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GX-Brandon (369)   Jun 21, 2008 - 07:45 pm

It's tough balancing the game settings when you're running cards that range from a single 8800 GT, to SLI setups like the 8800 GT, 9800 GTX, and two GeForce GTX 280s. That's a very wide range of performance! » Login to reply to this  CaptNKILL (5)   Jun 22, 2008 - 09:15 am That's true. I'd just suggest raising your minimum acceptable FPS average to the 30s, even in the most hardware intensive games. For example, start with the most widely used card (most likely the 8800GT right now), and bench it so that it reaches the mid to high 30fps range, and then bench all other cards at those settings. That's still pretty slow by most people's standards (since 30fps average means half of the time it could be running under 20fps) but its a bit more reasonable and the faster cards would just be more playable. » Login to reply to this  GX-Brandon (369)   Jun 22, 2008 - 09:42 am I think that the game settings are pretty reasonable for every game except Crysis. That game is a unique situation that just doesn't scale all that well regardless of what you throw at it. Now maybe I should just test in a less intensive area (I use the rescue map with lots of foliage), but I really don't want to turn down the settings any further. Going from 0xAA to 2xAA in the game really only drops fps by 10% max, so even if I turned that settomg down the 8800 GT still wouldn't score 30 FPS in the area I test in. » Login to reply to this

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mr.wielder (1394)    Jun 24, 2008 - 12:35 pm

On my page view currently there are both giant nVidia and ATi ads, 2 of each. LOL @ U » Login to reply to this  saywaaatttt (141)   Jul 14, 2008 - 04:24 pm i wonder why. there are ads new btw.... anyway. want.want.want. amd wins as always » Login to reply to this

GX-Brandon (369)   Jun 21, 2008 - 07:42 pm

Did you not notice the price cuts on Friday?? Hit up Newegg, Tigerdirect, zipzoom, etc for NVIDIA's response to the 4850. There you will find that NVIDIA has slashed prices on their entire GeForce 8/9 series GPUs as they obviously saw the price/performance that the 4850 was bringing to the table. And in the past 12 months we've ran sponsorships with AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA, so I'm not sure where you're going with that argument either... » Login to reply to this  M ichal (312)   Jun 24, 2008 - 09:38 am That's right! I got my 3850 straight from FS, for which I thank you again! » Login to reply to this

pidge (498)   Jun 20, 2008 - 04:29 pm

"money > integrity as always. and nice gtx ads you got there" What do you expect Firingsuqad to do? Not review a graphics card by NVIDIA simply because a few ATI fan boys really want ATI to win this round? And as for ads, unless Firingsquad starts charging visitors, they are going to have to earn money somehow to support this website. I must say I am impressed with the showing so far from ATI. I already have an 8800GTS 512MB however it sure is tempting to purchase two ATI 4850 graphics cards and run them in Crossfire mode since my motherboard supports it but Anand seemed to have problems getting them to run with his 1000 watt power supply and mine is only 750watts. I am going to skip this round since I am not ready to invest in a new power supply. The last time I purchased a power supply was back when I was running two 7800GTX graphics cards in SLI mode. I thought back then 750watts is going to last me forever. » Login to reply to this  saywaaatttt (141)   Jun 20, 2008 - 06:05 pm "What do you expect Firingsuqad to do? " what i want is irrelevant here. JUST THE FACTS amd is the best option here. now. today. bu, bu in a month nvidia launches a new video card that cost teh same, lol,lol, amd plans are ruined, lol, lol...FAIL. and the nvidia solution consumes more power and is not even faster. doublefail. gtfo nvida ( from a nvidia 8600gt user) » Login to reply to this  FSgeeK (531)    Jun 23, 2008 - 06:18 am Does anyone know WTH this guy is talking about? » Login to reply to this  FSgeeK (531)    Jun 23, 2008 - 06:17 am Thats because ther last few years nvidia has come out with the better cards. I dont think it has anything to do with being "swayed". » Login to reply to this  marvelous (16)   Jun 21, 2008 - 06:52 am Firingsquad always been swayed by Nvidia. I'm just wondering if this website is sponsored by nvidia themselves. » Login to reply to this

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Cool.DK (193)    Jun 24, 2008 - 01:23 pm

Some proof reading would have been nice. Here is a quote from the conclusion: "The 9800 GTX runs about 8 or 9% faster than the 9800 GTX, which..." One might say that is a bit confusing :-) » Login to reply to this

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