what to upgrade to from 7800gtx

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20-11-2006, 04:59 PM
ca-uk

what to upgrade to from 7800gtx

Currently have one of the scan 7800 gtx cards - what cards would people suggest as an upgrade for gaming?
20-11-2006, 05:05 PM
sawyen

what sort of screen do u have?

and mind posting the rest of your system?
21-11-2006, 12:01 AM
oralpain

At this moment, only really justifiable upgrade from such a card would be to the GeForce 8 series.
21-11-2006, 09:57 AM
CrazyMonkey

Yes but it would be overkill if its paired with a 19" or lower monitor. And DX10 games arent out yet, but of course they are in development.
21-11-2006, 09:59 AM
sawyen

or a CPU which carries an age.. like a Pentium 4..

Would be advantageous if you could tell us your specs..

There's a good chance that you can tide across to a proper DX10 card with a relatively fast DX9 one.. i.e. X1950XT.. which slaps a 7800GTX in most cases..
21-11-2006, 11:34 AM
htid

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Originally Posted by CrazyMonkey

Yes but it would be overkill if its paired with a 19" or lower monitor.

Why do people keep saying that?? I'll quote from another recent thread:

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Originally Posted by acrobat

Also, wouldn't lower resolutions just allow you to push a game to higher settings and switch on the full AA/AF etc? In which case, there will be games to make good use of an 8800 at lower resolutions.

There was a review of the 8800GTX on a fast C2D playing Flight Sim X. And it said that the card still struggles if you crank the game to maximum and fly over a city etc.... And games are just going to continue to get more and more demanding (Crysis, Alan Wake, etc..). So surely an 8800 will be made good use of, even at lower resolutions? You just have to crank all the settings of these more demanding games, to make full use of the card.

That's surely right! I mean my 7900GTX was getting jerky framerates with everything on maximum at 1280x1024 in Condemned and FEAR at certain points, with say multiple enemies and lots of volumic lighting. SO I think an 8800 WOULD make a difference even at lower res.
21-11-2006, 11:37 AM
kalniel

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Originally Posted by htid

Why do people keep saying that??
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.I mean my 7900GTX was getting jerky framerates with everything on maximum at 1280x1024 in Condemned and FEAR at certain points, with say multiple enemies and lots of volumic lighting. SO I think an 8800 WOULD make a difference even at lower res.

Not if the reason you are getting jerky framerates is that you are bottlenecking somewhere apart from the graphics card.

A typical symptom of non-GPU bottlenecking is no increase in performance when you lower the resolution, so if you're still jerking at low res then there's a good chance throwing a more powerful graphics card at the problem won't improve anything.
21-11-2006, 06:19 PM
CrazyMonkey

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Originally Posted by htid

Why do people keep saying that??

Well its because im pro...:mrgreen:

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Originally Posted by kalniel

Not if the reason you are getting jerky framerates is that you are bottlenecking somewhere apart from the graphics card.

A typical symptom of non-GPU bottlenecking is no increase in performance when you lower the resolution, so if you're still jerking at low res then there's a good chance throwing a more powerful graphics card at the problem won't improve anything.

Yeah you are probly bottlenecking somwhere... Seriously a 8800GTX on a 19" is overkill with the latest games i can understand twinning it with a 19" when more power hungry games come out.. Untill then i wouldnt get one unless i had a good size monitor.
21-11-2006, 09:14 PM
htid

lol bottlenecking somewhere else? Even with my E6600 at 3ghz and 2gb 6400 RAM? If so, that's crap! :p I thought my specs (minus graphics card) should handle anything out at the mo :/
22-11-2006, 05:22 PM
kalniel

There was a very important 'if' in my statement :p You need to check by lowering resolution first. If lowering your resolution doesn't smooth things up, then by extension getting a new graphics card won't really do much. If that's the case, then people are suggesting *raising* the resolution until the gpu does become the limiting factor, only then will a new gpu make a diffence, hence the statment about 19" screens.
22-11-2006, 06:57 PM
danroyle

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Originally Posted by CrazyMonkey

Well its because im pro...:mrgreen:

Yeah you are probly bottlenecking somwhere... Seriously a 8800GTX on a 19" is overkill with the latest games i can understand twinning it with a 19" when more power hungry games come out.. Untill then i wouldnt get one unless i had a good size monitor.

see now i would get one even with my 19" monitor even though i can only run at 1280x1024 cos if i play the latest games i dont wanna play them at an acceptable 40fps i want ultra smooth 60+