Buckeye
03-31-08, 05:47 PM
EVGA 90 day trade up for the win !
Actually even tho I have not actually setup my system yet the new cards do not bother me much. I can trade up if I feel it is needed, both motherboard and GPU's. Even if I could not do that I am happy with what I have. This cycle has gone on for a long time and there will always be a better CPU/GPU or what ever every 6 months or so coming out.
I really think that these GPU's have become so complex that they have reached a limit on what they can do with a given die size vs costs vs what programs out there that can even use the new power of some of these new CPU/GPU's. Unless you go to a large widescreen display you really have no need for a lot of the new stuff.
It is the sales of these cards that drive the research and production costs of the next line.
Going to a dual core CPU instead of 2 cores would most likely be the next step if these chips were not so big to begin with. That's why making them smaller is better. Imagine what a Quad core GPU would be like. Right now it would be so big and costly that it is not feasable.
Right now the biggest problem is the software to actually take advantage of these new GPU's. Not many games really need all that punch and if you only use Crysis as a bench mark than that is really a costly game in terms of hardware requirements.
I remember back when EQII was being released and the new 6800's I think it was, were all the rage and then come to find that even that new card could hardly play EQII with out a ton of problems.
It will be interesting for sure to see what they come out with next !
Actually even tho I have not actually setup my system yet the new cards do not bother me much. I can trade up if I feel it is needed, both motherboard and GPU's. Even if I could not do that I am happy with what I have. This cycle has gone on for a long time and there will always be a better CPU/GPU or what ever every 6 months or so coming out.
I really think that these GPU's have become so complex that they have reached a limit on what they can do with a given die size vs costs vs what programs out there that can even use the new power of some of these new CPU/GPU's. Unless you go to a large widescreen display you really have no need for a lot of the new stuff.
It is the sales of these cards that drive the research and production costs of the next line.
Going to a dual core CPU instead of 2 cores would most likely be the next step if these chips were not so big to begin with. That's why making them smaller is better. Imagine what a Quad core GPU would be like. Right now it would be so big and costly that it is not feasable.
Right now the biggest problem is the software to actually take advantage of these new GPU's. Not many games really need all that punch and if you only use Crysis as a bench mark than that is really a costly game in terms of hardware requirements.
I remember back when EQII was being released and the new 6800's I think it was, were all the rage and then come to find that even that new card could hardly play EQII with out a ton of problems.
It will be interesting for sure to see what they come out with next !