New graphics card
Saturday, July 29th, 2006Uhhh… i couldn’t resist tonight. I just ordered a new graphics card ( EN7950GX2 ). I currently have a ATI 850XT and so far it is fine hardware-wise besides producing some artifacts after a certain high-usage (i think it is heat actually). The drawback with ATI definitely is the drivers. They are simply broken by design… Which other manufacturer boasts that his drivers feature automatic restart in case the driver crashes? And with rendermonkey (a tool by ATi to create shaders) that happened to me a LOT.
The new beast is actually two since it is one card fitting in one slot featuring 2 gpus each with 512MB ddr3 ram. Maaan… finally i will be able to really explore all the SM3 codelines in shaders. The thing with ATI is that they still do not really support it ( tried to find the link again to the story - will do that as soon as i find it found it ).
From all the reviews i read i will be in for a major performance boost - about 4 to 6 times from where i am coming from 
Finally the price - don’t ask. In fact i cannot tell since my girlfriend would probably impale me…