Comments on: Mid-range graphics in small benchmark

By: WestcoastStrangler

WestcoastStrangler — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:55:08 +0000

Help Needed…
so my comp recently started shutting down wen i play CSS.. hasn’t happened lately. only difference now is my bro is away on vacation and would play 5 hours a day or so. do i need a cooler .. more ram.. lol{512}.. more power.. 350 power thing-e.. a while back my monitor fizzled out with pretty smoke coming out from the top.. it was cool
AMD 2.10Ghz
512 MP DDR SDRAM
AVG RAdeon X700 Pro
any help!?!?

By: crazyheinz

crazyheinz — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:09:46 +0000

So wich one is better, the 7900GS overclocked or the 1950 overclocked???

By: FrOz3nD

FrOz3nD — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:06:45 +0000

So both graphic cards are amazing but ATI overtakes the Nvidia by few MILES !!!
ATI has always been a super high-end quality card delivering high quality game support unlike the Nvidia.
Wa a shame.

By: MrD

MrD — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:23:21 +0000

I recently moved from a sapphire x800gto2 256meg (bios flashed and oced to reach x850xtpe speeds) to a MSI x1950pro 256meg (bought a high end psu, hiper 580w from old zoostorm 500w, at the same time to make sure it could cope!) and realised that where i used to play BF2:RealityMod at 1024×768 medium graphics 2xAA, I now needed to buy myself a brand new spangly widescreen monitor 1440×900 to replace my clear but limited crt since the gaming I was now capable of in the same game is 1280×1024 at maximum everything (using a force widescreen code you manually enter into the games desktop shortcut to reach 1440×900 which looks fine!)

As shown above, with FEAR I am now capable of playing the game at 1024×768 max grahpics, with occassional lagging most likely down to my HDD being a 2meg variant (buying an 8meg faster one in a couple of weeks to use as my master drive) But I am now able to get as far as several extensive gaming sessions in the past, in one sitting! This is like when I jumped from a barton 2500 32bit cpu with ati 9600xt upto a 64bit system (venice 3000+ oced) and the x800gto2 and reinstalled Farcry for some smooth and fun gaming!

By sticking the x1950pro and 7900gs together for fps ratings, people have to remember that the x1950pro is a more modern card, and as such you might want to look at all the graphics it can show onscreen at once, where the 7900gs has a little problem showing everything, like the x800gto2 i moved from. Graphics that have been in place a lot since Half Life 2 was released. It doesn’t seem to make sense to go backwards in technology just to save yourself £15

By: MrD

MrD — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:13:12 +0000

I just recently went from a sapphire x800gto2 256meg (bios flashed and oced to x850xtpe speeds that would play BF2:RealityMod