Sadly driver issues are, well, an issue with ATI right now depending on what
you play.
WoW from my IMHO is 2006 level graphics thus should run an a lowly Radeon M11 mobile
chipset well. What really buggering the whole thing *besides some clear ATI developer
isuses* is many developers optmize their engines for Nvidia 1st, ATI second if at all
these days.
Like I've said, I'd likely of run dual 8800GTS of better had they run on x48.
Joe User wrote:
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.
