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SHRED

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Looking at either the 8800GT, HD3870, or HD3850 512mb cards.
Do they all run 1680 X 1050?

Thanks
 
Scotty_SFF said:
Yes.

Although that question is vague.

What games, what settings?
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This is what my monitor runs at.
I noticed in all the benchmarking of these cards that this resolution is not mentioned.
I was thinking it might be an odd sized resolution (wide screen) that not all cards would function good at.
 
SHRED said:
This is what my monitor runs at.
I noticed in all the benchmarking of these cards that this resolution is not mentioned.
I was thinking it might be an odd sized resolution (wide screen) that not all cards would function good at.
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huh?
 
just look at 1600 by 1200. the results should be very similar to what you will get at 1680 by 1050
 
It's a very common resolution, and yes, the cards are compatible with it. Any card that was made in like the past 8 years should be able to run it.
 
Cards will perform a bit faster at 1680x1050 vs 1600x1200, but its a good subsitute. And go for the 8800 GT.
 
I am not sure if this is such an issue now, but I do know earlier drivers and some games did have problems with widescreen resolutions. Not sure if all games have resolved such issues, but I bet most newer games have.
 
I have had no problems running 1680x1050 resolution with any games todate. You should get atleast 8800GT or 3870 for this resolution.
 
nissanztt90 said:
Cards will perform a bit faster at 1680x1050 vs 1600x1200, but its a good subsitute. And go for the 8800 GT.
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first part yes, 2nd part no.

Go for the 3870. Its in stock, and its cheaper.

512mb on a 3850 isn't a waste per se, but its boarderline excessive.

Mind you, knowing the rest of the system specs, spicifically if it supports crossfire or SLI, would help. Also, EVGAs step up program could be a good idea (get your plan down in concrete tho, otherwise you'll buy it and put the step up on a "to do" list which'll never get done).
 
Impossible to tell you the best card since you provided no system specs nor even any favorite games or any other details. But if you're planning to play at 1680x1050, which is a fairly high resolution, you'll want a card with at least 512 mb of video ram. 256 mb will get exhausted very quickly with rising texture sizes and any degree of AA/AF especially in today's games, nevermind tomorrow's.

Any of the cards you listed would perform well, but there's the question of availability as well as pricing, the 8800GT's are like 10% faster and like 10% more expensive more right now, if you can find one. The 3870's seem to have shipped at fairly close to their MSRP around 230 and they're a bit more commonplace. 512 mb 3850's won't be available until the 21st, which is what I'm personally waiting for... can only fit single-slot cards in my crossfire shuttle.
 
Jalidi said:
Impossible to tell you the best card since you provided no system specs nor even any favorite games or any other details. But if you're planning to play at 1680x1050, which is a fairly high resolution, you'll want a card with at least 512 mb of video ram. 256 mb will get exhausted very quickly with rising texture sizes and any degree of AA/AF especially in today's games, nevermind tomorrow's.

Any of the cards you listed would perform well, but there's the question of availability as well as pricing, the 8800GT's are like 10% faster and like 10% more expensive more right now, if you can find one. The 3870's seem to have shipped at fairly close to their MSRP around 230 and they're a bit more commonplace. 512 mb 3850's won't be available until the 21st, which is what I'm personally waiting for... can only fit single-slot cards in my crossfire shuttle.
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Regarding resolutions I'm can currently play WC3 at 1920x1200 on an external LCD connected to my laptop. Guess what's in it - a RADEON 9000 64MB!!! FPS is damn fine and it's never choppy. By all common sense it should be chugging like shit but it doesn't.
 
Hypernova said:
Regarding resolutions I'm can currently play WC3 at 1920x1200 on an external LCD connected to my laptop. Guess what's in it - a RADEON 9000 64MB!!! FPS is damn fine and it's never choppy. By all common sense it should be chugging like shit but it doesn't.
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Warcraft III is a 7 year old game. It's not even DX9.
 
well atlest if it was me i would get a 8800GT for it 512 is really best atm for most newer games

and 1680x1050 is damn close to 1600x1200 as far as speed goes less pixels but the added width in hor+ games makes about the same

if the rest of your PC is good atlest a 2.0 Dual core of some kind it should be fine
the new AMD/ATi stuff just isnt good at that res and youll want AA to which the ATi cards still fail at
 
Hypernova said:
Regarding resolutions I'm can currently play WC3 at 1920x1200 on an external LCD connected to my laptop. Guess what's in it - a RADEON 9000 64MB!!! FPS is damn fine and it's never choppy. By all common sense it should be chugging like shit but it doesn't.
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ummm.... warcraft 3?... what 2001? 02?
 
MrWizard6600 said:
first part yes, 2nd part no.

Go for the 3870. Its in stock, and its cheaper.

512mb on a 3850 isn't a waste per se, but its boarderline excessive.

Mind you, knowing the rest of the system specs, spicifically if it supports crossfire or SLI, would help. Also, EVGAs step up program could be a good idea (get your plan down in concrete tho, otherwise you'll buy it and put the step up on a "to do" list which'll never get done).
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In stock where? I just bought an 8800 GT from Best Buy on friday. It will also be hard for him to step up with eVGA if he buys an ATI card...

So...as i said...an 8800 GT is a better idea.
 
You know you can always use the resolution 1440x900 if you want more performance. I mean its the same ratio and thats what I do on my native 1680x1050 monitor and it looks almost as good as if I was running the native res.
 
Cablespider said:
Mwave....in stock now. The 'official' launch isn't until tomorrow anyway, so we should see stock just about everywhere in the coming week. (Maybe..if what ATI claims is true)
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still doesnt make it the better card
and it still fails at AA
also imo turning down the res on an LCD is not an option nor is not using AA both you would have to do with any lower end AMD/ATi card that would not have to do in most games with the 8800GT wait it out if you have or just get one from BestBuy
 
Elios said:
the new AMD/ATi stuff just isnt good at that res and youll want AA to which the ATi cards still fail at
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Still fail at? What do you mean? I haven`t bought an ATI card since X800XL but it did AA just fine, better AA quality than Nvidia at the time in fact. Personally, I don`t use AA at 1680x1050 even on a 7950GX2 that has a total of 1gb of ram for bandwidth and 512mb for texture loading.
 
milkweg said:
Still fail at? What do you mean? I haven`t bought an ATI card since X800XL but it did AA just fine, better AA quality than Nvidia at the time in fact. Personally, I don`t use AA at 1680x1050 even on a 7950GX2 that has a total of 1gb of ram for bandwidth and 512mb for texture loading.
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the X1X00 cards did AA fine im talking about the HDXXX0 line so far have sucked at AA
i dont but a 400 buck card or even a 250 buck one to not use AA this is fucking 2007 almost 2008 why you dont use AA i dont know
 
OK, didn`t know the HD cards have an issue with AA. I don`t use AA at 1680x1050 because the newer games take a big performance hit when using AA at that res and it`s not really needed at such a high res anyway. Sure it makes a dif in some games that have really bad stair stepping (Ghost Recon) but in a lot of games it just isn`t needed. I want my games to run with a smooth frame rate at 1680x1050 so if that means no AA then that is fine by me.
 
Cablespider said:
Mwave....in stock now. The 'official' launch isn't until tomorrow anyway, so we should see stock just about everywhere in the coming week. (Maybe..if what ATI claims is true)
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Elios said:
still doesnt make it the better card
and it still fails at AA
also imo turning down the res on an LCD is not an option nor is not using AA both you would have to do with any lower end AMD/ATi card that would not have to do in most games with the 8800GT wait it out if you have or just get one from BestBuy
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I don't recall saying it was a better card.
 
Elios said:
still doesnt make it the better card
and it still fails at AA
also imo turning down the res on an LCD is not an option nor is not using AA both you would have to do with any lower end AMD/ATi card that would not have to do in most games with the 8800GT wait it out if you have or just get one from BestBuy
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the HD 2xxx series had really screwed up AA, but the HD 3xxx doesn't have the same problem. Its just the impact that certain games have which forces users to not use AA on the HD 3 series.
 
I didn't want to start a new thread so I'll bump this one with my question

I built a new system this weekend (E6750, 2x1GB, 8800GT) running at 1680x1050.

Is it normal to see tearing during intro vids?

I played both the COD4 and Crysis demos last night and the fast opening scene videos would look like they were tearing in half as if something in my system couldn't keep up. Game play was fine from what I could tell.

Kind of annoying considering this is some higher end hardware. Thoughts?
 
CRXican said:
I didn't want to start a new thread so I'll bump this one with my question

I built a new system this weekend (E6750, 2x1GB, 8800GT) running at 1680x1050.

Is it normal to see tearing during intro vids?

I played both the COD4 and Crysis demos last night and the fast opening scene videos would look like they were tearing in half as if something in my system couldn't keep up. Game play was fine from what I could tell.

Kind of annoying considering this is some higher end hardware. Thoughts?
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Try enabling Vertical Synchronization. What kinda fps do you get at what settings on CoD4 at 1680x1024?
 
If I remember I got some tearing at those animations also.. Vsync should fix it. Also I think its the monitor that causes it, not the hardware.
 
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