StryderXX

Well I just picked up a Geforce FX 5900 Ultra by Leadtek and I must say that I am quite dissapointed. I replaced a Radeon 9700 Pro with this massive beast of a card and I really don't see that big of an improvement. I had my 9700 Pro OCed and had some BGA heatsinks on it and it was KICKASS! I had the core at 370 and the mem at 340. The FX Ultra just doesn't look (IQ) or feel as good as the 9700 Pro. The FX also runs very hot! The core runs at about 44C in 2d mode and jumps up to 70C after just a few minutes of gaming in 3D mode. I also notice that games run fine initially but after about 20 mins the games seem to slow down. Studder starts to appear out of no where.... Strange... maybe the core is clocking down because of the heat. Not sure... What bugs me is that this card is the best Nvidia could come up with after all this time. I used to be a avid Nvidia fan but now I have lost alot of respect for this company. IMO ATI is the way to go for high end PC gaming.

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Rayder

But...but.....haven't you read all the reviews comparing ATI to nVidia?


Oh! I see....this is your first post. You need to hang out here more often. You would have known better if you'd have done a little research first.

Welcome to DriverHeaven!

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csl1010

Rayder,

Then would you please tell me how FX5900 performs better than 9700/9800 significantly?

Kgentatszu]

well, it depends what you want.....if speed is all you want then, go for 5900 but if you want more !Q than anything else go for Radeon 9800pro....9700Pro's are for those who wou;d play games at a lower resolution like 1024x768.....basicly, in my oppinion, Nvidia's and ATi still produce great cards!!!

HawK

I beg your pardon?? where ever you came up with this??
I have a 9700np wich runs all my games very smooth in either 1600 or 1280 32bit!
Besides the diff. is not that great between the 9700 & 9800

back on topic
I think you sfould had stayed with the Ati for awhile, I'm not saying the 5900 is a bad card
but any upgrade should at least be a 50% gain or else you'd be dissapointed
and if you were reading the b3d dx9 benchmark, this is surely not the case.

Necrosis

I have the Pro version which still kicks some ass, and then some.

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Kgentatszu]

sorry guys, what i really mean was that since the 98900Pro has higher clock speeds, so......ya know...higher resolutions and stuff like that.........anyway, both card wont yield much of a difference.....

StryderXX

I've been an Nvidia fan since the original TNT. I remember playing Quake 1/2, MDK, MotoRacer etc and loved it. Once the TNT2 came out I dumped my Voodoo2 SLI setup and never looked back. I've purchased every vid card that Nvidia created. Nvidia has a great past but lately it seems like they are losing focus on retaining the 3d accelerator crown. It broke my heart to hear people ripping into the 5800's blower and reading how Nvidia was cheating with there drivers when running 3dmark2003. I really didn't need a vid card upgrade but I heard some great things about the 5900 Ultra so I ran out and purchased one. Before I give up on this card I'm going to reformat and reinstall XP to see if maybe the 5900 will start to shine in my rig. Hopefully I'll have better results after that. (crossing my fingers) I just have this bad feeling that I should have waited to see what ATI has in store for us in October. I'll post my new results once I redo my system.

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HawK

yeah, but you should look to performance, not clock speed.
Look at 9500 vs 9600, the 9600 has almost double the clock speed than 9500, but on performance level there about the same

/back on topic:
Shure, but they (NVidia) should get there act together, and not bring halfbaked panic solutions, or they will loose more & more customers
I'm a big PVR fan, but that doesn't mean i'm still on a KyroII, if they deliver i'll buy it, if not I look elsewere.

Zardon

we are testing a 5900 ultra right now, and the card has for all intents and purposes DIED.... it seemed to perform pretty well while it did work though.

Driver 7

Get outa here. Why did it die. Please dont tell me it just died. There must be arctic silver on the resistors. Cummon man. That will break my heart if it just died.

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Veridian3

Completely stock, not overclocked...a weeks worth of general use and a days worth of benching...thats all it took too kill it.

Stu

kinetic

Lets hope it was just a faulty card!

Driver 7

Wow man. Thats the shittiest thing that could happen. For Nvidia's sake anyways. The moderators of this site have alot of influence online. A bad review like that could hurt. But it could have just been a flawed card. The runt of the litter say. Which brand is it?
I have had the leadtek for a month and a half not. No problems at all. Except I am not getting any extremley high benches with it.

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Rayder

I just meant that if he would have come here first and done some research he may never have bought a 5900 and would have saved himself alot of aggravation.

I was pretty tired when I wrote that, so I can see where it may have been misleading as to what I meant. Sorry about that.

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