MacSuibhne Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 (edited) My local computer shop--manned by hardcore gamers--told me to day that two NVidia 512 mb GeForce 9800 GT's linked in SLI would work just as well as a 4 GB at 256 or even higher. (mind you they can't come up with two 9800's simply because they're not being made anymore but...) And with a slew of texture mods. I don't know...not that tech savvy...just thought I would throw that out there for possible comment. Edited May 29, 2014 by MacSuibhne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vgchat Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Running those in SLI would still only net you 1GB of vram to play with and it wouldn't take too many mods to exhaust that reserve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacSuibhne Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Well that's what I thought too but the techs said that because of the way the two cards trade off "calls" for graphic processing (or something like that...my interpretation), it doesn't matter too much. That it more than compensates in other words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notmyhome Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Maybe due to the 2nd BUS they can access sytem RAM more quickly? I wouldn't know, just my guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam123453 Posted May 30, 2014 Author Share Posted May 30, 2014 When it comes to newer games like Wolfenstein:TNO (a very graphically intensive game), would 3GB VRAM be enough to play that sort of thing on high-ish quality with a 40+fps, assuming a bus width in excess of 256 bits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted5770650User Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 OPI don't know much about the AMD FX series processors, but I have heard that the 650 TI is not all that great. Even 192-bit would be anything else than sufficient. Look at this benchmark test made by a PC magazine: http://www.pcgameshardware.de/screenshots/original/2012/10/GTX-650-Ti-Test-TES-Skyrim-1080p.png As you can see the 2GB version performs with nearly 28fps WITHOUT ENB and HD textures. And the used CPU here is better than yours. I have an Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Vapor-X Overclocked (4GB RAM, 512 bit). Although I have to admit that just for Skyrim it's way too much. Please explain this 192-bit being bad. Can you post a link to the page the picture is on as it does not work. (for me at least) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam123453 Posted May 30, 2014 Author Share Posted May 30, 2014 Yes, that was the point of most of this thread. It's bad because it has a narrow bus width. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted5770650User Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 (edited) Yes, that was the point of most of this thread. It's bad because it has a narrow bus width. That does not explain why 192-bit bus is bad. FYI the 650 TI is not 192 it is 128. If you are trying to say it can get information fast enough, that will depend on far more then just the video card, and it will also depend on all of the following CPU, Video Card (GPU(s)) Motherboard. and HDD. It will also depend on things like...Is this loaded to system RAM, can it be moved/copied directly to VRAM?Does this need to be read from the HDD?And there more varibles that can cause things to speed up or slow down, not just the bus speed on the videocard. EDITPart of the reason I fail to see why 192-bit bus is such a bad thing is before my last round of computer upgrades, I ran the same graphics mods (if not more) then I do now, and no performance issues. At that time my PC had 16GB RAM, and a (1) GTX 660 2GB (192-bit bus) even then I had to limit skyrim to 60FPS. Edited May 30, 2014 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreOliveira Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 (edited) Don't need above 40 fps, 30 fps its good. High quality decrease fps. Edited May 30, 2014 by AndreOliveira Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacSuibhne Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Do mods benefit more from high ram...like 16gb or high vram like 3 or 4 gb? Also I had a shop tech tell me that 3gb of vram was kind of a kludge since there are no 3gb sticks...thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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