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post #21 of 37
9/23/09 at 5:05pm
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The more frames per second, the better.
The human eye can't tell the difference between 60FPS and 300 FPS.
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post #22 of 37
9/23/09 at 5:09pm
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I'm sure once the drivers mature it will get a lot better.
Don't bother, the card could be 150,000x faster and some people will still act like it is slow.

It falls solidly between the GTX 295 and 4870X2 in both performance and price, uses far less power than either card at load, and uses less idle power than a 4770. It's such a ripoff
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post #23 of 37
9/23/09 at 5:14pm
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The human eye can't tell the difference between 60FPS and 300 FPS.
But If I get higher than necessary fps in current games, I'll be able to play newer games longer without having to upgrade, than if I had a 5870 playing at 1920x1200. Right?
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post #24 of 37
9/23/09 at 5:15pm
Get a 5850 if anything, at those resolutions it should hold the boat fine i would say. Id still say its overkill, but buying a 5870 is just for moar e-peen. In your case, at that resolution its pointless waste of money dude. My opinion anyway.
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post #25 of 37
9/23/09 at 5:18pm
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The human eye can't tell the difference between 60FPS and 300 FPS.
The human eye CAN tell when frames drop, even if it's above 60. At least my eyes can. Maybe I'm superhuman?
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9/23/09 at 5:23pm
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The human eye CAN tell when frames drop, even if it's above 60. At least my eyes can. Maybe I'm superhuman?
i had a friend who said that a drop from 500FPS to 300FPS bothered him, and i told him he was stupid..... i cant imagin him dealing with 60 then
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post #27 of 37
9/23/09 at 5:25pm
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But If I get higher than necessary fps in current games, I'll be able to play newer games longer without having to upgrade, than if I had a 5870 playing at 1920x1200. Right?
Which games are you planning on playing? I'm guessing your 8800GT can max out most games at 1440x900 already.
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9/23/09 at 5:29pm
Either way you go: OC your current CPU, upgrade it, or build new one thing won't change, and that is you won't be utilizing what the card was designed for.

A 5850 for example would max out any game currently out there (barring Crysis) at your res (If I'm not mistaken you'd get fairly decent FPS in Crysis on a 5850 at your res, just not completely maxing it out). Thing is, you wouldn't be seeing it's potential for a good 1-2 years when the DX11 titles start coming out in full swing - even the confirmed DX11 games that are coming out sooner than that won't fully utilize DX11 or DX11 capable cards.

In order to fully utilize your card, and thus your money, you'd have to get a larger monitor for the current DX10 games. In my humble opinion I'd say wait a bit till DX11 titles start coming out (and at that point price drops and nVidia competition) and settle on a 4870/GTX 260 and have a damn good experience with those cards. At your res, you'd be able to max out or nearly max out a good chunk of current titles, and be good for another year or so on future releases.
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post #29 of 37
9/23/09 at 5:32pm
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i had a friend who said that a drop from 500FPS to 300FPS bothered him, and i told him he was stupid..... i cant imagin him dealing with 60 then
i noticed frames dropping from 200 to 90 or something like that in bf vietnam. It didnt bothered me much, but its noticeable. Cap it @ 60 though and i was joly.

What truely bothers me is playing tf2 on pub servers, going strong @ 150 frames and dipping to 20 frames. Its less notiable from 60 to 20 but the point is, rapid frame drops is the problem here.
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9/23/09 at 6:42pm
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Which games are you planning on playing? I'm guessing your 8800GT can max out most games at 1440x900 already.
Man you must be a real gamer. You care about the game that don't really think about how good it looks.

You know a lot of people think like you but I like to think that my video card is kind of powerful. Most games would run at way over 60fps with in game max settings. But for me a game is not maxed out untill I can play at the desired resolution with max in game settings and 16XQ AA and 16X AF. I know for a fact that a 8800GT would certainly not be able to max most games at this settings.

The truth is that not even the fastest GPU can do it yet. And I don't think there will ever be a GPU that will be able to max every game with max AA and max AF besides max in game settings. Otherwise why upgrade right?

So really 1440x900 will get a huge performance hit I'm sure when you consider using 16xQ AA on all your games.
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