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#1 xfactor19990
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good card? Does it meet the needs of todays games (battlefeild 2142, Company of Heros, STALKER, Half Life 2, CS:S), or does it exceed it? Can it play all the modern games on max settings? Finally how long do you expect the life span of this card would be, before i need to upgrade? 
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#2 AARONRULZ1
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7950GX2 = UBER waste of dough. Get a 8800GTX instead,even if you don't plan on getting vista for a while.
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#3 Generalkill8888
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good card? Does it meet the needs of todays games (battlefeild 2142, Company of Heros, STALKER, Half Life 2, CS:S), or does it exceed it? Can it play all the modern games on max settings? Finally how long do you expect the life span of this card would be, before i need to upgrade? xfactor19990
Its still a good card. Wait a month or so and get a 8800GTS 320mb or a 8600Ultra.
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#4 xfactor19990
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[QUOTE="xfactor19990"]good card? Does it meet the needs of todays games (battlefeild 2142, Company of Heros, STALKER, Half Life 2, CS:S), or does it exceed it? Can it play all the modern games on max settings? Finally how long do you expect the life span of this card would be, before i need to upgrade? Generalkill8888
Its still a good card. Wait a month or so and get a 8800GTS 320mb or a 8600Ultra.

  i would be getting it for free from my friend as he bought a 8800gtx
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#5 AARONRULZ1
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[QUOTE="Generalkill8888"][QUOTE="xfactor19990"]good card? Does it meet the needs of todays games (battlefeild 2142, Company of Heros, STALKER, Half Life 2, CS:S), or does it exceed it? Can it play all the modern games on max settings? Finally how long do you expect the life span of this card would be, before i need to upgrade? xfactor19990
Its still a good card. Wait a month or so and get a 8800GTS 320mb or a 8600Ultra.

  i would be getting it for free from my friend as he bought a 8800gtx

Oh,thens its a good card.
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#6 Generalkill8888
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[QUOTE="Generalkill8888"][QUOTE="xfactor19990"]good card? Does it meet the needs of todays games (battlefeild 2142, Company of Heros, STALKER, Half Life 2, CS:S), or does it exceed it? Can it play all the modern games on max settings? Finally how long do you expect the life span of this card would be, before i need to upgrade? xfactor19990
Its still a good card. Wait a month or so and get a 8800GTS 320mb or a 8600Ultra.

i would be getting it for free from my friend as he bought a 8800gtx

As long as you do pay for it, hell Id take it, if it were free that is :D
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#7 AARONRULZ1
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hell Id take it, if it were free that is :DGeneralkill8888
I'm sure a lot of people would,including me.
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it's an amazing card but not worth the money any more I typically get 150-250fps in HL2 @ 1080p with all the settings turned up, 6xAA and 16xAF
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#9 Wesker776
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If you can get it for free, you can play ANY DX9 game on max details.
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#10 Generalkill8888
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If you can get it for free, you can play ANY DX9 game on max details.Wesker776
Yeah, then I would hang on to that card for a couple more months to see what the R600 can do, and the 8600s.
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#11 Wesker776
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[QUOTE="Wesker776"]If you can get it for free, you can play ANY DX9 game on max details.Generalkill8888
Yeah, then I would hang on to that card for a couple more months to see what the R600 can do, and the 8600s.

Definitely. ALSO, you could get it for free now, and sell it on ebay for an 8800GTS.
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#12 macpop
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yea i was gonna buy one off hardforums that went for 240$ but i was second for dibs :(
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#13 Wesker776
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yea i was gonna buy one off hardforums that went for 240$ but i was second for dibs :(macpop
XD Win some, lose some. I need to sell off my X1900XT for it to go toward my future rig.
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#16 Generalkill8888
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[QUOTE="Generalkill8888"][QUOTE="macpop"]yea i was gonna buy one off hardforums that went for 240$ but i was second for dibs :(macpop
That reminds me, I owe Ebay 80 bucks.. Dang

lol y?

All those stupid insertion fees that I have to pay for.
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#18 Cyborg-21
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Does the 7950 GX2 require an SLI motherboard - or can it work on non-SLI motherboards ?
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Does the 7950 GX2 require an SLI motherboard - or can it work on non-SLI motherboards ?Cyborg-21
that's the beauty of it it's SLI on a single card so you only need one PCI-E slot if you had an SLI mobo you could go Quad SLI with it :o
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#20 keymaster7
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Quad GPU...i dont think thats worth it...cause future game supports DX10 only...rather save money for sli 8 series card...
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#21 X360PS3AMD05
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Quad GPU...i dont think thats worth it...cause future game supports DX10 only...rather save money for sli 8 series card...keymaster7
So you see the BS that it is :D Unless you game at high res. i say SLI is a waste too
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#22 codezer0
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It is still a plenty fine card. But the reality is that it's essentially beaten by the performance of the 8800's, which can perform faster, and have HDR+AA like the X1k cards.
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#23 xfactor19990
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So but for all DX9 games it will run great?
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#24 XboxUnderground
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So but for all DX9 games it will run great?xfactor19990
not ALL games some games are so piss poorly optomized it can't run it at high settings(Gothic 3fps and R6V for instance) what type of CPU/RAM do you have?
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#25 Generalkill8888
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So but for all DX9 games it will run great?xfactor19990
For all DX9 games it runs amazingly. But if you look towards the future it really has not hope. If you want to play games with Full AA and HDR get a G80 Series card.
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#26 Hot_Potato
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[QUOTE="xfactor19990"]good card? Does it meet the needs of todays games (battlefeild 2142, Company of Heros, STALKER, Half Life 2, CS:S), or does it exceed it? Can it play all the modern games on max settings? Finally how long do you expect the life span of this card would be, before i need to upgrade? Generalkill8888
Its still a good card. Wait a month or so and get a 8800GTS 320mb or a 8600Ultra.

What's this I'm hearing about 8600?
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#27 Generalkill8888
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[QUOTE="Generalkill8888"][QUOTE="xfactor19990"]good card? Does it meet the needs of todays games (battlefeild 2142, Company of Heros, STALKER, Half Life 2, CS:S), or does it exceed it? Can it play all the modern games on max settings? Finally how long do you expect the life span of this card would be, before i need to upgrade? Hot_Potato
Its still a good card. Wait a month or so and get a 8800GTS 320mb or a 8600Ultra.

What's this I'm hearing about 8600?



Here
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#28 frost_mourne13
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hey man, if its free, take it and sell if before the value goes way down, and buy yourself a 8800GTS, or an GTX if the price is right.
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[QUOTE="Cyborg-21"]Does the 7950 GX2 require an SLI motherboard - or can it work on non-SLI motherboards ?XboxUnderground
that's the beauty of it it's SLI on a single card so you only need one PCI-E slot if you had an SLI mobo you could go Quad SLI with it :o

I know thread necromancy is frowned upon, but rather than make a new thread, I thought i'd ask here.

A friend is selling me his 7950GX2 for cheap, and I was wondering about the mobo compatibility because i've done some research and not everyone gets good results if they have the wrong mobo.

I've seen the list, and while some Asus A8N mobos are compatible, mine in particular(A8N-LA) wasnt on the list(its a HP pavilion mobo if youre wondering :P). So I just wanted to know if the "general" mobos w/ PCI-E are compatible with the 7950GX2.

Someone will probably comment on purchasing a 8-series card instead, but ill spare you the life story so just please answer my question ;)

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#30 deniiiii21
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I cant believe there is still some people that think 8600Ultra is going to come out.

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#31 NasHHHbk
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I cant believe there is still some people that think 8600Ultra is going to come out.

deniiiii21

This thread was created a long time ago :P back then, 8600Ultra rumors ran rampant.

I guess no one knows the answer to my question :(

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#32 Anubis_386
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As long as your motherboard has a PCI-Express 16x slot you should be all good
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#33 xfactor19990
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ROFL this is still going lol i origianlly made this topic in Febrauary!!!!!!! LOL
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#34 MondoCool
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[QUOTE="xfactor19990"]So but for all DX9 games it will run great?XboxUnderground
not ALL games some games are so piss poorly optomized it can't run it at high settings(Gothic 3fps and R6V for instance) what type of CPU/RAM do you have?

Yeah it can, the 7950gx2 is aabout equal to an 8800gts, I played rainbow six vegas on max, that was really hard, getting 20 fps in a firefight man...

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#35 NasHHHbk
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ROFL this is still going lol i origianlly made this topic in Febrauary!!!!!!! LOLxfactor19990

Thats because I resurrected it

Thanks for the reassurance Anubis. I was afraid that due to my mobo not having any bios updates, this card would go bonkers :cry:

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#36 xfactor19990
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lol u brought it back from feb:) good that u got ur answer tho