Topic: Question: Which graphics card to purchase? (Read 2544 times)

Captain Spencer · « **on:** March 15, 2010, 18:38:24 »

Hi guys,

Just a general question about graphics cards. I have finally got around to purchasing a graphics card (Yeah, that's right, I'll be able to run SS again!) but unsure as to which one to purchase.

I am thinking of buying a NVidia GTX 260 card. My budget is around Â£150 and need something to future proof me for a while. What would you users who already run SS recommend? I ran SS before on a low end card, but now I can buy something which should run almost anything (almost

)

Cheers!
Adam

sadsid (â€ 2016) · « **Reply #1 on:** March 15, 2010, 18:43:39 »

Hi CaptainSpencer
I ran GTX8800 with no problems for some reason it seams to like nvedia cards
but don't forget more power the card it puts more demand on the power unit
Eric

Captain Spencer · « **Reply #2 on:** March 15, 2010, 18:45:34 »

Hi Sadsid,

I realised that before I planned to buy a graphics card, which is why I bought a 800w power supply with 4 x PCI 6pin connectors

I've heard the 8800GTX are getting a bit outdated and that the NVidia 200 series are performing better. This of course though, is based from what I've heard and read. I may of course, be wrong!

saltydog · « **Reply #3 on:** March 15, 2010, 18:48:16 »

nVidia is coming with some new cards very soon: the GTX 480 and GTX 470
The 480 will be their new top card, so will probably be quite expensive, the 470 could be interesting..

Captain Spencer · « **Reply #4 on:** March 15, 2010, 18:49:29 »

Ahh but as mentioned SD, I only have a budget of around Â£150, and I can bet on the new cards will be more expensive than that!

saltydog · « **Reply #5 on:** March 15, 2010, 18:52:48 »

You're probably right, we shall see in the next few weeks..
At the moment the ATI Radeon cards seem to be quite good (5000 serie)
I've also been considering the nVidia GTX 275

I currently have a nVidia 8800 GT which works fine, (15-20 FPS in SS), so no real rush..

sadsid (â€ 2016) · « **Reply #6 on:** March 15, 2010, 19:21:45 »

Hi
The one I have in at the moment is A.T.I 4800 with 1gig DDR5 mem and from
scan for under Â£130
Eric

Traddles · « **Reply #7 on:** March 15, 2010, 19:24:36 »

I have a GeForce 8600GT with 512MB dedicated memory. It works perfectly in my machine. I do not know if such a card is still available, but it works perfectly when I am testing SS Pro too.

Captain Spencer · « **Reply #8 on:** March 15, 2010, 19:26:25 »

Hi guys,

Just bought this from Ebuyer: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/169059

Hopefully it will run everything I want

What do you think?

Traddles, what kind of frame rates do you get?

Traddles · « **Reply #9 on:** March 15, 2010, 19:38:00 »

Hi CS,
I get anything between 15 and 22FPS depending on the actual mission. This produces a good non-jerky motion so I am very happy with it. I am really no expert so my feeling is:- "If it aint broke, why fix it?" I could, therefore, not comment on the one you have shown us.
I attach my DxDiag so you can see that my set up is not wildly expensive.

Captain Spencer · « **Reply #10 on:** March 15, 2010, 19:51:01 »

Thanks Traddles, I also have 2GB RAM, but I have an old processor so we'll see what comes from the new graphics card

Willmutt · « **Reply #11 on:** March 15, 2010, 19:53:01 »

Just a question: Which one of gtx 260 and ati hd5770 is the best? I think it's the gtx but ain't sure, can someone please tell?

Capt. Matt · « **Reply #12 on:** March 15, 2010, 20:09:52 »

Hey Adam,
I run SS on an ATI EAH4670 and SS runs Great! It has 1gb memory

I wanted an Nvidea card but this one runs just as well!

I usually get 60FPS

Matt

Captain Spencer · « **Reply #13 on:** March 15, 2010, 20:16:19 »

Hi Matt,

Thanks for posting your results. It's nice to know what people get actually! Does any one have a similar card to the one I've just purchased? It would be interesting to know what FPS they get when running SS

McGherkin · « **Reply #14 on:** March 15, 2010, 21:29:30 »

Quote from: Traddles on March 15, 2010, 19:24:36

I have a GeForce 8600GT with 512MB dedicated memory. It works perfectly in my machine. I do not know if such a card is still available, but it works perfectly when I am testing SS Pro too.

SNAP!

But I have twice the RAM and a useless processor

Capt. Matt · « **Reply #15 on:** March 16, 2010, 02:33:54 »

I have 4 GB running 32bit XP so it only sees I think 3.25GBs (dont quote me on that) I have a 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, the graphics card listed above, and now I run a dual screen

Captain Spencer · « **Reply #16 on:** March 16, 2010, 12:04:07 »

Nice!

Well my system is still old, but I've purchased a new power supply, a new graphics card, already got a SATA 2 hard drive so really all I need now is a new motherboard, processor and memory.

Bit more cost effective this way you see

Finn700 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 16, 2010, 17:30:42 »

I think it's bad time to buy new card.
Just a few ATI's cards does support the new brand new DirectX 11-standard and NVidia just getting theirs first ones to the shelves.
I would wait some time to DX11's to fully enter the market and then buy either DX11 for long time use, or some DX10 for a little more cheaper price what they're atm.

Captain Best · « **Reply #18 on:** March 16, 2010, 19:54:54 »

Im not considering buying new Graphic card.
But i'll recommending to buy Intel i7

Its awesome

Captain Spencer · « **Reply #19 on:** March 17, 2010, 16:35:57 »

Well I had my card delivered this morning only to discover that it's too big and covers up my SATA ports!

I'll be getting a low profile sata cable in about an hour, so hopefully that will do the trick!

saltydog · « **Reply #20 on:** March 17, 2010, 16:52:37 »

Hope that cable works. Keep us up to date about your new card..

Captain Spencer · « **Reply #21 on:** March 17, 2010, 17:07:02 »

Will do. The card fits in the case, it just blocks the SATA ports.

Anyway, should have that cable soon enough

Captain Spencer · « **Reply #22 on:** March 17, 2010, 18:49:56 »

Hi guys.

Great news! The right angle SATA cable worked! The graphics card hasn't properly 'clipped' in but its not going anywhere.

Railworks runs great, now installing SS and will report back

Captain Spencer · « **Reply #23 on:** March 18, 2010, 13:57:37 »

Well I installed SS and bumped up the graphics. What do you think?

I think they're awesome!

saltydog · « **Reply #24 on:** March 18, 2010, 14:47:56 »

Very nice..

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