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"Invisible" <voi### [at] dev null> 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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