Which GPU should I go for?

I'm not sure of the extent of their working together. I'm petty sure they are fierce competitors, and neither Intel, AMD or nVidia are working together. Therir platforms support each other because they must if they hope to sell their products.
 
Sry I saw this too late, and yes, while the 96 and 98 series from XFX do run at the same core clock speeds, the 98 does have some improvements over its little brother
 
Xerowing said:
Sry I saw this too late, and yes, while the 96 and 98 series from XFX do run at the same core clock speeds, the 98 does have some improvements over its little brother
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I'm sure the difference would be very minimal though for in-game graphics. As it stands now the new graphics card hasn't shown any great improvement in my graphics but that may just be because I'm being a noob. Old card was a geforce NX7900 GTX Clock: 600Mhz, Memory: 800Mhz.

I've OC'd the 9600GT to:
Clock - 800Mhz (was 600Mhz)
Memory - 2000Mhz (was 1800Mhz)

I've also installed DirectX 10 on my machine and my games still look the same running on the same settings at the same FPS.

I'm not sure what I've done or haven't done to get things working the way they should but in theory things should be looking and running better but they're not which is one big disappointment :mad:
 
Well Two things :
Game GFX are only ever as good , as well , erm, they are.
I've argued the case a thousand times already , why buy a 2k GFX card when you only need to run CoD at 125 FPS and 8600 GT will wok jsut as well.

Also, installing DX 10 ?
You'll only notice a difference if the game has a DX 10 enabled version
Like Hawx for example
It has a DX 9 and DX 10 Executable, the DX 10 version looks better, but the multiplayer doesn't work :(
Or didn't after the first patch
 
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Something's confusing me though. I was running WoW last night with the new graphics card on the settings I was using with my graphics card (which is "good") and I was getting the same FPS as expected (70FPS).

I then moved the slider up one notch and restarted WoW (because some settings need a restart in order to work) and my FPS was running at 55FPS.

Surely this should stay up around 70FPS since the card has double the clock speeds of my old card?
 
Not sure Venom. Are you using antialiasing? I found that my 8800GT is a lot faster at AA than my brothers 9600GT, so toning AA down might help a little. For WoW 4x AA should be plenty with 8x anisotropic filtering.
 
Isengard said:
Not sure Venom. Are you using antialiasing? I found that my 8800GT is a lot faster at AA than my brothers 9600GT, so toning AA down might help a little. For WoW 4x AA should be plenty with 8x anisotropic filtering.
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Thanks Isengard. I'll have a look at the settings tonight and do some fiddling ;)
 
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