NVIDIA 9800GTX and GX2 Get Greenlight

[sbrehm72255]

I can happily say I am glad I bought the 8800GTS 512MB card. I paid just nder $300 for it and it plays everything I throw at it @ 1920X1200 with some AA/AF thrown in. While the GX2 is of course a fast card, it is nothing to lose sleep about. I could simply add another GTS to my system for roughly $275-300 (Thank you XFX price drops) and match the performance for less money.

In my opinion, even 2 9800GX2's will not allow high res Crysis at very high details/settings. In fact, I am wanting to see if they can even get Quad SLI working this time since they never released an official driver for the 7950GX2's as it didn't work.

Here ya go, Quas SLi 9800GX2 review.............

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1347/geforce_9800_gx2_in_quad_sli_tested/index.html

 

[Merlin]

My 8800GT (Bios volt modded and slightly OC) does me just fine as well for what I play (UT3, Bioshock). Haven't even tried Crysis yet, I may get around to it one of these days.

I play Crysis on VERY HIGH with the 2X in SLI 8800GT
If you look at the 3DMARK scores, you find the high scores with an 8800GT card

:techgage: Merlin :techgage:

 

[sbrehm72255]

I play Crysis on VERY HIGH with the 2X in SLI 8800GT
If you look at the 3DMARK scores, you find the high scores with an 8800GT card

:techgage: Merlin :techgage:

What size display are you using??

 

[Merlin]

What size display are you using??

1920 X 1200 32 bit ( high ) No AA 24 inch montitor at 75 Mhz refresh ( Acer AL2416W )
Same resolution on Crysis.
I think Rob also tried it in a review of the 8800GT, but rather went with High settings instead.

I use the auto optimize in Crysis, it looks at the system and sets the display parameters.

Merlin
( off work for two days )

 

[Kougar]

A little off topic, but what frame rate is about right for smooth gameplay with Crysis? I've benchmarked it but not actually played it because I thought I'd have a new D9E/G100/whatever next-gen GPU by now that could handle it.

Stock 2.4GHz, 320mb 8800GTS, I get an average of 16FPS using 1920x1200 "High" settings. Was using that Guru3D benchmark app. 16 FPS is fine for CoH, but I imagine a FPS like Crysis would be pretty bad once things got going?

 

[Merlin]

A little off topic, but what frame rate is about right for smooth gameplay with Crysis? I've benchmarked it but not actually played it because I thought I'd have a new D9E/G100/whatever next-gen GPU by now that could handle it.

Stock 2.4GHz, 320mb 8800GTS, I get an average of 16FPS using 1920x1200 "High" settings. Was using that Guru3D benchmark app. 16 FPS is fine for CoH, but I imagine a FPS like Crysis would be pretty bad once things got going?

Not really sure about the frame rates..... in Crysis
If it's any help..Lightsmark gave me a 300.4. so if you got close to that it should be comparable?

 

[Rob Williams]

An average of 20FPS is good... but 25FPS is better if possible. I benchmark the game using "Medium" rather than High, since most of the lower-end "mid-range" cards are hellish on the High setting.

 

[sbrehm72255]

I can happily say I am glad I bought the 8800GTS 512MB card. I paid just nder $300 for it and it plays everything I throw at it @ 1920X1200 with some AA/AF thrown in. While the GX2 is of course a fast card, it is nothing to lose sleep about. I could simply add another GTS to my system for roughly $275-300 (Thank you XFX price drops) and match the performance for less money.

In my opinion, even 2 9800GX2's will not allow high res Crysis at very high details/settings. In fact, I am wanting to see if they can even get Quad SLI working this time since they never released an official driver for the 7950GX2's as it didn't work.

Here's a little more Quad SLi action for those of you that might be interested.

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQ3OCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

The Bottom Line

Except for Crysis, GeForce 9800 GX2 Quad SLI provides no real gameplay advantages and quite frankly we do not see Quad SLI benefitting much else right now. And haven’t we all played through Crysis enough times by now? A single GeForce 9800 GX2 is able to accelerate “demanding” titles like the shader-intensive Jericho and the tremendously popular Call of Duty 4 quite well; adding another GX2 does not provide gaming improvements to justify the cost. The only game that does possibly call for Quad SLI is Crysis; and even then AA higher resolutions is still not a reality due to the 9800 GX2’s limited memory amount and bus width.

I totally forgot earlier, but today is the official Quad SLi release day............

http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=541

http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/NVIDIA_QuadSLI_with_the_ASUS_EN9800GX2/

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/681/1/

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=538&type=expert

 

[Rob Williams]

I'll definitely look through those later. I linked to X-bit labs today, but didn't realize they were all on some sort of NDA. I need to get back into the GPU game...