Video Card Disaster

[guncrasher]

bragging rights is why you went with the dual hydro cooled 580's, right? 

you know he wants to have a better puter than me.



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[cattb]

and to think I almost bought a EVGA 560, but went with a 6850 instead because of a fellow student and a tech teacher who were both Radeon freaks.... 

a 460 and 6850 go head to head, a 560 is just a lil better rebranded 460.

[MaSonZ]

a 460 and 6850 go head to head, a 560 is just a lil better rebranded 460.

really? did not know this.

[olds442]

really? did not know this.

yup just like the 5850 and 6850 are about the same. the first number is the GENERATION the next 3 (on radeon cards) are how powerful it is

meaning u wont see a boost from going from a 5850 to a 6400 but a decress

[MaSonZ]

yup just like the 5850 and 6850 are about the same. the first number is the GENERATION the next 3 (on radeon cards) are how powerful it is

meaning u wont see a boost from going from a 5850 to a 6400 but a decress

knew this, have enlightened some other kids about this...and lost them 

[BERN1]

can I have some of you old stuff??? preferbly the unburnt ones??

[Rob52240]

I really wish these electronics manufacturers would stop screwing us customers over and start putting enough smoke in their products to fail more than just once.

[ebfd11]

Well I received the new cards Wed and installed them, I have been running them through some stress tests to see what they can handle.

Dual Evga 570

Sliders maxed out..
All boxes checked

Enabled weapon effects and enabled Vehicle effects

The only one I did have problems with are the self shadows, I can only go to 4096 on smooth shadow.



All on triple 24 acer monitors.

Thanks to EVGA for their outstanding customer service.

I know its only 59 fps.. I wish it were 60.

Lawndart

[MaSonZ]

everything maxxed, all the eye candy on, on three 24" moniters and you wish you had 1FPS more? your nit picking now 

[guncrasher]

everything maxxed, all the eye candy on, on three 24" moniters and you wish you had 1FPS more? your nit picking now 

he sucks, mine can do 60 with all 3 monitors going uphill with no shoes in the winter  .


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[SilverZ06]

My card does the same thing, only shows 59fps most of the time. once in a great while it will jump to 60fps for a split second. You should still be able to run full shadows. I'm guessing you get studders in huge furballs over bases also.

[Bruv119]

does this 60 fps still hold in the middle of a 20 man furball over a burning base,  with CV ack going off?

[Chalenge]

I know its only 59 fps.. I wish it were 60.

Shortfall on W7s part. Even 595s in SLI only give 59 fps.

[guncrasher]

does this 60 fps still hold in the middle of a 20 man furball over a burning base,  with CV ack going off?

It held up the other day in the middle of at least 60 planes with cv ack all over the place and field ack going off.  well a couple of times it went way down to 55  but I blame the gv's for that.  1/2 the base was destroyed and the cv was on fire.  I dont know perhaps i am just lucky.  or maybe thru trail and error found a good way to oc both pc and vc to match each other.  or who knows perhaps i got the cpu from the last terminator.

funny thing is that fps depends more on which map we have.  the other day we had a furball of 4 or 5 players and my fps hit a low of 48.  i blame the mountains around us eating up all of it.  we were down in a valley with nothing but mountains around us.  we all eventually crashed as we ran out of e 1 after the other  .


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