Which video card will deliver 50-60 fps on a 1900 x 1200 res monitor?

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Ionium

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I run mostly TF2, L4D, Unreal tournament 3 on my core 2 duo 6600 with 4 gigs of ram, and I have a 460 watt power supply and my current card is a Nvidia GTS with 640 mb ram, which gives me pretty low frames in those games. I'm looking to also play bioshock 2 when it comes out and mass effect 2 as well, also get better frames in Fallout 3 with maxed details. Thanks.
 
At the moment I have my system the same way and I upgraded to 260GTX and it can play any game pretty much maxed out at 1600x1200
 
quad sli gtx-295. Nothing lower will suffice. Your PSU seems to be plenty for that too.

edit: price range?
 
elite.mafia said:
quad sli gtx-295. Nothing lower will suffice. Your PSU seems to be plenty for that too.

edit: price range?
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What, that'll cost more than a new computer haha. I was hoping for something under $300 but I can go to $400 if I had to.
 
a gtx260 or ati 4890 would probably do just fine for all the games you got listed there.
 
I play TF2 with a single GTX280, do over 100+ but they do go as low as 40-50 in some heavy battles.

That was with GTX280 with AMD x2 4800+, now I run i7, all good.
 
While mimicking the above post, I think you need a more powerful PSU to handle a better graphic card and I think i used to play @ 1900x1200 and it dropped to low 30s and averaged around 40fps (I am talking about teamfortress2). This was using a 8800GTX and core2duo @3.4ghz. So I don't really think its possible with your current setup. Now I have a 280GTX + corei7 @4.0GHz which keeps me at a constant 58-61FPS with everything on MAX. The cpu might be the problem as well. The larger the resolution, the harder it is to maximize performance.

However, it is possible if you take off all anisotropic and keep vertical sync disabled which will make your game look like starfox64.
 
elite.mafia said:
quad sli gtx-295. Nothing lower will suffice. Your PSU seems to be plenty for that too.

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um no. for one thing his cpu would bottleneck the hell out of one gtx295 so forget about two. next his psu is barely strong enough to safely run one gtx295 so again forget about two of them for quad sli.
 
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cannondale06 said:
thats basically for the cards only. EACH gtx295 by itself can easily pull well over 200 watts under load. TWO gtx295 cards in quad sli can easily see 400 watts during gaming. throw in his cpu and rest of the system combined and 460 watts would be easily reached.
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Yea that is pretty much impossible to run with his current PSU, but would lowering his resolution change any performance?

PS: Cannondale06, I have a Cannondale bike from 2000 hehe
 
Jenga said:
Yea that is pretty much impossible to run with his current PSU, but would lowering his resolution change any performance?

PS: Cannondale06, I have a Cannondale bike from 2000 hehe
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I am not sure exactly what you are asking. his cpu is going to bottleneck any real high end card for sure so an oc is certainly needed for best results.


off topic: wow I thought my 06 caad8 was old. lol. :D :cool:
 
Okay well I had a friend tell me that the 9800 GTX will be enough to put out 50-60 fps on the games I listed for that resolution I have now.
 
Ionium said:
Okay well I had a friend tell me that the 9800 GTX will be enough to put out 50-60 fps on the games I listed for that resolution I have now.
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the 9800gtx is okay but there will be times you wish you had more for that res. I would oc that cpu a little and get a gtx260 at minimum for that res. the gtx275 is really nice but IMO not worth the big difference in price over the gtx260.
 
cannondale06 said:
thats basically for the cards only.
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Thats not what I read in the article.

cannondale06 said:
214 watts just for one gtx295 card http://xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/evga-geforce-gtx295_7.html#sect0
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HardOCP's system setup is using a Kenstfield cpu, Xbit is using a Prescott. The ops components in his sig seems a lot closer to the [H]'s setup. He doesn't list the psu brand, but I assume its on par with the rest of his sig and the components and brand are very sound (well maybe save for his case, but thats a personal preference).

cannondale06 said:
the 9800gtx is okay but there will be times you wish you had more for that res.
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2nd'ed

I was dissapointed in the performance of my 9800GTX 512MB vs my 9800GT 1gig

Anyways the OP just lists the res and framerate...nothing about eye candy. Turn off shadows, turn off aa, turn off af and use low quality settings and you get significantly lighter load on your video card. So assuming that he doesn't want to do that...I'm thinking a GTX260 or higher...will give the op a nice game experience with a good amount of eye candy...it does for me. And I upgraded from a 8800GTX.
 
Ionium said:
I run mostly TF2, L4D, Unreal tournament 3 on my core 2 duo 6600 with 4 gigs of ram, and I have a 460 watt power supply and my current card is a Nvidia GTS with 640 mb ram, which gives me pretty low frames in those games. I'm looking to also play bioshock 2 when it comes out and mass effect 2 as well, also get better frames in Fallout 3 with maxed details. Thanks.
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9800GT overclocked with no AA
9800GTX+(GTS 250) with mild AA+16xAF
GTX260 with a little more extreme AA+16xAF
GTX285 with everything maxed out
HD4870 with mild AA+16xAF
HD4890 with a little higher AA+16xAF

theres no reason for SLI with the GTX series cards with that resolution but if you want it then you can use it and easily hold 60fps with everything maxed out.. crossfire might be worth it if you want to max out every game with the HD4870 or HD4890 since both cards scale much better in crossfire then the GTX series cards do in SLI..

all can be bought for under 300 dollars..
 
GTX 285 is my vote, it gives you a little more headroom for the newer games as they come out and shouldn't kill your PSU since it draws less than a GTX 280 (using two 6 pin PCIe Power cables rather than 6pin and 8pin).

Having more HP than you need is good and the GTX 285 is like having a V8, low end torque and the framerate minimums never drop far.

ATI 4890 is also a good price performance as is the 4870. I haven't had exeroence with these cards, but the reviews are good (turstworthy reviews that is).
 
cannondale06 said:
the 9800gtx is okay but there will be times you wish you had more for that res. I would oc that cpu a little and get a gtx260 at minimum for that res. the gtx275 is really nice but IMO not worth the big difference in price over the gtx260.
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If only I new how to overclock my cpu... plus I don't think my intel motherboard allows it?

Well looks like I'll have to save up for a GTX285 because I do like AA and AF and everything maxed out.
 
Ionium said:
If only I new how to overclock my cpu... plus I don't think my intel motherboard allows it?

Well looks like I'll have to save up for a GTX285 because I do like AA and AF and everything maxed out.
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a gtx285 would be a waste if you cant oc your cpu. you cant even fully utilize a gtx260 with your E6600. your cpu at 2.4 is like me running my E8500 at 2.2 at that takes a noticeable hit for me in most games even at 1920 and that just with a 192sp gtx260. with a gtx285 you would only get about 70-75% of what a gtx285 could do with your cpu at stock speed.
 
kuyaglen said:
Thats not what I read in the article.



HardOCP's system setup is using a Kenstfield cpu, Xbit is using a Prescott. The ops components in his sig seems a lot closer to the [H]'s setup. He doesn't list the psu brand, but I assume its on par with the rest of his sig and the components and brand are very sound (well maybe save for his case, but thats a personal preference).


2nd'ed

I was dissapointed in the performance of my 9800GTX 512MB vs my 9800GT 1gig

Anyways the OP just lists the res and framerate...nothing about eye candy. Turn off shadows, turn off aa, turn off af and use low quality settings and you get significantly lighter load on your video card. So assuming that he doesn't want to do that...I'm thinking a GTX260 or higher...will give the op a nice game experience with a good amount of eye candy...it does for me. And I upgraded from a 8800GTX.
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xbit tested the card ALONE so it doesnt matter what the other parts are. also Hardocp says right there that the test did not include all the components either.
 
A single 4890 would be a great choice. Overclock that e6600 to like 3.6 and you'll be golden.

I sincerely hope that the gtx295 suggestions were a joke...
 
GTX 260 at the minimum bro

I had a 9800gtx overclocked like a raped ape and it dipped under 60fps at 1280x720 with a E8400 oc to 4.2ghz
 
I'm confused here... wouldn't a GTX260 pretty much eat up that resolution with any HL2 based game? Even UT3. Not sure about Bioshock 2.. but those games are easily ran by just about any card.
 
Ionium said:
If only I new how to overclock my cpu... plus I don't think my intel motherboard allows it?

Well looks like I'll have to save up for a GTX285 because I do like AA and AF and everything maxed out.
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I am not sure if your motherboard supports OC. Many older intel boards didn't have good OC support. You have a pretty new setup, so check it out and see. Should just need to crank th FSB up to 1300 (unlinked from the memory clocks), pretty easy really. I have an e6600 box and it OCs great. I run a mild OC at 1300 FSB for 2.93 ghz and it is stable as he'll even on hot days. They say once you get up around 3ghz you should be out of the woods for bottlenecking at least for a single card. It would certainly be better than stock clocks. I was about to run out of step up on a gtx260 I picked up from a friend in trade for a couple of 8800GT akimbos and I upgraded (evga stepup) the e6600 rig to a gtx 295 for $250. I know it is CPU bound, but with the OC it is hardly noticible and I plan to upgrade the CPU to something faster later. This is my wife's PC and she doesn't like me F'ing with it. When Win 7 is out and a need to re-load anyway I may throw a CPU in there (maybe not since it works perfectly fine as is)
 
i ran a 260 gtx and l4d and tf2 ran buttah smoof @ 1920. I just upgraded to sli 206 gtx's on my oc'ed i7 and now it melts dat buttah!
 
In TF2 that E6600 @ 2.4GHz will hold you back, overclock it to 3.0GHz+

For a video card, grab a GTX 260 216 core, or, if you want more power, an AMD 4890. Any other option isn't nearly as good from a price/performance perspective.
 
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