Consider a GPU Upgrade Before CPU: NVIDIA

[Mussels]

I'll get the knowledge in there somehow

I can horse trade for the extra 3870 but will have to buy a 9950 Black Edition. I am hoping that it will OC far better than my 6000 giving me the extra MHz I need.

I thought futuremark 3D06 was multi-thread.

06 is... that program might as well be a CPU benchmark. your score goes up a stupidly large amount for having a quad core, when your FPS doesnt change at all.

 

[imperialreign]

What kind of max out ? 16Xaa ? this is ridiculous.
Sometimes you can have 3 cards in SLI/Crossfire and still have a bad framerate , problems are THE DRIVERS AND GAME OPTIMIZATIONS !!!
I believe we took Nvidia's slideshow to seriously already , they said something obvious and limited in information about what games could benefit from this and what games won't.

no - I mean in-game settings . . . 90% of the time, I don't even touch AA/AF as it's not truly noticeable 95% of the time.

1920x1200 is a hard resolution for most games to run at . . . sure 1 4870 can run at that res, but your quality settings will be marginal. 2 4870s can run that res, and your IQ will be better, and your overall framerates will be better . . . but they can still dip low. 3 helps out even further, but things can still tank occasionally.

I prefer my FPS rates to remain above 40-50 FPS, depending on game.

TBH, we shouldn't need driver optimizations for games - that merely says that the developers didn't spend enough time optimizing their software for the hardware (pure example: Crysis - runs poorly on ATI cards, even with countless driver updates).

Continuing to rely on driver optimizations simply means that game devs can become lazier and lazier in how they code their projects. I for one would rather see games running more optimized than they already do, and we wouldn't necessarily have to update our video drivers every month in hopes of better performance.

 

[ste2425]

but all know we dont know with what "app" they got this ... maybe its custom built nvidia app?

i think a monkey made it on paint with 'NVIDIA' painted on the back of its neck, above a bar-code

 

[WarEagleAU]

I am waiting for Ati or Nvidia to make a platform that uses their awesome gpus as a cpu. I know they can do it. Anyone know if they got any links out there with news about them doing this at all?

 

[eidairaman1]

wont happen on AMD front.

 

[Ketxxx]

no - I mean in-game settings . . . 90% of the time, I don't even touch AA/AF as it's not truly noticeable 95% of the time.

1920x1200 is a hard resolution for most games to run at . . . sure 1 4870 can run at that res, but your quality settings will be marginal. 2 4870s can run that res, and your IQ will be better, and your overall framerates will be better . . . but they can still dip low. 3 helps out even further, but things can still tank occasionally.

I prefer my FPS rates to remain above 40-50 FPS, depending on game.

TBH, we shouldn't need driver optimizations for games - that merely says that the developers didn't spend enough time optimizing their software for the hardware (pure example: Crysis - runs poorly on ATI cards, even with countless driver updates).

Continuing to rely on driver optimizations simply means that game devs can become lazier and lazier in how they code their projects. I for one would rather see games running more optimized than they already do, and we wouldn't necessarily have to update our video drivers every month in hopes of better performance.

Well said. Sadly our protests fall on deaf ears most of the time Its absolutely absurd how poorly coded games have been getting for a long time now.

 

[hat]

Yeah, the most AA I use is 4x, same for AF.

 

[ste2425]

Yeah, the most AA I use is 4x, same for AF.

crnt use either kills my performance, all textures shadows etc i can have very high or maxed but aa or af and it becomes a slide show, i gues my cpu doesnt help

 

[Ketxxx]

When it comes to AA/AF I tend to use 2xAA 8xAF, above that the only noticeable difference is in the loss of FPS

 

[ste2425]

haha too ture