Videocards.. which to buy and whatnot.. simply videocards!

[ImJ]

The Radeon 3000 Series? i heard they are to compete with the 8800 GT?

[RVD]

pretty sure you had a nvidia card... so -> Rivatuner

Is there a similar program for my Radeon 9600 XT?

The Radeon 3000 Series? i heard they are to compete with the 8800 GT?

maybe, but the 8800 ultra still pwns it

[S2000_Skyline12]

Yeah, it's called ATi Tune

[GINIX_2007]

Dont you mean ATi tool?
and the 3000 series may not be as powerful as the ultra but its cheaper and uses less power not to mention its direct x10.1.It will be a single slot card so thats always a plus.

[RVD]

downloaded ATItool, and overclocked it a bit
just need to find out wheter i actually worked in terms of better performance, so im gonna play Supreme Commander for a while.....

i went from:
Core 297
Mem 270

To:

Core 380
Mem 300

I ran 'find max mem' completely, and it stopped around 302 mhz, so i put it to 300
I ran 'find max core' as well, though it didn't go any further then 381, without reporting artifacts. I did see an option where you could switch off the overclock lock on several ATI cards, including mine (9600 XT), but is it safe to do that (in other words: without burning my GPU to hell.....)

and is there any program that can tell my GPU's temperature?

[YaelDjiel]

afaik you can only see that when your card actually has a sensor for it

[RVD]

it's a 9600 XT (which is like 4 years old) so i doubt it.....

BTW: just played SupCom, didn't notice that much difference....

[GINIX_2007]

@ RVD The 9600XT has a thermal sensor. So ATi tool shold give you the a temperature read out. if not the CCC Catalyst Control Center should give you a temperature readout in the overdrive tab

[RVD]

ATI tool doesn't give one.
This is what my CCC looks like, i couldn't find the 'overdrive' tab...

[GINIX_2007]

Strange. All the XT models have an overdrive feature

[Frenzy]

His is a TX though?

[RVD]

According to Lavalys Everest it is:

[GINIX_2007]

OK Boys & girls, Feast your eyes on these beauties
The RV670 is finally out, and man do they rock!

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/472/

[2fast4all]

wow those are nice cards, i wish i had one lol, im still running a 6600GT

[Jmac-]

OK Boys & girls, Feast your eyes on these beauties
The RV670 is finally out, and man do they rock!

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/472/

Indeed ...

4 x HD 3850 256 MB cards in CrossfireX for $600 (or less) would be sweet ... and power consumption isn't too bad either ... You could probably get away w/ a $150-$200 750W-850W power supply

AMD's Spider platform looks awesome ... Now they just need to supply the CPU side of things ...

[Carcrazy]

Does anyone want to tell me why my 7600GT can only run prostreet at a 640 resolution on LOW and still LAG???

[PSZeTa]

The game is choppy on its own and your system is not really powerful?

[snoopdogg879]

Does anyone want to tell me why my 7600GT can only run prostreet at a 640 resolution on LOW and still LAG???

wow thats weird cuz im running an old radeon and i mean old its like a radeon 1600 with all the settings on high for pro street and theres no LAG

[S2000_Skyline12]

Your processor speed has to be up there too

[snoopdogg879]

nope its a 6 year old computer that just has regular intel but im getting a new comp really soon because we just ordered the stuff but its coming tomorrow except for the motherboard and cpu which is a intel core 2 quad thats coming sometime next week so im waiting to play pro street on that

off topic: but BTW what kind of font did you use for the s2k in your sig?

[S2000_Skyline12]

Tahoma

[snoopdogg879]

thanks

where did u get the font from?

[Jmac-]

Does anyone want to tell me why my 7600GT can only run prostreet at a 640 resolution on LOW and still LAG???

You only have 1 GB of RAM on Vista plus you only have a Sempron 2800+, IIRC ...

[Danyutz]

where did u get the font from?

it's a Windows default font.

[snoopdogg879]

crap i only have PS CS2 on the mac