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MPUK News
2nd March 2003, 19:08
What do you rate as the 'next big thing' in the Graphics Card industry?


Agree, disagree, either way, air you views!
Afty
3rd March 2003, 10:37
Mass, sustained consumer abstinence from overpriced "high end" graphics cards as the economies tank, and daddy has to stop handing over wads of cash to teenage Johnny.

Which will be a PITA for those of us who often buy our graphics cards second hand from teenage Johnny 4 months after release for a pittance.
Catachan
3rd March 2003, 10:43
I still reckon 3DLabs will surprise the market with a consumer graphics card.
Blood Sport
3rd March 2003, 19:17
i think the gefore FX was a very poor offering when compared to the latest ATI cards
CyberDrac
4th March 2003, 11:27
Just looked at the scores ... hmmm ... I think someone might have cheated :P. 5000 votes in less than 24 hours .... someones been busy! :D
Limi
4th March 2003, 11:33
wp someone
Jazza
4th March 2003, 11:41
I think PCI-Express will offer some improvements to Graphics card next year. Way more bandwidth available than AGP ;)
Say_Ten
4th March 2003, 11:59
Oops, did I just wipe all those answers out.
Mingtea
4th March 2003, 12:05
wp.
KermitTheFrag
4th March 2003, 12:26
i think that giant spacemonkeys from mars will fly me away to their base and dance around me like I'm their god.

On a similar level of reality, Nvidia will

a) release a high-end card at a realistic price

b) release a card that isn't called geforce turbo nitro 46000 mega FX ultra.

i wish...
MONK
4th March 2003, 14:48
The geforce FX was really disapointing!

But.... the tech that was in it was still very impressive. So hopefully Nvidia will learn that you do infact need a lot of CPU/mem bandwidth if you are going to make a GF card these days.

As for a name I am thinking Geforce FX super mega turbo 5. Also WTF is it with GF card price FFS at radeon 9K is about £60 ATM with TV etc.... may as well wait untill the 9700 is down to that sort of price as well.
Gunsmith
4th March 2003, 15:14
id rather pay for somehing that is going to be stable and offer ****-kicking performance,

thats y im waiting for the NV34
Buffy
11th March 2003, 01:16
some people do work to pay for the computers afty, I bout a £300 pound radeon 9700 last year and love it to bits
fknbude
12th March 2003, 21:42
aint the nv34 as fast as a ti4200 without using aa and af??
Bambers
13th March 2003, 17:04
Looks like the 5200 and 5600 aren't too good when used with full 'application' filtering :|

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NDQ0LDE=