 happen to them again. A card that lasts for 4 or 5 years running games at near top quality?
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lol hardly
 
Source isn't much of a next-gen engine (at the moment, but obviously things like HDR are slowly pushing it more and more next-gen thanks to the modularity of the engine), but rather it is a current-gen engine. It wasn't made too push the min specs (like UE3 will), but rather try to keep the min specs, and thus GF4's and all them.

It's inevitable that GPU's will get outdated. It sucks but it happens. I mean, a DX9 card is the bare min for the UE3 engine (thus a Radeon 8500 I believe, or a GeForce FX) so if it didn't happen now, it will happen next year....

As much as we want our cards to last, they can't be upgraded and thus will have to stop getting used one time or another.

You can complain all you want, but if you want games/graphics to keep moving forward, sacrifices must be made :-\

I mean sure, game devs _could_ make the games run on GF4 cards (like BF2, and UE3 stuff) but would that really be worth it? Would it be worth spending all those months, and all that money to support those? If they do support them, they will have to cut major features out of the engine to make them work. Would you really want that? Of course you wouldn't! I would rather spend another 300 bucks, and then get another 3-4 years of gaming with that card, and not have to worry about "when is my card going to not work in games anymore?"

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Source isn't much of a next-gen engine (at the moment, but obviously things like HDR are slowly pushing it more and more next-gen thanks to the modularity of the engine), but rather it is a current-gen engine. It wasn't made too push the min specs (like UE3 will), but rather try to keep the min specs, and thus GF4's and all them.
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Source isn't next gen but hopefully when valve said "It's core components can be swapped out with newer technology with ease" sticks.
 
Iced_Eagle said:
I mean sure, game devs _could_ make the games run on GF4 cards (like BF2, and UE3 stuff) but would that really be worth it? Would it be worth spending all those months, and all that money to support those? If they do support them, they will have to cut major features out of the engine to make them work. Would you really want that?
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You mean the whole 3 lines of directx hardware enumeration to enable 1.3 shader support? Oh god the sacrifice! And the 1.4 shaders! (can you take it? I sure can't!)
 
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