Cantonious
Gawd
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So I was curious if the 8800GTX will hold it's own against a quad SLI setup.
My PC (AMD FX60 @ 2.75ghz | 2g DDR500 | Abit AN832X | 2x 74g WD Raptors RAID 0 | -Video Card- | X-Fi Platinum | Samsung 244T | PCP&C 510W Turbo) is my test station, and I am literally testing the 7950s, popping them out, and putting the 8800GTX in and running the tests again.
The contenders:
Two XFX 7950GX2s vs. One XFX 8800GTX "xxx" series
The Drivers:
7950s: 93.71
8800: 97.44
The Tests:
3DMark06 default: Winner: 8800GTX
7950s: 8728 3DMarks
8800: 9767 3DMarks
3DMark06 @ 1920x1200: Winner: 8800GTX
7950s: 7172 3DMarks
8800: 8726 3DMarks
3DMark05 default: Winner: 8800GTX
7950s: 13407 3DMarks
8800: 14926 3DMarks
3DMark05 @ 1920x1200: Winner: 8800GTX
7950s: 11306 3DMarks
8800: 13503 3DMarks
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast Winner: 8800GTX
Settings: 1920x1200, Full Screen, V-Sync Disabled
7950s: 111.95 Average FPS
8800: 119.93 Average FPS
The first two attempts did not complete the test. I don't know if this is a driver issue, or the card, but every time it came to the dock and the guy says "Here let me unlock..." it froze. The first time it dropped to a black screen, the second it went to the desktop, but was completely unresponsive, both times required hard reset.
FEAR:
Settings: 1920x1200 with everything on Maximum, 4xAA 16xAS
Didn't test with 7950s.
8800GTX:
Doom3:
No screens of this one, but at 1600x1200 with everything on maximum and ultra it did 100 average fps non-cached and 135 average fps cached.
Remarks:
Well, I was certainly surprised to see that the 8800GTX was TOO LONG to fit into my case. It was less than 1/2 an inch too long! That was discouraging to say the least! I have a LianLi PC60B Plus2 with 3 hard drives in the lower "vertical" hard drive cage. I had to move them about half an inch closer to the front of the case in order to accommodate the GTX. Insane! After I finally managed to get the card in, the rest was a snap. I didn't have to play with the bios or anything, and installing the drivers was simple as well. I uninstalled the old nvidia drivers, rebooted into safe-mode, ran driver cleaner, rebooted, and installed the video drivers. I rebooted one more time, and then began testing. The most difficult part was the waiting for benchmarks, I wanted to play! Other than the HL2LC test everything ran fine.
I'm very impressed with the 8800GTX. Time to start saving I suppose.
My PC (AMD FX60 @ 2.75ghz | 2g DDR500 | Abit AN832X | 2x 74g WD Raptors RAID 0 | -Video Card- | X-Fi Platinum | Samsung 244T | PCP&C 510W Turbo) is my test station, and I am literally testing the 7950s, popping them out, and putting the 8800GTX in and running the tests again.
The contenders:
Two XFX 7950GX2s vs. One XFX 8800GTX "xxx" series
The Drivers:
7950s: 93.71
8800: 97.44
The Tests:
3DMark06 default: Winner: 8800GTX
7950s: 8728 3DMarks
8800: 9767 3DMarks
3DMark06 @ 1920x1200: Winner: 8800GTX
7950s: 7172 3DMarks
8800: 8726 3DMarks
3DMark05 default: Winner: 8800GTX
7950s: 13407 3DMarks
8800: 14926 3DMarks
3DMark05 @ 1920x1200: Winner: 8800GTX
7950s: 11306 3DMarks
8800: 13503 3DMarks
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast Winner: 8800GTX
Settings: 1920x1200, Full Screen, V-Sync Disabled
7950s: 111.95 Average FPS
8800: 119.93 Average FPS
The first two attempts did not complete the test. I don't know if this is a driver issue, or the card, but every time it came to the dock and the guy says "Here let me unlock..." it froze. The first time it dropped to a black screen, the second it went to the desktop, but was completely unresponsive, both times required hard reset.
FEAR:
Settings: 1920x1200 with everything on Maximum, 4xAA 16xAS
Didn't test with 7950s.
8800GTX:
Doom3:
No screens of this one, but at 1600x1200 with everything on maximum and ultra it did 100 average fps non-cached and 135 average fps cached.
Remarks:
Well, I was certainly surprised to see that the 8800GTX was TOO LONG to fit into my case. It was less than 1/2 an inch too long! That was discouraging to say the least! I have a LianLi PC60B Plus2 with 3 hard drives in the lower "vertical" hard drive cage. I had to move them about half an inch closer to the front of the case in order to accommodate the GTX. Insane! After I finally managed to get the card in, the rest was a snap. I didn't have to play with the bios or anything, and installing the drivers was simple as well. I uninstalled the old nvidia drivers, rebooted into safe-mode, ran driver cleaner, rebooted, and installed the video drivers. I rebooted one more time, and then began testing. The most difficult part was the waiting for benchmarks, I wanted to play! Other than the HL2LC test everything ran fine.
I'm very impressed with the 8800GTX. Time to start saving I suppose.
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