How's it working with that 3870??
8800GT can run it at High, with all details,shadows, AA on, pretty smoothly, i m quite impressed because i ve heard thats wont be the case!
I ve heard that there is a patch that enables very high graphic settings on windows XP, but couldnt find it...
Comparing it to my previous 7600GT, 8800GT is a big upgrade for me and Crysis is the best platform to show its perfomances, for a mere...190euros...
So bring on Assasins Creed (said to have more rig requirements than Crysis due to bad optimization) and far Far Cry 2
PS my PSU barely copes though, what do you have V?
I have a build in 450watt, but i would trade her with a bigger 550+watts and most important, more silent, can you name a few good producer/companies?
If i trade my old PSU + my old 7600GT what would i get?
ATI/AMD is still not quite there with the drivers but the latest 8.1 version is looking pretty good. Coupled with the 1.1 patch for Crysis, I run it pretty much smoothly at high settings, though at high action places I tend to get glitches, but that's down to drivers, so I set some stuff to medium. The overall quality is pretty much the same but the performance is better.
If you think you made an upgrade, then I made hyper-jump from my old 6600GT to HD3870.
I found out the PSU is probably one of the most important things in the PC. I used to have a generic 400W PSU which was no name, it was utter crap. It barely powered my systems and ran everything too hotly. My HDDs were getting temps close to 80°C where as now they are running at cool 50°C, I don't know how they haven't burnt over the years.
I bought a
Corsair VX550W and it's fantastic. Corsair is a renowned manufacturer and the PSU has a 80+ certificate(which is a big thing). I've been told by experts the most important thing on PSUs is not the Wattage but the ampers over the +12V rails. For higher-end PCs the ampers should at least be about 30, but this PSU has 41! So even if you're gonna go SLi with that card, this PSU will still be more than enough. You can check the ampers on the sticker on your PSU but if it's some crap brand, you're better of buying a proper one for the sake of your PC.
Other good PSU brands are Antec, Fortron, PC Power & Cooling, Enermax but I have no experience with them, I'm loving my Corsair. It retails around 100$ but it's so worth it. Whatever you buy, keep in mind the ampers over the +12V rail, that's the important thing as that's where all the stress of the PC goes from. Wattage is less important.
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