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Which is better? 256mb fx5700 or 128mb fx5900?
I am a budget gamer on an athlon xp 2800 oced slightly and 512 mb of ram
and a geforce 4 mx440 64mb oced to 312/579 and a SB Live! LS 5.1. I'm running Windows 98 and I'm pretty sure my graphics card is the bottleneck for UT2004, Sims 2, etc. I am interested in Doom 3. So, like I said which card is better, 256mb fx5700 or 128mb fx5900?? The fx5700 is about $30 cheaper give or take a few... Thx! |
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the 5700 has a beaming fast 128bit memory interface(sic), while the 5900 has
256bit...you do tha math! |
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5900 baby.
"John Dawg" wrote in message ... I am a budget gamer on an athlon xp 2800 oced slightly and 512 mb of ram and a geforce 4 mx440 64mb oced to 312/579 and a SB Live! LS 5.1. I'm running Windows 98 and I'm pretty sure my graphics card is the bottleneck for UT2004, Sims 2, etc. I am interested in Doom 3. So, like I said which card is better, 256mb fx5700 or 128mb fx5900?? The fx5700 is about $30 cheaper give or take a few... Thx! |
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"John Dawg" wrote in message
... " So, like I said which card is better, 256mb fx5700 or 128mb fx5900?? " The 5900 is well worth the extra $20. http://graphics.tomshardware.com/gra...charts-08.html |
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So then what advantage is more ram on the card? I may sound dumb but I'm
just curious... if I got a 256mb 5900 what advantage would I see over the 128mb 5900? |
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"John Dawg" wrote in message ... So then what advantage is more ram on the card? I may sound dumb but I'm just curious... if I got a 256mb 5900 what advantage would I see over the 128mb 5900? Mostly no advantage on current games in fact they often use slower memory so that the 256meg cards are slower. |
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Thx for all the great info!! I really appreciate!! And researching
further, more vram just increases your maximum possible resolution/depth...which right now 128 mb is getting high enough for anything smaller than a 4 foot monitor. Mine's only 17", don't know why I would ever want 2048x1536 @ 32bpp anyway. |
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Now looking at the specs on the cards it seems as though the 128 mb
supports the same resolution... is video memory used for something different nowadays than what is in the website I'm reading? If i'm getting too far OT please warn me, I'm new to this ng. Thanks! |
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"John Dawg" wrote in message ... So then what advantage is more ram on the card? I may sound dumb but I'm just curious... if I got a 256mb 5900 what advantage would I see over the 128mb 5900? Simple answer - You simply have more data for storage if need. CapFusion,... |
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John Dawg wrote:
Now looking at the specs on the cards it seems as though the 128 mb supports the same resolution... is video memory used for something different nowadays than what is in the website I'm reading? If i'm getting too far OT please warn me, I'm new to this ng. Thanks! I wouldn't think asking about the abilities of an nVidia video card would be OT in here, but we DO enjoy 2 or 3 page long posts about one's prowess at Quake. An inability to form complete sentences wouldn't hurt, either. dvus |
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