luca_29_bg
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how long will be the 7970 ? I have a 5850 Toxic edition, and fits my case, and there's a little more space but not so much. Who know something ?
Radeon HD 7900 Launch set for December 22nd, 2011 - R1000 | Tahiti | GCN
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I don't even want separate streams, I was wondering more about the mechanics of long distance connection. But it would be nice to know the two devices can be used independently.
luca_29_bg
Member
If you don't mind using regular thickness HDMI cables, or even flat HDMI cables, you won't have a problem. I had to use the thin ones and those definitely have a maximum length so I had to use an extender. Just as an FYI, contrary to what I've heard on this board you definitely can have a corrupted signal if your cable is too long for its size but at 20 feet you shouldn't have any problems even with the thinnest cables.
Hmm, may buy this to replace my nvidia 260 GTX.
Right now I am trying to figure out if I can fish a cable through the wall. If so, it would be infinitely easier. Thanks for the advice.
Felix Lighter
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It's funny that you mention running hdmi from your pc to your tv. I just did that today. I believe the best way to send hdmi over longer distances is to use hdmi over cat6. Here is what I used and it worked perfectly:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10425&cs_id=1042501&p_id=8200&seq=1&format=2
I also bought 2 cat6 cables and 2 single gang wall brackets and I had to run to hardware store for some self cutting screws to mount the Hdmi wall plate to the wall bracket. It was super easy actually.
chaosblade
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Not sure that would be a very big upgrade. Totally guessing, but probably something like 20% or so at best.
xbmc (and most media players) can already output to a specific device, ie. your tv, allowing you to leave everything else defaulted to your desktop. windows key + p handles two monitors fine, or for your use case, just keep it in extended mode
yes but some of our gtx's don;t have HDMI outs...only dvi
Three more days to sweet sweet benches.
Yeah, I saw, but I thought I would get it just for the dx11 support.
Confirmed to be a fake slide.
Will be derivative of the 8XXX if it launches in 2012, 9XXX 2013...
And will come with 2 billion jiggawatts and will cost 25 bucks.
Proelite
Member
Wont work like last time around due to the fact that ms has much more time to work on the system.
luca_29_bg
Member
Someone explain me this...
Or if you want, you can use something like this:
http://www.actualtools.com/windowma...er_and_other_multi_monitor_enhancements.shtml
BoobPhysics101
Banned
2 more days... let's hope AMD puts MSRP of the 7970 @ $400. If Amazon will sell me a 7970 for $400 MSRP with no tax, I'll definitely be buying day 1.
electristan
Member
really wish the 7970 would show up for pre order soon, just got paid and dieing to tinker with ine over the holidays 
luca_29_bg
Member
yeah i want to see texture 32 terabyte large XD
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Damn, lots of fancy talk here. I'm getting more excited.
nextgeneration
Member
Hmm, those benchmarks the real deal? A little bit less than I expected, if true.
A whopping 3% increase over gtx580 in Skyrim!
Outside of that, the cards look pretty good, and will hopefully cause nvidia to finally start dropping prices on 5 series cards.
One thing that looked odd to me above: a 6970 is shown to have better performance in Arkham City than a 580? Is such a thing even possible?
Outside of that, the cards look pretty good, and will hopefully cause nvidia to finally start dropping prices on 5 series cards.
One thing that looked odd to me above: a 6970 is shown to have better performance in Arkham City than a 580? Is such a thing even possible?
amstradcpc
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They are makin comparissons with a card that may be ending 1/2 as fast as the new GTX780. This generation Nvidia will have no competition if really the GTX 780 has 1024 shader cores.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
I'm going to be building a new PC around the end of January or the beginning of February. I wonder what the pricing information is going to be on a 7970.
My guess is around $500+, I don't think I'll be willing to pay that unless I can put away a good amount of money in the next couple of months.
My guess is around $500+, I don't think I'll be willing to pay that unless I can put away a good amount of money in the next couple of months.
I read it as a 3% increase over two gtx580, but you may be right.
Still, watching this family closely. My 4850 is not really cutting it anymore for FullHD gaming.
amstradcpc
Member
Can't be that as GTX 5802 results are similar to the 6970 ones.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
AMD will probably have the refresh (8000 series) out not long after the high end GTX700 series get released. If that roadmap for Kepler was legit, the high end GPUs (770/780) are probably not coming out until July or so.
Yeah, and they will most probably add XDR in their top 8xxx models.
PjotrStroganov
Member
Price/performance makes cards competitors. Not absolute benchmarks.
nextgeneration
Member
If these things MSRP = $400, then damn good price/performance. But if they're well over $500, probably not.
Cow Mengde
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Why the fuck would you use Skyrim as a benchmark for anything? Might as well compare it to the PS3 version.
Anyway, so far so good if those numbers are real. Waiting for power consumption numbers.
Anyway, so far so good if those numbers are real. Waiting for power consumption numbers.
nextgeneration
Member
Yeah, Skyrim looks to be the anomaly there and from what I've been reading, is heavily cpu limited. Thus, which card you use will have little impact on performance.
luca_29_bg
Member
nothing about improving perfomance on ssaa or new forms of aa ?