GeForce FX 5800 Ultra review - Conclusion

Conclusion

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I've never had so much trouble writing a conclusion on an NVIDIA graphics card as ever before. My feelings towards it are duallistic.On the one hand we have this awesome new product that really is top notch performance and feature wise. Yet what we all expected to was a Radeon 9700 Pro killer wasn't it ? Unfortionately it barely is faster. Does that make it a bad graphics card then ? By all means no .. GeForce FX is a new chipset generation graphics card that has been bluild for upcoming DirectX9 games. Current games will run absolutely stunning on it. I mean I just played Splinter Cell with 4x AA and 8x AF enabled while doing framerates that where amazing.

Sp you see .. there are plenty of good reason to buy the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra, unfortunately there are alos reasons not to buy it. The pricetag might be something you don't like, the fact that we yet have to see the first DirectX9 game and last but not least the noise that FlowFX brings. Let's talk a little about that cooling this Ultra version has. There's no way deniying it, it's loud .. If you walk to the next room and l;eave the door open you will be able to hear FlowFX running. Fortunately NVIDIA did something clever, if you are in desktop (2D) mode flowFX soundless, you will not hear it as it rotates much slower. However when a 3D application like a game starts then the noise begins. Personally, I don't like it at all. Let's go back to Splinter Cell again, you need to hear the environment sounds of the game .. how's that going to happen with a cooling fan so noisy ? I don't know who made the call at NVIDIA to implement it but for the most of you it is not acceptable. Another option is to buy a GeForce FX from either Gainward or AOpen as they fit the FX with their own coolers. Oh and people, the reason why FlowFX is on there is to cool down the graphics card .. it's needed because GeForceFX runs seriously hot. I thing I might be able to fry an egg on it ... it might be useful in a cold winter though.