I have a 320MB GeForce 8800 GTS and 250 US$

[Cardinal51]

After a fresh Win7 install, cleaning my PC so it does not overheat anymore, upgrading my ram from 2x1GB to 2x2GB, and after replacing my broken 20" moinitor for a 22" one thing have improved drastically.

TS2012 runs ok and I am having fun ! But I am looking for better Graphics performance.

I have a 320MB GeForce 8800 GTS and 250 US$.

Should I use the 250$ and replace this video card ? Get a similar one and run SLI ? Not bother ? What card do you recommend ?

Below the rest of my system specs:

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[buzz456]

Shouldn't this go into geek speak?

[Hawk]

Since it would seem he's trying to improve his RW performance, I think this is the right forum for his questions.

[arizonachris]

You can get a GTX550Ti from New Egg for $129. It's a nice card. Next step up would be the GTX560Ti, which I have and is a really great card. $239 at New Egg. Free shipping on both (EVGA brand cards) you may have to pay sales tax tho.

PS: should be in Geek Speak, dude.

[Cardinal51]

Thanks guys. I have read some report that SLI works on TS2012 as well. Is that recommended ?

I just visited http://www.videocardbenchmark.net and compared the cards mentioned in this thread:

Card - G3D Rating (higher is better) - Rank (lower is better)

GeForce 8800 GTS - 858 - 154 (my current one)
GeForce GTX 550 Ti - 1886 - 52
GeForce GTX 460 - 2371 - 36
GeForce GTX 560 Ti - 2983 - 14
GeForce GTX 680 - 4066 - 1 (current number one at the benchmark website)

In case this thread is in the wrong place please move it to a more suitable forum.

[arizonachris]

SLI and Railworks is a waste. Plus you need two identical cards. So you would have to try and find another 8800 or buy two new 550Ti's. RW under utilizes the video card anyways. When RSC finally unleashes the "BIG UPDATE" maybe some work the CPU is doing will finally be offloaded to the video card. For now, it's the CPU that matters.

Hmm. Nice to see my 560Ti gets good score. Yeah, I'd really love to have a 680. But for $500, not right now.

[arizonachris]

Mike, let that CPU run at 2.6. But, we already talked about thermal issues that have more likely than not fried your onboard video card. I got a powered laptop cooling pad at Big Lots for $5.99. Plugs into a USB port. No more grilled cheese samiches. Put all the ATI settings back to default and/ or Application Controlled.

Reason you see CPU speed from 800 to 2.6Ghz is because of thermal throttling. You could disable that in the laptop's BIOS, but it's there for a reason. On my desktop, with all the cooling fans, I run that CPU wide open. New FX4100 quad @ 3.8Ghz. She runs really sweet.

[Cardinal51]

I am all most certain now that my video card upgrade made little to difference. I will OC the CPU to 3.6 and see if I get a jump.

Which card did you have before you upgradaed to the 560Ti ?

[PapaXpress]

EVGA 460 GTX FTW

[Cardinal51]

Thanks Papa, the standard one ? GeForce GTX 460 ?

@mdurdan: I m a bit confused. shouldn't you post your messages in the thread viewtopic.php?f=29&t=5074 instead of hijacking this thread ?

[Hawk]

Well, two votes to move it got it moved.

[Cardinal51]

I have been reading up on my motherboard and this is my graphiccard slot:

Two PCI Express x16 slots (supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)

I want to get 1 card and replce the existing card. These are the cards are in my price range and available locally:

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Any idea what the difference is between DC and DCII ? I searched the www but could not find out what it stands for,

[Cardinal51]

I have narrowed it down (just because they are cheaper) between these two:

- Asus GeForce GTX560 Ti DCII,1GB
- Asus GeForce GTX560 Ti DC,1GB

Took me a few days but I found out that DCII stands for Direct Cu II, in which Cu stands for copper. It is some kind of cooling technoilogy.

I assume DC is older than DCII and therefore my pick is:

Asus GeForce GTX560 Ti DCII,1GB

For now I only nows it looks much better than my old card

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In case you think this a wrong choice please respond fast, because I think I am gonna order it tonight !



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[PapaXpress]

have you considered?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130738

Your image show prices in Euro, so maybe this card is out of your budget.

[Cardinal51]

have you considered? . . . .

The "EVGA 012-P3-2066-KR GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 448 Cores FTW 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card" ?

Nope can't say I have considered that one. Could that be a better choice ?

Your image show prices in Euro, so maybe this card is out of your budget.

1 Euro is worth about 1.3 US$ so there is actually no price difference between the ESVGA and the ASUS

Just spoke to a computer tech guy and he says my 400W powersupply might no be enough. He recommends 500W. Dang, I have 400W