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[*****]sc4rf4c3

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Okay so I had to work all day today and had no time for anything else.I've been wanting a new video card for a LONG time. I called a computer shop downtown and they told me they finally had the evga 6800 128mb in. So I called home to see if anyone could go downtown and buy it for me. Sure enough my sister was heading down so I asked her to pick it up for me. I made it pretty clear exactly what I wanted : eVga 6800 128mb. I got bored at work around 6:30 and decided to call my sister and ask her if she picked it yet. And she did :D ...only problem was is apparently the last evga was sold out in between the time I called and when she picked it up and I ended up with a leadtek.:( Oh well I'm still impressed with this card :D it didnt come with farcry :( but I got prince of persia,pandora tomorrow and gunmetal so I'm pretty excited. I just ran the video stress test with the CS:S beta with 6xaa and 4xaf...ran at about 85fps...my old fx5600 could only pull of 37 with much lower settings! BRING ON HL2 BABY!!!
 
[*****]sc4rf4c3 said:
only problem was is apparently the last evga was sold out in between the time I called and when she picked it up and I ended up with a leadtek.:( Oh well I'm still impressed with this card
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My brother just picked one up...nice card, he's got it stable at 400/900 pretty damn nice oc from 325/700 stock, congrats! :)
 
so it overclocks well...thats good to know..i think ill leave it stock for a bit and start tinkering with it later :D anyone else overclocking this card?
 
[*****]sc4rf4c3 said:
I just ran the video stress test with the CS:S beta with 6xaa and 4xaf...ran at about 85fps...my old fx5600 could only pull of 37 with much lower settings! BRING ON HL2 BABY!!!
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try running the cs:s VST at 4xAA/4xAF. using 6xAA doesn't really work well, it ends up running faster and with a lower AA intensity.
 
okay i ran it with 4xaa and my fps went down to 73 from 85 with 6xaa....i dont really know anything about this aa stuff but isnt 6 supposed to be better then 4?
 
[*****]sc4rf4c3 said:
so it overclocks well...thats good to know..i think ill leave it stock for a bit and start tinkering with it later :D anyone else overclocking this card?
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Yep, leadtek's have faster mem, overclock like beasts. 390/950 here no problem.

I would say you got lucky that she picked up a leadtek instead of an eVGA
 
onetwo said:
6xaa isn't supported, therefore the game runs with 0xaa.
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Apparently you've never owned an Nvidia card or if you have you've forgotten your legacy driver settings. 6xAA and 8xAA [not 8xS] have been supported by Nvidia for years. I remember giving those options a whirl on my 64mb GF2MX440. Thing is Nvidia's current 4xAA provides better aliasing than their legacy 6xAA and 8xAA, that's why you'll see a performence drop when moving from 6x/8x to 4x. However, you're quite mistaken when you say it defaults to 0xAA. If you run the VST at 0xAA you'll get higher frames than when you run it with 6x/8x. That alone [plus your eyes] should be enough to tell you that some form of AA is happening.
 
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