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From: Here In Oregon on 17 Mar 2010 21:45 "Glennbo" > > Card is in, and it rocks. Way fast. For grins, loaded Tomb Raider > Underworld, turned everything up full blast max and it ran what looked > like > higher than 30fps. Running video in overlay on Beyond TV smooth as silk > with no flickering. It's quiet enough that I don't notice any higher > volume coming out of my PC than before I installed it. > > The only negatives are that this card is LONG. I had to move my two HDs > down one bay each to make room for the card to fit, and it require six pin > power connector, which uses a two Molex connector to six pin adapter. > Just > to get the required juice to the card, I had to temporarily disconnect the > light that surrounds the power button on my case. I'll get a Molex > Y-Cable > tomorrow, that'll fix that. I tried the GPU based reverb, but there's > still too much latency to use it in real time, but I have other verbs I > like for real time anyway. Great review and I appreciate that. Great that this card is rocking for you and with so little cash. That card used to cost hundreds of dollars.
From: Here In Oregon on 18 Mar 2010 14:13 "Glennbo" > So my kid suggested we put Crysis on my machine and see how it performs. With everything cranked up full blast, like reflections, shadows, etc., it > ran at a smooth 30+ FPS, and looked incredible and realistic. :) Wow, Crysis none other. That is the benchmark for graphic card performance.
From: SoftShell on 20 Mar 2010 14:57
"Glennbo" <vdrumsYourHeadFromYourAss(a)cox.net> wrote in message news:Xns9D3F8D9C4E7E3BrownShoesDontMakeIt(a)85.214.113.135... > The killer robot "Here In Oregon" <HIO(a)nospam.net> grabbed the controls > of the spaceship cakewalk.audio and pressed these buttons... > >> "Glennbo" > So my kid suggested we put Crysis on my machine and see >> how it performs. With everything cranked up full blast, like >> reflections, shadows, etc., it >>> ran at a smooth 30+ FPS, and looked incredible and realistic. :) >> >> Wow, Crysis none other. That is the benchmark for graphic card >> performance. > > It seemed to play it fine and the only lags I saw was when it was > autosaving. > > -- > Remove YourHeadFromYourAss to Reply by email Glad to hear it's not so loud. That is one BIG honkin' fan on that thing. 'Course with fans bigger is not always louder I guess. Yeah that was one of the review complaints as well as the size of the card. But then sacrifices must often be made for performance. I'm thinking maybe a new machine this year myself. Really appreciate all these comments & evaluations. -- _____________________ Steve Wilson |