Video Card

[MasterChief1724]

Originally Posted by Psman32@af

Im not a dumbass, far from it. I do knwo how to get the best out of my equipment. I just found it hard to believe that a low level 5200 fx could perform at the same level as a 5950 ultra. I also did ask for one more thing, i did ask for a 3dmark03 ORB link which will settle all doubt if it can get a score that resembles it performance. I asked before and you posted a screen shot with teh frame rates no where close to what you claimed (and you still havent). I would still like to see an ORB link though. Congrats on getting a diamond in the rough 5200fx that can actually eb turned into a somewhaqt useful card, unlike most of them. I still find it strange that it is able to perform that well.

Sorry if you took offense. but i was calling my friend a dumass. He knows his stuff about computers because he is in a A+ computer repair class with me. We just dont get into cards a whole lot now. But if it is that easy to get that much out of a 5200 I dont know why he wont do it.

[Psman32@af]

Ah, i took that as you were calling me that. 5200's usually dont OC very well, and are stuck performing very poorly. I would still liek him to awnser my questions though. I am still skeptical about a 5200 running doom3 that well. It is definatly not ordinary. And just because someone is A+ certified, that doesnt mean they knwo that much. most people who say they are A+ certified are idiots. not all, just most.

[Neutrino]

One comment here, there will be a huge difference between the frame rate of a static scene such as the one in the picture and the rates of a dynamic one. Nothing will choke your GPU faster than having a bunch of monsters running around some explosions and such. It's there that fast videocards separate from the slow ones, and you know how anoying is to have a choppy action scene.

Oh and just a side note, in case you guys haven't heard yet gigabyte will release soon a dual GPU card based on nvidia sli tech.

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews...16_115811.html

[Psman32@af]

Ya, thats why I was asking for a 3dmark03 score as that will be mainly motion will will choke that GPU. Its a program he should ahve as its a great card to test system stability with an oced graphics card.

edit: I want to see it to see if his 03 score matches the performance that he claims to ahve and his score will tell that.

[Plastic_Fork]

Originally Posted by Neutrino

Oh and just a side note, in case you guys haven't heard yet gigabyte will release soon a dual GPU card based on nvidia sli tech.

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews...16_115811.html

That card's a beast. Currently I'm running a P3 1.2ghz and a nVidia Geforce4 Ti 4600. I've been really happy with my setup. I've overclocked the card to 315mhz core and 665mhz RAM (don't have a better cooling solution right now to overclock it further). Just waiting on the video card prices to come down some before I construct a new computer.

Good information on video cards though - I'm keeping my eye out for what to purchase late 2005.

[pre98zetec]

I downloaded 3DMark03, clicked on the icon is said "couldn't load D3D!". I read the readme it said I needed DX. 9.0. I have it. So.. I install directX again like it said. I restart like it says and an error now comes up "Error! loader couldn't initialize loader"
The main screen wouldn't load or anything. Somehow I have got it all to work.

My guess is this all has to do with the 3Dmark or directX, I'm more then happy to give you a 3Dmark score as soon as it works and not fucks my computer up.

[clawhammer]

There's a 3dmark05. Try that.

[pre98zetec]

3dmark05 isn't free.. Ever since I downloaded 3dmark my computer runs like shit. I think I might have a virus cause I still get the error, once I get this worked out and 3dmark working i'll post my results.

[Psman32@af]

go here:

http://www.futuremark.com/download/

you can download both 05 and 03 there. 05 is so purrty. its free there.

i cant wait to see ATI's card. there is rumor they will ahve a dual core card to counter SLI. They are also supposed to have something to rival SLI.

[pre98zetec]

I still get the "Error D3D!" when I reinstalled 3dmark03 and still have the loader thing (no idea what the fuck this is) when I start windows. I've done numorous virus scans and they've returned nothing. Theres no unidentified running processes running either. I'm thinking of just burning everything to a cd-rw and reformatting.