Get one 8800 GTX now and buy another one in the future. One is really
all you need with current games. Read the reviews dude! This card kicks
Oblivion's ass! ;-)
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The BFGTech GeForce 8800 GTX and GTS however render that grass like it
wasn’t even there! It is that fast. We were blown away when we cranked
up Oblivion to 1600x1200 with absolute maximum in-game settings and
grass to maximum with no AA. When we first started testing we saw the
framerate in the 70 FPS range with grass on! It was simply amazing. We
then started experimenting with the different antialiasing modes since
all of them work in Oblivion with HDR enabled. You do have to set the
driver control panel to “override the application
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setting” though and force the AA level from the control panel, which is
perfectly fine since it allows you to try out the CSAA levels of 8X, 16X
and 16xQ.
As you can see in the table with the 8800 GTX the highest playable
setting that struck a balance of image quality and performance was a
very high 1600x1200 with 8X AA (which is the CSAA mode since it is
turned on in the control panel), and 16X AF with the absolutely highest
in-game settings possible. The in-game settings literally do not go any
higher; this is as good as the game gets visually. We were pulling an
average in our test of 48 FPS, and a minimum in the lower 30’s, all very
playable at such high settings.
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Veech wrote:
Those of you who enjoy fast-action PC gaming, I have a question:
At what point does FPS become moot? We all know that you can tell the
difference between 40fps and 60fps, but what about 80fps vs 100fps?
Here's why I ask, I am considering an SLI configuration of GeForce
8800 either GTS or GTX. I have only found one site so far to show
benchmark comparisons of the two:
http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?page=24&articleid=903&cid=2
On it, Quake4 performance is 141fps GTS vs 148fps GTX. No difference
essentially.
FEAR is 95fps GTS vs 120fps GTX. That's a considerable difference, but
will it be noticeable?
Biggest difference is Prey: 116fps GTS vs 154fps GTX. Big difference,
but heck isn't 116fps good enough? Will I really notice the difference?
thanks for your input...
Veech
