Headlines - Gainward's packaging spills juicy details on upcoming GeForce GTX280 and

[HEXUS]

Frame-buffer sizes, memoy width, shader counts, SLI: it's all in here.

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[sbmongoose]

This might sound a really newbie question, but what is Expert Tool that the box-shot mentions?

Simon

[kalniel]

This might sound a really newbie question, but what is Expert Tool that the box-shot mentions?

A description of the person buying the card perhaps?

But seriously, no new information the box then, bar the relatively modest PSU requirement I guess. 3dmark score.. well that seems totally dependant on the rest of the system these days. I'd guess around 17k in 06 if paired with a top CPU.

[nFuriate]

This might sound a really newbie question, but what is Expert Tool that the box-shot mentions?

It's Gainward's own software in which you can overclock the card and change fan speeds etc. Tbh it's quite crappy so i've never used it for my Gainward.

[gochichi]

One of these days I'm going to have to buy an upgrade for my power supply. Then I can just deal with the price of the video card... it's too bad that they are goinog against the green trend. I think this clearly shows that ATI is in fact competitive, if they weren't NVIDIA would just release a power thrifty thing.

I think the analogies to the 2900XT are spot on, I just can't stand inefficient stuff like this. It symbolizes poor and desperate design. On the other hand, we need to get to a new level already... it's been too long for the 8800GT to still basically be the standard. I'm really not interested in a beastly card, I'd pay up to $350.00 so long as it doesn't require more than one 6-pin connector.