Help the newbie with his build!!

[Talonman]

It's all about me baby!! This is my thread to be bad!!

One of the Beast on a mobo: http://www.hardware-aktuell.com/view...0_GX2_Test.jpg

I hope his SB is higher on his mobo than mine, or I am going to have to say bye-bye to my fan.
I think it looks like it will fit with my SB fan installed, judging from the room above the SATA ports.
It will be tight though...

I need to see a GX2 mounted to a Maximus, with a straight down angle to see how close the card gets to the SB.

[Buckeye]

Lol !

[Talonman]

I bit more evidence that it may be an Oven Card?

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=12124

If heat is an issue... At least it's G92 heat. It could be worse...
I just may need to get the GX2 on water?

That last Dude in the thread reported:
"it is ment to perform 1.3x better then a single 8800GTX, i believe the report hasnt changed".

That would be incorrect. It is reported to be at least 30% faster than an 8800 Ultra, just for the record!

A picture of a 9800 GTX next to an 8800 Ultra:

The smaller chiped bottom card is the 9800 GTX.
The odd thing about it is it's PCB simply is much more complex than GTS 512's...
It also has two power connectors, and it's powersupply-system is even heavier than the 8800 Ultra.
We are currently hoping we are missing some feature about this card...
That is allot of changes for a GPU that is supossed to be nothing more than a faster 9800 GTS...

The 9800 GTS with less capacitors in the power section:


If some secret thing was known about the 9800 GTX, that made it darn near as fast as the GX2, but no SLI and thinner...
I could flop back over to the GTX camp..
Decissions ... decissions...
Man we need reviews!!

Note that the GTX was still on revision 2A of G92:

[Talonman]

9800 GX2 Video: Not in action though...
http://www.hexus.tv/show/2008/03/EVG...at_CeBIT_2008/

More video's:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0BujA55Thw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4xXwkUwlpw&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w8vgtKKu0A

Better GX2 Picture:
http://img.hexus.net/v2/internationa...lbaGX2-big.jpg

Another GX2:
http://www.engadget.com/tag/9800%20GX2/

Trivia: This report indicates that a 1GB 8800 GT would run no faster than a 512MB GT. http://techreport.com/articles.x/14230/1
Some feel this supports the idea that the BUS is the bottleneck on these cards.
The GX2 will have an extra advantage here with 2 cards working togeather...

A neet chart...

Note that the 8800 GT and the 9800 GT will be about the same card...

Conformation on the GX2 price of $599.00.
http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7396.html
"Considering the Radeon HD 3870X2 costs little more than half that, and with the upcoming launch of CrossFireX, it does seem a bit expensive. Especially when you realize that this is basically two down-clocked GeForce 8800GTS cards slapped together and underclocked. The G92-450 core does sport some architectural improvements, such as OpenGL 2.1 support, but the 600MHz core, 1500MHz shader and 2000MHz memory clock is not going to impress many unless SLI delivers some kind of magic".

Makes me think the GX2 might be faster than we know? http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-43...rk-result.html
"Today associate published new data about the speed level of geForce 9800 GX2. Tests were in 64-bit version Windows vista, supposedly with the four core processor core 2 Extreme QX9650 (3.0 GHz). The default video card frequencies was 600/1500/2000 MHz and obtained the following results":

3DMark'05 - > 17 600 points;
3DMark'06 - > 14 400 points.
GeForce 9800 GX2 Overclocked to frequencies 730/1500/2080 MHz allow to improve the achievements:

3DMark'05 - > 19 400 points;
3DMark'06 - > 16 100 points.
We note that the frequency of shader domain was not increased.

[Talonman]

News Flash!!
:http://www.techarp.com/article/Deskt...idia_4_big.png

The 9800GTX is now listed with a 512 bit bus, but the GX2 is listed as 256 bits x 2? If this were true... it could makd the GTX faster than the GX2?

Info could be wrong on the site... but interesting none the less.

[Buckeye]

Nice work GPU Reporter on the go Talonman !!

[Talonman]

I am finding out all I can...

I need to see if the GX2 or GTX will do better in 1920x1200 res, but it is going to be hard waiting on the GTX....

I think the smart money would tell me that for shere animal speed at 1920x1200, the GX2 would do better.

I really don't want to wait for the GTX'es release if it takes too long. It will take all the restraining power i have to not click buy on the first GX2 I see for sale....

I will get the EVGA card, so I have the full purchase price to step up if the GTX2 turnes out to be a bad card. It is kind of a way to cover my bet.