It will..like every other piece of hardware I want be quite some time before i make any upgrades....
I have a very nice high end sytem and the monitor..while only a relatively good 19" CRT type...looks just beautiful enough for me...so I can wait. ( KDS Pureflat )
I used to have a strong desire to get a LCD for obvious reasons of space and thought the picturre would look even bettr..but thart is not the case actually... CRT's have a much better picture resolution overall....but a 21" is real nice...
A fiend down the hall has a Viewsonic 21" and I sure do like Viewsonic monitors alot..so crisp on the picture quality..
I can get a 19" viewsonic for $199.00 now and wish I had it to do all over again..I would get that.
Does anybody here have an idea of hwat the best refresh rates would be for a FX5900..? I know the monitor is the main thing involved in how high you can go....
Originally posted by Rabbitrunner51 Does anybody here have an idea of hwat the best refresh rates would be for a FX5900..? I know the monitor is the main thing involved in how high you can go....
the best refresh rates that all new graphics cards should support should be just the maximum, which doesnt exceed the maximum RAMDAC-clock, which is 400MHz on alle newer consumer graphics cards. So this would be i.e. 148Hz@1600x1200 and (I just found that out by using powerstrip).
Update. I removed the core heatsink, cleaned off the thermal grease and put on some arctic silver. Got the core up to 421 now. I didn't mess with the memory since it had some thermal pads on it. Got the score up to 13009.
God, it seems like it was just yesterday when I was at the top of the pile with my 3200xp oc'd and my 9800 pro oc'd and a score of over 6600.... Gives new meaning to Moore's law....Poor ol' Bessy, gonna have to retire her to my 6 year old daughter.
I don't think it is necessary..but I often thought about putting a better more powerful heatsink on my card..which is a FX5900.
Usually I don't do much overclocking...and just got a great new Nvidia overclockers tool to work with...( it has so many settings for it to adjust..I get real confused )( I have had no issues with this card overall)
The most I have done in the past is up the clock and bus speeds by 15-20 or so....I guess it helps the Fraps some....but there is no real problem with anything I run out there at stock speeds....although that is the only thing that could be improved somewhat..is speed.. esp. in the fast action graphical strategy games..like GC 2 or Generals....( I love those games..awesome)
I am only a little jealous for notr having the 6800 GT Seems like an awesome card..and the benchmarks are the best..Iv'e seen
If you were to see the true benchmarks for the top cards like you guys have now..they are all something to brag about and within earshot of each other...
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Gonna see if DX9.0C does anything to help.
