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A new Graphics card.... Help!
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AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
#21 - 2012-09-28 12:16:07 UTC
I usta own a 250gts and before that a 9800gtx (basically the same card)...there is no way (in my mind) that I can ever recall getting the sort of fps you are getting.



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Sidus Isaacs
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2012-09-28 13:32:55 UTC
In my experience now a days, most fairly new cards will work adequately for most things. Only if you have some very specific demands would you really need to get something special. If you just plan to game on a regular monitor with regular resolutions, just get one of the new nvidia cards or something.
Kenneth O'Hara
Sebiestor Tribe
#23 - 2012-09-28 13:43:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Kenneth O'Hara
Alright, I'm gonna be straight with everyone. I did over exaggerate and I let my EP (electronic penis) get the best of me. Yea, upon closer inspection, I'm not getting anywhere near what I was boasting. I basically lied and I apologize and I am eating my words.

I still think the 250gts is a rock solid card and it has surprised me before with previous games (crysis at max settings, 40~60fps at 1280x854) but then again, i was running sli at that time as well. EVE has less requirements than crysis so I assumed it could handle it fairly well. I guess it just made an ass out of me.

Now I do have screenshots, I was just too tired to post pics last night(or to find a site to host real fast, sry im lazy) but my fps wasn't that bad either. I was getting around 55~80 in hanger zooming in and out and disabling AA. I was getting 45~75 while flying around. Now this was at the 1080P I was boasting about on the big screen. In all honesty, I can't play it at the resolution because I can't read anything even with max ui scale and adjusting font so its large enough to read but not messing up the ui. I also notice a ~5% increase in fps when I switched the physx processor to my quad-core. Temp went down as well. I was running 80c before and then 60c after the switch. Eve doesn't even use most of the dedicated graphics memory neither. It used about 450megs max out of a gig. I wonder if there is a way to force it to use more video memory. hummm...

Now on my 15", my max res is 1024 x 768. With AA off, I was getting ~140fps. With AA on, it dropped to about 60fps. The good thing is I can read it, barely. I need a larger monitor. The large tv is my roommates and he uses it to play Borderlands 2.

On the SSD topic, I did my research before I bought it. I grabbed an MLC and my pagefile has been reduced to 1 gig in size. Im not worried if it goes out in 3 yrs because of my luck with HDD, they all go out in about 3 yrs. I always have backups though. Thanks for all the info. I picked up a lot.

Edit: I also have a screen shot where I updated the latest graphics drivers that were released 9/13/12. I haven't updated my drivers for more than a year. Editing drivers is well within my technical range but It's just giving new drivers legacy support or 64bit support when one can not be found. Anything outside that is foreign to me.

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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#24 - 2012-09-29 20:54:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Akita T
Well, mystery solved then.
Yeah, the 250 was a pretty damn good card when it came out from what I heard, and I was tempted to get one, but I personally tend to skip at least a couple of video card generations and only get a new one when the old one can only handle halfway decent FPS counts in lowest graphic detail for whatever it is I want to play.
Personal video card history : Voodoo 2 (1998), Riva TNT2 (2000), GeForce2 MX400 (2002), GeForce FX 5600 (2004), GeForce 8500 GT (2008), GeForce GTX 460 (2010).
There were a few ATIs on secondary machines and as replacement for when either of the above fried (the TNT2 and the 8500 fried, both were passively cooled only). They're nice, but I was never actually a very big fan (I think it was the drivers and the fact most games I usually played were slightly more NVIDIA-optimized). The fact I can hardly even remember their models should be an indication of that (I can only recall the latest one, a HD 4350 which I only used for a few weeks before I built this current machine with the GTX 460 in it).
I probably won't bother upgrading my first-1GB-gen GTX 460 until it either fries, or the GTX 760 comes out, or if I ever feel the need to use 3 monitors simultaneously (in which case, I'll most likely get a GTX 660, no Ti).

Hmm, I don't remember more than one of my HDDs ever failing on me before becoming sufficiently morally obsolete in my opinion (i.e. too small and/or too slow), to be relegated to either gathering dust in some drawer or gifted to other people... and the one that did fail did so because of a loose power connector (from frequent plug/unplug cycles), and it actually still functions, but only if carefully positioned (didn't feel like repairing it, it was getting close enough to moral obsolescence already anyway).
I think the longest I ever kept one in use was about 7 years (or was it 8?) I still have 4 or 5 of them still functional just sitting around (only one of them plugged into a machine that's "for guests" that seldom sees any use).

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Just Lilly
#25 - 2012-10-04 22:57:48 UTC
Paul Oliver wrote:
I'm in the market for a new card too, how about the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, or is that outdated already?


Still a very strong card.

You might wanna check out the 660 Ti card though (plenty of youtube clips to plow through)

It's worth the extra $$$ imo since you'll get those new tech features that came with the 600's series.
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