Well, you may remember my prior post on the 7970 being released, and its a great card. However, it is $550-$600, so its out of the reach of most of us. Well, the 7950 has been released at the slightly less heart rending $450. You can read all about it, but here's the thing: You only can justify it if you have a viewing area of ~4 megapixels. What does this mean? Well, the old VGA standard resolution was 640x480. Multiply that out, and you get 307 kilo pixels. For HDTV's, you have 1920x1080 as the standard, which when that is mutiplied out, you get 2 megapixels. If you are running two of these monitors, voila! 4 megapixels. So, what's the big deal about these? Well, the 7950 is a better card than nvidia's behmouth GTX 580, which sells for ~$500.
For most of us, this card is not a great option. Its, dare I say, too powerful for us. Even for my now old and dated resolution of 1680x1050 (a 16:10 rato rather than 16:9), I only run 1.7 megapixels. I am looking to the mid-range products coming out in the next month or so for a great product that may fit my next upgrade. That being said, it will be a phenominal day for all gamers when we see nvidia's "Kepler" products released. Rumor has it those cards are going to be extremely powerful with some pretty good efficiency. My biggest gripe with this generation's nvidia cards is how stinking hot and power hungry they are. It is looking like these issues are going to be resolved, which will make for some great competition.
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TSgt. A Yoder - Excused
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Name: PulseIllusion
Steam I.D: [U:1:181220244]
Duration of Ban: Permanent
Reasons for the Ban: Teamkilling and trolling
Demo Provided?: N
Comments: Player was originally banned for 1 week, extended by request by Gearhart, here
Hey Gearhart-
He seems like the type to come back a week later and do the exact same thing, so I will extend this ban to permanent. If and/or when he requests to be unbanned, I will have a talk with him about the behavior we expect in our server.
Thanks,
A. Yoder
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Dillon 1st MRB
Well, you may remember my prior post on the 7970 being released, and its a great card. However, it is $550-$600, so its out of the reach of most of us. Well, the 7950 has been released at the slightly less heart rending $450. You can read all about it, but here's the thing: You only can justify it if you have a viewing area of ~4 megapixels. What does this mean? Well, the old VGA standard resolution was 640x480. Multiply that out, and you get 307 kilo pixels. For HDTV's, you have 1920x1080 as the standard, which when that is mutiplied out, you get 2 megapixels. If you are running two of these monitors, voila! 4 megapixels. So, what's the big deal about these? Well, the 7950 is a better card than nvidia's behmouth GTX 580, which sells for ~$500.
For most of us, this card is not a great option. Its, dare I say, too powerful for us. Even for my now old and dated resolution of 1680x1050 (a 16:10 rato rather than 16:9), I only run 1.7 megapixels. I am looking to the mid-range products coming out in the next month or so for a great product that may fit my next upgrade. That being said, it will be a phenominal day for all gamers when we see nvidia's "Kepler" products released. Rumor has it those cards are going to be extremely powerful with some pretty good efficiency. My biggest gripe with this generation's nvidia cards is how stinking hot and power hungry they are. It is looking like these issues are going to be resolved, which will make for some great competition.
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