How times change!!

[Kraig]

So I was doing some research on a video card for a friend of mine that's a serious gamer... I came across this:

The NVIDIA® GeForce® 7950 GX2 features a knockout pair of GeForce processors on one irresistibly powerful board. Resetting the bar for single board graphics performance with amazing 3D horsepower and speed, the GeForce 7950 GX2 enables a lightning-fast, hyper-realistic gaming experience with ultra-smooth frame rates. This dual-GPU board features an astounding 1 GB of fast GDDR3 memory and support for resolutions up to 2560 X 1600. It’s a beautiful thing.

GeForce 7950 GX2
Graphics Bus Technology PCI Express
Memory 1GB (512MB per GPU)
Memory Interface 512-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 76.8
Fill Rate (Billion pixels/sec) 24
Vertices/second (Billion) 2.0
Pixels per clock (peak) 48
RAMDACs (MHz) 400

Holy fuck... 1GB of memory w/two GPU's on-board. I remember back in 95-96 when I was an IT tech installing 128/256K UPGRADES! LOL. "Wow -- you have 512K cache on your Trident video card... WOW!"

[cubed]

dude, you're such a nerd sometimes.

[Kraig]

Originally Posted by cubed

dude, you're such a nerd sometimes.

I admit that... well... former nerd -- I was an IT geek. Now I don't know shit.

[cubed]

hahahaha, it's ok kraig.

[Heffy]

They're only nerds until your computer melts down and you need somone to fix it! LOL

[sNyx]

Originally Posted by cubed

dude, you're such a nerd sometimes.

your on the internet. nerd.

The Video Array-enabled dual-GeForce 6800 system outperformed the single video card system by a significant amount, outperforming it by almost 77 percent and scoring 3,105 3DMarks, compared to 1,758 3DMarks at 1600x1200, 8xAA, and 8xAF. In the 1600x1200-8xAF test, the dual-video-card solution showed a 42 percent improvement, scoring 8,538 against the single card system's 5,992.

holly fcuk.
juggernaugt cards coming out here, dual is the new single.
I want a dual dual monitors now.

[cubed]

Originally Posted by sNyx™

your on the internet. nerd.

I'm having the bouncers shave your head the next time you roll through here.

[wishbone]

lol @ dual dual monitors.

and im the same way, i knew/cared a lot about hardware way back when...now I don't know jack about upcoming or current stuff haha. i just sit on msn all day.

[Kraig]

Speaking of which, I'm looking at new MacBooks -- never thought I'd go the way of the Mac but it's all about stability.

[wishbone]

the new tiny 13" one? it does look good for a portable "i need a laptop" kinda laptop.

edit:
i've got a 17" big laptop sucker right now...it's huge, it looks good, and plays games at a great clip...but portability is possible but not easy.

[Kraig]

Yeah dude... 5.2lbs I think:

http://www.apple.com/ca/macbook/specs.html

[clevich]

psh, you're aweing about that? wait till they release they're g80 chipset with dx10 support.