Currently have one of the scan 7800 gtx cards - what cards would people suggest as an upgrade for gaming?
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Currently have one of the scan 7800 gtx cards - what cards would people suggest as an upgrade for gaming?
what sort of screen do u have?
and mind posting the rest of your system?
At this moment, only really justifiable upgrade from such a card would be to the GeForce 8 series.
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.
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..
Why do people keep saying that?? I'll quote from another recent thread:
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by acrobat
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.
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.
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 :/
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.