Hello maccrawj, Sunday, January 11, 2009, 5:36:07 PM, you wrote:
> LOL, dunno when I became a Jim! It's Josh, nice to meet you again... ;) > Personally I favor ATI X2 solutions because you get best bang on a single 16x > slot > (assuming support from the games you choose to play). Moving from an AMD > XP3200 & > X850 AGP to Q6600 & PCI-E HD3870X2 the difference in the *look of* Crysis, > never mind > frame rate, knocked my socks off! Just wish I had not spent $400 in March to > find in > December the same bread bought a 2x faster 4870X2 for similar cost > (FutureMark ~16481 > vs ~35253). > Benchmarks don't mean a whole lot vs. just playing the games you want to play > but > certainly moving from a X800 to a newer ATI or NV card is going to make a > major > difference. FutureMark came with one of the video cards I bought, so I use it > FWIW to > that I am on-par with similar setups. Stability testing is Prime95 and a few > others. > Monitoring it all would be CPU-Z, GPU-Z, and Everest. I am pretty disappointed with ATI. I am having to use 8.10 drivers to get reasonable performance for World Of Warcraft. I know the game isn't brand new but they ignore the issues with the game and there's like 12 million people playing it? Otherwise the ATI card rocks on other games I have tried. Driver support seems to be as bad as I had always heard it was. I am almost contemplating going back to my 8800 GTX because it actually ran WoW better and that's mostly what I play. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."
