GeForce 9800GX2 got reviewed and still buggy

[Flinch]

After awhile, the driver excuses get old.

[OBR]

My retail Asus ... results will be 18/3/2008 ...not before NDA lifts ...
I have many copies of Company Of Heroes now ... we want better and new game!

PS. Drivers on CD are oldest then last Forceware on web! Last version is: 174.51

[eric66]

seems asus really likes company of heroes or there are few left from old cards

[Fujimitsu]

After awhile, the driver excuses get old.

The card isn't released...

I'll agree with you when they actually start selling them, but don't complain that a pre-released sample has bad drivers. That's the EXACT reason they're NOT selling the card yet. The drivers need work so they've held back releasing the card until they're in working order.

Can't wait to see it OBR!

[Leeghoofd]

After awhile, the driver excuses get old.

If the card gets a whopping 30 or more FPS at high res I think the excuse is pretty valid... I don't defend the card at all, to me it feels like an 7950X2 revival... but we have to wait till the dust settles and see what the card performs on the 18th... hopefully AMD has got a new catalyst too soon...

go go OBR show us some smoking hot high speeds FPS !! hopefully you can compare it to 8800GT(S) 512 with overclock in SLI on ya brand new Asus 790i...

[OBR]

I am testing on nF790i and will be compared with ...

8800GT SLI
8800 GT
8800 GTS SLI
8800 GTS
8800 U
8800 GTX
R 3870X2
...

[mascaras]

High Quality AA and AF














Temperature & Sound Tests








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



regards

[Fujimitsu]

I am testing on nF790i and will be compared with ...

8800GT SLI
8800 GT
8800 GTS SLI
8800 GTS
8800 U
8800 GTX
R 3870X2
...

That's what we need!

Be sure to OC them all, no one cares about stock speeds... don't know why this isn't part of every review especially considering the overclocking potential of some of the g92 cards.

[Flinch]

The card isn't released...

I'll agree with you when they actually start selling them, but don't complain that a pre-released sample has bad drivers. That's the EXACT reason they're NOT selling the card yet. The drivers need work so they've held back releasing the card until they're in working order.

Can't wait to see it OBR!

So, on launch day do we see the clouds part, and rays of hope shine through with new drivers that are going to give a miraculous double digit increase in frames?

I don't think so, but in a few days we'll know for sure. if I'm wrong, I'll gladly admit it.

I feel theres too many people hoping this is the *second coming*

[mascaras]

So, on launch day do we see the clouds part, and rays of hope shine through with new drivers that are going to give a miraculous double digit increase in frames?

I don't think so, but in a few days we'll know for sure.

lets hope this increase with 174.20 in Windows XP and 9800GTX >> http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...3&postcount=49


also hapen in Games with Windows Vista and 9800GX2


regards

[Flinch]

That's a great increase, now let's see how that translates to games

[ownage]

After awhile, the driver excuses get old.

Actually not because both Nvidia and ATI have a hard time making drivers at this moment. Those problems are related to DX10 flaws and Vista. BTW, ATI claims there drivers are improved allot since June, http://www.elitebastards.com/hanners...83/Slide34.jpg

[ANP !!!]

I am testing on nF790i and will be compared with ...

8800GT SLI
8800 GT
8800 GTS SLI
8800 GTS
8800 U
8800 GTX
R 3870X2
...

Nice, will wait for your review .

[villa1n]

i would like to see what a better cpu can do a qx6850 with 3ghz isnt enough to load the ati card, but this would also mean that the NV card would have the new controller that dosnt need to go to the NB for gpu to gpu transactions, and the striker 2 might be ocing the gx2 so that would need to be checked also

yeah, i agree, any confirmation on these aspects? did tweaktown rule these out?

[Sr7]

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.

Are you ing kidding? Have you even bothered to look at or try an x2? Read some forum threads from x2 owners and see all the corruption complaints. Crossfire is notorious for having issues guy.

[Flinch]

From my understanding in that review they were using one gpu since SLI was not enabled for the other GPU to work in conjunction.

That would appear to indicate what others have thought......one would need an Nforce board to run with both gpu's enabled,(for the sake of using SLI) which is the whole point of the card.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

[Flinch]

So, if you have to enable SLI within the drivers, then when did Intel chipsets allow for SLI

*On Gigabyte X48, the R680 had no problem running through all tests. But the 9800 GX2 could only pass 3DMark06 on the very same board. Running any other games would results in errors, or worse, BSoD. Since we know from the previous test that SLI needs to be enabled for maximum performance, yet Intel chipset based boards do not support SLI, we might be looking at a compatibility issue here.*

http://lly316.blogspot.com/2008/03/g...0-x2_5855.html

[speedfreak86]

Anyone else think that Nvidia is trying really hard to give us SLi with this card on intel chipsets without giving us SLi for any other cards? I think that we may finally see some people able to hack drivers to get SLi on intel chipsets.

[v_rr]

Are you ing kidding? Have you even bothered to look at or try an x2? Read some forum threads from x2 owners and see all the corruption complaints. Crossfire is notorious for having issues guy.

Old news. Cat 8.3 rule
And if you say HD 3870X2 its only corruption complaints, the 9800GX2 beats the X2 in that field by a far margin

[WRC]

the hd3870X2 is actually faster in some games with AA enabled

[speedfreak86]

the hd3870X2 is actually faster in some games with AA enabled

In VISTA...check the link for XP results. They show mostly the opposite.

[Origin_Unknown]

anyone got a 3870x2 GDDR4 to test the GX2 against?

[AliG]

In VISTA...check the link for XP results. They show mostly the opposite.

That's because crossfirex and what not that comes in catalyst 8.3 is only supported by vista

[v_rr]

In VISTA...check the link for XP results. They show mostly the opposite.

Where?
Read the review again

XP results don´t even have AA
And still very weak scores for one 550 euros card vs 325 euros card.

It cost mor 225 euros and loses to the cheaper one in most cases. The cheaper one also in single PCB and suport more features in hardware and in drivers.

We have to admit that the HD 3870X2 is a good design for the type of card that it is.

[AliG]

I wouldn't say the design is poor, but rather that ati should have done more modifications to the rv670 die before releasing it rather than a straight die shrink, that's one reason why g92 was so successful