Topic: Best Graphics card for Ship Simulator (Read 46653 times)

liotta · « **Reply #50 on:** March 16, 2008, 13:02:12 »

wow lol .... what does that mean?

Chris-S1 · « **Reply #51 on:** March 16, 2008, 13:13:19 »

hay guyes b days is coming up and thinking about geting XFX nVidia 8600GT PCI-Express 1GB Graphics Card 8600 GT but i think i just have the normal pci not express duz this mean i will have to ge an adapter? also any one who as this card whats it like when its runing (nosy gets hot so on). also are the grapics as good as thay say thay are?

Chris S

TerryRussell · « **Reply #52 on:** March 16, 2008, 13:39:05 »

Hi Chris.

So far as I know, if you don't have a PCI Express bus in your PC (and the correct type, either 16 or 32), then you can't use a card designed for PCI Express.

I'm not aware of any adaptors.

Sorry.

Chris-S1 · « **Reply #53 on:** March 16, 2008, 13:57:16 »

thats a shame looks like a realy good card

TerryRussell · « **Reply #54 on:** March 16, 2008, 18:26:42 »

Yeah, it is. I've got one installed on a PC here. Works very well.

Mad Bossy · « **Reply #55 on:** March 16, 2008, 21:04:25 »

I like this Card:

Quelle: http://www.tech2.com/ (http://www.tech2.com/)

Its the NVIDIA 8600 GTS and i buy it in the last hour

white runner · « **Reply #56 on:** March 19, 2008, 23:58:29 »

ATI best

TerryRussell · « **Reply #57 on:** March 20, 2008, 00:11:47 »

Give me Nvidia 8800GTX any day.

I've tried a lot of ATI cards over the years and although they've been OK, Nvidia seem to outperform them. They also have better updates for latest games and so on. Had less problems with Nvidia.

Captain Spencer · « **Reply #58 on:** March 20, 2008, 03:26:52 »

Quote from: TerryRussell on March 20, 2008, 00:11:47

Give me Nvidia 8800GTX any day.

I've tried a lot of ATI cards over the years and although they've been OK, Nvidia seem to outperform them. They also have better updates for latest games and so on. Had less problems with Nvidia.

Wish you had told me that 3 years ago lol. I have a ATI 1600X Pro. Although it's ok, it's not blisteringly fast. However it is an AGP card

Chris-S1 · « **Reply #59 on:** March 20, 2008, 19:34:16 »

hay guys can any one recomend a good card about Â£50-80 and at least i pci slot id like two but if its only got one and one of thoses digatel outputs al get an adaptor

thanks

SSNick · « **Reply #60 on:** March 20, 2008, 19:55:58 »

Quote from: TerryRussell on March 20, 2008, 00:11:47

Give me Nvidia 8800GTX any day.

I've tried a lot of ATI cards over the years and although they've been OK, Nvidia seem to outperform them. They also have better updates for latest games and so on. Had less problems with Nvidia.

I dont like ATI....I have had sevral problems with them and there video cards.

Captain Spencer · « **Reply #61 on:** March 20, 2008, 22:08:43 »

Quote from: SSNick on March 20, 2008, 19:55:58

I dont like ATI....I have had sevral problems with them and there video cards.

What kind of problems?

white runner · « **Reply #62 on:** March 22, 2008, 19:21:50 »

well ati has good graphics but slow on the computer

JHB · « **Reply #63 on:** March 22, 2008, 19:33:22 »

Yabadabbadully... Nice to see that Nvidia is the leader in the poll

Jayshum · « **Reply #64 on:** March 23, 2008, 09:13:10 »

Guys, I just recently bought a new PC (thus I have ship sim!). Anyway, I don't know a lot about the hard-ware side of things etc, so I was wondering could you give me some advice. I'm looking for a card that will let me run ship sim on FULL graphic settings (everything up). Here's my PC stats first of all:

Dell Inspiron 530
Windows XP Pro
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33Ghz 2.33Gz
3.00 GB of RAM

...and here's the Graphics card I've been looking at:
Link to Play.com page (http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/-/667/874/-/5243599/Play-Value-Geforce-8800GT-512MB-PCI-Express-2-0-Graphics-Card/Product.html?searchtype=genre)

Will this card run Shipsim 2008 on FULL settings? If possible guys, please keep your answers to a simple yes, or 'no' with a recommendation please (as I have NO idea about why it's good/no good!). For recommendations, I'm willing to spend up to Â£150. Reason being is that I don't play games on my PC, I play them on my Xbox360. I'm only doing this for ship sim, so I feel that makes sense.

Lanedre · « **Reply #65 on:** March 23, 2008, 11:07:05 »

that card will run ship sim on full settings

Chris-S1 · « **Reply #66 on:** March 24, 2008, 00:36:07 »

wach tho its PCI Express 2.0 its not the blue pci u would need to get an adaptor

Jayshum · « **Reply #67 on:** March 24, 2008, 03:15:46 »

What does that involve Chris? Could you possibly link me to one that's the equivelant power-wise, but doesn't require an adapter?

EDIT: See, now I'm confused because another friend I know through another game, told me I should be fine because 'anything with a Core2.0 (referring to my CPU I think), should have the slot'. PCIe or something like that. Very confusing lol

TerryRussell · « **Reply #68 on:** March 24, 2008, 11:49:06 »

Quote from: Chris-S1 on March 24, 2008, 00:36:07

wach tho its PCI Express 2.0 its not the blue pci u would need to get an adaptor

Hi Chris.

As I said to you about a week ago, so far as I know, there is no such thing as a PCI => PCI-Express adaptor.

So does your post mean you've found one? Please give me a link for it, because that would be incredibly useful.

Or did you forget our conversation?

Chris-S1 · « **Reply #69 on:** March 24, 2008, 22:41:37 »

well thats the thing im on the hunt for one acording to ibm thair is such a think as a PCI Adaptor but im wating for them to get back to me with some more information.

edit.

(Terry) terry do u miby have a diagram so that users could tell if thay have pci express or not ?

TerryRussell · « **Reply #70 on:** March 24, 2008, 23:10:37 »

Hi Chris.

It's not easy to tell the difference between some of the bus types just by looking. PCI 16 & 32 look similar. They also look a bit like some of the older busses.

The only way is to find out from the Motherboard manufacturer. You can work that out from teh start-up screen when you start the PC. Make a note of the BIOS type and then go from there.

Google the bios type and you can generally find out the Motherboard. There is software around which will give details. Sandrasoft is one that I've used in the past. Again, Google it and you find what you need.

llamalord · « **Reply #71 on:** March 25, 2008, 12:46:15 »

^{Tell me about it.}
Also the time has come to get a New Processor in my mother board.

I want to go quad core but,- I also don't want to go bankrupt.

Any suggestions from the clan.

Captain Spencer · « **Reply #72 on:** March 25, 2008, 14:05:37 »

Quote from: llamalord on March 25, 2008, 12:46:15

^{Tell me about it.}
Also the time has come to get a New Processor in my mother board.

I want to go quad core but,- I also don't want to go bankrupt.

Any suggestions from the clan.

Depends on how much you want to spend. You can pick a Quadcore up for about Â£70 I think (low spec one) but I would spend a bit more getting a decent one. I would get the Q6600 as I think it can overclock past 3Ghz with proper cooling..

Chris-S1 · « **Reply #73 on:** March 26, 2008, 19:52:08 »

iv herd that a Quadcore sumtimes is no faster than a dulecore but this is only from what iv heard from a few mates. on the puss i got a reply from ibm and that say that thay are working with ati to make an adaptor but thay cant give any more info and thay dont have a relase date

SirXpression · « **Reply #74 on:** March 26, 2008, 19:59:02 »

quad core is 2 cpu's for the RAM and 2 cpu's for the rest (so i have been told i may be wrong)
dual core is 2 cpu's doing everything.

i have duo core...meaning 1 cpu for RAM and 1 cpu for the rest (again so iv been told)

but as iv already mentioned i have 2 intel zeon 3.8gig's

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