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Night-Stalker   11-21-2008 at 12:16:05 AM

I have a 8800GT OCed to 700 mhz but i can go around 20-40mhz more if i need to. Since boxing day is coming, i might want to get a new 24" monitor. I am gonna play games like CoD4, C&C, AoE, WiC, GoW, .etc. Is it gonna be powerfully enough to still have smooth gameplay at medium to high settings? BTW, i am running vista 64bit right now and running Q6600 at 3.0ghz (willing to go to around 3.2-3.4 to increase fps). If its pushing it then i might just get a sound card and/or new speakers...and maybe another 4GB of ram if its cheap.

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invisik   11-21-2008 at 12:20:04 AM
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Your going to be playing around 19x12 resolution. A single 8800gt might not be enough to play at high settings but probably mid. Oc your 8800gt and q6600 to its max.

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Nik_I   11-21-2008 at 12:29:25 AM
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you'll be pushing it a bit for 1920x1200. overclock everything as much as you can. consider getting a new video card to give you some room to upgrade your monitor in the future. a 4850 or 4870 should be good enough. of course you could very easily buy a 24" monitor and run it at 1680x1050 in games. you won't get the same picture quality, but it will be bigger than your current monitor.


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Night-Stalker   11-21-2008 at 12:48:14 AM
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but without the monitor at its native res, it will look bad wouldn't it? like everything will be slightly blurry. Not sure if this helps but with my Q6600 at 3.45ghz and 8800GT Core at about 330 gives me nearly 100 fps in the first graphic bench test of 3dmark06.

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smartel7070   11-21-2008 at 01:07:06 AM
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If it can help you here is my personal experience with the 8800gt 512 and 24" monitor, which I had before I got the 4870 512. In games like cod4 I got good fps (between 45-60) with high settings, 2xAA and 16xAF. WIC was pretty smooth also with med to high settings. In games like Crysis it struggled a bit when there was heavy action.

So basically it should be fine but just don't expect the 8800gt to give you great performance with upcoming games.

If you have questions I will be happy to answer them.

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Night-Stalker   11-21-2008 at 03:23:03 AM
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did you OC your 8800GT and what processor did you have? XP or Vista cause 8800GT don't perform as well in games, for example WiC when its DX10.

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smartel7070   11-21-2008 at 05:16:42 AM
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I was on XP pro then. And I had it on a e2160 oc'ed to 3.2 and E8400 oc'ed to 3.8. Also my 8800gt wasn't a very good oc'er ..... I couldn't go past 670mhz. Also I had a Zalman vf-900 on it.

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4ryan6   11-21-2008 at 06:13:46 AM
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I'm running a Gateway 24" HD Display Monitor its native res is 1920 X 1200, with 2 8800GT in SLI OCd to 726/1819/1003 using Zalman VF1000 GPU Coolers.

From my experience of running the 8800GT as a single or SLI, going to a quad core CPU made all the difference in their performance, SLI is not that much of an increase over the single cards performance in some situations.

I haven't run into a game yet the single 8800GT cannot play, it may not be able to play the absolute highest settings in Crysis, but can handle the high settings just fine, now that wasn't the case running a dual core CPU but it is with the quad core.

In Crysis with both 8800GT in SLI the quad core gets me to the Very High settings, and plays smooth, I don't have some of the games you've listed.

I play all my games at 1920 X 1200 except F.E.A.R., because its not optimized for that resolution, it will play that resolution but is not optimized for it.

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Night-Stalker   11-22-2008 at 07:09:09 AM
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so it should be alright, i mean it should be enough from mid to high settings on most games on vista right?

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magicbullet   11-22-2008 at 07:19:58 AM
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Night-Stalker wrote :

so it should be alright, i mean it should be enough from mid to high settings on most games on vista right?


make it more like Mid only.

spend a little more money because the next gen card wont come out till q2 2009; therefore, (as a business major),I assume that the price wont go down for 3 to 4 months.

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Night-Stalker   11-22-2008 at 05:22:23 PM
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I guess i will give it a shot since if i buy new speakers i would need to buy a new sound card with it so in total its gonna cost like $400+tax while a monitor would only cost about 350+tax. Thanks for it input, i guess i will try my luck on the 24" and see how far i can push my 8800 GT before i see artifacts.

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