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LoadsaMoney said:
Go for it cracking cards. :cool:
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Since i uninstalled the old ATI drivers b4 my other card went shall i run the pc in safe mode run driver cleaner first then install the nvidia drivers ??

or just pop in the nvidia card and hope for the best :D
 
beast said:
OP, what's the game in the original pics? any good?
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counter strike source. Yes i like the game because i play in a clan makes it good. Its very hard at start to get into it and master all the guns and how they respond but once you do its easy.

plus theres tons of great maps from lego. mountain climbing, surfing or just plaing old shooting the heads of each other.
 
bindip1 said:
so when i go from ATi to nvidia what do i need to do.

of course get rid of the ATI drivers what else. I herd some people said the best thing to do is format but that takes ages :(.
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If you are running a 5200 now then you should already have nvidia drivers installed.

There's a lot of rubbish spouted about needing to format when switching graphics card brands but it's a load of nonsense in my opinion. I've switched between 3dfx, nvidia, ati etc many times and not once have I felt I've needed a format for stability/performance reasons. In fact I used to run 3dfx and nvidia drivers simultaneously at one point when I had a agp gf2mx and a pci vooodoo3-3000 in the same machine running dual monitors.
 
HangTime said:
If you are running a 5200 now then you should already have nvidia drivers installed.

There's a lot of rubbish spouted about needing to format when switching graphics card brands but it's a load of nonsense in my opinion. I've switched between 3dfx, nvidia, ati etc many times and not once have I felt I've needed a format for stability/performance reasons. In fact I used to run 3dfx and nvidia drivers simultaneously at one point when I had a agp gf2mx and a pci vooodoo3-3000 in the same machine running dual monitors.
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My 5200 is on another pc.

i have a crap pc then the gamers PC :P.....
 
I used to get tearing on my GFX like in your 2nd link and the long spikes on the Dust2 picture, I have an XFX 6800 Ultra, which is overclocked by XFX in factory, after reading an article in PCZone about pre-overclocked cards not lasting very long, and my card in paticular which had gone though 2 custom fans, an NV5 and a Zalman flower, I decided to underclock it to nVidia's standard timings, and that got rid of all the crazy crap I had, like in your pictures. In future if I get more problems like I did with my 6800 the 1st thing ill do is underclock it to standard.
 
esoteric said:
I used to get tearing on my GFX like in your 2nd link and the long spikes on the Dust2 picture, I have an XFX 6800 Ultra, which is overclocked by XFX in factory, after reading an article in PCZone about pre-overclocked cards not lasting very long, and my card in paticular which had gone though 2 custom fans, an NV5 and a Zalman flower, I decided to underclock it to nVidia's standard timings, and that got rid of all the crazy crap I had, like in your pictures. In future if I get more problems like I did with my 6800 the 1st thing ill do is underclock it to standard.
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thing is they were at stock settings and i never overclocked at all.
 
with my current setup i only have 1 gig of ram.

and it looks like ill probbly get the 8800 GTS before my extra gig of ram.

so in the mean time will my system be bottlenecking ??? specs in 1st post.

also im pritty sure my PSU will run my system and the 8800 GTS but just to make sure heres the specs


Wattage 520 Watt

AC Input 115V @ 10A, 230V @ 6A

DC Output +3.3V @ 28A, +5V @ 52A, +5VSB @ 2.5A, +12V @ 28A, -5V @ 0.8A, -12V @ 1A
 
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