Darksaberah :) well I do not mean 3dMark06, I actually mean the GPU/CPU pair. A 8800 with a high end CPU will certainly give you a lot more points:
www.techpowerup.com/?19498

I will take the reports of theINQ with a grain of salt, but it is safe to say, that the GPU is more CPU dependant than ever before...

I will OC everything (System and such) to see how far I can get.

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DS

Still not 100% convinced :p I sincerely are not meaning to contradict you, but the thread you quote is based on an article posted on the inquirer as well :)

I read you are working on a review of the card, dunno if this is too much to ask, don't even know if this may be possible, but would you please be so kind as to include benchmarks where you compare this card and different other current nVidia and Ati cards on different games and/or synthetic benchmarks running both on stock CPU clocks and overclocked CPU clocks (or even different CPUs perhaps?) and no video card OC?

That way it would be easier to compare how much of a bottleneck a CPU is for the G80 when compared to other cards. You could include separate SM2.0 and 3.0 scores for 3dMark06 as Mustang suggested as well ;)

I don't mean to be annoying, trust me, I really know you may want to start gaming with your new video card ASAP and not waste too much time with benchmarks, but this may help clear a lot of doubts many ppl has right now about the G80 :)

15th WarlockStill not 100% convinced :p I sincerely are not meaning to contradict you, but the thread you quote is based on an article posted on the inquirer as well :)

I read you are working on a review of the card, dunno if this is too much to ask, don't even know if this may be possible, but would you please be so kind as to include benchmarks where you compare this card and different other current nVidia and Ati cards on different games and/or synthetic benchmarks running both on stock CPU clocks and overclocked CPU clocks (or even different CPUs perhaps?) and no video card OC?

That way it would be easier to compare how much of a bottleneck a CPU is for the G80 when compared to other cards. You could include separate SM2.0 and 3.0 scores for 3dMark06 as Mustang suggested as well ;)

I don't mean to be annoying, but this may help clear a lot of doubts many ppl has right now about the G80 :)

well first off, you are not annoying :), it is good to get some input.
Well CPUs, I could test a single core 939 (low end 3000/3200) to see if it makes a big difference. Like I said, pictures are taken for the review already, but benching takes a lot of time (7950GX2 took around 70h of work)...I will have to see for what I have time.

It will be compared to NVIDIA cards 7900GTX and 7950GX2

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DS

Darksaberwell first off, you are not annoying :), it is good to get some input.
Well CPUs, I could test a single core 939 (low end 3000/3200) to see if it makes a big difference. Like I said, pictures are taken for the review already, but benching takes a lot of time (7950GX2 took around 70h of work)...I will have to see for what I have time.

It will be compared to NVIDIA cards 7900GTX and 7950GX2

cheers
DS

Hey, that was fast! (It's 4 am here, what time is it in Austria?) Thanks for your reply, and I wish you good luck with your review, really looking forward to it ;)

I think using the other 939 CPUs will be more than good enough make the comparison I suggest.

Hope it won't take too much of your time to do all that benchmarking, I can barely concieve how tedious it must be to benchmark video cards for over 70hrs :p

Thank you so much :)

EDIT: Totally off topic, but I just noted this is my 1000th post, w00t! :D

Also I see that you had a 7900GTX already, it would be nice to see how the new card benches against NVidia's old "top ender" to give us a real feel of price/performance.

Tatty_OneAlso I see that you had a 7900GTX already, it would be nice to see how the new card benches against NVidia's old "top ender" to give us a real feel of price/performance.

that is exacly what I am trying to illustrate :D

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DS