EVGA 8800GTS 640MB

[Compnewbie01]

Will this card be enough to power the next year of games at 1920X1200? I will understand if I can't crank up all the AA/AF, but I want to know if I can at least play games at the native resolution and still maintain good crisp graphics with high framerate.

 

[MarcVenice]

Next year in dx9, yes. In dx10, going to be rough.

 

[postmortemIA]

for DX10 games, it iwll be great if you can run 1600x1200 with high settings.

 

[Compnewbie01]

Are you saying that one *would* be lucky to run 1600X1200 with high settings with the 8800GTS 640MB? I sometimes feel that I shot myself in the foot with this monitor because I'll never be able to really buy a $500+ video card. My main concern at the moment is Bioshock, Orange Box, and Crysis.

 

[MarcVenice]

1600*1200 at high settings should be quite doable for a 8800gts 640mb in at least the first 2 games. Crysis is not out, and no-one knows. It be save to say it should at least do fairly well in Crysis, might have to cut back on some AA/AF or not at all, who knows.

 

[Compnewbie01]

Okay, it seems that this card is sufficient. I can accept not maxing everything out, but the resolution part is most important to me. I was also considering the step-up program in 2-3 months.

 

[postmortemIA]

Yes, that is why I am mentioning 1600x1200 as it is resolution where you get black boxes only on sides with 1:1 mapping, everything lower is gonna suck on that monitor.

 

[Matt2]

I'm using a 2900XT, roughly the same speed as the GTS and it's enough to run games now, but I think it will struggle at 19x12 in upcoming games, especially under DX10.

 

[thilanliyan]

I'm running Call of Juarez DX10 on my 24inch with GTS and it struggles at 1920x1200...it's fine at 1680x1050 though.

 

[dclive]

I happily ran Company of Heroes on my 32" 1920x12xx monitor with an nVidia 8800GTS/320. Worked great, turned up a few of the antialiasing options, then it looked great too.

 

[ArenaNinja]

If you're in no hurry (as 8800 offers no known improvements that I'm aware of), 8900 is coming out November. Price seems same as 8800 ATM

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: dclive
I happily ran Company of Heroes on my 32" 1920x12xx monitor with an nVidia 8800GTS/320. Worked great, turned up a few of the antialiasing options, then it looked great too.

same here!

all of the old games run fine (quake 4 and below) and even some of the newer games will work at 1920x1200. you just have to turn down detail.

my rule of thumb is: highest resolution first, then turn down detail if you need to get higher performance, unless the resolution is the killer (a la nfsu2).