Awesome, my Gainward 7800GS+ has arrived!!!! When I was ordering it, I heard that my card might not fit into my board because of a peice of plastic that was protruding out from the HSF but it turns out it fits perfectly! I guess they removed the wierd triangle plastic thing which I have no idea why it was there in the first place..
Where I bought the Card.
At the moment I'm trying to keep my excitement underwraps. Because I'm changing out video card, it means I won't have the oppportunity to bench my older 9800pro video card so at the moment I've been doing realtively indpeth benchmarks of the video card. I've been benching the card with 3Dmark 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2006 with performance textures, quality textures and high quality textures, Stock Speeds and Overclocked speeds, making for a total of 30 screen caps! (Of the score) I also have plans but not quite sure If I want to, but I'd be benching the card with just core overclock, or just memory overclock etc.
My only reason for not benching video games is because I don't know how to bench games such as BF2 or obivion, Q4. But if I there is enough interest I'll do it. Once I have the benchmarks for my 9800pro, I'll be able to compare the benchmarks with my new 7800GS+.
Update: I'm going to keep this thread alive for a while. This whole thing may take upwards of at least a month to complete (since I'm in school already..) So far I've done all of the benchmarks I wanted to with the futuremark programs on the 9800pro, I don't exactly want to switch out yet because I'm waiting for my 2GB memory modules to arrive back from the RMA.
I'm also wondering how to bench oblivion & BF2 on these cards, have plans to bench the following games: Farcry, Oblivion, Counter Strike, BattleField 2, and any other games if you guys are interested. I just hope you guys will be patient enough for the results, I'll do this regardless of whether or not people will care, difference is how organized the data will be and whether or not I'll even post the results at all.
Update: I wanted to point out that my max screen resolution is only 1280X1024, though if I'm lucky I may be able to bench at higher resolutions but I don't see that happening anytime soon..
Where I bought the Card.
At the moment I'm trying to keep my excitement underwraps. Because I'm changing out video card, it means I won't have the oppportunity to bench my older 9800pro video card so at the moment I've been doing realtively indpeth benchmarks of the video card. I've been benching the card with 3Dmark 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2006 with performance textures, quality textures and high quality textures, Stock Speeds and Overclocked speeds, making for a total of 30 screen caps! (Of the score) I also have plans but not quite sure If I want to, but I'd be benching the card with just core overclock, or just memory overclock etc.
My only reason for not benching video games is because I don't know how to bench games such as BF2 or obivion, Q4. But if I there is enough interest I'll do it. Once I have the benchmarks for my 9800pro, I'll be able to compare the benchmarks with my new 7800GS+.
Update: I'm going to keep this thread alive for a while. This whole thing may take upwards of at least a month to complete (since I'm in school already..) So far I've done all of the benchmarks I wanted to with the futuremark programs on the 9800pro, I don't exactly want to switch out yet because I'm waiting for my 2GB memory modules to arrive back from the RMA.
I'm also wondering how to bench oblivion & BF2 on these cards, have plans to bench the following games: Farcry, Oblivion, Counter Strike, BattleField 2, and any other games if you guys are interested. I just hope you guys will be patient enough for the results, I'll do this regardless of whether or not people will care, difference is how organized the data will be and whether or not I'll even post the results at all.
Update: I wanted to point out that my max screen resolution is only 1280X1024, though if I'm lucky I may be able to bench at higher resolutions but I don't see that happening anytime soon..
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