G Card decision made.

[AmBush]

I'm not gonna drag the XFX Fatal1ty 8600 GT Professional Series any further off topic than i already have

but jus wanna thank the guys for your help. c3d:

I decided to go for the BFG 8800GTS From TekHeads

c3d: FTW

 

[mithrandir]

8800 gts - good choice I think.

 

[mVp24]

640MB or 320MB?

 

[FarFarAway]

640MB or 320MB?

Whichever one it's a good choice tbh

 

[mVp24]

Whichever one it's a good choice tbh

If you're over 1680x1050 then a 640MB would be a better choice...

/check your PMs >=[

 

[kataras]

Got a 8800GTS 320Mb myself and i can tell its a beautiful card that is, overclocks nicely 648/1008 stable (500/800 default), very quiet, and cool too (since i consider 80 degrees is cool for a graphics card). Runs games at highest settings smoothly, awesome decision mate Only my cpu bottlenecks it though

I like BFG, its agreat manufacturer, cause usually they have better cooling solutions on graphic cards, for example, many 7800GS/7900GS/7900GT came with just a fan over gpu, where as BFG fan's were not only over gpu but ram as well, so would run cooler and so on

 

[mithrandir]

Only my cpu bottlenecks it though

I would have thought your CPU is fine for a 8800 card. Maybe Im wrong though and really you need a C2D..

 

[AmBush]

Sry was Gaming & Gettin some Frame rates before upgrade, I Got the 640Mb

Bleedin weighs a Ton lolz

 

[Rastalovich]

I would have thought your CPU is fine for a 8800 card. Maybe Im wrong though and really you need a C2D..

Hmm showing a 4400+ x2 in his sig running @ 2.6G.. figured it`d go higher than that. 2.6 stock for a 4400+ ?

 

[FarFarAway]

4400+ is 2.2 stock if I recall correctly.

2.7GHz should be do-able, 2.8GHz pushing it unless the chip is good

 

[kataras]

Hmm showing a 4400+ x2 in his sig running @ 2.6G.. figured it`d go higher than that. 2.6 stock for a 4400+ ?

Sorry for offtopic, but my cpu's default speed is 2.2Ghz. Maximum i could push was 2.67ghz super pi'd and it was something like 34s with voltage at 1.5v and ram being at 1:1 ratio was set to 3.0v 3-4-4-10, also temperatures not too bad i get as high as 48-50 on load and as low as 36-40 idle. So i think its just the chip itself really. But now i run it 24/7 @2.63Ghz. sometimes i do regret for replacing opteron 146 with this X2 athlon 146 was so much quicker, ooh well

Yup and i do get fps drops to 40 and lower when playing css in DM servers or other Mega servers rather, when there are loads of players around. PS. i consider 75fps to be absolute minimum to call game - playable

 

[Rastalovich]

Wow 3800 stocks @ 2g.

EDIT: They didn`t have much scope between those processors obviously. 3800 extremely safe @2.5, and most 2.6/7 without too special a cooler. Dang.

 

[kataras]

Wow 3800 stocks @ 2g.

EDIT: They didn`t have much scope between those processors obviously. 3800 extremely safe @2.5, and most 2.6/7 without too special a cooler. Dang.

Well the only reason i took 4400 was that it was cheap and had 2mb of cache (1mb per core), where as other cpus had 1mb (512kb per core).

Sorry for offtopic once again

 

[Rastalovich]

Ya I`m with u on that 1. Not many people look too hard at the cache.