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Post by bruu on Feb 13, 2009 4:45:30 GMT
i just picked up a EVGA 9600 GT 1GB SuperClocked and it required the 6 pronged (molex?) cable >< serious power though, crysis on very high dx10 max resolution & no lag at all ...
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Post by breakfastmachine1000 on Feb 13, 2009 5:19:01 GMT
Considering mine was only 512 Mb and not overclocked at all, I would suggest to others to get a overclocked or super clocked version if you get a 9600 gt, because like bruu said, he gets no lag at all.
For me, I have to turn down shadows and motion blur to not get lag, but other than that I'm fine!
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Post by bruu on Feb 13, 2009 6:23:20 GMT
yeah, my firend had the same problem with his standard 9600 gt. he lagged badly, same rig i have except for the card.
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Post by 3kliksphilip on Feb 13, 2009 13:51:35 GMT
RAM on that sort of card doesn't matter, there should be no difference between the 512 and 1024 mb card since it's not fast enough to use all of it effectively.
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Post by Garner on Feb 13, 2009 18:40:54 GMT
i just picked up a EVGA 9600 GT 1GB SuperClocked and it required the 6 pronged (molex?) cable >< serious power though, crysis on very high dx10 max resolution & no lag at all ... My 4870 requires 2x 6pin molex and 1x 12 volt rail (for the fan) Serious power in that, normal temperatures (as stated by Ati themselves too) is about 94*C on load. Excellent card, bit noisey, but excellent. I prefer Ati to Nvidia at higher resolutions as AA and AF maxed = more FPS on ATi than Nvidia. Also the overclocking aspects in Nvidia's chipsets are limited in comparison to Ati's (not to mention, Ntune is just rubbish)
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Post by bruu on Feb 13, 2009 20:10:54 GMT
i just picked up a EVGA 9600 GT 1GB SuperClocked and it required the 6 pronged (molex?) cable >< serious power though, crysis on very high dx10 max resolution & no lag at all ... My 4870 requires 2x 6pin molex and 1x 12 volt rail (for the fan) Serious power in that, normal temperatures (as stated by Ati themselves too) is about 94*C on load. Excellent card, bit noisey, but excellent. I prefer Ati to Nvidia at higher resolutions as AA and AF maxed = more FPS on ATi than Nvidia. Also the overclocking aspects in Nvidia's chipsets are limited in comparison to Ati's (not to mention, Ntune is just rubbish) I'm kind of NVIDIA biased, idk why, but i always have been. my card came with evga precision overclocker, i like it. i'm justs cared i'm gonna over do it.
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Post by Garner on Feb 14, 2009 0:14:00 GMT
I dont generally over clock my video cards, as iv always had a gfx card capable of obtaining 100 fps constant with 1440x900 resolution and maxed AA and AF in most games (games like crysis, far cry 2 seem to sit at around 80)
But a great motherboard and processor helps. A great motherboard usually makes all the differance between a good PC and a great one. A mate of mine has a Asus P5Q (i think) motherboard and the same processor, gfx card and ram as me (we built our machines together, and overclocked to the same speeds), where as i have the Asus Maximus II Formula motherboard and i get about 30fps more than he does.
I will always buy an Asus motherboard, you can beat their quality (some boards/chipsets have problems) and their warranty is superb. With the new socket 1366 Asus boards (noticeably, the Rampage II Extreme) the speed is imense, and the overclocking potential is fantastic. Also what is unique with this board is that it has support for BOTH, yes BOTH, ATI CrossfireX AND Nvidia SLI. My next door neighbour has this board (ordered from the US as it was unaviliable in the UK) and he also has the 920 i7 nehalem processor and overclocked it to 3.7ghz and the speed is crazy. Its something like 12 seconds from power on to full boot / desktop ready.
Fps with a 2x 4850 is about 150 constant with hyperthreading on, and 120 average in crysis with everything maxed. 200 in CSS. Iv gone a bit off track, but a decent motherboard is the priority when ordering / building a PC.
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Post by bruu on Feb 14, 2009 5:44:21 GMT
I dont generally over clock my video cards, as iv always had a gfx card capable of obtaining 100 fps constant with 1440x900 resolution and maxed AA and AF in most games (games like crysis, far cry 2 seem to sit at around 80) But a great motherboard and processor helps. A great motherboard usually makes all the differance between a good PC and a great one. A mate of mine has a Asus P5Q (i think) motherboard and the same processor, gfx card and ram as me (we built our machines together, and overclocked to the same speeds), where as i have the Asus Maximus II Formula motherboard and i get about 30fps more than he does. I will always buy an Asus motherboard, you can beat their quality (some boards/chipsets have problems) and their warranty is superb. With the new socket 1366 Asus boards (noticeably, the Rampage II Extreme) the speed is imense, and the overclocking potential is fantastic. Also what is unique with this board is that it has support for BOTH, yes BOTH, ATI CrossfireX AND Nvidia SLI. My next door neighbour has this board (ordered from the US as it was unaviliable in the UK) and he also has the 920 i7 nehalem processor and overclocked it to 3.7ghz and the speed is crazy. Its something like 12 seconds from power on to full boot / desktop ready. Fps with a 2x 4850 is about 150 constant with hyperthreading on, and 120 average in crysis with everything maxed. 200 in CSS. Iv gone a bit off track, but a decent motherboard is the priority when ordering / building a PC. i have to agree, asus does make the best bang for your buck when it comes to mobo's. somehow with max settings on CSS i havent went under 190 fps on any "decent" server. but on crysis with maxed out settings i can barely get 50.
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Post by Garner on Feb 14, 2009 14:42:34 GMT
Asus are brilliant on all aspects of hardware. However, they are known to produce the frequent "bad batch" which i seem to always fall into lol Crysis has a problem with hyperthreading and multi core support (mainly problems with instructions like S/SSE3) but that will iron out (which is somewhat has in crysis warhead) i7 should be interesting, but im waiting for full multicore support for CSS and TF2 (similar to the support they have in L4D)....which will also make mapping for source alot better and hopefully rereleasing / upgrading the stock maps (d2, office, inferno) ect with the updated engine.
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