TheMoose Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 (edited) EVGA GTX280 SUPERCLOCKED 1GB HDTV I love maxing out my games :thumbup: I'm VERY satisfied with my purchase. check it out at http://www.pccyber.com/?v=product&i=VC-EVGA-01G-P3-1282-AR Only downfall with this card, it required an upgrade on the power supply, so I went with a Corsair 750Watt. I'm I a happy camper? :D Most definitely Edited August 24, 2008 by TheMoose Antec 900 gaming tower, PSU: Corsair 750W, Q6600, Asus P5K, 8Gig Mushkin, Nvidia eVGA 280 GTX Superclocked 1G DDR3, SSDNOW200 Kingston Drive, TrackIr 3000+Vector, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick, Saitek rudder pedals pro, Sharp 42" inch LCD Aquo. OS: windows 7 64bit.
stealthtemplates Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Congrats, just need to overclock your Q6600 to 3.2-3.6 ;)
Pilotasso Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 (edited) What card you had previously, and what were the improvments? Edited August 24, 2008 by Pilotasso .
TheMoose Posted August 24, 2008 Author Posted August 24, 2008 My previous card was an Nvidia 8800GTS with 320Meg. Improvements with my new card are basically maxing out all my games. Even Crysis at full graphics with AA enable is playable. :D Antec 900 gaming tower, PSU: Corsair 750W, Q6600, Asus P5K, 8Gig Mushkin, Nvidia eVGA 280 GTX Superclocked 1G DDR3, SSDNOW200 Kingston Drive, TrackIr 3000+Vector, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick, Saitek rudder pedals pro, Sharp 42" inch LCD Aquo. OS: windows 7 64bit.
walternowi Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Only downfall with this card, it required an upgrade on the power supply, so I went with a Corsair 750Watt. Great PSU choice! I heard nothing but good reviews for that unit. Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 ASUS Sabertooth X79 4 x 4GB Crucial Ballistix VLP PC3-12800 ASUS Cerberus GTX 1070 Ti 8 Gb Seasonic Platinum 860W Thrustmaster Cougar Uber II Nxt CH Products PT/TQ/MFP Slaw Pedals TrackIR 5
TheMoose Posted August 27, 2008 Author Posted August 27, 2008 (edited) Just found a great review on my video card. Pilotasso, this might give you a better idea on the improvements and the capability of the card. Most likely you already investigated it ;) Review: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/7972-evga-geforce-gtx-280-1gb-superclocked-review.html Cheers :thumbup: Looking forward to attempt to max out Black Shark :D Edited August 27, 2008 by TheMoose Antec 900 gaming tower, PSU: Corsair 750W, Q6600, Asus P5K, 8Gig Mushkin, Nvidia eVGA 280 GTX Superclocked 1G DDR3, SSDNOW200 Kingston Drive, TrackIr 3000+Vector, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick, Saitek rudder pedals pro, Sharp 42" inch LCD Aquo. OS: windows 7 64bit.
Pilotasso Posted August 27, 2008 Posted August 27, 2008 Yep. Its a pitty these new cards are meant to be played on future CPU's because they simply cant keep up with these monsters. I already pointed this out in my Gx2 review thread. At the time I invetigated my purchase it seemed to me that the 280 was more CPU demanding (not to mention power and my accoustic tolerance) than the Gx2. Since the Gx2 had a much more firendly pricing and because I rarely play GFX bound games like FPS's I went for the Gx2. I would like some more AA perfomance out of my Gx2 though. Its badly beaten by the 280 in this regard. it would be interesting to benchmark all these cards in LOMAC. To see how much FPS you get for balancing GFX capabilities to their CPU demands. .
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