Surprised !

[zub-typer]

Just got my Acer G24 setup..

I was expecting to have to rush online to OCUK and purchased the very latest £300 graphics card...

However....

I was very surprised to find that my clock'd 8800 GT OC still manages to power the 24 very well...

I have tested on farcry2 at 1920 x 1200 with everything on high.. (no AA)

Can someone tell me what advantage a new £300 card will give me.. and what advantage AA at max will have ?

 

[engstrom0304]

with aa off, many of the geforce 8 cards are almost as good as the new cards. But its when you apply aa that you really see the difference. However at that resolution you probably wont need aa in most games. If you really want performance for cheap buy another 8800gt for £80 then that sli setup will be faster than a gtx 260 especially at that resolution. At any lower than 1680 x 1050, sli becomes more and more wasted.

 

[Rroff]

His sig says P35 motherboard so SLI isn't an option

 

[bfar]

As u are, u should be able to play 99% of games without issue. It really depends on what you see as acceptable yourself - its a personal opinion.

A new card would offer ultra smooth performance, but games wouldn't be anymore playable than they are now. If money is a big issue, than I wouldn't bother about an upgrade unless you feel that your rig isn't keeping up with the games you're playing.

 

[Corasik]

I used a 7900GTX with my 24inch (1920x1200) for quite a long time. Was no problem with games like oblivion, wow etc. Picked up a used 8800GTX and it does allow more eye candy, but its not like the old 7900 sucked.

That said, I never bothered buying crysis etc as everyone says its very system hungry.

 

[zub-typer]

The GFX card i'm using is Clocked, and I have also clocked it higher 760MHz core clock, which is a 60MHz increase over the stock 700MHz core clock. The memory clock was harder to push and the highest I could get it was 960MHz (1920) from the stock 920MHz (1840) memory clock. The shader clock was stock at 1700MHz and I raised that to 1818MHz.
Omega drivers seem to be be the way forward as far as performance and stability are concerned, as tried the newest Nvidia ones and it crashed during games almost straight away.
COD - Modern warfare is looking awesome at 1900 x 1200 on high.

Would I benifit from 2 x £100 ATI cards in x-fire, or one £200 ATI card, and if so which ones should i go for...
Or should i just push the boundaries out to a £300 card...??

 

[ShaolinDreams]

i can vouch for that 1920x1200 max quality good fps and only one game with AA off.. you know what that is.

 

[zub-typer]

Know what it is but don't know what it is ?
Icute mod ???

 

[Darg]

8800GT is pretty similiar in performance to my 2900XT. Not surprised that it works fine with current games

Games really haven't kept up much with the advances in GPU speed over the past year or two. Crysis is about the only one that strains my card and even then only when I use the Very High details mod in DX9.

 

[TheCenturion]

a gtx 280 @ £250 would destroy that monitor if your gt does well