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Shinare
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Joined: 17 Mar 2004
Posts: 13332
Location: Up your butt with a coconut!!
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I used to have an Nvidia 8800GTX I purchased for $500 some 5 or 6 or so years ago. FYI I'm gaming at 1680x1050 resolution. (native res of my 23" monitor)
Well, since installing it, I've done two things (it was just last night it came in the mail). I downloaded and installed 3DMark11 and played some Skyrim. (well three things if you count initiating the Steam download of the two free games)
One one thing I can tell you that with the 8800GTX I was only able to play skyrim on "medium" setting and it lagged quite a bit. Also things like clothing, shadows, hair, faces, some textures all looked "off" or sometimes downright broken. I'm now able to play on "Ultra" setting and everything looks excellent, zero lag except in a couple instances last night where I'm not sure why. Not much going on the screen IMO. Every once in a while a shadow might look a little off but not sure if thats hardware or software. Admittedly Skyrim isn't a brand new game, but it seems to run a lot better on the new card. I don't think its even DX11 just from looking at it.
Watching the demos in 3DMark11 was kinda cool in my opinion. Seeing all the volumetric lighting and shadows as well as my first experience with tessellation. I have no basis to compare my score to anyone else as I've been out of the hardware scene for so long. I can say I got a GPU score of 5300 something and a CPU score of 1100 something. There was a "P" number as well, not sure if that is significant but it was like P3606 or something. All stock clocked. My "Windows 7 Experience" index for my graphics card (both scores) went from 6.6 to 7.9.
In the ATI Catilist Control Center there are overclocking options that will take it up to well over 1000MHz and I've been told it easily can handle it but currently I just have it at stock 860MHz. I've also been told that my Conroe OC'd 3.0GHz based system may be a bottleneck as well.
Once these two "Modern" games finish downloading tonight or tomorrow I'll give them a whirl. _________________ For with what measure you measure it will be measured to you.
Last edited by Shinare on Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:09 pm; edited 1 time in total
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Thu Mar 28, 2013 12:55 pm
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