"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>>> Comparing your high-end 6-series to my low-end 200-series, we have:
>>>
>>>                     | GeForce 6600GT | GeForce GTX 260
>>> Gigapixels / second |      2.000     |       16.128
>>> Gigatexels / second |      4.000     |       36.864
>>> Gigabytes  / second |     16.000     |      111.900
>>>
>>> The GeForce GTX 260 also generates approximately 715 gigaFLOPS peak 
>>> processing power (single-precision only).
>>
>>     <sniff> Don't do that to me. I'm sad now... <sniff>  :/
>
> Heh. Well, yours is a 6-series. Then they made the 7-series. After that 
> came the 8-series. Then there was the 9-series (which is really just 
> rebadged versions of the 8-series - hence unpopular). Now we have the 
> 200-series. And... according to the numbers above, it's "only" 8x faster. 
> 2004 for the 6-series, 2008 for the 200-series. So in 4 years, it's "only" 
> got 8x faster. Ho hum!

      Well, that's ok.


>
> Well, I guess if I feel rich enough I could always add a second GTX260 at 
> some point... I *do* have an SLI motherboard. >:-D

      I was going to suggest that but people seem to have problems running 
it.


>
> (No, seriously. I'm kidding. I really can't afford to do stuff like that. 
> Besides, the CPU is old enough already...)
>
>>> We shall see!
>>
>>     You won't be disappointed! :)
>
> I ****ing will if it doesn't work with my motherboard! o_O
>
> (The card is PCI Express 2.0 - and I'm not sure that my motherboard is.)


    I found these quotes just now:

 "It doesn't matter, PCI-E 2.0 cards will work on PCI-E 1.x systems as well. 
The PCI-E 2.0 spec is a fairly new one (Jan 2007). Currently, only the X38 
chipset from Intel and the nForce 7 from NVIDIA support PCI-E 2.0."

  And:

   "A Short 2-3 inch black slot is usually a PCI Express slot (usually PC 
less than 2 years old will have these)"

   So you should be ok if you have these slots.




>
> If not then I guess I'll be replacing the entire PC rather than just the 
> graphics card... but let's hope not, eh?
>
>>      When will you get the 260? Today?
>
> I bought it using the super-hyper-ultra-mega-saver delivery option. So... 
> next week? Maybe?
>
> (It's daft really; if you want it tomorrow, gotta pay lots of money. But 
> if you go with the cheap delivery option, often it arrives the next day 
> *anyway*! :-P But we'll see...)

      You'll get it tomorrow then.

        ~Steve~

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