nVidia vs. ATI in a few months..

I'm about to begin upgrading my system again, however, I'm planning on holding off until more DX10 cards are released. I'm thinking about holding off until April-May, depending on Intel's price drop or any delays on the Barcelona, because I'll be getting a new cpu too, but am not sure if any of the two look to have a more dominant future. I know atm, nVidia seems to be ahead by quite a bit, but that changes quickly. I've been gone for quite some time, so I'm not up with the time yet.

Basically, I'm playing Supreme Commander; it it eats my computer alive! I'm running an AMD 3800+ x64, 7900GT 256mb, ad 2 gb of ram. After seeing the raping my computer's willingly accepting on the lowest graphics settings, I figure it's time to upgrade, and I think the graphics card is what's going first. And as mentioned, I'm holding off until April to see price drops and release notes on the Barcelona, and 'till DX10 cards are more popular than they are now, so it seems like it's stil la tossup between the two. Thanks for all the help!

Oh ya? Hah, well I'm upgrading my cpu sometime abo uthe same time as my card. I'm waiting till April for Intel price drops, and will see if the Barcelona is still scheduled for mid-year or what price are put on it anyways. I'm either thinking about sticking w/ a quick-fix e6600 and OCing the hell out of it, or investing in quad-core now and not worrying about it later. I guess it all depends how things pan out in the future. Either way, I'll need new mobos as well, so it'll be a completely new system..

hmm, well, I'd try OCing.. but I'm still don't know how to do it too well, and more importantly, I don't have a cooling system to save my computer . I can find how to OC easily, and form what I've heard, my card and cpu are pretty good at OCing.. But, I guess only time will tell. I'm really considering a quad-core Intel on April pricedrops, and maybe then there'll be a price some good cards.

Does anyone still have any info of the upcoming card race? Thanks again bro.

ya, that's what I was thinking. Seems like ATI is going to be on top after a few a few DX10 launches.

And your basing this on what info again?

Yes but the problem with your theory is the fact that the 8800GTX has been released since this past November and now with another Delay for the R600 Nvidia will have more than ample time to come up with something to spoil the fun for ATI when the R600 is launched. Its not going to be that simple this time.

Supreme commander is ATM the most demanding game out as far as hardware is concerned. This website did a really good review using 8 different cpus and 9 different gpus, and even on medium settings on intensive maps a high end c2d + 8800 is having trouble pushing past 30 fps. It's really ridiculous that there isnt any hardware available that can run the game at full settings well.

http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=620

And another review showing basically the same thing though theor testing method wasnt as intense http://www.gamespot.com/features/6166198/index.html


My advice for you is to try and wait it out a few more months if you can. Pick up a c2q 6600 after the price drops in april, or if you can stick it out a bit longer than that, wait for the barcelona quad cores late this summer. Supreme commander is multi threaded and a quad would be your best bet.

By that time the game should be dx10 patched and there should be alot more selection in dx10 cards and you can pick one up that fits your budget. hopefully when the game moves to dx10, framerates will improve a bit.

The new amd/ati solution for gpu is the 700 series not out til who knows? The current r600 series was made by ati alone. Eventually amd/ati will try a new direction which combines the cpu/gpu meld I believe but thats even farther down the road

hmm. blended cpus/gpus? Would that be like, a completely new piece of hardware or something? Sounds like if that goes through, there will be QUITE a big difference with trying to get certain parts compatible with one another, ESPECIALLY units built before this hybrid..

Blended CPU/GPU?

isn't that integrated graphics...?

8)

Something I am realizing now is that, well, IT IS NEVER A GOOD TIME TO UPGRADE. LOL.

I mean, there is always something awesome on the horizon.

However, right now, I think it is best to wait until the AMD/ATI offerings are at least benchmarked.

However, I am dying for an E4300 to OC the crap out of. And I would order the E4300 and upgrade again in May, except I still have an AGP mobo, and if I go to the 4300 I'll have to buy a N8800GTX. Then I'll have to upgrade a cpu AND gfx board come May.

So, i all adds up to a wait situation.

Trust me. SupCom is killing me too. On lowest settings I have to play @ 1024x760 to get decent FPS at later stages in a match.

I love supcom and cannot wait until May when I can play it maxed at 1600x1050. that is going to be beautiful!

(And stalker is GOLD now, which is going to be an amazing game, let alone crysis.) I think PC gaming is going to get really sweet this year