i'm going to laugh at the next person who buys a GeForce FX. So hard.

Im perfectly happy with my Radeon 9700 Pro. Anyone who has one knows what I'm talking about. Im not about to spend 400 bucks to see a 8% improvement. Does anyone really think you can notice an 8% difference?

Cory

Cory

u hop your upgrades if you have a 9700pro now i would wait at least a year maybe more till i upgrade

That is very strange that the GeForce FX logo is up at Alienware.com and says 'Now Available'. However, what's more odd is that it's NOT available on any of their current line of computers.

This is kinda like the Radeon 9700 Pro on the Mac G4s... they were announced being available at ATI and apple.com before you could select them while customizing your computers.

Well time to make my announcement the FX lives

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=geforcefx

check it out and you all know that you want one :cool:

" GeForce FX: The Way It's Meant to Be Played " ---- NVIDIA

And it launchs next month with the great list of other company's launching with Nvidia to make sure that the fx is on any platform you choose and even if you have a laptop you can get the go series for that.

The Fact Page:
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=geforcefx_facts

Desktop:

Models: GeForce FX 5800 Ultra, 5800, 5600 Ultra, 5600, 5200 Ultra, and 5200

Laptop:

Models: GeForce FX Go5600 and Go5200

NVIDIA!!!
 

The FX is here!
02.26.2003 NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5800 Ultra - Now Available!


The NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) takes graphics experiences to a whole new level. Once again, NVIDIA has broken with convention by redefining the limits of 3D graphics technology. Powered by pure adrenaline and engineered for precision, the NVIDIA GeForce FX GPU delivers unprecedented 3D graphics performance to the PC. In addition, the revolutionary new NVIDIA CineFX™ engine introduces cinematic-quality special effects and studio-quality color to the PC for the first time. When combined with NVIDIA's rock-solid drivers, wide developer support and unique software features, you have a GPU that has redefined the limits of graphics engineering, performance, and visual quality!



GeForce FX 5800 Ultra
500MHz core
1.0 GHz memory
CineFX Engine
DX9 with Vertex Shader 2.0+ and Pixel Shader 2.0+
Intellisample Technology
128-bit, studio-precision color
FX Flow heat pipe technology
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to bad that the FX memory-bandwidth can't compete with the new Radeon 9800 Pro, and is actualy slower w/ 4x AA turned on. (in quake III)

From what i've read, neither the fx or the 9800 pro are any good.

In simple terms, the 9700 is better at pixelshading/ansiotrophic filtering/AA than the 5800 ultra and that the 5800 sometimes does not perform better in normal circumstances. If it does perform better, it's by a small margin.

However, the 9800 from ATI makes gains over both the 9700 and the 5800 ultra... again, ATI has taken the lead and made nVidia look pretty bad.

As a computer retail parts store, I'm required to know everything. Or at least find out all I can.

I've been watching the Radeon vs Geforce for a long time now, and everything I've read shows ATI has a superior hardware platform, while nVidia has superior software support.

Basically, if ATI had driver support as good as nVidia, they would easily dominate the market for sheer graphics strength. However, since nVidia has this "nasty" habbit of increasing performance with every new driver release, they are far from out of the game.

As a side note, there was much contraversy, even on Tom's Hardware, concering the new 3dmark 2003 benchmark. It is designed as "the gamer's benchmark" even though it's centered around directX 9 (who's only current purely supported cards are the radeon 9700 and geforce FX). Clearly ATI has an advantage in this test. The way Tom's hardware explains it is as follows: nVidia's core has the capability to be faster than ATI, if given nVidia optimized code to process. Unreal tournament 2003, for example, is optimized for nVidia's platform (hence the logo at game launch). Even 3d mark 2001 included instructions to eek out every bit of performance out of both, ATI and nVidia cards. The contraversy comes in when nVidia claims their card is faster, <given proprietary code>, and 3dmark 2003 is written in generic, platform independant code. The result- ATI can process generic code much faster than nVidia, but if nVidia can get enough developers to focus on it's platform, beautiful things can happen for them. Link Here.

Now, I've been running an All in Wonder 9700pro for the past 2 months or so, and all I've had was problems with a kt400 chipset based motherboard. About 2 weeks ago, I began testing with an nForce II based motherboard, and haven't had a single problem to date. With the nForce board, everything is clear, smooth, and pretty, and stable. I'll stick with this card until I see something worth the price/performance increase (I ended up with this card for dirt cheap through a series of events). At this point, neither the Geforce FX or 9800 look appetizing to me.

GeForce 2 GTS 32mb DDR, BABY!