Rage & graphic card limitations

[Heffer23]

Hi all,

Firstly apologies if this is in the wrong section. Its about graphic cards but specifically relating to Rage... so I was a tad confused.

Ok my friend, we shall call him 'Bob'
'Bob' is currently playing Rage on an OC'd 480 & 6 core black edition athlon CPU... with trimmings. Now he like many is having issues with textures being drawn in as he looks left & right.

'Bob' says its due to his card only having about 1300MHz memory & suggests to run it & other modern games I should be looking at a card with more i.e. 2GB +

Firstly is 'Bob' correct ?

Secondly, I am in the market for a new GPU & am torn between the following:
- R6950 lightning 2GB (can't guarantee the flash BIOS up to 6970 so don't all shout this card out as winner straight away)
- R6970 lightning 2GB
- GTX580 MSI Twin Frozr II
Thirdly, the 580 only has 1500MHz(approx) so will this suffer the same texture pop up as the 480

Many thanks in advance
Heffers

 

[Heffer23]

Ah... see, this is why I love OCukF, every day is a learning day.

Yep, just looked & yes I meant MB.

Yes, my PC is the signature one. I have about £590 to spend currently.
I eventually want to add:
- 2500k i5
- P8P67
- Be quiet Advanced
- DDR3 4GB

Happy with rest.

Will be gaming on 1680x1050 (have 22" wide screen monitor) & nothing else

 

[Heffer23]

I actually disagree with this. If you OC your Q6600 to ~3.5GHz there'll be very few (if any) modern games that it'll bottleneck.

Not to deviate from the OP but I have a 680i mobo... can't OC my Q6600 past 2.5GHz but see my other posts for more on that.

So back to the OP, cheers for the info, Maybe Rage is not the best game to base my next card on.

Thank you for list Howling... tres interesting & soooo tempting.

Lastly, my gut feeling is many more games will be developed this way ie requiring more & more vram. I see a 3GB 580 has just been released... possibly to answer / ease a few (rich) peoples needs.

I'll keep post open as the info received is top & interesting - yes, I am a noid & need to get out more

 

[Heffer23]

Also, if you are going for that sort of upgrade it would be highly worth considering a display capable of at least 1920x1080 / 1920x1200. If your budget allows.

Not enough bucks...2 kids & crimbo approaching fast

Think it's going to be pretty much the list above apart from the gpu...still a 6950 but the msi one

 

[Heffer23]

Hi, just wanted to close thread but also show off my new signature

Proper proud me & thank you Overclockers forum for getting me there