|
|
|
|||||||
| About Us | Register | FAQ | Members List | Calendar | Mark Forums Read |
 |
|
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
November 28th, 2007
|
#1 (permalink) |
|
Registered User
 Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: canton nc
Posts: 213
|
I just ordered a new graphics card
Newegg.com - ASUS EN8500GT TOP/HTP/256M GeForce 8500GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready Video Card - Retail is the one I bought . It was cheap , I just want to play oblivion and a few other games . What are your thoughts on this card ? It was all I could afford atm.
__________________
I love licking my sweet philtrum .... For those of you who are wondering what a philtrum is its the mark above the lips and below the nose.  Welcome to the internet, where men are men,women are men, and young girls are fbi agents. Oh. No. You. Dit'n't! You did NOT just call that guy a double-exclamation mark percentile exclamation mark pound sign! Harsh, dude. HARSH. |
|
|
|
November 28th, 2007
|
#2 (permalink) |
|
Moderator
 Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 3,260
|
I cant help but feel and extra 20 dollars really could have gotten you a better card that would not have completely blown your budget. I don't use newegg but apparently after a rebate they come to the same price, dunno how reliable they are though.
Newegg.com - EVGA 256-P2-N753-TR GeForce 8600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail 8600 GT: 32 stream processors 8500 GT: 16 stream processors Doubling the amount of shaders would have helped quite a lot, I never suggest buying a card just because your currently dont have enough for anything better, its always better to wait for more cash and to buy the better product. My viewpoint anyway. At anyrate at least you were smart enough to get one with GDDR3 so good choice on that front.
__________________
- No Jobs On A Dead Planet - Welcome to EMerica .:|:. You're mine now  » Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 B2 Stepping @3.3 Ghz | Asus 8800GT 512MB PhysX enabled @700/1750/975 MHz | 2GB OCZ DDR2 800 « » Asus P5B Vanilla | Thermaltake Soprano | Thermaltake Big Typhoon VX « » Beta Tester for nullDC « |
|
|
|
November 29th, 2007
|
#3 (permalink) |
|
I want you INSIDE me
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Posts: 8,382
|
a poor decision....especially if you plan on playing oblivion....
VGA Charts 2007 | Tom's Hardware ....but I guess you can take into account this benchmark uses max quality settings. It might run stable on medium settings except for a 8800GT, you get what you pay for 
__________________
 Kirby's AnimeDB list AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+ Toledo, Nvidia GeForce 7950GT SLi, 2GB PC3200 2-3-2-5, ABit AN8-SLi, Sound Blaster X-FI XtremeMusic |
|
|
|
|
November 29th, 2007
|
#4 (permalink) |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: canton nc
Posts: 213
|
It was mainly a present from my mom so I couldnt go any higher , and kirby the 8500 in the graph isnt the same one I got, the one in the graph is ddr2 , but who knows I might get crappy playing on it , may not , but I cant complain.A few people reviews said this card ran great with oblivion at max and My pc is a little better than theres but not much.
__________________
I love licking my sweet philtrum .... For those of you who are wondering what a philtrum is its the mark above the lips and below the nose. Welcome to the internet, where men are men,women are men, and young girls are fbi agents. Oh. No. You. Dit'n't! You did NOT just call that guy a double-exclamation mark percentile exclamation mark pound sign! Harsh, dude. HARSH. |
|
|
|
|
November 29th, 2007
|
#5 (permalink) |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Franklin, PA
Posts: 2,213
|
Please let me know how Oblivion plays on the 8500, I was thinking of getting that card after I upgrade!
__________________
-Member of the Windows XP "Sith" with dreams of galactic conquest,  er no, I mean dreams of buying an XBOX 360  ------------------------------- Member of the Sith XP/XBOX gaming club. $95 for an XBOX, $9.99 for a copy of Halo 2...Being able to play Halo 2 without buying Vista, priceless! Vista, what OS do you not want to screw up your PC!  'k Wii will Wii will rock you! 
|
|
|
|
|
November 29th, 2007
|
#6 (permalink) |
|
Man with the Masterplan
 Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Canada ──────────────────── PC Accelerator (aka PCXL) was a Computer gaming magazine published from 1997 until 2000
Posts: 2,662
|
Whoever said your 8500 could get to maximum settings at playable framerate is lying. My 8800GTX barely reaches playable fps with everything at maximum. To get maximum in 'grass' settings at playable fps you need at least 640mb of ram on your videocard alone. Even the 512mb 2900XTs aren't able to reach maximum since they don't have enough memory.
__________________
E6600 Core 2 Duo, Geforce 8800GTX @ Stock Speed. 1x 2.1GB HDD, 1x 1.4GB HDD Windows XP Pro Sp2.  | Flexing my penticeps for tri-mammaried ladies across the world | gamersat678's Bug Reporter ||| cottonvibe's pcsx2 guide for noobs ||| GSdx plugin DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer |
|
|
|
|
November 29th, 2007
|
#7 (permalink) | |
|
Koei
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Canada
Posts: 111
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
November 29th, 2007
|
#8 (permalink) |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Franklin, PA
Posts: 2,213
|
How about medium settings, I just want decent graphics, I'm not hard core!
__________________
-Member of the Windows XP "Sith" with dreams of galactic conquest, er no, I mean dreams of buying an XBOX 360 ------------------------------- Member of the Sith XP/XBOX gaming club. $95 for an XBOX, $9.99 for a copy of Halo 2...Being able to play Halo 2 without buying Vista, priceless! Vista, what OS do you not want to screw up your PC! 'k Wii will Wii will rock you!
|
|
|
|
|
November 29th, 2007
|
#10 (permalink) |
|
Final Fantasy XXX
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: USA, TX
Posts: 1,719
|
As the saying goes, cheap stuff come with a price to pay
__________________
Intel Core2Duo E6300 1.86Ghz L629A244 @ 3.78GHz G.Skill 2x1gb Hz--540MHz Asus P5K-E Wifi/AP Rev.1.02g Thermalright Ultra Extreme 120+ FM121 (110 cfm fan) ATI x1900 GT Rev.2 256mb 513/657 |
|
|
|
|
November 29th, 2007
|
#11 (permalink) |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Franklin, PA
Posts: 2,213
|
Maybe the 8600 will go down a bit by Feb/Mar, the "earliest" I intend to upgrade is Jan/Feb...
__________________
-Member of the Windows XP "Sith" with dreams of galactic conquest, er no, I mean dreams of buying an XBOX 360 ------------------------------- Member of the Sith XP/XBOX gaming club. $95 for an XBOX, $9.99 for a copy of Halo 2...Being able to play Halo 2 without buying Vista, priceless! Vista, what OS do you not want to screw up your PC! 'k Wii will Wii will rock you!
|
|
|
|
|
November 29th, 2007
|
#12 (permalink) |
|
Ramma Gay
 Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Somwhere out in space? The Land of the Free? Heaven or Hell?
Posts: 11,546
|
There's always Oldblivion
__________________
 PC Specs: CPU: Intel E4400 @ 2.66GHz GPU: ATi HD4870 / 512MB / Core: 775 / Mem: 1025 Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 (rev 2.1) SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music RAM: 2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR800 @ 4-4-4-12 ~ 800MHz HDD: 320GB Western Digital 16MB Caviar SE PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W Geometry Wars: 198.400 Lumines: 523.879 Rip: Cid's Bleemcast 28-08-2007  X360/Wii/PS3 belong to the current generation, update your mindset FFS |
|
|
|
|
November 29th, 2007
|
#13 (permalink) |
|
Man with the Masterplan
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Canada ──────────────────── PC Accelerator (aka PCXL) was a Computer gaming magazine published from 1997 until 2000
Posts: 2,662
|
Nice card, I'm sure you will able to almost play quake 1 at max settings.
As for oblivion you can send your fps through the roof if you lower 'tree quality' to minimum(i forgot the actual term for the setting). This will turn the 3d trees into 2d sprites, like they were in Daggerfall(1996). It doesn't look bad either. My sister played oblivion for 5 hours before noticing the quality of trees had gone down. And thats only because I ended up telling her.
__________________
E6600 Core 2 Duo, Geforce 8800GTX @ Stock Speed. 1x 2.1GB HDD, 1x 1.4GB HDD Windows XP Pro Sp2. | Flexing my penticeps for tri-mammaried ladies across the world | gamersat678's Bug Reporter ||| cottonvibe's pcsx2 guide for noobs ||| GSdx plugin DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer |
|
|
|
|
November 29th, 2007
|
#14 (permalink) | |
|
Mobile Fanatic
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
Posts: 3,998
|
My 7600GT ran Oblivion quite... fine at medium settings, so I would expect him to get at least the same performance.
Please don't try to discourage people... lolOh and Oblivion at highest settings only kill VRAM... but if you reduce grass to about half, the speed boost is really significant, and the quality doesn't go down that much. Who looks for grass that are more than 30 feet away from himself... in a computer monitor?
__________________
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
November 29th, 2007
|
#15 (permalink) |
|
Final Fantasy XXX
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: USA, TX
Posts: 1,719
|
Please don't encourage people that old gpu are as good as modern gpus
Even I think my gpu is no good 
__________________
Intel Core2Duo E6300 1.86Ghz L629A244 @ 3.78GHz G.Skill 2x1gb Hz--540MHz Asus P5K-E Wifi/AP Rev.1.02g Thermalright Ultra Extreme 120+ FM121 (110 cfm fan) ATI x1900 GT Rev.2 256mb 513/657 |
|
|
|
|
November 29th, 2007
|
#16 (permalink) |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: canton nc
Posts: 213
|
I guess its better than my geforce 7300 le that I have currently installed on my mb at the moment . I seriously hate that piece of crap card .
__________________
I love licking my sweet philtrum .... For those of you who are wondering what a philtrum is its the mark above the lips and below the nose. Welcome to the internet, where men are men,women are men, and young girls are fbi agents. Oh. No. You. Dit'n't! You did NOT just call that guy a double-exclamation mark percentile exclamation mark pound sign! Harsh, dude. HARSH. |
|
|
|
|
November 30th, 2007
|
#17 (permalink) |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Franklin, PA
Posts: 2,213
|
LOL I just have a 6200! and I like it, but my poor PC is a 900mhz!
__________________
-Member of the Windows XP "Sith" with dreams of galactic conquest, er no, I mean dreams of buying an XBOX 360 ------------------------------- Member of the Sith XP/XBOX gaming club. $95 for an XBOX, $9.99 for a copy of Halo 2...Being able to play Halo 2 without buying Vista, priceless! Vista, what OS do you not want to screw up your PC! 'k Wii will Wii will rock you!
|
|
|
|
|
November 30th, 2007
|
#18 (permalink) |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Bolton,UK
Posts: 10
|
My pc can run oblivion at the highest settings, 1280x1024, AAx4, no hdr and with a few mods and i still get 30-40 fps (indoors) and 15-25 fps (outdoors)
my setup: (cba giving much detail on it but this is basically it) (amd 64 dual core 3800+ 2gb ram ecs kn1 sli motherboard 7600gt 256mb 580 psu) |
|
|
|
|
November 30th, 2007
|
#19 (permalink) |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Franklin, PA
Posts: 2,213
|
How about on medium settings?
__________________
-Member of the Windows XP "Sith" with dreams of galactic conquest, er no, I mean dreams of buying an XBOX 360 ------------------------------- Member of the Sith XP/XBOX gaming club. $95 for an XBOX, $9.99 for a copy of Halo 2...Being able to play Halo 2 without buying Vista, priceless! Vista, what OS do you not want to screw up your PC! 'k Wii will Wii will rock you!
|
|
|
|
|
November 30th, 2007
|
#20 (permalink) | ||
|
Mobile Fanatic
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
Posts: 3,998
|
Quote:
No offense. lolI am not telling them that their GPUs can bust the 30fps mark in Crysis or something... but with a game like Oblivion, those cards can still yield some... results.  Maybe the results won't be as "hardcore" as something your card... (or mine ) can produce but hey, they are at budget price compared to ours.
__________________
Quote:
|
||
|
|
|
Linear Mode
