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[E42]

Hopefully I wont be dissapointed. But I was sick of having poor fps with alot happening on the screen. This and another two gigs or ram for a total of four.



Core clock 660MHz
Stream Processors 112
Memory Clock 1900MHz
Memory Size 512MB
Memory Interface 256-bit
Memory Type GDDR3

[wondergod]

the extra 2 gigs of ram won't do anything for ya unless you run vista 64bit, and if you do run vista64...ummm...ya

but that video card is a great choice.

[E42]

Hope so.. I could only afford the card or update my processor. So I went for the card. Since us older guy have to pay land taxes.. bleh.. I'd rather be cpu constrained than gpu constrained.

[monster]

Great card. What is your processor?

EZ KILL get on vent.

Edited by monster, 19 February 2008 - 11:13 AM.

[E42]

It's only a Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz. But I was told to overclock it to 2.8. Which i'm uneasy of.

[Novahawk]

Nice card!

[TheCincinnatiKid]

just bought card....it runs great.

[Ezekiel]

just bought card....it runs great.

What he ment to say...

Ook kill CT now. Ook smash back hall. No play CS:S by cave picture now.

[E42]

I recieved the card today. Can anyone recommend a program to monitor temps? I used to use ATI Tool. Is that sufficient? Or is there A better free program? My 7900 was running 56 C after 2 hours of CS:S. Can't wait to get off shift to try it. Friggen thing is huge.

[Novahawk]

RivaTuner. Too lazy to link, just google it.

Edit: and if you think the GT is huge, you should check out the GTX lol

Edited by Novahawk, 21 February 2008 - 02:50 PM.

[E42]

I downloaded Ntune. Play CS:S some. I cant even break 100 fps @ 800X600. :( Dissapointed really.

[Novahawk]

That's weird, but Source is very processor heavy, so you probably have a bottleneck in Source with your processor. There's no way the GT can't break 100fps at 800x600, if it was like 1680x1050 then yeah, but not 800x600...

[E42]

Ya, not sure. My 7900 was getting over 120 in the tunnels. This is only getting 60 - 80.

[Chris82]

Lol, bump your settings up to max, AA, AF, HDR, highest optimal resolution, etc...and if your FPS gets below that, you have a problem.

Also yes Sauce is very dependent on your processor.

[Bumblebee]

Also yes Sauce is very dependent on your processor.

heheh sauce...

Any way i recommend SpeedFan, works great and also lists your cpu temps, however the Nvidia Monitor works great too.

For source though your cpu should eat it alive. You were smart to go with the GPU, I upgraded to a XFX 8800 GTS and MAN what a difference, my temps stay around 45 at rest and 64-70 under load. With games like oblivion and crysis though the heat goes up higher to like 72.

[E42]

Well for an update. I removed old drivers installed new ones. Still the same thing. Low frame per second. I removed the card and the drivers and installled my 7900 back. Runs great. I think it might be a bad card? When playing CS Source With my 7900GT was an average of 60-125. With the 8800GT was an average of 35-60. The same thing with Team Fortress 2. I'm shipping it back and getting a faster procoessor.

[Novahawk]

Is your PSU powerful enough? The card might not be receiving enough power. But i guess its too late now since you shipped it back.

[E42]

It's still here in a box. My PSU is a 600 Watt. I just sent in for an RMA number.

[DarkShadow]

600w is more then enough, crap card, tbh I'd recommend checking out the R3850/R3870, for the price they really pwn at Source Engine games, even UT3 runs pretty nice on them.

[Bumblebee]

Before I upgraded to my 8800 I had a X850 XT... and just before I got a dual core I had a celeron that sucked big time. After installing the C2d my framerates went above 200 with the X850 xt simply because of the cpu power. With the 8800 the fps went up another 30-40. For source games the cpu is the main power, so If ya got the money go get a c2d or quad core... its worth it, believe me!