gpu for running 1920x1200?

O

OofC_S7v7N

Gawd
Joined
Apr 9, 2007
Messages
723
I want to get a monitor that is wide screen and offers 1920x1200 resolution, so i was wondering if any of you guys had a monitor at that resolution that played games, and was wondering if you guys could suggests a video card that would allow me to turn on all the eye candy with out losing performance im looking to spend between $500 and $750US, comments are welcome.:)
 
I think that your best choice if you need the card right now is the NVidia 8800 gtx. It seems to offer the best performance for any card commercially available right now. Having said that, it might be worth your while to wait until ATI releases their R600. It is supposedly coming out very soon, but retail availability might be a problem.

For the monitor, I have the Dell 24 ws lcd and it is pretty good. There is a lot of talk right now about LEDs in monitors but I think that the transition is a long way off.

The problem is that your budget for this upgrade may not be enough . I think that the cheapest monitor that you can get with that resolution is around $650 and the cheapest reasonable video card is the 8800 gts 320mb version, which can be had for around $270. So even in that case you are over budget. I think that given the your budget you should get a monitor now and in a few months get a video card. I think that the monitor will always last longer than any video card, so buying for an expensive monitor should be worth the investment. Don't forget, that you interact with the monitor any time you use your computer so it is worth it to get a good one.
 
OofC_S7v7N said:
I want to get a monitor that is wide screen and offers 1920x1200 resolution, so i was wondering if any of you guys had a monitor at that resolution that played games, and was wondering if you guys could suggests a video card that would allow me to turn on all the eye candy with out losing performance im looking to spend between $500 and $750US, comments are welcome.:)
Click to expand...


I have a benq 24 ws at that res. Evga 8800 gtx oc to 630 2040 is what i use> play games with everything maxed and adjust aa as needed nothing slows this card down yet.
 
Yea if your spending that much money on a card I would honestly wait 1-2 weeks. You don't want to kick yourself in the ass if the R600 turns out to be a lot better for the price. :p
 
yea thanks for all the suggestions, i have heard so many things about the r600 making the 8800gtx obsolete. Also though the power connector for the r600 will be 8pin and 6pin, which is ridiculous, but i can believe that cause the 8800gtx has two 6pin connectors.
 
OofC_S7v7N said:
yea thanks for all the suggestions, i have heard so many things about the r600 making the 8800gtx obsolete. Also though the power connector for the r600 will be 8pin and 6pin, which is ridiculous, but i can believe that cause the 8800gtx has two 6pin connectors.
Click to expand...

Obsolete is not a word I woud use. When I OC my E6600 to 3.7 and my 8800gtxs to 700 I score close to 16k on 3DMark. If the R600 had a chance of making the 8800 obsolete, can you imagine what it would score?
 
theseeker said:
Obsolete is not a word I woud use. When I OC my E6600 to 3.7 and my 8800gtxs to 700 I score close to 16k on 3DMark. If the R600 had a chance of making the 8800 obsolete, can you imagine what it would score?
Click to expand...

Very true, 8800GTX is still a very powerful GPU.
 
But more on topic so i should wait to like the end of the month to see what ati and nvidia release, cause i really wanna get a wide screen monitor.
 
OofC_S7v7N said:
But more on topic so i should wait to like the end of the month to see what ati and nvidia release, cause i really wanna get a wide screen monitor.
Click to expand...

It's your money but just remember that you must have a fast CPU to take full advantage of the GPU. If you do not the CPU will bottleneck the system. Secondly, ATI has been making promises for a long time, not flaming. I can only tell you that my system runs COH maxxed out without a problem, not to mention M2TW. Just 2 cents.
 
hmm... if you want an R600, better buy yourself a 1200 watt powersupply as well.

Everyone here is saying GTX, but I can say without hesitation that the GTS is more than sufficient for maxing details at 1920x1200 and maintaining great performance. It has not disappointed me in any of the games I play. And it's $200 cheaper. Unless you really want every ounce of performance and don't mind the money a GTX will set you back, I think the GTS is a much better buy.
 
While a GTS maybe sufficient with today's games, at such a high resolution, I would err on the side of caution and get the GTX.

If not wait for R600 which should be on sale within a month or two. It will certainly not render the 8800 obsolete. But hopefully it can offer some new features, spicing things up.
If you believe the rumor mill, bang for the buck is supposed to be high.

I doubt running a single card will require anything more exotic than a typical 500-600 watt enthusiast PSU.

No need for a PCP+C 1200 watt. :D
 
theseeker said:
It's your money but just remember that you must have a fast CPU to take full advantage of the GPU. If you do not the CPU will bottleneck the system. Secondly, ATI has been making promises for a long time, not flaming. I can only tell you that my system runs COH maxxed out without a problem, not to mention M2TW. Just 2 cents.
Click to expand...

How much do you really think a CPU will bottleneck an 8800GTX at 1920X1200 :rolleyes:
 
I'm a similar same situation. I have a 37" Westinghouse that runs at 1920x1080 (amazing monitor) and my 3 yr old system isn't cutting it anymore.

I'm waiting until the April 22nd price cuts and will probably buy a e6600 with 680i board, but I really hope that r600 comes out on May 1st so I can hold off until I see the competition.

I stll may end up buying a 8800GTS over both, it's hard to justify spending $500+ on a graphics card.
 
I have been looking around and the spec for the 2900xt, from what i hear, is that it will have 320 stream processors 512bit memory interface with 512mb of ram, now remeber that this is the xt and not the xtx, while the 8800gtx has 128 stream processors 384bit memory interface with 768mb. Now this is were it gets tricky when running high resolution. Nvidia has a little upper hand with the 768mb for a bigger buffer for higher resoultion, but ati makes up for that with allowing more bandwidth, by having a wider memory bit, and if i am not mistaken the memory is running faster than the gtx. But im not ragging on nvidia cause i have not seen any legit reviews yet that would make the 2900xt the clear winner. But i can not find any pricing on the 2900 so if anyone has seen pricing releases, please post them so i can see how much of a hurt im looking at.
 
I been running 1920x1200 on my X1900xt. but yea you would better off waiting to compare the 2900HD XT to the 8800GTX and get one that you think will suit you.
 
OofC_S7v7N said:
But i can not find any pricing on the 2900 so if anyone has seen pricing releases, please post them so i can see how much of a hurt im looking at.
Click to expand...

I'm thinking the XT will be cheap. Maybe $400 msrp ?
The XTX which comes later will probably counter the G80 refresh and have the bleeding edge ram and clock speed. Maybe $500-600 msrp. :cool:
 
If the ATI board comes out soon it's probably worth waiting, if not, I'd go for the 8800GTX. The numbers on the R600 look good, but it's very possible that the Unified Shader model that the 8800 uses will make it a faster card overall. Time will tell though. If it's weeks until the ATIs are released wait for real world benchmarks and not 3dmark scores, if it's months I wouldn't wait.

I've been running the 8800GTX since it was released and it's driving a dell 2407 (1900x1200) LCD. It drives my games extremely well.
 
pfunkman said:
How much do you really think a CPU will bottleneck an 8800GTX at 1920X1200 :rolleyes:
Click to expand...


The cpu won't. At that res the GPU is totally the biggest factor. Even a stock X2 3800+ will give you great frame rates at that res.

With my C2D at stock 2130mhz, vs. running it at 3200mhz, there is no discernible difference in REAL games like CoD2. But I do other things than game, so the extra power does indeed come into play. Video compression/DVD crunching gets about 35% to 40% faster by going from stock to 3200. And that is using SMP aware software.
 
Jaanpunjab said:
I believe the XTX will have 1GB, so that beats out the 8800 GTX's 768mb.
Click to expand...

Were did you hear that at cause if thats the case i might just wait a couple months to upgrade, because my system has been running strong for a little over a year.
 
1920 x 1080 without AA will run ANYTHING above 30fps on a 7950gx2,

you won't get DX10 though...
 
Yea see i almost bought a 7900 series video card, but i found out that was just an attempt by nvidia to make a little more money on the side
 
OofC_S7v7N said:
yea thanks for all the suggestions, i have heard so many things about the r600 making the 8800gtx obsolete. Also though the power connector for the r600 will be 8pin and 6pin, which is ridiculous, but i can believe that cause the 8800gtx has two 6pin connectors.
Click to expand...


Considering that cards 2 generations back (from both ATI and Nvidia) are not obsolete now (both are able to run todays games well enough), I would have to say anyone saying that the R600 is going to make the 8800GTX obsolete, is a moron and an unrealistic fanoboi. (not saying YOU are a moron so dont take it that way :) , Im saying the people you have seen saying that are.)

*edit* almost forgot to respond to the original post :p


I have a 24" Dell WS (1920x1200) and I can play every game I have cranked up just fine. I dont play supreme commander (yet) or Oblivion with a ton of texture mods, but WoW, CS:S, BF2 and such are perfect. (to be fair, I dont think it takes that much to run CS:S well, but its still impressive to see it run so smoothly at that way high resolution with every bit of eye candy maxed)
Here is my setup
E4300@3.04 (air, will go for higher when I finish the wc setup)
2GB DDR2 800
EVGA 8800GTS @600/1800 ( I think, I cant 100% remember, the machine is in pieces right now while I put the WC setup together.)

So yeah, an 8800GTX will be great at that resolution.
 
i mostly would use it to play bf2142 cs:s and a few other games, does the dell 24 inch model have pic in pic and all that snaz?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top