7800gt sli is it time to upgrade

[bdconner]

Hi im running a pair of 7800gt's 440 core 1060 mem from evga in sli. Would it be a worthwile upgrade to go to a 7950 or twin 7900gt's i game on a 19" lcd at 1280x1024 right now the only thing struggling is oblivion. Also i run a dual core opty at 2.8ghz for cpu

 

[ForumMaster]

doubt it. at your resolution, it doesn't matter that much. just turn down the graphics in Oblivion. you don't wanna lower the resolution. what manufacturer versoin cards do you have? if you have evga you can use their step-up program.

 

[Ichigo]

Stop paying more for graphics cards than your display. All of you.

 

[bdconner]

they are evgas but they are over 90 days old

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: Ichigo
Stop paying more for graphics cards than your display. All of you.

Yeah that sounds great... 30" LCD @ 5 FPS with 0AA/0AF... That's a whole lot of ugly to look at. Quality, not quantity my friend.

 

[Kromis]

When you go SLI, I don't think you should upgrade for quite awhile (unless you are talking about low-end SLI).

 

[LittleNemoNES]

the only thing decidedly faster than 7800GT SLI is x1900 Cossfire or 7900GTX SLI

 

[TanisHalfElven]

Originally posted by: Ichigo
Stop paying more for graphics cards than your display. All of you.

by that logic you should not upgrade as long as you can play the gfame at your monitors native resolution.... like me... i won't upgrade mt rig below until i can't play the games i like on the 19" i am about to buy..

but most ppl don't do that.
OP 7900gt sli can play oblivion at 1280x1028 maxed out with bloom and AA (cuz a 7950gx2 can do that at 1600x1200 so 7900gt sli should be good for 1280x1028) yeah i think it'll be a significant improvement.

but x1900xt can be had for 330 at newegg so Xfire x1900xt should handle AA+HDR at 1280x1028 easily.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

just tone down the settings in Oblivion slightly.
Moving Up from 7800GT SLI is strictly not worth the money...and I'm a little shocked to hear a Dual-Core Opteron @ 2.8GHz paired with 7800GT SLI can't handle Oblivion at a measly 1280x1024!!!! I haven't played this game but you are scaring me!

Maybe you should take a look at that .ini file-hack that surfaced a while ago for improving Oblivion performance. I'm still scratching my head over this one!

 

[bdconner]

the system is great until you get into some foilage areas on the game and the frame rate goes to hell really quick if you have HDR enabled. Since i currently have a very exspensive SLI board im not really interested in Crossfire, plus ive had alot of trouble with ATI drivers in the past. while i will agree they got some great hardware nowdays

 

[Powermoloch]

Originally posted by: Ichigo
Stop paying more for graphics cards than your display. All of you.

lol, it's my money and I can do whateva' I want

 

[Redox]

According to the link below, you might gain about 5 fps from 23 to 28 fps @ 12x10 - doesn't seem worth it considering what you've already invested

Oblivion performance

 

[TanisHalfElven]

Originally posted by: bdconner
Hi im running a pair of 7800gt's 440 core 1060 mem from evga in sli. Would it be a worthwile upgrade to go to a 7950 or twin 7900gt's i game on a 19" lcd at 1280x1024 right now the only thing struggling is oblivion. Also i run a dual core opty at 2.8ghz for cpu

forgot to mention last time. look at anands oblivion benches. a single x1900xt is enough at 1280x1028. i think the min fps was 38 (in foliage and near oblivion gate) and max was 56. but min is what count. i think the fact the you have sli and effective 256 mb vram is what pushing it. on my x800gt at 1280x1028 with large textures and grass i almost always have 1 mb free vram so its quite likely your being held back vram.

 

[hans030390]

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: Ichigo
Stop paying more for graphics cards than your display. All of you.

Yeah that sounds great... 30" LCD @ 5 FPS with 0AA/0AF... That's a whole lot of ugly to look at. Quality, not quantity my friend.

Are you making fun of me because I don't use AA or AF (and have never seen a need to either)? HMMM???

Just kidding.

To the OP, I would recommend just waiting for Dx10 cards to come out. I'm pretty sure your 7800gts can hold out pretty well until then.

 

[djnsmith7]

Originally posted by: bdconner
Hi im running a pair of 7800gt's 440 core 1060 mem from evga in sli. Would it be a worthwile upgrade to go to a 7950 or twin 7900gt's i game on a 19" lcd at 1280x1024 right now the only thing struggling is oblivion. Also i run a dual core opty at 2.8ghz for cpu

Just curious, how much RAM do you have?

 

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: Powermoloch

Originally posted by: Ichigo
Stop paying more for graphics cards than your display. All of you.

lol, it's my money and I can do whateva' I want

Yeah, no kidding. I will buy whatever video card to go with whatever monitor I damn well please. He has no idea what he is talking about.

 

[Kromis]

Originally posted by: Kromis
When you go SLI, I don't think you should upgrade for quite awhile (unless you are talking about low-end SLI).

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