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[Herethos]

Hmm so in effect the first number is just updated support for example directx and maybe hardware support for decoding video like HD, blu-ray, just so that the card works with the latest OS, while still having low budget hardware.
But then theres also the GT, GTX, ULTRA, GTS and GS
Where GS seems to be the budget version of them all.
http://www.nvidia.co...e/geforce8.html

I'm sitting here switching between the 9800GT and 8800GT specs.
and the only difference I can find is that the 9800GT has HybridPower™ Technology*. Rest of the specs appear to be identical.
http://www.nvidia.co..._9800gt_us.html
http://www.nvidia.co...8800_gt_us.html

And spec-wise the 8800GT comes between the Geforce GTS 250 and GT 240 just that the other two have updated OpenGL support. By just looking at the specification pages, Unless theres something that isn't being shown.

I guess calling the 8200m G a graphics card isn't entirely accurate since it seems to be a nvidia motherboard with built in gpu and audio, and nforce chipset.

The NVIDIA® GeForce® 8200M G motherboard GPU brings enthusiast features with longer battery life to the value market. Best-in-class high def video and audio provide eye-popping movie enjoyment with a Dolby surround-sound experience, while proven DirectX10 capabilities lets you play the latest games – all without breaking your wallet.

Since it has shader 4.0 support if I remember correctly, you could try it if you have the retail copy of DA:O already anyway, and run it with everything at the lowest settings with shadows and effects off at 800x600 res. Then turn details up if it works satisfactorly. Also you can set texture filtering from quality to performance in the drivers. Also there are the powersaving settings which probably are set to balanced set that to maximum performance instead, also set powermizer in the nvidia ctrl panel to maximum performance. And Disable Phys-X in the drivers so the cpu does the work. I wouldn't recommend buying DA:O just to try on the laptop though, if you already have it on the xbox360, but since you plan on getting it for the PC when you get your main computer back. I don't see why not, since you'll already have the game and can install it on that, provided it atleast meets minimum requirements but I'd aim a little higher since you want to enjoy playing it not have it as a slideshow...

Assassins Creed on 8200m G laptop

Mirrors Ege:

F.E.A.R 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEbX5tyF8VI&
Cod 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM3VSXp1z6c&
Bioshock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvujrDXCb4Q

Seems to run the games just fine Imo. If at a lower resolution I don't run games higher than 1280x1024 myself on the desktop system anyway. But DA:O might be more demanding compared to these games since theres alot of stuff happening.

Modifié par Herethos, 07 janvier 2010 - 06:30 .

[JironGhrad]

Herethos wrote...

Hmm so in effect the first number is just updated support for example directx and maybe hardware support for decoding video like HD, blu-ray, just so that the card works with the latest OS, while still having low budget hardware.
But then theres also the GT, GTX, ULTRA, GTS and GS
Where GS seems to be the budget version of them all.
http://www.nvidia.co...e/geforce8.html

I'm sitting here switching between the 9800GT and 8800GT specs.
and the only difference I can find is that the 9800GT has HybridPower™ Technology*. Rest of the specs appear to be identical.
http://www.nvidia.co..._9800gt_us.html
http://www.nvidia.co...8800_gt_us.html

And spec-wise the 8800GT comes between the Geforce GTS 250 and GT 240 just that the other two have updated OpenGL support. By just looking at the specification pages, Unless theres something that isn't being shown.

I guess calling the 8200m G a graphics card isn't entirely accurate since it seems to be a nvidia motherboard with built in gpu and audio, and nforce chipset.

The NVIDIA® GeForce® 8200M G motherboard GPU brings enthusiast features with longer battery life to the value market. Best-in-class high def video and audio provide eye-popping movie enjoyment with a Dolby surround-sound experience, while proven DirectX10 capabilities lets you play the latest games – all without breaking your wallet.

Since it has shader 4.0 support if I remember correctly, you could try it if you have the retail copy of DA:O already anyway, and run it with everything at the lowest settings with shadows and effects off at 800x600 res. Then turn details up if it works satisfactorly. Also you can set texture filtering from quality to performance in the drivers. Also there are the powersaving settings which probably are set to balanced set that to maximum performance instead, also set powermizer in the nvidia ctrl panel to maximum performance. And Disable Phys-X in the drivers so the cpu does the work. I wouldn't recommend buying DA:O just to try on the laptop though, if you already have it on the xbox360, but since you plan on getting it for the PC when you get your main computer back. I don't see why not, since you'll already have the game and can install it on that, provided it atleast meets minimum requirements but I'd aim a little higher since you want to enjoy playing it not have it as a slideshow...

Assassins Creed on 8200m G laptop

Mirrors Ege:

F.E.A.R 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEbX5tyF8VI&
Cod 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM3VSXp1z6c&
Bioshock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvujrDXCb4Q

Seems to run the games just fine Imo. If at a lower resolution I don't run games higher than 1280x1024 myself on the desktop system anyway. But DA:O might be more demanding compared to these games since theres alot of stuff happening.

You're correct about the 9800 and 8800 (9800 is actually just a renamed 8800).  All Nvidia 9x00 cards are renamed 8x00 series cards with the same x designation. (9600 = 8600, 8200 = 9200, etc.)  Several of the 200-series cards (those with lower number values 200-250, iirc) are also renamed 8x00 series GPUs. As to GS, GT, Ultra, etc... A GS card may be named something like xx30; a GT/Pro card will carry an xx50. Typically Ultra, GTX, GTS and XT mean approximately the same thing (usually overclocking) and will carry an xx70 designator.

I'm reminded of the card I was using 2 upgrades ago.  It was a Dell OEM Geforce 2 Ultra 64mb.  It was probably the most rock-solid GPU I've ever owned even with massive overclocking (beyond what it originally came with even).  I actually was very disappointed (and it switched me to ATI) to find that the NVidia cards that were available when I decided to upgrade were inferior (other than things like shaders) to that Geforce 2. At that time the closest thing performance-wise I could get for a decent price was a Radeon X1650 Pro. (At that particular time the X1650 was retailing at $150... with a miracle of overlapping rebates from retailer and MFG I was able to get it for $50.)

Modifié par JironGhrad, 07 janvier 2010 - 09:27 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Before there was a Geforce, before I had my first Riva TNT, I used ATI and Trident (S3, I believe) branded cards.  I had two "Rage Pro 128" cards in the late '90's and started Baldur's Gate with one or the other in one or the other of my first two Intel Pentium PCs (didn't like the movement controls or the too-awkward pause control). 

A year and a half or thereabouts later, with the faster of the two Pentiums, I tried to get Icewind Dale to run, and had the sort of probllems that a number of DA: O's buyers have had.  Nothing seemed to work right.  The Creative AWE64 drivers were wrong, the video drivers were wrong, Intel's AGP drivers were wrong, and all I had was dial-up.  That meant multiple all-night tries for downloads that failed to complete well above half of the time. 

I was hugely pissed, and still haven't bought any newer Intel chipset for a new PC since then (I have another of the same era again, but from Asus, not Intel, and IWD runs fine on that).  I avoided ATI and Creative as well, at first, but Creative didn't get better, it just outlasted mosr everyone else in the audio business.  As it happens, I had only limited leisure time for either PC building or any kind of gaming, and it wasn't until Shadows of Undrentide and KotOR that I made time for those interests again. 

My primary PC by then was an Athlon Thunderbird 1300 with 256 MBs of RAM, a Riva 128 TNT2 (32 MBs), and a Creative SB "Value" 5.1 audio adapter, on a Via KT133A with a Gigabyte brand on it.  The most money I'd ever spent (still a record for me) was for a GF3 Ti-500 that was a better match to the NWN1 graphics.  I'd missed the original Geforce, and the GF2s as well, but I soon has a GF4 Ti-4200, and the TNT was in the oldest Pentium, which was hardly ever used, while the Ti-500 was in the not-quite as elderly Pentium that was a pain in the nether regions for most of its life.  

It was the FXes that put paid to my short-lived fanboy affair with nVIDIA.  Those really caused me serious problems, and I've been mostly in the Radeon camp since then. 

Yes, I've owned a couple of Geforce 6n00 cards (four), and 7n00 cards, but well after their newness wore off.  And built a couple of older Intel-based PCs for relatives who insisted.  (OK, maybe half a dozen.)

I've never kept a Pentium P4 here, ever, for my own use, that's a certainty. 

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