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Impulsive x800xt 256Mb to 8800GTS 320Mb upgrade
I was looking to buy a 512Mb X1950Pro, mainly because I wanted the extra
bandwidth on the PCI-E bus for capturing Fraps footage while flight simming. (I used an AGP card on an Asrock dual sata). But the 1950 was 155ukp and I was easily swayed at the last moment towards an 8800GTS for 194ukp, especially as I won't be upgrading (probably!) for another 2 years or so. Anyway, I won't bore you with benchmarks, the net's full of them. Overall speed & picture quality at 1600x1200 is great. But Nvidia's FSAA is still, depressingly, behind ATI's in quality IMO. At x4/x8aniso I see shimmering where I didn't have it before at resolutions like 1024x768 which I use for video capture. x16fsaa is better, but I'm not convinced it's better than ATI's x4. All in all, this reminds me why I went ATI with the 9700Pro and stayed there. Andrew McP |
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Impulsive x800xt 256Mb to 8800GTS 320Mb upgrade
It's a known fact that shimmering and texture crawling is worse on nVidia
cards, because such effects have to be seen in motion; they don't appear in screenshots. You can minimize this by disabling anisotropic filtering in the control panel. Also try the "weird" AA modes like 8xS. BTW, your hard drive write speed, not the AGP bus, is the main bottleneck when recording FRAPS footage. Even two Raptors in RAID 0 won't exceed 200 MB/s sustained. 200 MB/s is about 6% of the bandwidth available thru AGP 8x. Face it, you just wanted a faster card. :-) -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Andrew MacPherson" wrote in message ddress_disguised... I was looking to buy a 512Mb X1950Pro, mainly because I wanted the extra bandwidth on the PCI-E bus for capturing Fraps footage while flight simming. (I used an AGP card on an Asrock dual sata). But the 1950 was 155ukp and I was easily swayed at the last moment towards an 8800GTS for 194ukp, especially as I won't be upgrading (probably!) for another 2 years or so. Anyway, I won't bore you with benchmarks, the net's full of them. Overall speed & picture quality at 1600x1200 is great. But Nvidia's FSAA is still, depressingly, behind ATI's in quality IMO. At x4/x8aniso I see shimmering where I didn't have it before at resolutions like 1024x768 which I use for video capture. x16fsaa is better, but I'm not convinced it's better than ATI's x4. All in all, this reminds me why I went ATI with the 9700Pro and stayed there. Andrew McP |
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Impulsive x800xt 256Mb to 8800GTS 320Mb upgrade
root@localhost (First of One) wrote:
Face it, you just wanted a faster card. :-) :-) I exchanged emails with the guy who wrote Fraps and he suggested that a dual core processor would help, but that the higher bandwidth of PCI-E would help even more. Obviously HD speed also comes into it, but in theory the average HD had more than enough write speed to cope with Fraps, especially if you're not short of RAM and the game's not accessing the HD very often. Anyway, it's a complicated equation overall, and PCI-E has certainly helped. Whether it's helped enough to justify the cost is a different matter. I certainly didn't need the speed for gaming as my sims are CPU limited anyway. :-) Andrew McP PS Thanks for the suggestions about FSAA |
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