EPTI recently purchased the NVIDIA Geforce 9800 GT.
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Will this be okay for SC2/HoN/newer games?
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LordWeird
United States3411 Posts
I recently purchased the NVIDIA Geforce 9800 GT. Will this be okay for SC2/HoN/newer games? | ||
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FragKrag
United States11563 Posts
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LordWeird
United States3411 Posts
On April 08 2010 08:49 FragKrag wrote: Yeah, it'll be perfectly fine at medium/high for SC2. Thanks. Hey man, I don't care what the other guys say about you. You're alright in my book. | ||
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AyeH
United States534 Posts
On April 08 2010 08:46 FragKrag wrote: That statement of course, was based on a previous discussion, Gatorade  Nvidia cards are indeed capable of running 2 monitors, but not the 3 that ATI Eyefinity allows flawlessly. Nvidia does not even support DisplayPort on their GPUs at the moment. (I think the GTX 4xx series will support them, but the reference model does not have a DisplayPort out) The complete lack of features that would be useful to him (does he need PhysX or CUDA? No!) in a Nvidia card vs the features in an ATI card means he should go with ATI. If he was savvy enough to 'consider' both sides, then he probably wouldn't need our help in the first place. You come into this thread and instantly pop off a 'fanboy' remark because you have no idea what the graphics card market looks like. If you honestly think 3x GTX 285 in SLI is a good purchase, I have nothing else to say. First of all, you are putting words into my mouth. When did I say that 3x285 was a good purchase? What the hell are you talking about? Did I EVER say that? No... I don't recall saying that. Also, if you read his first post, nowhere does he say I HAVE three monitors. That's something he is looking into the future to do. So a Nvidia GPU in this case can also work for him. And you say that I have no idea what the graphics card market looks like? Where does this outlandish hunch come from? I am currently aware that Nvidia just released the fastest single-gpu on the market (Just a solid fact. No fanboying here). And what the hell are you talking about Nvidia not supporting DisplayPort? They do support it. Go google it. All I said in my original post was for the OP to not be limited in his view just because people only brought up ATI in the first few posts. Then I explained why my initial post was not a fanboy statement. Then you start going crazy like a normal fanboy and naming all the shit that ATI has that the OP doesn't currently need. Does he need DisplayPort at the moment? No. Does he need Eyeinifinity at the moment? No. And to be honest, he will probably never push it past two monitors. I'm not a fanboy, but you obviously are. | ||
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FragKrag
United States11563 Posts
The reason we only brought up ATI is because ATI is cheaper and has advantages like Eyefinity that make it more relevant. If he is thinking of adding a 3rd monitor, who are you to say he isn't? Nvidia 4xx does support DisplayPort, but not on the reference designs which have no DisplayPort Out, and it will take at least a couple months for nonreference designs to appear (maybe earlier, since the gtx 4xx series really does seem to need some better cooling :<) I must have read that 3x gtx 285 from somewhere else though, my bad. It seems like you love to call people fanboys, but you are just accusing me of something I am not! I have supported the GTX 470 quite a bit, and I actually want the card, but as anybody who is in the current graphics card market knows, ATI has much better mid-end and low-end cards on the market at the moment. It would take a Nvidia fanboy to deny that. | ||
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AyeH
United States534 Posts
On April 08 2010 09:25 FragKrag wrote: Yeah, a paper release, which means absolutely nothing! Those gpus do not even support 3 monitors without SLi, so what good does that do? A card that essentially does not exist until April 12th and will be far too expensive for him to buy does not make any impact on what he plans to buy. Thanks for bringing up irrelevant information. The reason we only brought up ATI is because ATI is cheaper and has advantages like Eyefinity that make it more relevant. If he is thinking of adding a 3rd monitor, who are you to say he isn't? Nvidia 4xx does support DisplayPort, but not on the reference designs which have no DisplayPort Out, and it will take at least a couple months for nonreference designs to appear (maybe earlier, since the gtx 4xx series really does seem to need some better cooling :<) I must have read that 3x gtx 285 from somewhere else though, my bad. It seems like you love to call people fanboys, but you are just accusing me of something I am not! I have supported the GTX 470 quite a bit, and I actually want the card, but as anybody who is in the current graphics card market knows, ATI has much better mid-end and low-end cards on the market at the moment. It would take a Nvidia fanboy to deny that. He is thinking of adding a third monitor to play Starcraft, poker, and watch movies all at the same time. That makes a lot of sense... | ||
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FragKrag
United States11563 Posts
If his reason was completely terrible, maybe, but having 3 monitors is actually quite amazing. I have a friend with a 3 monitor setup running off of a HD 5750 and it is very very impressive. | ||
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AyeH
United States534 Posts
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FragKrag
United States11563 Posts
are you the same as him? | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14910 Posts
if he wants to do that then go him | ||
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
KMP is a precursor of sorts to the GomTV Player, think the guy who started it originally switched over to Gom. I use 9 monitors, I want to feel I am in cockpit when I play Crysis. | ||
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FragKrag
United States11563 Posts
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
On April 08 2010 11:46 FragKrag wrote: how do you get over 1 fps in Crysis with 9 monitors To be honest, someone did this with the new Eyefinity series, and they had about 15-30 fps depending on what was going on in game. Not to sidetrack this thread more so, Eyefinity isn't worth it for gaming since the bevels aren't good enough to produce seamless images across monitors. | ||
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AyeH
United States534 Posts
On April 08 2010 11:11 KOFgokuon wrote: who the fuck are you to judge what he's going to do with 3 monitors? if he wants to do that then go him lol are you fragkrag's sidekick or something? oh noes! idk if i can take a 1v2. lol, to be completely honest and using my common sense, he will never get the three monitors because he prolly won't use two that often considering all he said he does is play poker, sc, and watch movies on the comp. so why don't you try using your logic too? will you really need 3 monitors just to do those three things? and i can judge whatever the fuck i want and you can't do shit about it. | ||
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FragKrag
United States11563 Posts
1080p in one monitor IRC/Instant messengers/Vent/Music in one monitor You never know what you can do with the space until you actually have it. | ||
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Sadistx
Zimbabwe5568 Posts
On April 08 2010 13:07 FragKrag wrote: Browser in one monitor 1080p in one monitor IRC/Instant messengers/Vent/Music in one monitor You never know what you can do with the space until you actually have it. Alternatively 12 tables of poker 12 tables of poker 11 tables of poker + youporn. :-D | ||
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leejas
United States440 Posts
Question being what are you running right now? Edit: Actually what are your whole PC Specs right now? | ||
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Shauni
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Sure, CUDA or ATI's HWAcceleration helps a lot in video playback (100% and lag vs 10% load on CPU with 1080p video with my 9800gtx), but it's usually used for really old single core processors or the earliest dual core processors. | ||
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AyeH
United States534 Posts
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FragKrag
United States11563 Posts
that is when nvidia is expected to get more of them and distribute them to partners. Newegg might have some tomorrow though, since some partners lagged behind in shipping. I think only Gigabyte, EVGA, and PNY shipped out in the states. anyways it looks like the GTX 480 and GTX 470 are very solid in performance. The 2GB 5870 'GTX 480 killer' fell short, and the GTX 470 can compete with the 5870 in many games at 1680x1050 and occasionally at 1920x1200. Flops at 2560x1600 though. | ||
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