Foxconn Brings DirectX 10 To The Broke Masses
- June 21st, 2007
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So you’ve got your Windows Vista and you want to get a hold of a little bit of that DirectX 10 action, but your bummer of a video card is being a buzz kill? That sucks. You’re supposed to upgrade that, but who’s got that kind of scratch laying around? Those cards cost an arm and a leg and probably some other stuff. Sit down, dweeb, Foxconn’s got you set.
Today the silicon-card maker announced two new cards made for DirectX 10 based around the Nvidia GeForce 8400GS. And they both fall in the sub-$100 category. Sure, that could mean $99.99, but it’s still a good deal. The cards are pretty much the same, though one has 256MB RAM whilst the other has a wimpy 128MB.
We don’t have a lot of details, just that they exist and will hit the market soon. Their maxrez (that’s maximum resolution, n00b) is 2,560×1,600, which is totally respectable. The core clock is 450MHz with 850MHz on the memory clock. I don’t expect you to understand that, but it basically means they’re not the fastest around, but still plenty speedy for under a Benjamin. Word.
Foxconn Announces Nvidia GeForce 8400GS Cards [ExtremeTech, via Slashgear]
Brooke
2007-06-22 10:12:31
They may support DirectX 10, but I wonder how well they’ll support the hefty technical requirements needed by the new generation of DX10 games. My guess is games like Supreme Commander, Crysis, and Unreal Tournament 3 will bring these lower-end cards to their needs.
Here’s a list of confirmed DX10 games for 2007: http://www.novatek.com.au/news/confirmed-dx-10-games.html. I don’t think a $100 card will play many of those games even at the lowest graphical settings. You might as well save up for an 8800 GTO, which will likely drop in price by the time most of these games are released! :)
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Travis
2007-06-22 11:36:19
These cards probably won’t game all that well - but with Vista you need a decent graphics card to just play solitare and do day to day taskes. I got the best card offered on my Dell E521 and have a Vista score of 4.1 (the lowest score overall on my system) for my trouble. Maybe one of these cards can raise that and not kill my meager budget. PC Gamers are not the people these are aimed at (not real ones anyway) - they are more to beef up Vista and make an upgrade easier to wallets.
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2007-07-02 11:24:01
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