u have serious cpu and ram power, u shoudl match it with the vid card. pci won't do. my suggestion is get a new mobo that will work with what u got now that has agp 8x and get a new vid card too.
u have serious cpu and ram power, u shoudl match it with the vid card. pci won't do. my suggestion is get a new mobo that will work with what u got now that has agp 8x and get a new vid card too.
If you wanna be really future-proof, PCI-Express is the way to go now. AGP is old technology, it'll be phased out eventually.
I think I know precisely what I mean
when I say it's a schpadoinkle day
Well, you're right about that.Originally Posted by Raven
I'm looking at a passively cooled Geforce 8800 GT. I've never heard about the brand called Sparkle, so don't know about quality or anything. More worried about the heat factor though, but it shouldn't be too bad...hopefully. Probably more interested in pricing but it's not released yet.
Bottom line: Has any one every had a passively cooled middle/high end graphics card? I've got a passive 8500 GT. Hardly medium, but offloads h264 encoding well enough. Point is, it's quite..
Link to Sparkle
http://www.sparkle.com.tw/News/SP880...assive_EN.html
You guys are fools who like to waste their money. Just buy the biggest baddest card out there and you'll be good for the next year or two. Quit wasting money on videocards that are already obsolete or will be within 1 month. Sheesh.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I dont think you read around alot, the 8800GT is the newest gen card nvidia has to offer with even pcie 2.0 support, its almost as fast as a 8800gtx 768 mb, and costs only 200-250$
its also a single slot card and draws about 70watts less power then a gtx
The extra X makes all the difference. The average non-techie will judge your GT to be inferior, and in the case of PC parts, as with everything in life, the greater specs will bring greater glory.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
If performance was all there was to worry about, then there wouldn't be a middle/low end video card market, let alone on board graphics. High end graphics cards aren't cheap. That's where you have to balance your cash and performance to best serve your interests. The 8800GT seems very appealing for the reasons darkshadow has outlined. Nvidia has even enabled full H264 hardware decoding on it, which was previously non-existent in their high-end cards, since they reserved the best h264 decoding ability for thier middle/low range HDPC type cards.
The silent factor in the Sparkle card is also another plus I'm interested in.
Now all that's left is the price (unannounced, I suppose), and reliability of passively cooled high end cards, for which I'm asking opinion.
It's the same reason why not everyone drives Ferraris.
edit: the average non-techie will also wonder at your 8800GTX price tag like 0.o
And that's all that matters.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
The non-techie won't know what makes you card so good. They may not appreciate it the way an enthusiast would. On the other hand, they may just grab a card that's cheaper and not much poorer in performance from one look at the price. It doesn't take much depth in knowledge to google and understand a review, especially since most have a conclusion/final thoughts section to sum it all up.
Anyway, the "average non-techie" isn't probably going to go all out on a video card. Those who do, from my experience, don't quite fit the description of "average no techie." They ask the opinion of a tech anyway.
Animeniax is just playing with you around "Size Does Matter"
Then for vid cards, everything depends on what you play. A sparkle 8800 passive
would perfectly fit my needs as I can"t stand any noise, and high end non passive video cards tend to be as noisy as hair driers.
That would be enough for me to play GTR2 for hours, and then switch to an all new system when GTR3 arrrives, because every other pieces of my comp wil then be quite obsolete (since it was built 3 years ago)
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
I just got a new comp 2 weeks ago. e6750 (2.66ghz@3.6), 8800gts 640mb, and 2GB ram. Runs Crysis on high quite well.
You lie mage, Crysis isn't even out yet.
My system:
Q6600
8800GTX 768MB
2GB RAM
WD Raptor 150
Runs everything well.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
isn't that system a bit noisy?
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
uhh crysis has been out since yesterday or so, ive been playing it aswell
I can't hear it over the sound levels of whatever game I play, so I'm ok.
I'm thinking of water-cooling to reduce the noise, but that would deem my Tuniq Tower a wasted expenditure. It's not that bad; it helps drown out the noise from the test firing range.
Really? How come gamestop and amazon show a release date of 11/13?
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I'm using a Radeon HD3850 Mobile right now. It owns. Performance isn't that great but it's purely slot powered, meaning it draws less than 75W at max load and runs super cool and quiet (with a Zalman VF900). That's incredible efficiency.
I envy you BoC and your job at AMD. You get to try all these new toys before they come out!
Well from what you describe, it's too much... Wife won't be pleased
I really need a silent system...
Everyone has their own criteria
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Too bad it's ending at the end of December. Hopefully I'll be back again for the May-August term.
What happens between Jan and Apr? You gonna be in a coma?
I want to get a tech workstudy job when I go to uni, but I feel bad taking a job from some college student who needs it, considering I've been working 10 years and have savings.
Isn't the ATi 3950 coming out soon? Everyone should wait for that, then buy the 2950 for cheap.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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