Upgraded from 8800GT OC to a GTX 260. Benchmarks inside

[Wreckage]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
TBH, this is a pure case of a buyer convincing himself he did the right thing. Depending on what you do with your 8800gt or how much you can sell it for, I wholeheartedly disagree that the small improvement was worth $220.

He went to the second best GPU behind the 280. Why is that not a good thing?

 

[Tempered81]

newegg has a 260 for 209 now

 

[MarcVenice]

Wreckage, the stupidity of that question is to obvious for me to even respond to it. Think about it yourself for a sec, reread what I said in my post, and you just might get it.

 

[scheibler1]

I agree that my CPU is holding me back, but it is not b/c of the clock speed. 3ghz is plenty, but the amount of cache. The E2180 comes with a whopping 1mb cache...

I am contemplating going to a E8600 or Q6600 in January.

This card is amazing. I am playing Crysis over again since Crysis Warhead comes out today. I'm now using the CCC mod @ level 5 that allows for color enhancing, dx10 "god rays", realistic shadows, some performance tweaks, and the time of day mod @ 1920x1200. I'm amazed at the level of detail

 

[TheVrolok]

Reading this thread makes me want to upgrade my 8800GT now, too! I'm waiting on S:CS and Warhead because I don't want to half-ass them on my 8800GT. I just don't know if I can justify the cash/performance increase the OP can. I might be waiting a bit longer.

 

[error8]

For me 8800 GT days are numbered. Stalker Clear Sky and Crysis Warhead are running horrible on maximum settings, so this is the time to upgrade. It would have also been great if I had some money too.

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: error8
For me 8800 GT days are numbered. Stalker Clear Sky and Crysis Warhead are running horrible on maximum settings, so this is the time to upgrade. It would have also been great if I had some money too.

Crysis running on maximum settings was a given considering a 280gtx can't even do that. Stalker is the same. Probably a badly written considering it doesn't run all that well on a 280gtx either and doesn't look that great.

When 8800gt becomes useless I can only assume 280gtx will be useless as well.

 

[scheibler1]

well guys...I just figured out I am cpu bottlenecked...hopefully I can get a new cpu to match this GTX 260 oc'd