Uh! OK? Read your mind? Really?
Well OK. I'll give it a shot....... :)
This will be very difficult....
But, I will try!
1-nVidia makes really STABLE video cards that INTEL cpus like.
2-ATI makes really FAST video cards that INTEL grumbles with.
(If you play AMD, then the previous 2 statements may have to be
modified. Can NOT help! I use C2D.)
FAST is a weekly winner we read about.
SMOOTH is getting to be 2-levels behind what we read!
No harm, No foul! Hell! I am still trying to crawl current!
Not likely; now that I see I3, I5, and I7 Intel advertised at me!
My opinion is now OLD school. I still play nicely with XP!
I realize that most of this List is Vista. Many of this List is now
Windows7. So be it!
I will now read much. I will respond less; as I morf more into "Lurk"
status.
Best,
Duncan
On 02/08/2010 18:04, Veech wrote:
dude you're supposed to read my mind and tell me what I want! :)
sorry, I'll do some more research and pose further questions as I have
them. Thanks for the feedback.
----- Original Message ----- From: "DSinc" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 14:30
Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now?
Veech,
You always pose questions to us that have NOT enough info (for me) to
answer.
You always pose "LifeStyle" questions. Hard to share.
"LifeStyle" is YOUR choice. "LifeStyle" is not technical; much less
how you do with what you have.
Personally, I do so like the 9600GT(S) card that I've been testing for
the past 3 months (as I migrate back to nVidia). It seems to work very
well with my lame C2D. Please see FORCE5.
ASUS P5Q3, 2GB, SATA 160GB......?
(OK, I am a noob!)
JMHO.
Best,
Duncan
On 02/08/2010 16:33, Veech wrote:
thanks Boz...
I have pretty much decided on getting the ATI 5850 graphics card at this
point. Now the question is, do I want to upgrade the board and chip
while I'm at it? If I decide to do so, I would really prefer to not have
to upgrade OS as XP seems to be working ok for me for now and I just
don't want to have to hassle with reloading all my programs.. *sigh*
So based on going with the 5850 graphics card, what board and CPU is the
way to go at this point? If I *have* to go to Windows 7 then I will, but
I just want a quick fix at this point.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Veech" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 10:03
Subject: Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get?
ok I forgot to mention that my budget is around $300, and I see the
ATI 5850 is available for that from NewEgg, any opinions?
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Boswell"
<[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 02:16
Subject: Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get?
the 8800GT has 112 shaders
the 8800GTS320/640 has 96 shaders
the 8800GTS512 has 128 shaders
the GTS250 has 128 shaders, and has had a die shrink so it's cooler
and the clocks are a chunk higher, it's the one to get if you want an
nvidia card of that level IMO
OR look at a radeon 4890, which will be around the same performance
level (I think) as your pair of 8800GTS's were and use a hell of a
lot less power... or even a 5770, which is a little slower (10% or
so) than the 4890 but runs cooler and has DX11 support for whenever
you eventually get off of XP
On 8 Feb 2010, at 08:06:310, Veech wrote:
I'm thinking two of these 8800 GTs in SLI would work just fine..
opinions? Seems like they might spec higher than the two GTS cards
even though they have 512MB RAM as opposed to 640MB on the GTS cards.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143118&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Video+Cards-_-BFG+Technologies-_-14143118
----- Original Message ----- From: "Veech" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 23:28
Subject: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get?
I had two Geforce 8800GTS 640MB PCI-E cards in SLI in my system
which was built about 3 years ago. About 4 months ago one went
bonkers, probably overheated, so I removed it and am now running
with just the other one. I play a lot of Team Fortress 2 online and
after a recent Steam update I was getting some strange artifacting
in the game and now am having trouble staying connected, and often
the game and the computer freeze and I have to reboot. Oddly
enough, the card seems to work fine under all other conditions and
apps such as internet, DVD movie playing etc, but when playing TF2
online it goes nuts.
So I'm thinking it may be about to go and I should consider
replacing it. I haven't shopped for video cards in 3 years. I have
an EVGA nForce 6801 SLI board and Core2 x6800 2.93G CPU, running XP
Media Edition.
What would you folks recommend for replacement video cards? I would
probably stick with an SLI configuration unless a single ATI card
comparably priced would blow it away.
thanks!!
