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[RagingCeltik]

My computer hardware:

ASUS P7P55D PRO LGA 1156 Intel P55
ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield
2.66GHz
8 GB RAM
2x ASUS EN9500GT/DI/1GD2/V2/A GeForce
9500 GT 1GB 128-bit DDR2 SLI Support
Video Card
Seagate 7200rpm 750GB
Windows 7 x64

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This is a decent setup right?  I should be able to play Dragon Age maxed out and smoothly.  But I'm not.  It starts to chug in more (and sometimes even not so) graphic intense areas (especially if there's fog effects or rain).   Are these two video cards, even with SLI on, just crap?  Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions to boost my performance?  I don't see why I shouldn't be rocking the screen.

Modifié par RagingCeltik, 28 juin 2010 - 09:36 .

[RagingCeltik]

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Modifié par RagingCeltik, 28 juin 2010 - 09:37 .

[adrichardson]

You probably don't want to hear this, but sadly they're pretty poor (not to go into too much detail, even in SLI they won't really cut it for gaming). Best bet would be to sell them and buy a 5770 or a GTS250.

[RagingCeltik]

Well, live and learn. 5770 or GTS250. Which would you say is better, and should just one card do it?

[Sleepee]

A 5770 is excellent on its own. It's comparable to a GTX 260, which is the next highest up card from the GTS 250. I believe you can Crossfire on your board, so if you ever get your hands on 2 5770s, you'll be set for a long time.

[RagingCeltik]

Thanks for the tips. The board does crossfire. I think I'm going to pick a pair of 5770 up. Silly me for thinking I could have my cake and eat it too. But you get what you pay for, I guess,

[adrichardson]

What res do you play at? If it's 1680x1050 or lower, don't waste your money on a 2nd 5770.

[RagingCeltik]

1900 x 1080. I already bought two, but neither came with a bridge, so I don't think the crossfire is functioning right now. So assuming just the one card doing the work, I haven't had any hiccups at that res and w/ max settings. Maybe the 2nd card was unneeded, but as Sleepee mentioned, I'll be set for a while, especially when the bridge arrives in the mail.



The card is pretty awesome though. Aside from running smoother, the games (DA, Fallout 3, Mass Effect 2) seem more vibrant as well. Considering a larger monitor down the road. *Way* down the road.

[Gorath Alpha]

There is some "overhead" loss of efficiency in either Crossfire or SLI, which normally means that for about the same cost as the two somethings, you can get better performance taking the next performance level step, and instead of two HD 5770s, for example, get one HD 5870.  It's not always a perfect fit that way, but often enough that you can generally just relegate the two-cards options to the very highest ranks of performance, such as two 5870s, or even two 5970s (which in effect amounts to four 5870s). 

[Yamo425]

Hey there,



I have a GeForce 9800 GT (1GB RAM) and I can run the game completely maxed at 1600x900 with very smooth FPS. The only time it ever gets choppy is when there are like 25 corpses on screen.



I have no experience with ATI cards but I am hearing very good things about the HD 5x series.

[Gorath Alpha]

For all prtactical purposes, the Geforce 9000s were just Geforce 8000s with new names,  The 8800 GS and the 9600 GT, as I recall now, were closely related, with basically only a difference in the thinness of the die wafer being changed.  The 9500 GT had been named the 8600 GT.  There was a very large jump upward between the 8600 and 8800 cards, and the 256 bit memory system was the largest part of it.  Doubling the 9500s didn't allow the two 9500s to match the single 9600 because of the difference in memory bandwidth.

There were minor changes that didn't affect performance, although very certainly the thinner dies meant greater efficiency and lowered current consumption, as well as lessened waste heat to deal with.  The 8600 and 8800s have seemed to have more problems with the combination of nVIDIA's drivers and DA than the 9500s, 9600s, and 9800s have shown, so something obviously made differences where DA was concerned. 

As long as we are being critical of nVIDIA's 8n00 generation (and the 8400s were very bad, overall, as well, but were always supposed to be below minimum), the comparatively poor performance of the Radeon 2600s and 3600s, at least in DA, especially when compared to the excellent performance of the HD 4600s and the single HD 5600, has to be commented on.