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Old June 18th 07, 08:44 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
Lepak Nerat
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Default Worth an upgrade?

currently using 7950 GX2 with a w/c cooling block, cost a small fortune,
but ho hum....

Is it worth going for one of the new 8800's? in which case which? a
couple of GT's?
a single GTX?

currently score a little over 5000 in 3dmark06 but i find Oblivion still
a little slow maxed out (

Any idea on the "next" lot of cards from nvidia? 99xx series?

read a little bit about how the Ultras aren't 'that' great an improvement.
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Old June 18th 07, 11:03 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
Phil Weldon
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Default Worth an upgrade?

'Lepak Nerat' wrote, in part:
| currently using 7950 GX2 with a w/c cooling block, cost a small fortune,
| but ho hum....
|
| Is it worth going for one of the new 8800's? in which case which? a
| couple of GT's?
| a single GTX?
|
| currently score a little over 5000 in 3dmark06 but i find Oblivion still
| a little slow maxed out (

A single overclocked 8800 GTS @ 650 MHz GPU / 850 MHz Memory and an E4300 @
2700 MHz, 2 GBytes DDR2-1066 @ DDR2- 1200 gives me a 3DMark06 (free
version) score of ~ 10500 (stock boxed, retail Intel heatsink/fan, stock
EVGA 8800 GTS 320 MByte air cooling.)

If you need large texture memory, then a 640 MByte version would be
advisable, but the memory may not overclock as much. Your graphics upgrade
results will vary depending on your CPU/memory/motherboard.

Phil Weldon

"Lepak Nerat" wrote in message
...
| currently using 7950 GX2 with a w/c cooling block, cost a small fortune,
| but ho hum....
|
| Is it worth going for one of the new 8800's? in which case which? a
| couple of GT's?
| a single GTX?
|
| currently score a little over 5000 in 3dmark06 but i find Oblivion still
| a little slow maxed out (
|
| Any idea on the "next" lot of cards from nvidia? 99xx series?
|
| read a little bit about how the Ultras aren't 'that' great an improvement.


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Old June 19th 07, 12:11 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
Lepak Nerat
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Default Worth an upgrade?

Lepak Nerat wrote:
currently using 7950 GX2 with a w/c cooling block, cost a small fortune,
but ho hum....

Is it worth going for one of the new 8800's? in which case which? a
couple of GT's?
a single GTX?

currently score a little over 5000 in 3dmark06 but i find Oblivion still
a little slow maxed out (

Any idea on the "next" lot of cards from nvidia? 99xx series?

read a little bit about how the Ultras aren't 'that' great an improvement.


BTW my system, AM2 6000+, 3.01GHz, 4GB 800DDR2 RAM, Vista Ultimate. hope
it helps in the recommendations )
 




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