Best native resolution for gaming on 8800GT?

[imported_wired247]

So, on the 8800GT (plus the rest of my system listed in sig), what is the max native resolution I should be thinking about for high end gaming, such as Crysis, as well as future titles?


Right now I'm running on 1280x720 because this is on my 42" plasma TV. I am looking into getting a desktop monitor.

Everything including crysis runs rediculously fast on this low resolution. But I know this is not the case when you start increasing res.


Feel free to offer monitor suggestions if you have some in mind.

I'm cool with most brands, except Samsung. I will not buy samsung, so please do not suggest it.

 

[secretanchitman]

8800GT can handle basically anything up to 1920x1200 with ease. you'll be fine. if my 8800GTS 320MB (well now i swapped it out to a 7950GT 512MB), amd opteron system can candle gaming at 1920x1200, your c2d wolfdale DEFINITELY will.

 

[lopri]

First choice: 24", 1920x1200
Second choice (or first if budget allows): 30", 2560x1600

1920x1200 makes a lot of sense in that the price is right ($350~$500) and 8800 GT will handle everything except Crysis. It also happens to be very similar to today's 'FullHD', which is 1920x1080. Get a 24" with a DVI/HDMI/VGA/Component, and you'll be sitting pretty for some time.

 

[imported_wired247]

1920x1200 is exactly what I was hoping I was going to hear.

The info is appreciated and I'm still open to specific monitors.

 

[QuixoticOne]

Yeah I run 1900x1200 for most everything with about 90% max. quality, NO AF, maybe a little AA, and leaving out the ridiculously useless (doesn't make much visual difference, takes a LOT of GPU resources) high quality selections like 'grass shadows' in Oblivion or whatever.

It generally works fine that way, and if I need a few more FPS I either cut back one notch on a couple of the less relevant quality parameters or drop to 1650x1080 or whatever.

(8800GT-512 OCed).

As for a monitor... I haven't kept up with the latest good values... be critical of what they mean when they say "xxxxxx million colors" or "xx bits/pixel" or "Xms response time" or "xxxx : 1 contrast ratio" since they often "lie" about those parameters by using misleading or too simplistic ways of measuring them in order to make bad panels seem to have better specs.

Watch out for panels that are way too bright at default (like 50%) brightness settings since you'll probably have to turn them down a lot to be comfortable using them for desktop / office / web stuff.

Watch out for panels that are annoying like ones that take forever to switch inputs when you hit the button or whatever.

Watch out for people giving bad reviews that they broke after a year or something....

Good luck.

 

[imported_wired247]

I am a little concerned about that resolution for Crysis (which I do play a lot) and other next-gen games that will have similar req's.


If it is going to run really slow, I might as well hold off on the monitor until I upgrade my video card.

I guess I will search for some benchies

 

[LittleNemoNES]

I can play crysis mostly high cept shadows @ 1680x1050 great...until I get to ~ the core level.

 

[imported_wired247]

Just purchased a Viewsonic something or other, 22" and 1680x1050, looks GREAT and it's just the right size, crysis runs fast enough for me, I can read anime subtitles from my bed, I am happy.

I was looking into buying from newegg, but I think their return policy on LCD's is total bullshit, you need to have more than 6 or 8 or something dead pixels to return it. I just bought it locally from costco (it was $20 less for a samsung with an inferior base, but I refuse to buy samsung*) because costco has an awesome 6 month no-questions-asked return policy.

thanks for the rec's.

can't believe I lived with the low res plasma for so long.


now my plasma can do what a plasma should do, which is play high def movies and TV, where my LCD can play high def PC games... all is well in my household


*If you care, the reason I refuse to buy samsung is (a) I've had many DIFFERENT samsung products go bad on me over the years, from cell phones (most frustrating) to LCD's with dead pixels to a DVD burner to a microwave...

and (b) I am an engineer and I ran into a couple who used to work at samsung, they said to me in all honesty that samsung has horrible QC, cuts corners everywhere they can, uses the cheapest components and tries to put everything in the prettiest package. THEY won't buy samsung, so I won't either.

On the converse I've never had a ViewSonic product go bad on me. They seem to be top quality AFAIK

 

[iskim86]

i play all my games at 1680X1050 (highest) and they run flawlessly.

 

[imported_wired247]

Originally posted by: iskim86
i play all my games at 1680X1050 (highest) and they run flawlessly.

and your rig would be:

 

[kknd1967]

I used to have 8800GTS/320M on 19" 1280x1024.
I stepup (evga) to 8800GT/512M because I bought a 24" 1920x1200. Seems to be very good. I got a little higher FPS in "World in Conflicts" under this higher resolution and same quality settings.

 

[BFG10K]

1920x1200 with light AA or 1680x1050 with heavy AA (modern titles obviously).

 

[iskim86]

Originally posted by: wired247

Originally posted by: iskim86
i play all my games at 1680X1050 (highest) and they run flawlessly.

and your rig would be:

athlon 64 x2 4600+
4 gb ddr2 800
8800gt 650/1600/1100

so far i've played Call of duty 4, Unreal Tournament 3, and gears of war

crysis runs decently. haven't tried running it on very high using the hack though

 

[Pheran]

Originally posted by: wired247
Just purchased a Viewsonic something or other, 22" and 1680x1050, looks GREAT and it's just the right size, crysis runs fast enough for me, I can read anime subtitles from my bed, I am happy.

I was looking into buying from newegg, but I think their return policy on LCD's is total bullshit, you need to have more than 6 or 8 or something dead pixels to return it. I just bought it locally from costco (it was $20 less for a samsung with an inferior base, but I refuse to buy samsung*) because costco has an awesome 6 month no-questions-asked return policy.

Nice choice, I just did this exact same thing (bought a VX2255wmb from Costco) about a week ago. I'm loving it. Personally I think running at 1920x1200 forces you into needing too much video card; I wanted to stick with 1680x1050.

 

[imported_wired247]

Is it completely ridiculous to try to overclock an XFX 8800GT without upgrading the stock cooler?

 

[iskim86]

Originally posted by: wired247
Is it completely ridiculous to try to overclock an XFX 8800GT without upgrading the stock cooler?

not at all

I don't know about XFX (i was interested in their earlier offer to get my hands on their first batch but I went to Galaxy), but I overclocked my core 50+, shader 100+ and memory 100+. tonight I will try to see if I can go any higher.

btw the Galaxy card comes with two power supply connectors and the voltage is already upped to 1.25v. compensation for bad design? no idea.

give it a shot.

 

[lopri]

No. As long as heat is under control (no higher than 80C, preferably under 70C), a typical GT will do 700MHz core. These G92 cores are clocked very conservatively. (kinda like an underclocked CPU) If it's given more voltages and sufficient cooling, they can clock up to 800MHz easily. (although at that point the PCB will suffer from overload) Download a RivaTuner and set the fan speed at 40~42%. Noise wasn't discernible up to that point in my subjective testing. This will of course vary and some might be happy at 60%. Toy around the fan setting and find the tolerable level for yourself. I wouldn't go past 700MHz unless you can clock memory past 1000MHz, which is kinda tough with stock cooling.

 

[tigersty1e]

Originally posted by: iskim86

Originally posted by: wired247

Originally posted by: iskim86
i play all my games at 1680X1050 (highest) and they run flawlessly.

and your rig would be:

athlon 64 x2 4600+
4 gb ddr2 800
8800gt 650/1600/1100

so far i've played Call of duty 4, Unreal Tournament 3, and gears of war

crysis runs decently. haven't tried running it on very high using the hack though

What was the clocks when you had the card at stock?

Stock is 600/1566/900

Typo? You OC the core only 50, but the memory you OC 200?

 

[iskim86]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e

Originally posted by: iskim86

Originally posted by: wired247

Originally posted by: iskim86
i play all my games at 1680X1050 (highest) and they run flawlessly.

and your rig would be:

athlon 64 x2 4600+
4 gb ddr2 800
8800gt 650/1600/1100

so far i've played Call of duty 4, Unreal Tournament 3, and gears of war

crysis runs decently. haven't tried running it on very high using the hack though

What was the clocks when you had the card at stock?

Stock is 600/1566/900

Typo? You OC the core only 50, but the memory you OC 200?

no typo. stock is 600/1500/900. the memory is upped 200mhz. the core is only OCed 50 because I used the ATI tool find max core function and it was either 652 or 704, and 704 showed artifacts, and I never bothered to go higher than 650. maybe tonight I will.