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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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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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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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