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I got my new video card yesterday, and noticed some things. After all these years, I finally know the difference between ATI and Nvidia. And the bottom line is.... ATI owns Nvidia (from what I can tell). I play Asheron's Call 2, and before I got this card I had a Radeon 8500 OCed to the max. I was able to play this game on the "High" settings with few problems. I installed the new card, used 3D mark 03 and got in the High 6,000's. Think it was 6800 something. This is a very good score for someone with a stock XP 2200. Despite this high powered Video card, AC2 recommened I play this game using the High settings. Not "Very High". I was confused by this because people with slighty "worse" cards can play using these settings.
Not only was I frustrated because I had to mount this card which weighs 10 damn pounds in my Knex Case, now it didn't perform in the only game I actually play and enjoy. I left the settings on High, played the game, and it seemed to work well for about a half an hour. Random landscape was missing, the water changed colors, and things were missing such as names and weapons and such. I'm thinking this could be heat, but my case runs very cool and with a heatsink like that, I can't see why it would be hot. The fan is not as loud as everyone things it is. Maybe it's because my case is plastic and plexiglass, not aluminum. Right now I'm not extremely happy with the card, but I wouldn't consider it a bad card at all. It performs extremely well in Maya and 3D Studio, and that's the main reason I got it.
RECAP! The card is expensive, the card is heavy, the card runs hot, the card is not as noisy as most think, I got a 6800 with a stock XP2200, it performs well with 3D programs, the one game I tried it on had trouble.
I didn't run any other benchmark yet. Is there a program that can tell you the heat of your video card Like motherboard monitor does with the processor? And does anyone know what could be wrong with the game that has experience with Nvidia? Thanks a lot, hope this helped some people. If you want any more information or pictures or anything, just ask.
RIG: Ga7-VAX
Athlon XP 2200
1024 DDR PC2700
Gainward FX5900 Ultra
(1) 100 gig drive
(2) 120 gig Raided drives
CDRW
SCSI DVD-ROM
Game Theater XP
Klipsch 5.1
etc....
I got my new video card yesterday, and noticed some things. After all these years, I finally know the difference between ATI and Nvidia. And the bottom line is.... ATI owns Nvidia (from what I can tell). I play Asheron's Call 2, and before I got this card I had a Radeon 8500 OCed to the max. I was able to play this game on the "High" settings with few problems. I installed the new card, used 3D mark 03 and got in the High 6,000's. Think it was 6800 something. This is a very good score for someone with a stock XP 2200. Despite this high powered Video card, AC2 recommened I play this game using the High settings. Not "Very High". I was confused by this because people with slighty "worse" cards can play using these settings.
Not only was I frustrated because I had to mount this card which weighs 10 damn pounds in my Knex Case, now it didn't perform in the only game I actually play and enjoy. I left the settings on High, played the game, and it seemed to work well for about a half an hour. Random landscape was missing, the water changed colors, and things were missing such as names and weapons and such. I'm thinking this could be heat, but my case runs very cool and with a heatsink like that, I can't see why it would be hot. The fan is not as loud as everyone things it is. Maybe it's because my case is plastic and plexiglass, not aluminum. Right now I'm not extremely happy with the card, but I wouldn't consider it a bad card at all. It performs extremely well in Maya and 3D Studio, and that's the main reason I got it.
RECAP! The card is expensive, the card is heavy, the card runs hot, the card is not as noisy as most think, I got a 6800 with a stock XP2200, it performs well with 3D programs, the one game I tried it on had trouble.
I didn't run any other benchmark yet. Is there a program that can tell you the heat of your video card Like motherboard monitor does with the processor? And does anyone know what could be wrong with the game that has experience with Nvidia? Thanks a lot, hope this helped some people. If you want any more information or pictures or anything, just ask.
RIG: Ga7-VAX
Athlon XP 2200
1024 DDR PC2700
Gainward FX5900 Ultra
(1) 100 gig drive
(2) 120 gig Raided drives
CDRW
SCSI DVD-ROM
Game Theater XP
Klipsch 5.1
etc....