$999 Video Card
<a href='http://firingsquad.com/hardware/bfg_geforce_6800_ultra_oc_512mb/' target='_blank'>http://firingsquad.com/hardware/bfg_geforc...ultra_oc_512mb/</a>
Doom3 1600x1200x32 4xAA 8xAF
Geforce 6800 Ultra SLI 512 MB 75.2FPS
Geforce 6800 Ultra SLI 256 MB 73.8FPS
Waste of cash.
Doom3 1600x1200x32 4xAA 8xAF
Geforce 6800 Ultra SLI 512 MB 75.2FPS
Geforce 6800 Ultra SLI 256 MB 73.8FPS
Waste of cash.
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I think you knew that though theclam. :-)
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It's not the computer that's bottlenecking it. They've got one of the best systems that money can buy:
<a href='http://firingsquad.com/hardware/bfg_geforce_6800_ultra_oc_512mb/page4.asp' target='_blank'>http://firingsquad.com/hardware/bfg_geforc...512mb/page4.asp</a>
It's the games. They can't do anything with 256MB more video RAM.
Of course, you'll probably still call me nuts for getting 2 of <a href='http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130222' target='_blank'>these</a> for my new gaming rig. But meh, meh I say!
The bigger question is 'who' does use their computer for other purposes besides gaming!
a few hundred bucks for 2 fps?
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I mean the move to 512MB is necissairy in the long run and all, but its kinda like the x800XL 512MB right now, like double the price for a couple FPS, and since no games really use high enough texture resolutions (yet im sure) theres no point to get one now.
Of course, you'll probably still call me nuts for getting 2 of <a href='http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130222' target='_blank'>these</a> for my new gaming rig. But meh, meh I say! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
holy hell you bought two of those?! <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Of course, you'll probably still call me nuts for getting 2 of <a href='http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130222' target='_blank'>these</a> for my new gaming rig. But meh, meh I say! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
holy hell you bought two of those?! <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Indeed they take up 4 pci slots, you must have no room left over in your case o.O
Of course, you'll probably still call me nuts for getting 2 of <a href='http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130222' target='_blank'>these</a> for my new gaming rig. But meh, meh I say! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
holy hell you bought two of those?! <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Indeed they take up 4 pci slots, you must have no room left over in your case o.O <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
just enough to squeeze in my soundcard
No, you probably couldn't.
I could explain why, but simple logic and / or common sense should make it abundantly clear.
They are probably only adding these new cards to rigs that cost well over 2000 bucks with NO graphics card. Like the one in the provided firingsquad link, if the parts were available in stores, even cheaply would probably be more than 1000 bucks for JUST THE CPU.
ya i think mine did a while ago but it still runs games perfectly fine so meh.
Its not even so much of a cup/system memory bottleneck problem, its just if you have enough space to do everything a game wants, then you give it more space, its not going to get any benifit of having the extra space, thats why most games get like a 2 FPS boost. If you doubled all the texture resolutions in a game, then the speed boost would be more aparent because of the increased texture swapping with the main system memory, and the additional bandwidth it eats up.
Take it back right now. Doom3, Ultra Mode. Warning comes up "This mode requires more than 500MB of texture RAM".
Doom3 is Ultra mode just dumps pure, raw, id Software textures to the card, which are 512MB in size. You would *NEED* 2 of these to play it in Ultra mode, as it was intended to run. Anything less will still compress the textures down to the size of Tex.RAM you have.
On a different note. HOLY FU**ING GOD!!! A64 4800+!!!
Is it me, or are Intel really starting to lag being AMD in the gamer's market?
Oh joy. Now to take out that loan money...
FAFSA? Pfft, what's college.
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Its true, for almost the entire pentium 4 series, intel has been regularly behind in gaming benchmarks, and only accels in some kinds of decoding/encoding and simmilar tasks.
Not that either company makes a bad CPU, just for less money AMD makes one that works better were it counts.
And btw, thats an Athlon64 X2 4800+, not only is it incredibly fast, but it is dual-core with each core having 1 MB of cache.