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Re: NVIDIA interview: Part II is here!

Baer — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:59:28 GMT

Really good forum, some interesting things were brought to light.

Re: NVIDIA interview: Part II is here!

prtuc2 — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:15:17 GMT

motowater:
prtuc2:

Not sure if this is the right place to ask question, but here it goes.

I am working on the folding@home project, which what I am interested in the GPU client platform and currently only ATI cards will support this feature, so is Nvidia going to get support for the folding@home project any time in the future?

Btw, according to folding@home project ATI cards are easier to program for their model.

what is folding@home?

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-main.

Re: NVIDIA interview: Part II is here!

MeiLing — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:11:31 GMT

They did touch on the PureVideo features of the Nvidia cards but they did not answer my question on why I have to pay extra to get drivers/software from them, Nvidia, to make those features work when I am playing back videos. With ATI, at least back when I owned ATI cards, the drivers and software needed to get HQ video playback was included with the card or could be downloaded from the ATI site. Is that still the case?

But that does not really matter, the Nvidia card do not really have HQ video playback if Nvidia requires you to visit their website and drop 50 more bucks to get it working. They should address that on their product packaging as it is false advertising to say it is there when it is not.

Re: NVIDIA interview: Part II is here!

motowater — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:32:55 GMT

prtuc2:
Not sure if this is the right place to ask question, but here it goes.

I am working on the folding@home project, which what I am interested in the GPU client platform and currently only ATI cards will support this feature, so is Nvidia going to get support for the folding@home project any time in the future?

Btw, according to folding@home project ATI cards are easier to program for their model.

what is folding@home?

Re: NVIDIA interview: Part II is here!

prtuc2 — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:05:37 GMT

Not sure if this is the right place to ask question, but here it goes.

I am working on the folding@home project, which what I am interested in the GPU client platform and currently only ATI cards will support this feature, so is Nvidia going to get support for the folding@home project any time in the future?

Btw, according to folding@home project ATI cards are easier to program for their model.

Re: NVIDIA interview: Part II is here!

nachowarrior — Sat, 10 May 2008 06:13:23 GMT

it seems that some of our questions may have been answered by other companies, possibly reading in on the interview...

One thing I always loved about ASUS was the fact that they always seemed to have what I really wanted in a product.... I loved the question about upgradeable video cards... and here may be an answer. I would buy one of these in a heartbeat just to keep from constantly upgrading at a super high cost. Not to mention the fact that it's hard to sell a video card to people that don't know what it's worth, or over the internet to someone you don't know.... this might just save me from having to do that. :-p

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-graphics-card,5324.html

I want one already. if i could get one of those and dump an hd 4k series chip in it the day it came out for a decent price, i'd buy it. I just hope this gets to the shelves and sees long term support. not to mention the fact that something like this would save on waste and be good for our environment. instead of wasteing all the circuitry, just get new chips! and omg... and it would bring awesome scalability to the graphics sector... the classic internal struggle over which new part to buy just got easier imo... i would much rather be able to spend 50 bucks here and there to upgrade my video card than have to save up 150-400 at any given time to get a whole new one...

anyway... nvidia... pffftt... asus answered the question you shrugged off...which is why they may have done this... if nvidia broke the news before asus they'd kill them, not to mention the fact that it's "ati based" according to the article... but nvidia might be able to make parts for the card as well... omg!!! and all of this following amd's statement the other day "what we are doing is bold..." and their stock rose... I just wonder... I can't wait to see what's going to happen over the next year. It's going to be amazing i think... based on all of this stuff breaking out at right about the same time... just seems... well... either too good to be true... or everyone in the industry is finally working together to 'take down the empire' (intel if you prefer). Sorry for the star wars reference, but it just seems too... convenient for all this to be happening so fast... and so seemingly collaborated.

anyway, that being said...anyone want to buy a new pc? I'm selling mine... :-p

Re: NVIDIA interview: Part II is here!

Snuggles — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:33:27 GMT

Sick interview guys! I hope there will be more in the future.

Re: NVIDIA interview: Part II is here!

IronMan77 — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:58:48 GMT

Thanks NewEgg & Nvidia, Nice job.

Re: NVIDIA interview: Part II is here!

intelguy — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:20:58 GMT

great job indeed. keep up the great job

but i do wanna see the Intel interview i hope it will come out soon.

what about the next interview? which company?

hopefully AMD

Re: NVIDIA interview: Part II is here!

aggiedad — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:11:18 GMT

great job

Re: NVIDIA interview: Part II is here!

root — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:09:57 GMT

Much better job this time around. Great work ning and company!

Re: NVIDIA interview: Part II is here!

tallguy1618 — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:07:41 GMT

But wait, I have more questions!

Re: NVIDIA interview: Part II is here!

Kardon — Sun, 04 May 2008 04:38:55 GMT

FANTASTIC!!!! This is a million times better than part 1. I'm glad they took this part seriously and it wasn’t just some guy from marketing answering our questions. Great work to both the egg and NVIDIA!

I agree with the no need for 4 way sli with cards like the 8800gt. As long as 2 high end NVIDIA cards outperform a quad ATI setup I'm happy. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn’t mind the option, but if it means I have to pay 250 for my 8800gt instead of 200 I'm happy with what we have now.

The name of the next series doesn't really matter to me but please no more 3 different cards with the same name (8800gts). We explain this to nubs all the time and I can see how it confuses people who are not tech obsessed like us. Unless some one catches them in time they usually pick up the cheapest one expecting them all to perform similar. So NVIDIA gets less money and the customer gets 8800gts 320 performance when they were expecting 8800gts 512 (g92) performance.

Re: NVIDIA interview: Part II is here!

PROACEX1 — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:12:44 GMT

Wow, a very good interview, better then the last one!

LOL @ MrMonroe's post...Maybe the should go and name it the "N1000" Series..."Scarabee"...ROFLMAO!

Also, as to the question presented by Andrew Fear, I'd say that Three-Way SLi would be very nice to have on lower-end, and much cheaper, GPUs...Just as another upgrade option...I do believe that Quad-SLi is something which wouldn't be very effecient to use on single GPU PCBs, I mean, c'mon, who in their right mind would want to have four 8800GT's in their system, the heating issues, and then the motherboard would need 4 PCI-E x16 slots (You'd have to get rid of a few PCI slots on your motherboard, and that could mean no soundcard or other upgrade options)...

So, yes to Three-Way SLi, no to Quad-SLi for 8800GT's and other performance class GPU products, it just doesn't make upgrade sense...

Respectfully,

PROACEX1

Re: NVIDIA interview: Part II is here!

maple29 — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:31:18 GMT

Eggxpert has done a great job...again.! Quite amazed at the interview series all the time for i can know more about those great manufacturers regarding 'em. Hats off to that guy who got such a wonderful idea!