philscomputerlab wrote:Some serious FPS there...
Been looking at the 8800GT and 8800GTS 512. There are sooooo many cards using this chip it gets quite confusing. Seems the fastest cards are the 9800GTX+ and 1 GB version of the GTS250. They are still not really available for peanuts so I don't think I will get any soon, but I will keep my eye out for them.
Now there must be a game or two that have issues with these newer cards, just got to find them 😊 Or maybe not?
If I remember right the 9800GTX+ will have a few advantages over the 250 and other GT/GTS cards, because it was positioned as the top offering for a short while; it supports triple SLI, hybrid power, etc which the other boards do not (GTS 250 may, but I know 8800GTS 512MB, 9800GT, etc do not).
As far as games having issues - I've not encountered any problems with games that will run in Win7 and my GTX 660 (which is a lot newer than G92), aside from nVidia breaking shadows in TS2 (http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help … gle_Sim_Shadows), which is fully driver-related (and afaik affects ALL nVidia cards that can use >327). The rub here is that some newer games need updates beyond 327 for performance, and if you have a GPU Boost enabled card there are power management updates in 340 that are worthwhile. It doesn't break the game though - just turn shadows down to one setting from top and it works again (its not the maximum quality shadows for the game, but that isn't a problem for me). 🤣
Hardware-wise, in terms of "this will always have issues no matter what driver" - I know of a few that affect Radeon HD 4800 series, but none of those have been an issue with the GeForce, even with >327 drivers.