GeForce 9800GX2 got reviewed and still buggy

[v_rr]

so this card has buggy drivers, and still is smoking the X2?

Nice, and can't this do tri-sli or just regular SLI?

LOL
Smoking X2?
What I only see is problems plus more problems. On teh other side X2 looks runing every games and every hardware.

Pay 600 euros to see problems and corruption in games
On the 3870X2 side you pay 350 euros and get more stable and free problems drivers.

And 3870X2 was benched in one Nvidia 780i board and not on one X48 Intel board.

[zanzabar]

u dont know how legit the drivers are they are still early beta they might be rightout of alpha

[AdmiralThrawn]

GX2 is just a bandaid till GT200. And as soon as the GT200 is out, sli support goes down the tubes. Not worth the trouble, imo.

And what makes you think, that GT200 won't support SLI? "Because it's got enough power" might never actually be a reason, cause there never is enough power...

[tiro_uspsss]

free bug drivers.

thank goodness! i'm sick of paying for buggy drivers! (j/k)

[v_rr]

thank goodness! i'm sick of paying for buggy drivers! (j/k)

Ups

[Leeghoofd]

And 3870X2 was benched in one Nvidia 780i board and not on one X48 Intel board.

Does that make an earthshocking difference ? ( if ya can rule out the Nvidia baord might have Oc'ed the PCI express)

And do you dare to claim X2 drivers are bug freeeeeeeeee I dare to remind you that one of the latest Catalyst drivers was very very heavy on the CPU wasn't it ?....

Typical Fanboy talk that always arises when new products are previewed, let's all await the real launch and drivers a month from now, hopefully prices will have dropped for both cards and drivers more matured.... it's still too early to judge.. .

[Scimitar]

Hmmm. I was actually thinking of picking up one of these up. Can anyone please confirm that you need an Nvidia motherboard for this. If so, I guess its a 3870X2 or wait for something new.

[cky2k6]

And what makes you think, that GT200 won't support SLI? "Because it's got enough power" might never actually be a reason, cause there never is enough power...

he isn't saying gt200 won't have sli... what he is saying is that the 9800gx2 will stop being developed for after gt200 comes out, which is exactly what happened with 7950gx2 after g80 came out.. it would be foolish to buy this card unless you're just getting test hardware, it is ominously at a similar point in time as the 7950gx2.

[mascaras]

need to activate SLI and dont work with chipset Intel ?

if the card only work with Nvidia chipset


regards

[speedfreak86]

wow, just because early drivers don't work very well on x48 chipset boards doesn't mean that they won't work at all. I think that the fact that the card isn't released yet makes the fact that the cards work at all pretty amazing. Still waiting for officially released cards and officially supported drivers before I get my panties in a bunch.

[mascaras]

wow, just because early drivers don't work very well on x48 chipset boards doesn't mean that they won't work at all.

i didnt said that !!!!!

i said : IF the card .......

The card should work in all chipsets (thats the ideia)

maybe its the X48 bios used , they should also test with X38 or P35



regards

[Natalia]

Any review must have it compared to 2x 8800GT, 2x 8800GTS and 8800GTX

i say

Exactly what I was thinking.

[speedfreak86]

i didnt said that !!!!!

i said : IF the card .......

The card should work in all chipsets (thats the ideia)

maybe its the X48 bios used , they should also test with X38 or P35



regards

Point taken. I just didn't want people to get the wrong idea and start bad rumors.

[adidassler]

do i have to change my psu?

ocz 700W GameXstream...

[kite7]

a $679 better be faster than a $499 card or something is very very wrong

[initialised]

The 174.51 drivers resolve some stability issues. There is a multi GPU check box in the nVidia control panel so it doesn't work as a dual card out-of-the-box so to speak. And yes, it is beaten by GTS 512 SLi, GTX SLi, 9600GT SLi and 8800 SLi (largely because it uses an 8xPCI-E bus internally) but slightly (see what I did there?) better than 3870x2. I haven't tested it on an non nVidia board but I am guessing that if they make the (currently non GX2 exclusive) drivers SLi capable then there is a good chance that this can easily hacked to allow SLi support for non GX2 cards.

[grimREEFER]

9800gx2 is garbage, but the 3870x2 is such concentrated crap that it manages to lose hard to it. thats how i see it.

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

9800gx2 is garbage, but the 3870x2 is such concentrated crap that it manages to lose hard to it. thats how i see it.

Maybe your just angry you can't get these cards?

Both of these cards are pretty good.

[v_rr]

Review
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/13...ion/index.html

[mascaras]

Review
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/13...ion/index.html

I have to say that until we got to our Windows XP tests, the 9800GX2 has been a complete let down. Under UT3 it actually looks like we have a CPU bottleneck with performance pretty much the same across all resolutions.

It out-performs the HD 3870 X2 in 3DMark06 under XP, along with it also out-performing the AMD counterpart in Half Life 2: Episode Two; a game that has always favored the AMD offerings.

At the moment the card doesn’t deserve to carry a new generation naming scheme, but with a little bit of hope seen from under Windows XP we could be alright. Now we just have to wait and see if we get a new driver in the next day or two.

...........

[Fujimitsu]

Man those drivers are bad.

That's unbelivably poor.

[eric66]

gt outscores gx2 and x2 by the way if that is performance of 9800gx2 nvidia is a joke

[Leeghoofd]

I saw 174.51 for 64bit and 174.40 for 32bit that enhances 9 series GFX performance Tweaktown will redo the review to get some hopefully better scores lol... 9800GTX I like in general, 9800X2 seems so so

and yet again a review with a 3ghz CPU... think these cards scale very well with the CPU... so better CPU more FPS...

But this note from them is nice so they are on the new driver already and prolly redoing the review :

Last minute add: I just performed a run of Unreal Tournament 3 at 2560 x 1600 and received an average of 90.66FPS which is just below what the HD 3870 X2 scores at 1920 x 1200. That's what we want to see from this expensive card !!!

[Leeghoofd]

gt outscores gx2 and x2 by the way if that is performance of 9800gx2 nvidia is a joke

I didn't see that , did you read another review ? Also on a note you don't buy a 600 dollar card to run at 1280 x 1024... you will run this flat out and both X2 cards will spank GT at those resolutions... and drivers are not fully ready : read the note with the new drivers... review will be redone it's still too early for a final verdict...

[v_rr]

But this note from them is nice so they are on the new driver already and prolly redoing the review :

Last minute add: I just performed a run of Unreal Tournament 3 at 2560 x 1600 and received an average of 90.66FPS which is just below what the HD 3870 X2 scores at 1920 x 1200. That's what we want to see from this expensive card !!!

2560 x 1600 is somehow useless today.
1920 x 1200 is much more used.

Lets see the new driver then, but ATI drivers look much better then Nvidia ones. Nvidia is not doing the homework.
And if pay 350 euro for HD 3870X2 is not the best choice, the 550 euros for 9800GX2 are somehow very useless.