Nflight passed 10M

[vaughan]

Yes I agree with you both Dirk and NeoGen. I cannot understand AMD's logic with their decision to not include double precision with the 68XX series GPUs. Its ia a MAJOR fault. I was going to buy half a dozen of them but will consider Nvidia GTX580s now. Maybe I'll wait and see what the 69XX series brings but it might just bring the prices of the GTX580s down.

[Dirk Broer]

Today I broke the 10 million barrier, and earlier this week the long-awaited Ati/AMD HD 6950 and HD 6970 came out. Good cards indeed, but the HD 5970 remains world's fastest card. Where nVidia choose the new Fermi cards to have the double precision at 1/8th of the single precision (as opposed to the lousy 1/12th with the 200 series), Ati/AMD choose to have it at 1/4th (as opposed to 1/5th earlier). The 6970 thus has a power of 2,732 Gflop SP and 683 Gflop DP, the 6950 will do at 2250 and 562,5 respectively. The 6970 is better than the HD 5870 -or its professional brother, the Ati FirePro V9800-, while the 6950 is better than the Ati FirePro V8800, the FireStream 9370, the HD 4870 X2 or the HD 5850. The HD 5970 thus remains king however, with a stunning 4,640 Gflops SP and 928 Gflops DP. Those of us with too much money can even opt for the ASUS Ares, in fact a double HD 5870 with 5,440 Gflops SP and 1,088 Gflops DP

[vaughan]

Only trouble is that no shops here in Aus have the Ares in stock. I think I'll wait and see what the 6990 has to offer.

[Dirk Broer]

Hi Vaughan,

The ASUS Ares *is/should be* for sale in Oz,
www.digitan.com.au $1608.75
www.penta.com.au $1680.00
www.onlinecomputer.com.au $1689.00

[vaughan]

In my proven experience so no slander involved, Digitan employ the classic but illegal "bait-and-switch" strategy. They advertise they have the product, take your Credit card details then say "sorry last one sold just before your order was received" They then try to get you to buy something similar but more expensive. I demanded my credit card debt be reversed.

Their other trick is to have a website that displays heaps of product titles but on further exploration they are all "out of stock".

Penta are known for the notebook computer deals not much else. I haven't tried them so the umpire is out for them.

Onlinecomputer have been OK in the past but a tad on the expensive side.

I'll wait until the HD6990 gets released.

Just ordered another MSI GTX460 1GB Hawk from Arthur and the good guys at MTechcomputers.com.au for the upcoming PrimeGrid Summer Solstice race.