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Topic: Should I get anothet 7800gt for SLI or wait to nextgen card from nvidia or ATI?  (Read 3393 times)
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« on: January 04, 2006, 08:34:56 PM »
I have money left over from Christmas and wondering should I upgrade my graphic card or wait?
I already have 1 evga 7800gt and looking for more in call of duty 2. The funny things is that I get over 8000 of a score in 3dmark05 and my computer still slow!!! (in game like COD2 and F.E.A.R).
Should i upgrade to another 7800gt or wait to the summer for the next new card?
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« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2006, 09:02:40 PM »
r u kidding that 7800gt is lagging for you....i dont beleive it. BTW wat r ur specs?
If u were able to get over 8000 in 3dmark05 then ur card should be flying.
When u say slow wat do u mean? in what way? 
I would just keep the card the way it is now because most games dont even use use the full potential of the 7800 gt let alone is sli mode...
O yeah the reason the games may be slow would either be due to lack of memory or cpu power.
waiting for a next gen graphics card may take awhile becuase ati released there x1800 series and well nvidia relaesed there 7800 series(7800gtx 512 mb being the fastest)
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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2006, 09:16:54 PM »
amd 3000+ 64 venice overclock to 2.73GHz on stock hsf (getting aftermarket heatsink this weekend)
1024mb (512mb*2 dual channel) 450MHzddr
EVGA 7800gt clock at 492MHz core 1.18 memory (getting after market fan sometime this week)
evga nforce 4 sli mobo
160GB sata 2 hardrive
It seems just slow to me in the game sometime and I love my rich friends yelling at their parents because my computer had better graphics than their xbox 360!!!



P.s might upgrade processors but in benchmark beats fx55 and a littly short to the fx57
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« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2006, 09:21:29 PM »
Quote from: ebucemag on January 04, 2006, 09:16:54 PM
amd 3000+ venice overclock to 2.73GHz on stock hsf (getting aftermarket heatsink this weekend)
1024mb (512mb*2 dual channel) 450MHzddr
EVGA 7800gt clock at 492MHz core 1.18 memory (getting after market fan sometime this week)
evga nforce 4 sli mobo
160GB sata 2 hardrive
It seems just slow to me in the game sometime and I love my rich friends yelling at their parents because my computer had better graphics than their xbox 360!!!



P.s might upgrade processors but in benchmark beats fx55 and a littly short to the fx57
nope def no need for a new card for awhile.  Just look at my specs and that mite make u feel better(In sig) :haha:
BTW ur processor is descent and u have a sufficient amount of ram
yeah ur computer is already passing the xbox 360
Just curuious wat is the temp of ur cpu and gpu and also how big ir ur ps?
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« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2006, 09:26:22 PM »
I am getting a new heatsink for proc and graphic card...but low 40's for videocard and 30-32 ideal for cpu and  49c full load (prime 95) hott for me and I what higher clock so thats why I am getting a new cooler for both.
sry uhh 520 watts it should do and its not a generic brand


P.S look at my htt now that pretty impressive (even now it doesnt help sh*t)!!
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« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2006, 11:20:39 PM »
Quote from: ebucemag on January 04, 2006, 08:34:56 PM
Should i upgrade to another 7800gt or wait to the summer for the next new card?

Definitely wait for the R580 core from ATI.
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« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2006, 06:09:04 AM »
What mother board do you have? VIA, Intel, etc?

You might want to use CAS Latency 3 and stop overclocking, that'll make it more stable, especially since you have a stock hs.

Is the issue, low fps... Or does it stutter alot? Low fps is the graphics card while if it stutters it is ram or settings.
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« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2006, 06:49:35 AM »
evga nfsli stable for like 7 hours prime 95 andd just bought new hsf
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