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Video Card Thread (Mostly Gecube x1950xt)
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1. April 2008 @ 19:11 |
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Guys, I'm making a profit on it. I'm selling the video card for 180, when I bought it for 170. So why not spend a few bucks more and get an 8800GT?
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AfterDawn Addict
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1. April 2008 @ 21:03 |
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Hey, how does a 8800GTX for 200 sound?
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1. April 2008 @ 21:05 |
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Still short on money, I wanted to pick this card up.
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=204450333
Is this a good card?
Does it have a good price/performance ratio?
I'll also be looking at $20-30 less than listed because I'll be selling my x1650 PRO 512MB for $20-30. How much do you think I can get if I sell that card? It's a decent gamer card that supports HDCP.
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AfterDawn Addict
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1. April 2008 @ 23:20 |
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For that price it's almost a steal! Get it, it's pretty cheap.
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2. April 2008 @ 04:39 |
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It's cheap for an 8600GT, but that's not exactly a huge upgrade from your X1650.
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2. April 2008 @ 05:26 |
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azubar, wat res are you gaming at?
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2. April 2008 @ 06:24 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
It's cheap for an 8600GT, but that's not exactly a huge upgrade from your X1650.
So your saying that it wouldn't be much better than an 6800. My x1650 PRO isn't better than my 6800, it only has more memory. With the new 9800s released, I think if I wait for 2 weeks to a month, I could get better deals. The rebate on that $50 one ends on April 15th so I got time to look around for better ones. I missed it but they had the 8600 Zalman Edition for $70.
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2. April 2008 @ 07:11 |
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I like to use 1600x1200 when I can.
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2. April 2008 @ 11:54 |
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Grab an HD2600XT, they're not bad for the price.
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2. April 2008 @ 12:32 |
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2600xt or 8600gt, both the same but with ati having sound passthrough via hdmi, id get it.
boozer is that ur max?
if so i would go for the GT, if its higher and u want loads of AA and AF go for the GTX
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2. April 2008 @ 12:38 |
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From what I read the 2600XT is slightly better than the 8600GT, but not as good as the 8600GTS.
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2. April 2008 @ 12:50 |
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Yeah that's my Max. I've been trying to finish FEAR lately so I can run at that resolution and Max out everything.
Man that guy says he is selling it to someone else. So I'm back to square one.
Hey Sam, do you understand now? I don't take a loss going this so that's why I upgrade on a fairly regular basis. I'm actually MAKING 10 bucks to sell a video card I used for a few months.
EDIT: How does this look?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127329
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2. April 2008 @ 13:08 |
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2. April 2008 @ 13:08 |
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Understand what? The way I see it with every PC component you buy there's a risk you'll get screwed, and the more you buy, the more likely it is to happen.
As for those cards, personally I think the MSI 8800GT is a better deal.
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2. April 2008 @ 13:13 |
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Yeah I was thinking that too. 30 dollars is way too much of a premium. Hey is there anyway I could route the hot air from that card directly to the outside of the case? Would this work?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835106104
BTW, how am I gonna get screwed? I'm not buying another card till this one sells. That's Saturday. That's when I plan on buying another card. The person already put down 100 dollars in advance for it.
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2. April 2008 @ 13:17 |
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My bad, I assumed you had been reading my other thread. I got conned again today, another return that the shop won't accept.
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2. April 2008 @ 13:20 |
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Oh that sucks! But I buy from newegg, and they are pretty trustworthy.
A link to your thread?
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2. April 2008 @ 13:24 |
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I forget. I don't mean to be rude here, but do you mind looking around for it yourself? I'm not really in a forum exploring mood right now, my grandad passed away today.
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2. April 2008 @ 13:30 |
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im so sorry sam, RIP grandad :(
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2. April 2008 @ 13:39 |
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It's ok, I'd rather this thread not be filled with my condolences, if you want to private message me about it, feel free to do so.
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8. April 2008 @ 12:10 |
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Well, crossfire setup's up and running, and after some tweaking and quite a bit of luck, this is the absolute highest score I can manage:
CPU clock at 3150mhz, GPU clocks at 777/1125, 777/1125.
Did quite well on this run, no long pauses and no crashes.
If anybody knows how to stop random rame rate drops (I'm thinking Waymon right now) or how to enable overclocking with crossfire, that'd be much appreciated.
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8. April 2008 @ 17:28 |
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Sam, that score is a bit low (3870s). The framerate drop has been known for a while - first thing I can say is make sure your are not on Catalyst 8.3s for windows, they take about 1-2k off of your score when running XP, Vista users are fine. Secondly, this could be the powerplay bug (the GPU clocks throttle down to 2d while in the middle of a game or whatever) and you can fix this with a BIOS flash, or a hotfix. (http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=33033) -I think that's it.
Anyways, try those...
For the overclocking, I use the standard CCC and currently have mine at 850 core and 1251 memory - stable. You have to select 1 card, change the clocks, then select the other from the drop down menu and do the same.
My results with the core at 860 and mem at 1331 was
SM2 8291
SM3 9352
Tell me how you make out...
Oh and by the way, I have those pics of Crysis saved on my main pc, but wont be able to get to them until this weekend... Sorry!
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8. April 2008 @ 17:36 |
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I fixed my intermittent lag in 3dmark by changing to 8.2, but the score was relatively unaffected. Fully overclocking my cards to their limit (840/1251, 845/1211) I got 13810. That's as high as I can go without artifacts, significantly lower than I got with my single card, but I got an extra 2300 points out of it. Judging the fact that the frame rate only thirded when I ran a test at 2560x1600 4xAA 16xAF I think I'm CPU limited beyond this point.
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8. April 2008 @ 17:46 |
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Ok, well that seems a bit better. When I run 3dmark I say screw the artifacts, sure I get them at 860 but I complete the run - which is what I care about.
What do you get with 1 card?
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8. April 2008 @ 18:02 |
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