Hardware & Technical The Graphics Cards discussion thread
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Greetings Commander,
I upgraded my PC as it was due and got the following:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-11196-09-40G-HD7950-Vapox-X-Graphics/dp/B0091MFBZC
Not come across anything yet that i cannot run in high settings for a long period of time, granted i'm not in the Alpha so cannot directly compare it with ED, but i am sure anything that is 2Gb+ is going to be fine
Kro
I upgraded my PC as it was due and got the following:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-11196-09-40G-HD7950-Vapox-X-Graphics/dp/B0091MFBZC
Not come across anything yet that i cannot run in high settings for a long period of time, granted i'm not in the Alpha so cannot directly compare it with ED, but i am sure anything that is 2Gb+ is going to be fine
Kro
Should be plenty - I have NVIDIA GTX-670M (1.5 Gb), intel i7 3770M and 16GB RAM and the alpha runs smooth as silk on highest settings 1920x1080.
Kewl! Thanks
Philip Coutts
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They say it's the thought that counts......
Pc is 3 years old, upgraded over time, its a shuttle (500W PSU) with 500GB SSD, i7 and 8GB Ram.
just saving rounding up some cash for alpha, but wanted to get the pc upto scratch first.
Nvidia 640 is not good, it will be the bottleneck in your system.
Tom's Hardware says it's good for the price, but if you can afford an i7-4770, I guess you could well afford a GTX760 etc. If not, then switching to i5-4670 should free enough funds to do that. (for Nvidia, the second number means more than the first one in terms of performance)
That said, you probably will have to get a better PSU is you upgrade the GFX, wouldn't be surprised it that PC came with a generic 400-450W PSU (or even a crappy 300W one), for a decent GFX you'd want a good brand 500+ W PSU.
A couple of links to get more info about different graphics cards:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html
http://www.hwcompare.com/category/gpu/
That 670, even as an "M" version is totally different beast than the 640 (which comes with GDDR3
)Even the OP's GTX460 would beat the crap out of GT640, being about on par with GTX670M (or just above, depending on the version).
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I have a GTX 460 in my old Core 2 Duo computer & ran the alpha on it at high settings to see how it performed.
Without going into detail, I am convinced that the GFX card was being held back by the CPU because the average frame rate was good & at no point did the game become a slide show, being perfectly playable at all times. You might like to read this thread for more details: http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?p=246351#post246351
Of course, if you can afford the GTX 760 then go for it !
Well, it looks like it's got plenty of memory.
Excellently spotted. Didn't think of that.
Yes but it's slow and very power intensive...
I'd trade it in for a cheetah or a gazelle.
Pink's ok though, the colour differences are just for those who want colour coded machines.
I am not sure I have got the best Card for the Elite Alpha. Graphics look a bit low res.
Any advice on what I should do?
more than 16 colours beats the Amiga then