New Video Cards - suggestions

[Enduro]

I hear ya, Rosco.

Krusty,
You were talking about the PSU earlier.  Do you know if my card's performance would increase if I installed a 360W (400W peak) PSU?

Or, is this just wishful thinking?  

[Brooke]

I don't think that a bigger power supply would change your graphics card's speed.  It would only help if you were having crashes due to the power supply's voltage sagging under load from the graphics card.

[38ruk]

Enduro , 39 fps with all that background smoke is pretty good considering . You might want to try the 4.12 omega drivers , out of all the ones i tested for my x800 they were the best .  

Here is alittle driver comparison i did awhile ago , i would say its still relevent due to the fact that the newer 6XX series driver prolly arent optimized for the X800 series cards , they are prolly geared toward the newer generation of ati cards .
http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=153309&highlight=driver


these didnt auto download for me , i had to allow the DL at the security bar at the top of Internet Explorer .
4.12 link : http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Files&go=cat&dwn_cat_id=14&go=giveme&dwn_id=145

[Enduro]

okay, thanks guys.  

am downloading the omega drivers now, 38ruk.  i used omega drivers for my old card and loved 'em.  so, i look forward to using these as well as "opening the extra pipes."  (not totally sure how, but will figure that one out later.)

[Krusty]

Enduro, I would be worried if you had less than 200W. If you have 250W, I say use it until you *really* need more power.

[Enduro]

cc Krusty.  thanks.

[Enduro]

Well, not liking this card much.  Hey, it's okay...when it comes to PC's, it's always Plug 'n Pray.  

Performance in-game isn't much better than my previous ATI 9500Pro/9700.  And, there's some quirks with this card that I just didn't need to deal with before.

Am considering returning the card--either for a refund or to exchange for another card.

Either the mid-range or high-end Crucial cards + a bigger power supply would cost less than this eVGA Geforce 7800GS + a bigger power supply.

[38ruk]

If the performance of the card in game  isnt much better than your 9500pro , than you have a bottleneck somewhere . The X800 gto is leaps and bounds better than a 9500pro so if your not getting much performance gain than something isnt able to feed the card  . If your not happy , i would send it back .

[Enduro]

Originally posted by 38ruk
If the performance of the card in game  isnt much better than your 9500pro , than you have a bottleneck somewhere . The X800 gto is leaps and bounds better than a 9500pro so if your not getting much performance gain than something isnt able to feed the card  . If your not happy , i would send it back .

i blame bloody Dell.  

performance was slightly improved.  i just think i might be able to get better performance for a little more money, ya know?  

(maybe it's just wishful thinking, but i'm willing to try in order to enjoy AH2 for another year w/ this box)

[Roscoroo]

whats ur fps in furballs now ?? if its in the  30-39 area or better thats probely the best ur gonna get .. you should see monitor hz up at alt just cruising ..
 AE if your mon is at 85hz u should see 80-85 hz with that card ... if not you may have processes killing it off  or something else ..

[Enduro]

on the squad BBS, Rosco reminded me about the 4.12 drivers.  and, I do remember seeing good FR's when those drivers were installed.  the problem, though, was that the graphics quality, at the time, was very poor.  edges were very blocky/edgy.  but, i'll re-install 4.12 again later and try to work with them.

thanks for the reminder.

[Happy1]

Hello every1, thx much for ur erudite input, as I'm learning much from ur dis-
cussion/suggestions, I'm not trying to steal this thread nor bump it, but I've a question re Graphics Display Cards.

I've a Dell Dimension 4300 cmptr, with 512 mb RAM. with GeFx 5200 video
card, running on Nvidia 61.77, the cmptr is 1.9 Gigabytes, I've updated to Nvidia 84.43.  The reason is trying 2b to date w/video graphics display cards.

Performance is great....no probs....fps betwix 25-40, however, I've noticed that my computer slowed down a lot, not in the game, but overall!   I've fol-
lowed Skuzzy's stickon advice re. cleaning the computer,  but it's still noti-
ceably slow.

Any advice as to what would cause the slowdown?  Thx everybody T:aok

Cheers,

Happy1  

[Brooke]

How has it slowed down -- boot time, time to launch Outlook, etc.?

[Happy1]

It's slow at startup, approx 3-4 min, slow in showing webpages, slow in
opening links (Outlook Express) & other Urls, hyperlinks, slow in logging off.
Tried "EnditAll" , sys. still slow.  

Noticed that my computer's fan is quiet, generally hear a gentle hum, stuck
my palm in front of fan & detected no blown air.   Shall have to open my computer & clean out the dust.   However the ebbing of my puter speed has been going on since 3 wks hence.  

Cheers,

Happy1  

[RTR]

Enduro,
 just looking at what you posted. You should think about boosting your system RAM a bit.

You would most likely see a fair improvement if you boost your ram to at least 1GB. More would be better.


Happy1,
I would recommend for starters that you go back to the 61.77 drivers for that video card. They are the best recommended drivers for the 5XXX series cards. Lots of posts about this here.

As far as the computer slowing down, have you downloaded anything new lately? when was the last time you did a sweep for spyware / viruses etc?

How many processes do you show running in the task manager?
Have you run disk cleaner, and defragmented your HD lately?

cheers,
RTR