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worth going from 8800gtx to 4870?

BaNdy said:
thats great mr B I have a 46" also :D Sony X series, also connected to a pc.
My point is you can beat a high res monitor - it rather depends on the individuals perspective, do you want to look at a real nice sharp image for a game? or do you want a more immersive larger experience that overs your field of peripheral vision - Its not as easy as one is better than the other, in fact I was giving a different perspective. But alas people always need to push there idea is better than another dont they.

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Well being as i sit right infront of my 30" monitor when gaming it does give the effect it's larger than my 46" TV, because i sit atleast 6 foot back when using that, so i end up with sharper graphics + more accurate colours + more immersion ;)

But you do make a good point, for the money of a good graphics card you can get a 32" HD-TV, which would definitely be an upgrade over that silly 17" thing in more ways than one.
 
LOL @ the replies. :D

I had 2x 7800GTXs in SLI on a 19" 4:3 and changed to a single 8800GTX and a Dell 2407WFP-HC screen about 15 months ago.

At the risk of repeating anyone with any sense - stop faffing about and get a decent screen. :cool:
 
Lowrider...Crysis installed and played for a bit. Is running very smothly...and I think Im geting 5-10 more fps with the 4780. I cant really remember what i was getting with the GTX...but Id be happy to run any bechmarks for you as a comparison. When I played it back at xmas..I was using all custom configs etc...so hard to tell.
 
MiNxYyY said:
only play on res 1024 x 768 and get ridiculous FPS in COD2/COD4 And other games.

i have the money just wondering is it worth it ?
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LOL. I read this whole thread and it cracked me up. Dude, I am an expert in this field (at least I think I am), so are most the people here talking. Go buy your self a 24 inch monitor and play COD4 on it. That would look so much better then upgrading your graphics card. Resolution matters!

Do you know what bottleneck means? Here look: http://www.answers.com/topic/bottleneck-engineering?cat=technology

In this case, you can spend your money and go for 280 GTX in SLI and you wont see any difference.

I would rather have a 8800 GTX and game @ 1920x1200 than have 280 GTX in SLI and game @ 1024 x 768. Ask anyone else here with over 1000 posts and I am sure they will agree. Well anyone should really, but there could be another noob like you who would rather have the latter.
 
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Lowrider...Crysis installed and played for a bit. Is running very smothly...and I think Im geting 5-10 more fps with the 4780. I cant really remember what i was getting with the GTX...but Id be happy to run any bechmarks for you as a comparison. When I played it back at xmas..I was using all custom configs etc...so hard to tell.
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Just one request, with everything set to high @ 1920x1200, no AA, at the start of the game after you swim out of the water when your on the beach moving your mouse around what kind of FPS are you getting ? lowest and highest ?
 
LCD or CRT? If it's LCD, then virtually all 19" panels are 1280x1024 or 1440x900 native. You really shouldn't consider using anything but the native res.
 
the op maybe a xtreme online gamer, he wants the best he can get out of his pc, its not all about eye candy graphics, less gfx more he can see 'simple. example someone camping in the grass he can see them without turning on the textures
 
MiNxYyY said:
i do like that monitor a lot :)im happy with my samsung 17" monitor :D and would prefer to buy a new gfx card than a monitor
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i wouldnt bother with a new card - if you have the money - get a new monitor and sell your old one

you are seriously limiting yourself at that res

it just seems a bit pointless in my opinion

the new cards still dont have enough of a significant gain to be worth consideration

and lets face it - a gtx still kills everything you would play on it - bar crysis - which is not exactly worth it
 
at that resolution, its a waste of a perfectly good 8800GTX, forget a new card and get 22'' samsung, good monitors :) that'll push your GTX a bit more
 
Phatzy said:
the op maybe a xtreme online gamer, he wants the best he can get out of his pc, its not all about eye candy graphics, less gfx more he can see 'simple. example someone camping in the grass he can see them without turning on the textures
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He would see more on a 24" at 1920x1200 than his current screen and res. With his current GFX card he can run 4AA/16AF with a very high framerate, and if he needs needlessly high FPS cos his willy is very small then he can turn down the in game textures.
He is trolling pure and simple.
 
Mate,it's your money :D Spend it as you wish.The only possible benefit I can see with the 4870 is support for DX10.1,although quite how much of a benefit this will be remains to be seen.In my opinion it will be negligible,but then I'm basing this on reports I've read.

If it was my money,I wouldn't spend it on the card.Simply because I wouldn't see any noticable improvement.Whether you do or not is largely down to your eye,and the placebo effect ;) :D
 
if its a 17 inch monitor surely it can do 1280x1024? i have a 17inch LCD which can

I have a dell 2007fp 20.1 inch LCD for sale if your interested usually around £260-£300 i can sell for £150. Max res 1600x1200

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...7&subcat=948&name=Dell Ultrasharp 2007FP 20.1"%20Performance%20LCD%20Monitor%20-%20Midnight%20Grey

check the customer reviews on that bad boy :)

to answer your question its not worth upgrading it if you only play at that low resolution.
 
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lowrider007 said:
Just one request, with everything set to high @ 1920x1200, no AA, at the start of the game after you swim out of the water when your on the beach moving your mouse around what kind of FPS are you getting ? lowest and highest ?
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Between 27 and 37...depending on what direction I look at. A lot more if I look up at the sky.Thats everything at high...No AA, 8x AF and high quality set in ATI driver settings.

Thats runing in 64bit mode! You may get more in 32..Im not entirely sure.
 
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to the OP , if your are a competetive gamer i know where your coming from. I play CS 1.6 @ 800x600 becuase thats the res i started in and got used too when i first played it.

but for single player games and newer online games i crank the res up for the eye candy. You just can't beat it

p.s your fps counter might say 900fps but only becuase you have vsync disabled. The monitor itself will still be running at 60hz -100hz giving you 100fps max. The monitor drops all those extra frames that your video card is producing becuase its incapable of displaying them
 
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