Commander's New Video Card

[Schlup]

Hey Commander, since you signed out before I had a chance to look at that card I will post my thoughts in here.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102820

If the card if anybody else wants to look at it.  Overall I was pretty impressed by the card specs.  It is an ATI card so naturally you are going to want to make sure that your motherboard will support ATI products and that it's not an nVidia board

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131178&Tpk=P5B-VM%20SE

Since it is an Intel north and southbridge I'm going to assume that ATI will work on it...though I am not 100% positive I am about 90%.  Anyways, stream processors were pretty stout and although this isn't the top end card 4870X2 or even a 4870...it is a 4670 which means that most likely it was ATI's top of the line card at one point in time which is typically a very good thing.  Personally I am an nVidia fan but I have to admit that the card you have there is a pretty nice one and it is priced aggressively as well.

Anyways, just wanted to let you know what I thought.

[Spyke]

schlup. an nvidia chipsetted board will run an ATI card. second. thats a fairly decent card. i run an ATI HD4870 and they def made up for how much i hated them in the past. they came back

[Schlup]

schlup. an nvidia chipsetted board will run an ATI card. second. thats a fairly decent card. i run an ATI HD4870 and they def made up for how much i hated them in the past. they came back

Yeah it'll run it but not as well as it would run an nvidia card.  I always try to stick to using same company in places where I can...tends to work out better.

[Spyke]

ahhh my Nvidia chipset runs my HD4870 1 gig amazingly! im running 100fps at 1920x1200 highest settings in cod4. with a dual core low end processor =]

[Schlup]

Well that's good to know!  Personally I run 200+ in CoD4 but I also have 8800GTS SSC setup in SLI.  IDK, maybe it's just a personal preference to use the same company when possible.  Like if you have a Sony TV, then I get a sony Blu-ray player, Sony surround sound, etc.  I like doing stuff that way.

[Spyke]

*sigh* sony lol. well shti if i was running a 940 i should easily get those. specially at your resolution. at 1680X1080 i run about 180 fps

[Schlup]

You know I'm running 1920x1200 too.  But I was getting those framerates with my old AMD X2 5600+ which is only a 2.8Ghz dual core.

[Spyke]

oh i thought you were running 1680X1080 on a 22". sorry mate. and yea im running a X4200+

[Sir-diealot]

*sigh* sony lol. well shti if i was running a 940 i should easily get those. specially at your resolution. at 1680X1080 i run about 180 fps

You should get higher that that with that card if it is the 2 gig version. It has tested to be faster and get more FPS than any other card on the market, as of 2 months ago anyway.

[Schlup]

You should get higher that that with that card if it is the 2 gig version. It has tested to be faster and get more FPS than any other card on the market, as of 2 months ago anyway.

In comes the GTX 295 which smokes the 4870X2.  Yeah no, I have a 24" monitor (Samsung 245BW)...and my video cards only have 1.25GB or memory combined.  With my new chip it's not uncommon for me to hit 300FPS.  And I max out CSS at 299FPS solid.

[Spyke]

2 gig version of what? that i know of no desktop single card has 2 gigs. i know when i put my HD in my old pc. which is a quad core we were hitting 350+ fps in cod4

[Sir-diealot]

In comes the GTX 295 which smokes the 4870X2.  Yeah no, I have a 24" monitor (Samsung 245BW)...and my video cards only have 1.25GB or memory combined.  With my new chip it's not uncommon for me to hit 300FPS.  And I max out CSS at 299FPS solid.

Won't be long and ATI will blow them out of the water again.

[Schlup]

2 gig version of what? that i know of no desktop single card has 2 gigs. i know when i put my HD in my old pc. which is a quad core we were hitting 350+ fps in cod4

There's a whole slew of them...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2000380048+1068337012&Configurator=&Subcategory=48&description=&Ntk=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc=

[Sir-diealot]

2 gig version of what? that i know of no desktop single card has 2 gigs. i know when i put my HD in my old pc. which is a quad core we were hitting 350+ fps in cod4

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102768

[Spyke]

notice i said single card mate. those are dual processors.

[Schlup]

notice i said single card mate. those are dual processors.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102826
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187054

[Sir-diealot]

notice i said single card mate. those are dual processors.

I believe that is one card.

[Schlup]

I believe that is one card.

It is one card but it is a dual processor which some consider to be two cards slapped into one.  I don't but some do.

[Spyke]

thats what i mean.

[Sir-diealot]

It is one card but it is a dual processor which some consider to be two cards slapped into one.  I don't but some do.

OK how does this card compare to the one you quoted?

[Schlup]

The ones I quoted were single core, and couldn't be construed as double cards.

[Sir-diealot]

The ones I quoted were single core, and couldn't be construed as double cards.

Could by be and others that don't know a lot about computers.