Quote Originally Posted by Jethro View Post
@ Hipno

History has show that most early revisions of new CPU's clock like shiite!!

ATI cards DO kick the snot out of NVidia power/ price/perf wise now. If Nvidia cant supply an 8800gt to the masses how the hell they gonna trump with quantity in q1? NM the SLI fiasco underway.. drivers/intel blah blah

Power consumption for the whole spider system hasnt really been measured extensively yet.

Some peeps are hitting 3ghz some arent! It all points to immaturity really.. I suspect ill have fun with one eventually =)

If your gonna base your price estimates on just released prices then im wastin my time even posting..

You fail to see the good yes.
ATI cards kicking the snow out of nvidia power/price/perf wise? Proof please.

I've owned an 8800GTS since launch date. You can find them for slightly over 200 dollars used now, which happens to be the same price as a 3870 and slightly less than MSRP of an 8800GT. I have yet to this day see a product from ATI that can match, let alone beat my overclocked GTS across the board. They may have a slight advantage vs a stock GTS in some games but turn on AA and it's all over.

SLI fiasco? SLI works better than crossfire at least... Drivers? debatable. Intel? Penryn runs on their board. Intel SLI licensing? Keep dreaming. Get your ATI fanboyism out please.

Whoever said you can keep the same mobo for years, that's a load of BS. Phenom was toted to "drop into" AM2 boards. Not happening. And even if it does, it will be crippled compared to 790fx. Buying a motherboard and being able to use multiple generations of CPU on it is like buying an SLI motherboard and planning to run SLI when next gen cards come out. Great idea in theory but it doesn't work. It would be cheaper and faster to sell your old card and buy a new top of the line single card than it would be to buy ANOTHER old card.