I have a new comparison for you guys.......
x850xt vs 6800gt
The reason for the change is that I've found (I think) the 850xt being sold underclocked and with 4 of the 16 pipes locked as a "x800gto2" from Sapphire. It looks like a bios flash and overclock of this new card will make it an...
Oh, and one more question: Should I expect any major price drops in the next month/6 weeks, due to the release of ATI's new line of cards?
I thought Shader 3.0 was just an optimized 2.0, thus making it less critical...no?
That's one vote for teh 6800...
I'm looking to upgrade my 9800 Pro, and these two cards look like the front-runners:
Gigabyte x800xl - $252
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814125186
XFX 6800gt - $289
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814150102
Is one of these cards my best...
So this is a singleplayer AND multiplayer demo combined, unlike what they did with the demos of BF1942? I can't play multiplayer so I don't want to download this demo if a singleplayer version is going to be released soon...
I didn't mean to imply that HL2 multiplayer would be released for free as a mod, but rather that many things point to the TF2 project as being the multiplayer everyone is looking for.
They are still working on HL2 multiplayer, and most signs point towards TF2 as being the big surprise Valve has been talking about. They have been trying to keep this as secret as possible to surprise the fans, and so far it has worked. I think Valve decided they needed to release the single...