Best Graphics Card

[Runekaster]

I recently recived about $200 for my birthday, I was just wondering currently what the best graphics card for running Oblivion is. :confused: thanx in advace for the info.

[Halororor]

At the moment I would say the geforce 8800GT, but you'd best check out their website, they have started launching cards for the geforce 9 series, correct me if I'm wrong. Although you might have to save up a bit for that one.

 

P.S. These type of posts belong in the Sysytem Advisor section of the forum.

[Carah]

Check out this link. It help guide me to what was available out there on the market. http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:System_Requirements

[Runekaster]

thanx for the help, I'll look into these cards. Sorry about posting in the wrong section, I'll try to remember next time. thanks again.

[SGTBOB]

bah dont get nvidia

for 180 you can get a Diamond Radeon HD 3870

it gives way better performance than the 8800gt

if you dont believe me pics dont usualy lie

this is my 10,000 watermelon superdupe using this card

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q8/SGT-BOB/10000melons.jpg

 

and heres me doing crysis on all High settings at 40 FPS

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q8/SGT-BOB/Cloak2.jpg

 

and if you wanna see the cards specs heres it on newegg.com

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814103050

 

i mean you get alot more for your money with ATI

8800gt= GDDR3

 

HD 3870=GDDR4

and double data rate memory speed is a HUGE factor in overall performance

[Tamujiin]

bah dont get nvidia

for 180 you can get a Diamond Radeon HD 3870

it gives way better performance than the 8800gt

if you dont believe me pics dont usualy lie

this is my 10,000 watermelon superdupe using this card

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q8/SGT-BOB/10000melons.jpg

 

and heres me doing crysis on all High settings at 40 FPS

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q8/SGT-BOB/Cloak2.jpg

 

and if you wanna see the cards specs heres it on newegg.com

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814103050

 

i mean you get alot more for your money with ATI

8800gt= GDDR3

 

HD 3870=GDDR4

and double data rate memory speed is a HUGE factor in overall performance

 

 

First off SGTBOB, and anyone else who reads this, when shopping for a new video card, you need to know the right bus port inside your computer, whether you have it directly attached to the motherboard ( cant change it if it is )

 

Knowing the right port bus is easy, open up the tower and look at the peice of hardware your monitor plugs into. If it is a white slot, it is mostlikely PCI, which in turn would be a NVIDIA, or similar type of video card. If it is a brown slot, it is an AGP type bus port. Which would constitute the need for an ATI or similar type video card. I tell you this because if you buy the wrong type you cannot return it.

 

So with explaining that, SGTBOB, can you honestly say that you KNOW your ATI is better than the Nvidia 8800gt? Ill do the 10,000 melons on my Nvidia 7600gt. And ill see if it crashes.

[SGTBOB]

If it is a white slot, it is mostlikely PCI, which in turn would be a NVIDIA, or similar type of video card. If it is a brown slot, it is an AGP type bus port. Which would constitute the need for an ATI or similar type video card.

thats a little overgeneralization both carriers sport cards for the three main different bus types so just because you have said bus type doesnt mean "buy from them"

 

PCI=most universal but slowest

AGP=not many support but is a bit faster than PCI

PCI Express=the most universaly accepted interface for modern Graphics cards

also its varient

PCI Express 2.0=similar to the difference between standard USB and USB 2.0 this bus is nearly double the bandwith of its predicessor PCI Express 1.0

 

The Graphics card i suggested does best on PCI express 2.0 but can also function on 1.0

 

I tell you this because if you buy the wrong type you cannot return it.

this isnt true for Newegg.com and Frys electronics

Newegg gives you a 7 day period to return no matter the reason after that you may have to negotiate or get turned down

frys its dependant on the product but you still have a trial period

note that neither of these stores accept broken returns if youve overclocked and it fried it (they can still retrieve its registry)

 

So with explaining that, SGTBOB, can you honestly say that you KNOW your ATI is better than the Nvidia 8800gt?

from personnel experience, Yes

 

i had bought a HD 3870 and borrowed my freinds 8800GT (we did the test on my rig because i only had xp pro my freind had tons of programs on his)

and both where tested on crysis because it has the most compatibility and is the greatest strain on a computer

 

and heres the max and lowest FPS for both cards (done on all High settings)

8800gt HD 3870

highest 54 63

lowest 23 28

Average31 42

 

Note that the average was not calculated with the very highest and very lowest FPS (the outliers)

 

Ill do the 10,000 melons on my Nvidia 7600gt.

love to see it

just as a tip make sure to make a backup because if it crashes it can sometimes lose data and then you would have to reinstall the game

oh and plz post screenys (when i did my superdupe i just hit the "ultra high" settings button and took the resolution to 1680 x 1050 in case your wondering what settings i used when i did it)

-SGTBOB

[Tamujiin]

Well good that you know your stuff SGTBOB, But anyway the kid still needs to know what type of bus port he uses or he could be sorely disappointed. And also if you have 2gb or less ram another 512 or higher ramstick wouldnt hurt if you got the room and what not.

 

As far as the melons. maybe tommorrow as i didnt realize i have to drop one at a time. ( which i commend your patience for that too young man.)

[GenghisKhanIT]

I would suggest using a free (trial) utility like Sisoft Sandra, that will run a complete system check and extract a report where you can find graphic slot information.

 

Or, if you have the original box (the carton, I mean) of your motherboard, it will be written well colored on the front !

[SGTBOB]

As far as the melons. maybe tommorrow as i didnt realize i have to drop one at a time. ( which i commend your patience for that too young man.)

well you dont have to do them one at a time (IE one melon two melon three . . .ect) what you do is press the `~ button to the left of your 1! key and type in the following

 

Player.additem 00017829 "10000"

 

then press enter this will spawn 10k arrows into your inventory

and i suppose because your guy probably cant hold all those arrows at once (they get heavy) type in

 

TGM

 

then in case you dont want to go look all over town for a melon just type in

 

player.additem 000336A0 "1"

 

(note that there are no o's in that code just zeros)this will add one melon to inventory

also be sure that you only drop one melon when you do the dupe or else youll have 5000 melons that are each worth two melons

 

and as for patience i have it but i didnt use it in this scenario i just started the dupe and left it sitting while i ate lunch (and i had fraps running to make sure i didnt miss anything)

 

tell me how it goes,

-SGTBOB