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[darknothing]

May have defective ram, or bios issue i will look into both

[Catamount]

Barbaric Soul, on 17 October 2012 - 09:39 AM, said:

The GTX 780 is going to have a GK110 gpu in it, the GPU that was suppose to be the GTX680. Look for around 40-50% performance improvement with the GTX780 over the GTX680, about the same as is expected with the 8970 over the 7970.

That would place the 8970 at about 50% faster than the 8870, since the 8870 is supposed to be roughly equal to the 680, and therefore the 7970, at least as long as we're talking about the 7970ghz edition, which I assume we are.

That doesn't sound entirely unreasonable, although unless Nvidia plans to absolutely murder the market price-wise, including obsoleting many of their own newish products, I don't see how the 700 series will compete with the 8000 series if rumors are true, which of course they may not be.


The 8870 is supposed to cost $279, so basically it'll be a 680 for less than the price of a 660TI. In order to match those prices, that means the 700 series will have to represent a vastly better value than even newly-released Kepler cards, like the 660, because it'll have to offer 680-like performance for less than the 660 (I assume this would be the 760 filling this role). Since the 660 literally just came out, color me a little skeptical that they'll be able to come up with something like like 20% faster for like 10% cheaper than a newly released card.

The 780 I can see; they just need to make a really, really, really big Kepler card and sell it for an exorbitantly high price (basically, it'll be another 8800Ultra), but unless they're somehow going to magically be able to do absolutely grotesque price slashes in only a few months, the 700 series will be in a rough spot, price/performance wise.


Even if they can do it, that just means they're really shafting present buyers, and while it's true that Nvidia's attitude towards actual consumers and the tech market as a whole regularly rests somewhere between apathy and downright contempt, I just can't see that making their buyers happy. I also have to wonder why they bothered to take the time to finish up the 600 series Kepler cards if they were just going to succeed them a month later. Why make the 660 at all if they're really capable of immediately vastly superseding it practically the moment it launches?


I guess I just find Nvidia's sudden rush of new cards to the market puzzling.

Edited by Catamount, 17 October 2012 - 04:03 PM.

[Sir Christoffee]

Catamount, on 17 October 2012 - 05:08 AM, said:

You also have more than enough RAM for MWO. MWO is a 32-bit application, which means Windows restricts it to 2GB of RAM.

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