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[Akaru]

Well I just installed a 4890, was hoping to get a GTX 295 or 4870x2 but they didn't have any so I got a 1GB from Sapphire (Fagphire). It barely fits my case LOL. I had to move my SATA cables because if I layed my 4890 down they'd probably get knocked out of the port. I have like half an inch of room left. Good thing I calculated and measured my case. If anybody is wondering, this card is beast for 200 bucks. Though most of the GTX 200 series can knock it out, it's great for its price and I wouldn't mind doing crossfire with it when I get a bigger case. I get about 60-80fps average on COD4 with 1600x1200 resolution and about 100 fps average 1600x1200 on CSS. I'm checking out Crysis now. It overclocks great and the box came with free converters (of course) and a Crossfire bridge.

 

Only 100 average on CS:S? I guess ATI is a bad choice for CS:S. Luckily I have an Nvidia. My 8600 GTS gets about 200 average at 1440x900, all high, 8x AA and AF.

[Coffee Crisp]

Only 100 average on CS:S? I guess ATI is a bad choice for CS:S. Luckily I have an Nvidia. My 8600 GTS gets about 200 average at 1440x900, all high, 8x AA and AF.

 

Nah it's because my CPU bottlenecks it badly. Something I'm looking to replace too, soon.

[tinkerbell]

Nah it's because my CPU bottlenecks it badly. Something I'm looking to replace too, soon.

 

as you already stated its your cpu thats causing the bottleneck. drop the resolution and increase the detail to improve the graphics and framerate

 

lol sorry, you dont need to do that with the fps, my bad for not reading the other posts

[Shadowex3]

If he drops his screen res any further he'll be at a pretty significant disadvantage when trying to fight people at range who use 1200 vertical lines or more.

 

Also Akaru why not the full 16x AF? Even my 6600gt could handle 16xAF with virtually no perf hit.

[Akaru]

If he drops his screen res any further he'll be at a pretty significant disadvantage when trying to fight people at range who use 1200 vertical lines or more.

 

Also Akaru why not the full 16x AF? Even my 6600gt could handle 16xAF with virtually no perf hit.

 

I set AF to 8x because as with the human eye, the further an object, the smaller/blurrier it gets. With AF set to 16x, everything is clear, regardless of distance. This seems really unrealistic to me.

 

And with 16x AA, I don't really notice the difference between 8x and 16x. They look exactly the same to me, so why sacrifice performance for barely any vision gain?

[Shadowex3]

I don't use AA at all, too blurry for me and it kills my distance game. As for distance blurring... if the world looks like that to you then you need stronger glasses.

[ReGIONALS]

Well I just installed a 4890, was hoping to get a GTX 295 or 4870x2 but they didn't have any so I got a 1GB from Sapphire (Fagphire). It barely fits my case LOL. I had to move my SATA cables because if I layed my 4890 down they'd probably get knocked out of the port. I have like half an inch of room left. Good thing I calculated and measured my case. If anybody is wondering, this card is beast for 200 bucks. Though most of the GTX 200 series can knock it out, it's great for its price and I wouldn't mind doing crossfire with it when I get a bigger case. I get about 60-80fps average on COD4 with 1600x1200 resolution and about 100 fps average 1600x1200 on CSS. I'm checking out Crysis now. It overclocks great and the box came with free converters (of course) and a Crossfire bridge.

 

should have kept looking for a 4870x2 that thing rapes everything.....including you

 

 

 

 

also what CPU do you have now?

if your going to upgrade go for

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103674

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131363

[Akaru]

I don't use AA at all, too blurry for me and it kills my distance game. As for distance blurring... if the world looks like that to you then you need stronger glasses.

 

Yea, I'm really blind. I've been wearing glasses since I was in 3rd grade. I'm a junior in HS now.

[Shadowex3]

So have I but i'm only a -2 diopter perscription.

[Akaru]

So have I but i'm only a -2 diopter perscription.

 

I don't even know my prescription. My eye doctor never told me.