Recommended video cards

[dominic]

First of hall, what the heck happened to my post on this thread ? It's just gone without any trace or explanation... It was in no way offensive or inapropriate.

Well, here is what I said in that post :

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 series - good
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series - awesome

Does the rating "good" for the 7600 series apply only to the 7600 GS or does it also apply to the 7600GT ? Because the later wouldn't make much sens. A 7600GT is much more powerfull than a 7600GS (400Mhz vs 560Mhz ! ), and a 7600GT is faster than a 6800 GT, wich is, to my knowledge, the second most powerfull GPU in the 6800 serie, ant the whole serie is rated "awesome". I don't know about the 6800 Ultra vs the 7600 GT, but there is not that much difference between a 6800 GT and a 6800 Ultra.

[Urmel]

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Sorry dominic, nothing personal, just an accident

[dominic]

Copy the database to the new server.
Set up both servers to work on the same database.
Change DNS
Lose nothing

Sorry dominic, nothing personal, just an accident

Well, no offense taken. It's good to know that It was nothing related to what I wrote. Other posts also disapeared on the Nexuiz 2.0 video thread. Not just mine, other people posts too. Also, my avatar just won't work, even if I set it back in my profile. It's 80x80 and less than 10k.

[Ed]

Back to your point, I would prefer to have a 7600GT to a 6800Ultra. Power wise the 7600GT will only just have the edge but it doesn't have any of the nasty highendedness of being big, loud, power hungry and hot.

It is PCI-E only for the moment. Give it a month or two and we may see an AGP one, along with a 7600GS. The GS isn't as fast partly because of the lower clock speed but also because the memory is DDR2, not GDDR3. 1400MHz is a lot more than 900MHz. Galaxy have produced a GDDR3 version though.

We can't be that many months off a Geforce 8. Should be out before Vista because of some overhyped thing that doesn't concern me being a Linux user.

[PHREAK]

I was talking about the 6800GT of course, and in my experience, multiple pipelines matter a lot more then higher clock speed. Then there is over-clocking as well
While older applications are more clock speed oriented, most newer ones are not and really like the greater physical amount of traffic.
I just read what I wrote and I have no idea if anyone will understand me . it IS 3am though

[Guest]

Back to your point, I would prefer to have a 7600GT to a 6800Ultra. Power wise the 7600GT will only just have the edge but it doesn't have any of the nasty highendedness of being big, loud, power hungry and hot.

It is PCI-E only for the moment. Give it a month or two and we may see an AGP one, along with a 7600GS. The GS isn't as fast partly because of the lower clock speed but also because the memory is DDR2, not GDDR3. 1400MHz is a lot more than 900MHz. Galaxy have produced a GDDR3 version though.

We can't be that many months off a Geforce 8. Should be out before Vista because of some overhyped thing that doesn't concern me being a Linux user.

I see the first post has been edited to rate the 7600 as awesome. Maybe their should be two rating for the 7600, one for the 7600 GS and one for the 7600 GT. Is the difference big enough to justify that ?
Anyway, I think I will buy a 7600GT for my new rig, only to wait for the GeForce 8. It doesn't cost much and it should still have some resale value when the GF 8 will go out. They are rumored to got out this automn. In the mean time, the 7600GT will still be unspeakably more powerfull than the GeForce 2 Ti that I have been using for FOUR YEARS. I would have taken a 7900, but so many people are having artefacts and lockups issues with those cards, I think I will skip this one in the hope that GF 8 work correctly this time.

[Ed]

I would have taken a 7900, but so many people are having artefacts and lockups issues with those cards

These are mostly related to pre-overclocked cards. A number of manuafacturers have pushed the cards a little too far and they are suffering from heat problems. You can get round this though by having better case cooling or using your computer in a cooler room, this does not mean using air conditioning.

[ZMX]

What about ATI Radeaon Xpress 200???
is that bad to use for the overall game performance??

[Urmel]

What about ATI Radeaon Xpress 200???
is that bad to use for the overall game performance??

yup.

The Radeon Xpress 200, even if it's pretended to be the fastest on board VGA, works with "shared" memory and, unlike it's promised, not suitable for 3D gaming. Even a Radeon R300 (the weakest current Radeon chip) works faster.

Better look for the so called "Mobility Radeon" VGAs.

[ZMX]

Can I still play the game in
good performance if I go with low settings??
I'm saying all this because I've not installed
the game yet?