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Ravynmagi  4 stars
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 Date Posted: 2/29/12 9:32pm Subject: what nvidia video card should i upgrade to?
Mortalis3 posted:
FYI

I'm running a C2Q 6600 and just upgraded from SLI'd 8800GT's to the 560Ti 448. Playing SW:ToR I did not really notice much difference.



Yeah, when I played SWTOR it seemed very GPU light.
Rezzinu  1 star
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Registered: 2004-4-17 10:20:46
 Date Posted: 2/29/12 9:32pm Subject: what nvidia video card should i upgrade to?
Mortalis3 posted:
FYI I'm running a C2Q 6600 and just upgraded from SLI'd 8800GT's to the 560Ti 448. Playing SW:ToR I did not really notice much difference.

Have you OC'd the 560 yet?

 

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Mortalis3  1 star
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Registered: 2008-4-30 15:46:16
 Date Posted: 2/29/12 9:32pm Subject: what nvidia video card should i upgrade to?
Rezzinu posted:
Mortalis3 posted:
FYI I'm running a C2Q 6600 and just upgraded from SLI'd 8800GT's to the 560Ti 448. Playing SW:ToR I did not really notice much difference.

Have you OC'd the 560 yet?

I got the FTW version. It came factory overclocked to 797. I havent experimented any higher due to paranoia over losing $250.

 

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Ghoest9
Title: Master of Knavery
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Registered: 2001-12-21 12:00:48
 Date Posted: 2/29/12 9:32pm Subject: what nvidia video card should i upgrade to?
I need some card advice too, but Im not limiting myself to NVidia.

Win 32
4 Gigs RAM(system sees 3.5 Gigs in system properties)
E8400 Core2Duo @3.00 Ghz
Geforce 9800 GT

I wont be building a new PC till early next year but if I can get an affordable upgrade to performance for now I would like it.

Am I correct to figure that getting more RAM on the card will do nothing?

I probably meet the minimum reqs for the games I plan to play this year(GW2 PS2 D3) but if I can get a noticeable improvement from a card in the $150-$200 range I would be happy.
Im not going to over clock it myself.

 

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Caoilin  4 stars
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 Date Posted: 2/29/12 9:32pm Subject: what nvidia video card should i upgrade to?
win 32 is harsh.

 

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Mortalis3  1 star
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Registered: 2008-4-30 15:46:16
 Date Posted: 2/29/12 9:32pm Subject: what nvidia video card should i upgrade to?
Ghoest9 posted:
I need some card advice too, but Im not limiting myself to NVidia.

Win 32
4 Gigs RAM(system sees 3.5 Gigs in system properties)
E8400 Core2Duo @3.00 Ghz
Geforce 9800 GT

I wont be building a new PC till early next year but if I can get an affordable upgrade to performance for now I would like it.

Am I correct to figure that getting more RAM on the card will do nothing?

I probably meet the minimum reqs for the games I plan to play this year(GW2 PS2 D3) but if I can get a noticeable improvement from a card in the $150-$200 range I would be happy.
Im not going to over clock it myself.

I am not positive but with windows 32bit you may not want to get too much more memory on your video card. Win 32 will only register 4GB total memory in your system. Typically 512MB(.5GB) on a video is registered and then the remaining 3.5GB is there for the system. If you get 1GB on the video card then 3GB is registered for use for the system. The math is pretty straight forward.
Windows 64 bit does not have the 4GB memory cap which allows for video cards to have higher amounts of memory on them and not affect the cap on the system memory as much.

 

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Ghoest9
Title: Master of Knavery
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Registered: 2001-12-21 12:00:48
 Date Posted: 2/29/12 9:32pm Subject: what nvidia video card should i upgrade to?
Mortalis3 posted:
Ghoest9 posted:
I need some card advice too, but Im not limiting myself to NVidia.

Win 32
4 Gigs RAM(system sees 3.5 Gigs in system properties)
E8400 Core2Duo @3.00 Ghz
Geforce 9800 GT

I wont be building a new PC till early next year but if I can get an affordable upgrade to performance for now I would like it.

Am I correct to figure that getting more RAM on the card will do nothing?

I probably meet the minimum reqs for the games I plan to play this year(GW2 PS2 D3) but if I can get a noticeable improvement from a card in the $150-$200 range I would be happy.
Im not going to over clock it myself.

I am not positive but with windows 32bit you may not want to get too much more memory on your video card. Win 32 will only register 4GB total memory in your system. Typically 512MB(.5GB) on a video is registered and then the remaining 3.5GB is there for the system. If you get 1GB on the video card then 3GB is registered for use for the system. The math is pretty straight forward.
Windows 64 bit does not have the 4GB memory cap which allows for video cards to have higher amounts of memory on them and not affect the cap on the system memory as much.



You are correct that if I get a card with 1 Gig of onboard RAM that my system RAM will drop down to 3 Gigs.

1 Im not sure which is better with respect to game performance.

2 There arent many options with .5 Gigs of RAM.

3 I would think though that somehow I should be able to get significantly better performance than I do with this really old card.

 

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