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So I decided to drop in a eVGA 8800 GTS in my PC last night. I didn't go for the GTX cuz that is just too damn much for a vid card. I had been running a MSI X1950 Pro w/ 256, and wasn't impressed with it. For those concerned, here is my setup:

Intel E6600 @ 3.01 GHz
Gigabyte GA-P965-DS3
2x1 GB OCZ DDR2 800
eVGA 8800GTS 640
Thermalright XP 120 (keeps the C2D @ under 40 C under load)
Sony DVD
Plextor 755 SA
ATI Theater 650
Creative X-Fi Gamer
OCZ 700W PSU
Windows Vista Ultimate

I ran 3DMark06 before the swap and came up with a score of 4086. After the swap the score went up to 8000+!!!! I must say that is quite a jump! I haven't used an nVidia card since the GForce 3 days.

I am impressed.
 
yup. Moving up to the 8800 cards was the most satisfying thing I have done in along time. Usually, going from one card to the next, a performance difference is hardly noticeable....but not with these cards....its a whole new ball game now.
 
prototype_sx said:
Hey, you can oc to 660 965 with atitool and get close to 12000 in 3dmark06 like i did!!
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You can pickup 4,000 in 3Dmark06 with an overclock?

I got you all beat though, I am coming from a PCI FX5500.

Only 2ish more weeks. :(
 
Heh, When I upgraded my system, I made the jump from an AMD64 2800+ with a BFG 6800gt to a C2D E6400 8800GTS. One hellava upgrade, and most of my parts came from camping Hardforum's and Anandtech's For Sale category :D.

After OC, I'm around 10266.
 
I went from QUAD-SLI 7950GX2 to an 8800 Ultra with the sig rig, same MB, CPU, etc, and even I noticed a big difference in some things.

Video playback of hi-def TV recordings with the Ultra is MUCH smoother. I wanted to go back to a single card until Vista drivers get better and I wasn't going to spend too much on this old 939 platform, but at 1680x1050 resolution and this Ultra, everything is running great and looking good hopefully stays that way until upgrade time at the end of the year!

I have to give it to nVidia, they really did a fantastic job with the 8800 series, perhaps their best job ever in the high end market.
 
heatlesssun said:
I went from QUAD-SLI 7950GX2 to an 8800 Ultra with the sig rig, same MB, CPU, etc, and even I noticed a big difference in some things.

Video playback of hi-def TV recordings with the Ultra is MUCH smoother. I wanted to go back to a single card until Vista drivers get better and I wasn't going to spend too much on this old 939 platform, but at 1680x1050 resolution and this Ultra, everything is running great and looking good hopefully stays that way until upgrade time at the end of the year!

I have to give it to nVidia, they really did a fantastic job with the 8800 series, perhaps their best job ever in the high end market.
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You bought an 8800 Ultra? :p
 
Machine in my sig (built a week ago) gets a little over 12000 clocked at 3.2Ghz., and 11-something at stock. I do wish now that I'd waited for the 8900 or even 9000 series cards. Performance in the Lost Planet demo (granted, unfinished code) is... really disappointing to say the very least. I didn't expect below 30 FPS at 1600x1200 no AA on a brand new machine.
 
TheRapture said:
12k on a GTS? *cough* uh huh.....
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Well I get a little over 10.3K with the system in my sig under Vista 32bit. Any system with a quadcore Q6600 or Q6700 and a 8800GTS should be able to reach 12K in 3dMark06 under Vista IMO, and certainly under XP also.

Ofcause I don't have a Quadcore, so I cannot really prove my point, but assuming that you get a CPU score around 4500 or so there isn't far to go...
 
Why are you guys talking about 3dmk benchmarks?

there is only a 1k gap between a GTS OCed and a GTX stock..

I got around 12k with conroe at 3.6 and GTX stock. and i got 16k with two GTX and conroe at 3.6.

i sold my GTX sli setup and havent benched my current system yet, because honesly i dont care.

1 GTS is all I will ever need :)
 
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from 6600GT to 7900GT, exactly same system, feels the leap at heart :D
never bought a high end gfx card since geforce 4 TI 4600.
 
Congrats on your purchase. I went from a 7600GT to 8800GTS and the difference is mind blowing. I installed Splinter Cell Chaos Theory today just to see how well I could run it now compared to my old card. Previously I was running at 1024x768, SM 3.0, and 4xAF. Now I'm running it at a whopping 2048x1536, SM 3.0, 16xAF and I'm still getting faster framerates.
 
jbscotchman said:
Congrats on your purchase. I went from a 7600GT to 8800GTS and the difference is mind blowing. I installed Splinter Cell Chaos Theory today just to see how well I could run it now compared to my old card. Previously I was running at 1024x768, SM 3.0, and 4xAF. Now I'm running it at a whopping 2048x1536, SM 3.0, 16xAF and I'm still getting faster framerates.
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I went from a P4 2.8GHz / X850 to a C2D @ 3+GHz / 8800GTX, so I completely understand the "Whoa!" factor :)
 
Think thats a big jump?

I wasn't impressed with the additional ~3k in 3DMark06 I got when I put in my 8800GTX, but the change in playable settings in a game like Oblivion, now THAT blew me away!
 
Still tweaking my system, but got a 10689 on 3dmark06 the second go around. (first was about 9600). I do agree on gameplay tho. Before i had to play stalker at medium graphics and resolution otherwise it would stutter and hang somewhat and FPS would drop alot.. Now with my GTX, i can crank it up to 1900x1200 with everything on and it's smooth as glass. totally new experience now playing games..


My System:
Q6600 Quad core
680i A1 Motherboard
4 GB patriot Extreme Ram
8800 GTX
X-Fi platinum
Vista Home Premium
Ultra-120 CPU Cooler
V1000B Lian Li
 
high_lander said:
So I decided to drop in a eVGA 8800 GTS in my PC last night. I didn't go for the GTX cuz that is just too damn much for a vid card. I had been running a MSI X1950 Pro w/ 256, and wasn't impressed with it. For those concerned, here is my setup:

Intel E6600 @ 3.01 GHz
Gigabyte GA-P965-DS3
2x1 GB OCZ DDR2 800
eVGA 8800GTS 640
Thermalright XP 120 (keeps the C2D @ under 40 C under load)
Sony DVD
Plextor 755 SA
ATI Theater 650
Creative X-Fi Gamer
OCZ 700W PSU
Windows Vista Ultimate

I ran 3DMark06 before the swap and came up with a score of 4086. After the swap the score went up to 8000+!!!! I must say that is quite a jump! I haven't used an nVidia card since the GForce 3 days.

I am impressed.
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8000+ is okay.

But,
Your CPU is better than mine.
Your RAM is better than mine.
I hit 11,800!

Come on! Push it!
 
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