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9:06 AM - April 1, 2008 by
Florian Charpentier
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: nvidia, geforce, 9800gtx, review
Topics: NVIDIA
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Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: nvidia, geforce, 9800gtx, review
Topics: NVIDIA
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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Please note that Quake Wars had to be tested with a timedemo and that consequently the scores we've posted here are higher than when playing the actual game.



This means that at 1680x1050 we were limited by the processor (which is not the case with the actual game), but at 1920x1200 the 9800 GTX took up its usual positioning - at least once antialiasing was enabled. It logged 6% lower performance than the 8800 GTS 512 MB and was barely ahead of the 8800 GTX, which is the card it theoretically replaces.
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BPT747
04/25/2008
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Interesting results, I have found several card makers (Palit, Asus, Evga, and Zotac) that make a 1GB 8800GT(S). Since you were speaking of the memory limitations of the 9800GTX, I am curious how these cards would preform with the 8800 driver optimizations you mentioned.
Spectere
05/01/2008
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I purchased a GF9800GTX not long after it came out and the only time I recall hearing the fan spin up to high (which is fairly loud) is when the card first initialized itself when I turn my system on. I've logged many hours of game time on this rig and haven't heard it spin up at all. I'm using the ForceWare 174.74 drivers and an XFX branded card (if that would make any difference at all...probably not).
teamjawbox
05/06/2008
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Would an Intel Core 2 Duo Dual Core E6600 (2.4ghz) 1066FSB processor bottleneck the 9800GTX? Trying to decide whether to get one or not and dont want to get it and not see an increase in performance due to my processor. Thanks!
ziegemon
05/09/2008
4:53 AM
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Processor bottleneck goes up to about 3.2 Ghz on my Q9450
TiberiumSoldier
05/25/2008
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i am going to buy an intel Core 2 Duo E8500 with ASUS or XFX or eVGA 9800gtx and 2gb Corsair Dominator ram.. is this a good option??? or i should buy an AMD Phenom 9600?