Official HD 2900 Discussion Thread

[Brother Esau]

Well my buddy just had me build a conroe system for him with a 8800GTX and benching his system with a E6600 @3.0ghz with the 8800gtx in Aquamark3 it scored 179,860 but benching my current system with his 8800gtx I got 108,000 and generally with my ATI 1950XTX no OC I get 103,000

Do I think that the new ATI card will whoop on the 8800GTX most deffinately considering that my ATI card scores only 5,000 less than the 8800gtx does and thats at lower clock settings with no O.C.

The tests that you see online in that review have to be wrong and driver related
because there is no way seeing how I have done a side by side comparison in my system with ATI & Nvidea's current flag ships!

[AbelJemka]

Aquamark 3 is all cpu related.

[Shintai]

Well my buddy just had me build a conroe system for him with a 8800GTX and benching his system with a E6600 @3.0ghz with the 8800gtx in Aquamark3 it scored 179,860 but benching my current system with his 8800gtx I got 108,000 and generally with my ATI 1950XTX no OC I get 103,000

Do I think that the new ATI card will whoop on the 8800GTX most deffinately considering that my ATI card scores only 5,000 less than the 8800gtx does and thats at lower clock settings with no O.C.

The tests that you see online in that review have to be wrong and driver related
because there is no way seeing how I have done a side by side comparison in my system with ATI & Nvidea's current flag ships!

No GPU will help when you are CPU limited.

[Brother Esau]

Doubt I was CPU challenged considering I had my OPty @2980MHZ for testing.

[Shintai]

Doubt I was CPU challenged considering I had my OPty @2980MHZ for testing.

Uhmm..yes, your CPU was the slow part.

Opteron 165 @ 3GHz: 120,655
Conroe @ 3GHz: 162,561

AMD Opteron 165 @ 3GHz
2x eVGA 7900 GT SLI @ 700/800 - Forceware 84.66
2x 1GB G.Skill DDR500 3-4-4-8
DFI NF4 Ultra-D A0 Modded to SLI-D
Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM SATA HDD
OCZ GameXStream 700w PSU

Intel Core 2 Duo (Conroe) E6600 ES @ 3ghz
2x eVGA 7900 GT SLI @ 700/800 - Forceware 84.56
2x 1GB G.Skill DDR2-800 4-4-4-12
Intel D975XBX "Bad Axe" Mobo
Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM SATA HDD
OCZ GameXStream 700w PSU

[Brother Esau]

No doubt so we will just have to put my XT1950 XTX in his build and see whats what.

[Brother Esau]

I thought you didn't like AMD???? You paint yourself as a devot hater of AMD....LOL...in actual fact you just be a fair weather friend

[Shintai]

I thought you didn't like AMD???? You paint yourself as a devot hater of AMD....LOL...in actual fact you just be a fair weather friend

Eh? Because I told it was your CPU that was slow? What should I have said instead, when you were CPU bottlenecked?