8800gtx @1280 x 1024resolution a waste???

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I don't see 1280x1024 being as much of a waste as the 16 inch monitor.
Anti-alaising can help cure the 12x10 resolution.

just a quick question off-topic here. you guys with widescreen monitors, when gaming at 1280 x 1024, do you set your monitor to remain at a fixed aspect ratio or do you let it stretch to fit your screen? my native reso. is 16:10 (1440 x 900) and 1280 x 1024 will need to be stretched to maximise all screen space. most games i play support my reso, and most that don't support it look ok when stretched at 1280 x 1024. just wondering what you guys do.

It's perfect for it? Smooth gaming at highest quality.

Whether it's worth it or not is up to you but I personally would not. The cpu and 1 gb of ram will bottleneck your system anyway so whether your monitor is the issue is moot.

Try 1280 x 960.

That resolution looks really good on my Sceptre 22 inch widescreen 16:10. Let us know if it worked.

ok, the GTX may be a little bottlenecked by the processor, depending on the game, but I wouldnt worry about it. The monitor is fine for the GTX, it may be overkill in frames per second terms at the moment, but as you start seeing Crysis/Alan Wake etc you will be glad of the extra power.

Oh and in regards to the HDTV, it will look ok depending on your distance away and what games your playing. Try it and see!

I found a way to change the reso. in F.E.A.R. and it was simple and works. I just hope it is that easy for other games that don't support WS. Thanks for the suggestion. BTW to the guy further above, I didn't see a 1280 by 960 res but thanks anyways.

And for further questions I advise you to go here:

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/

They have all the answers

ah ha.. great information on this thread. thanks alot everyone. I have another question. the tv i want to hook my pc up to is a 1080i 55 inch with the game run smoothley on such a tv? what resolution is hdtv considered?

why would anyone want to buy 8800GTX for low res other than 24" LCD or 30" LCD. Is beyond me.

Totally not worth it.

you can get 7950GT for 200 and volt mod it to 7800 GTX performance level.

Which was GOD only a year ago and cost 550 if you can find it at all.

550 a year ago to 200 now. more than 50 percent drop in a year.

If your car or house drop 50 percent a year, you will commit sucide with katana.


those people who paying two 8800 GTX , for SLI is totally ridiculous.
that 1100 dollars performance will worth less than a 200 dollars card in two years time.

Yes, i am going to get one 8800GTX for my 30 inch LCD, but that is because unplayable fps at 2560x1600, but even that i still thinking of waiting until march where price will drop new card coming out.
2 8800GTX is totally out of the question.

SAVE THE PLANET. Dun use too much power. Lower your green footprint.

Ok....Its like this,
For a 8800GTX running low resolutions, it can and will do the job quite nicely. Since the card is not having to pump crazy resolutions its not going to have to work at its max capacity. Your processor will in fact not be feeding its insatiable appetite for data in order to process. So essentially your frame rates will depend on the speed at which your processor can supply it data. You will actually have the card waiting on data from the processor from time to time...Which necessarily isnt a bad thing. Just so long as you can get 60fps, then who cares about frame rates? Just play the game and enjoy knowing that when new and more complex games come out, you will definitely have the horsepower to render all the graphical goodness. Furthermore running your computer on a HDTV is doable..Just make sure you have the right connections and or dvi to hdmi converters. Mitsubishi micro displays have actual DVI inputs, while samsung displays have HDMI inputs on the rear connections panel. And before you ask, you will not lose any quality using a converter because its all a digital connection. You either have all of it or nothing at all. Hope this helps. With the tv though, you might have to tweak graphic driver settings to get the best picture on your TV. just mess with it and youll get it mate!
Cheers*

When using a 8800GTX on a 1280x1024 monitor, one would most probably need to enable verticle sync (prevents texture tearing etc)..

When this feature is enabled, the gfx card will "sync" the FPS to the refresh rate of the monitor.. So, if you run at 75Hz refresh rate, you'll sit with 75FPS, which is perfect.. Now, maintaining that FPS no matter what the game is throwing at the card is the ideal situation.. So, in my opinion, a 8800GTX and a 1280x1024 monitor is NOT a waste at all... Its perfect..

Thats not true at all, I just upgraded from a 1280X1024 monitor to a 1680X1050 res monitor which seems to be the perfect resolution for the 8800GTX to run at.

Games such as Oblivion and R6 will still somewhat tax the GTX even at 1280X1024. In oblivion with my old monitor the absolute lowest FPS I would see in the thickest part of the forest was only around 47fps which is amazing and with my new monitor its around 40fps at the absolute lowest which is still amazing but as you can see the card begans to get more and more taxed.

Now as far as my other games are concerned I cannot tell a diff as this GTX just eats it up and spits it out

I said this in another thread and I'll say it again:

-oblivion
-rainbow six vegas
-Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
-splinter cell
-call of duty 2
-8XAA
-16XAF
-Gamma Correction AntiAliasing
-Transparency AntiAliasing:Supersampling

for once you and I agree taco, any of the 19...XT range would be a far better buy than a GT, especially at current prices!

Yeah no doubt the XT and Pro are better but my friend just got a X1900GT off newegg 1 week ago and it was only 149.99 Not to bad 8)

First of all show me a link to a X1950pro at the same price as a X1900GT without a rebate needed. Second of all how do you figure a X1950pro beats a X1900GT in every way when the specs are nearly the same and the architecture and pipelines are identical?

The X1950pro is nothing more than a slightly overclocked X1900GT that is the only diff and its not enough to beat the X1900GT in every way as you claim. It would not be hard at all to hit the same speeds with the GT, IMO the GT is the better buy of the two seeing as it is somewhat cheaper and is often around 149-159.99 on newegg.com. Right now its inflated a little but its still cheaper than the Pro which is basically the same card.


X1950pro
256mb GDDR3
Core Clock 580mhz
Mem Clock 1400mhz
12(36 Pixel shader processor )



X1900GT
256mb GDDR3
Core Clock 512mhz
Memory Clock 1314
12 (36 pixel shader processors)

true, but the pro also has a better gpu running in it. I guess it does not beat the gt that badly, but for a small difference, I think the pro is a better buy over the gt

And no, the taco does not sniff anything

Except rocket fuel, the effect it has is uniginieable 8O

huh?

That's true, but for now, all a gtx will do is make you have so many fps with everything maxed out with 19" lcd res that your monitor probably won't be able to keep up if its a crt. But until crysis comes out, we can't say whether the gtx will be overkill or not for those resolutions, because for all we know, it might support 8 cores because it's so demanding and require 4 gigs of ram, or the gtx may be completely overkill for that resoultion, we just have to wait, that's the only answer right now. But the gtx will defnitely last a while due to the dx10 support

I dunno sirheck, check out that shading.

didn't pay attention, to busy drooling over the graphics

I think my cousin (also named Ali, -theres a lot of us, but that's besides the point) will be getting crysis the day it comes out and I have convinced him to get a gts when the price drops so we are going to be testing it out with vista, and I will be able to tell you then relaly how demanding it will be, but first I got to get him to join forums

already have a 68gt. oh wait 2

Dude the GPUS in the both the GT and PRO are of the SAME CORE! they are no different and neither one is better than the other. LOL.

You said this same crazy thing about the X1900XT vs the X1950XT series and you were also wrong about that as I proved it too you in the other thread. Those both also share the EXACT same R580 core.