Vid Card Upgrade X800XT to 8800GTS

[nick heppinstall]

I've just treated myself to the EVGA 8800GTS 320 OverClocked. I'm upgrading
from an Ati X800XL running on an Asus A8N-E and AMD 4200+ Dual Core.

My new card should arrive on Friday.

Anyone else done this upgrade and can tell me what kind of performance
increase I may see ?

[Neil_Bolton]

Bloody awesome.

I have one, and I can run EVERYTHING on absolutely full whack. Its obviously in hand with the rest of my spec, but the card is fapping powerful, and I can't wait to see what DX10 games are like.

Be careful to ensure that your power supply can handle it though, I melted the one that I had and that was a 500Watt. I've now a decent 650Watt PSU and its fine.

[chris watton]

I have the GTX version (factory overclocked to 600mhz), and I got nearly 13000 marks in 3d mark 06, my GF 7950GX (paired with an AM2 4600 - now installed in a media case pc) only ever managed about 7000 points! (Although I think the new Quad core Extreme CPU helps a little.

I loaded my games on the PC last night, and this is the first time the games settings automatically max out everything!

Edited by chris watton on Tuesday 24th April 09:40

[Tonsko]

One thing to be careful of, the new gfx cards are really dependent on how powerful your CPU is - i.e. the rate it can feed the gfx card with data. They are so fast, that the CPU can now be a bottleneck! you should be ok with an X2 4200+ though.

[nick heppinstall]

Cant wait

[chris watton]

nick heppinstall said:

Cant wait

I have read a couple of PC mag articles about the 8800 GTS and GTX, and it seems that in the real world of gaming, there are no real discernable differences in performance - your games will look great and fly at the same time!

[nick heppinstall]

Thanks Chris. I went for the GTS 320 because it seemed to be a waste going for the 640mb version or the GTX as I only game at 1280x1024.

[Tonsko]

nick heppinstall said:

Cant wait

Of course, you'll be able to go SLi now you've got an 8800! :E

[nick heppinstall]

Tonsko said:

nick heppinstall said:

Cant wait

Of course, you'll be able to go SLi now you've got an 8800! :E

By the time the Missus lets me upgrade the PC again 8800GTS card will be costing around 57p ! so I'll have 4 !

[Xenocide]

I've got two 6600GT's and want to upgrade soon because TDU is hanging a bit.

What do you think i should plump for? (under £100 because cars are sucking me dry of cash ).

[cw42]

nick heppinstall said:

I've just treated myself to the EVGA 8800GTS 320 OverClocked. I'm upgrading
from an Ati X800XL running on an Asus A8N-E and AMD 4200+ Dual Core.

My new card should arrive on Friday.

Anyone else done this upgrade and can tell me what kind of performance
increase I may see ?

What are you doing with the old card Nick?

[nick heppinstall]

cw42 said:

nick heppinstall said:

I've just treated myself to the EVGA 8800GTS 320 OverClocked. I'm upgrading
from an Ati X800XL running on an Asus A8N-E and AMD 4200+ Dual Core.

My new card should arrive on Friday.

Anyone else done this upgrade and can tell me what kind of performance
increase I may see ?

What are you doing with the old card Nick?

Hi Chris. Was going to stick it on ebay.

[cw42]

You've got email Nick

[ajg31]

good idea nick to stay at a lower cost card for a low res. so many people forget about resolutions

[nick heppinstall]

WOW !

Well I expected a difference but nothing as spectacular ! My advice. Get one ! Outstanding !

Edited by nick heppinstall on Saturday 28th April 19:34

[chris watton]

nick heppinstall said:

WOW !

Well I expected a difference but nothing as spectacular ! My advice. Outstanding !

Excellent

I have just installed Silent Hunter 4 to play on the 50" plasma, and it looks stunning! But I need a crash course into how to actually play the game! lol

[nick heppinstall]

chris watton said:

nick heppinstall said:

WOW !

Well I expected a difference but nothing as spectacular ! My advice. Outstanding !

Excellent

I have just installed Silent Hunter 4 to play on the 50" plasma, and it looks stunning! But I need a crash course into how to actually play the game! lol

Chris. SH4 was one of the reasons I upgraded. I'm running it at 1280x1024 with 16xAA and 16xAF and everything maxed. It's silky smooth !

[GT2man-2]

heh - this thread has just made me buy a new card + machine.

Machine: Dell Outlet Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 for £450+vat

Card: 8800GTS

I could have gone bleeding edge, but it's the law of diminishing returns for me.

Anyone know how games are going to run in my native 1920x1200 ? Anyone else with such a LCD resolution ?

[nick heppinstall]

Hi GT

Nice one ! Sorry you've had to spend the cash though ...

I'm guessing you've gone for the 640mb card as you will be running at such a high res ?

For reviews and benchmarks have a look at these sites :

www.sharkyextreme.com
www.tomshardware.com
www.anandtech.com

They will give you an idea on how well your card will perform with different games.

[ajg31]

GT2man-2 said:

heh - this thread has just made me buy a new card + machine.

Machine: Dell Outlet Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 for £450+vat

Card: 8800GTS

I could have gone bleeding edge, but it's the law of diminishing returns for me.

Anyone know how games are going to run in my native 1920x1200 ? Anyone else with such a LCD resolution ?

go to widescreengamingforum mate, all answers there bit more complicated than just running at native res, the could be widescreen, zoomed, stretched (hor + or vert -) etc.