DeChache
Supreme [H]ardness
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- Oct 30, 2005
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I installed my EVGA 8800GTS today and after only having it in for about 6 hours I'm ready to take it out and put the 7800GT back in. I won this card otherwise I would be really quite disturbed right now. First complaint and this one is petty is that this thing is a space heater. I cranked the fan up to 100% and that solved that problem.
Second problem the drivers SUCK. Some games run beautifully some cames run worse then on my 7800GT. I actually had a game crash tonight and had it say that the reason the game crashed was the fact that the graphics driver just stopped working.
The third thing that has got me is the fact that it really doesn't seem that much faster then my 7800GT but then again the only game that my 7800GT really struggled with was NFS Carbon and that game now runs like a dream. But in all my other games FRAPs says that they are running faster but I wouldnt really noticed if it wasn't for fraps.
The computer that the card is running in is in my sig. I know it seems a little light for the this card but I won the card so I figured since it was faster then my 7800GT I might as well put it in.
I think the main reason for my underwhelmedness (not a word I know) is my 19" in LCD doesn't do this card justice.
Sorry for the rant but I cant believe that the drivers for this card are this bad. I think the 7800GT is going to go back into the computer until some decent drivers come along and I can use this card to its potential with out problems.
Second problem the drivers SUCK. Some games run beautifully some cames run worse then on my 7800GT. I actually had a game crash tonight and had it say that the reason the game crashed was the fact that the graphics driver just stopped working.
The third thing that has got me is the fact that it really doesn't seem that much faster then my 7800GT but then again the only game that my 7800GT really struggled with was NFS Carbon and that game now runs like a dream. But in all my other games FRAPs says that they are running faster but I wouldnt really noticed if it wasn't for fraps.
The computer that the card is running in is in my sig. I know it seems a little light for the this card but I won the card so I figured since it was faster then my 7800GT I might as well put it in.
I think the main reason for my underwhelmedness (not a word I know) is my 19" in LCD doesn't do this card justice.
Sorry for the rant but I cant believe that the drivers for this card are this bad. I think the 7800GT is going to go back into the computer until some decent drivers come along and I can use this card to its potential with out problems.