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Jodiuh 17th March 2006, 03:37

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Originally Posted by sadffffff
I came out with a much better knowledge of what settings i can run the games i dont play at.

Wait, so you don't play the games? Or you don't use those resolutions? Are you at higher resolutions then?

My creed...

I am Joe Gamer. I have XX hardware. I want to know what kind of performance I can expect with this hardware. I honestly don't care who can push pixels the fastest in some sort of racemark.

I'm also looking to see "what I need to get" in order to hit that res with a decent amount of IQ. I don't play 3dmark. I play games.

zoom314 17th March 2006, 03:45

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Originally Posted by Jodiuh
Wait, so you don't play the games? Or you don't use those resolutions? Are you at higher resolutions then?

My creed...

I am Joe Gamer. I have XX hardware. I want to know what kind of performance I can expect with this hardware. I honestly don't care who can push pixels the fastest in some sort of racemark.

I'm also looking to see "what I need to get" in order to hit that res with a decent amount of IQ. I don't play 3dmark. I play games.

Even I play a few games, Among other things, Web surfing, Email, Video, editing, etc.

Pookeyhead 17th March 2006, 08:43

Good review and tests!!

I was hoping for more from the 7900GTX, but at least I now know my best option by far is to get another identical 7800GTX 256, and run SLi, as it's by far the cheapest way, and will still outperform either single card offering from ATi or nVidia.

Tim S 17th March 2006, 09:57

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Originally Posted by sadffffff
i see that at the bottom of the test setup page, and it defines them, but doesnt let me know which is better over another. for that i would have to go back to when ati and nvidia introduced those modes and read your articles from then. and i think thats sorta where you loose me. maybe you should have some sorta wiki thing where you can click on those modes and get a nice definition about them. i think that would clear a lot up a be a cool feature for bit (dont think ive seen that anywhere else, maybe i should take this to the feedback forum!)

I'll have a look into doing something like that. We did an article like that a little while ago, but it didn't cover transparency/adaptive AA and high quality AF. The first article we did was here: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/07/04/aliasing_filtering/1.html

I think it would be worth doing a second one in that series to help to explain the differences between Adaptive AA and Transparency AA. ;)

ozstrike 17th March 2006, 17:49

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Originally Posted by bigz

I think it would be worth doing a second one in that series to help to explain the differences between Adaptive AA and Transparency AA. ;)

That would be great. It would be cool to have a whole article dedicated to comparing the filtering and IQ settings from each company.

Tim S 17th March 2006, 20:34

I'll see what we can do next week ;)

N/A 18th March 2006, 00:58

Any chance of a 7900GT round up?

I'm thinking of Evga 7900GT OC SC....

Not many people can afford the 7900GTX, and since the 7900GT is much more affordable, I think it would have gathered more attention if you did a 7900GT round up.

bye bye

Tim S 18th March 2006, 09:14

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Originally Posted by N/A
Any chance of a 7900GT round up?

I'm thinking of Evga 7900GT OC SC....

Not many people can afford the 7900GTX, and since the 7900GT is much more affordable, I think it would have gathered more attention if you did a 7900GT round up.

bye bye

We said we'd be covering 7900 GT / 7600 GT in other articles ;)

Gosu 19th March 2006, 17:51

Really nice article, thanks.
Write more! :)

KimberHitman 2nd April 2006, 09:48

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The ASUS card was the best overclocker of the bunch, as we were able to get it running stabilly at 706/1770MHz without any tearing or deficiencies, while MSI's NX7800GTX-T2D512E overclocked to 679/1706MHz without any issue. On the other hand, the two BFG Tech GeForce 7900 GTX OC cards overclocked to 695/1702MHz and 691/1680MHz respectively. This was a little lower than what we expected from these cards. However, it proves the point that overclocking can be a lottery at the best of times.

I'm a little confused--will the ASUS card actually put up some higher fps than the BFG after overclocking it? I'm a little lost in the 'Overclocking' section... Thanks.

Edit: I liked the article--it gave me the info I need for comparison.

Tim S 2nd April 2006, 10:40

Hi there & welcome to the forums.

The ASUS card will return higher performance than the BFG Tech card when overclocked to the frequencies found. However, we can't garauntee that if you buy the ASUS, you'll automatically get higher frequencies than are possible with the BFG Techs. ;)

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