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Rugbyfan1972

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All,

I am considering upgrading from a 8600gt to a 9800, I am after the opinions of anyone who has the latter on how good it is at at the moment I am having to limit the framerate to 40 during gameplay and it fluctuates between 15-22 fps when taking off to 25-40 when in combat.

Also I generally get much better performance when playing as the british, the above fps figures are about 10-20% worse for the germans, also playing in april 1917 as the british I get nice blue skies with the occasional cloud, (56 flaying from vert galand) flying as the germans (jasta4 Douai) I get cloudy overcast skies flying on the same date, is anyone else experiencing this?.

My system is as follows:
Am2 6000+
2GB Ram
500GB Sata hard disk
Windows XP SP2 (would SP3 help?)

The cost of the card is £150 in my local town (in the UK).

Thanks
Rugbyfan1972
 
The 9800 is a far better card than the 8600. I am running a pair of 9800m GTXs in my laptop {DTR really} and am getting 29 fps with settings at 5/3/3/5/1. Once I get up above 5K' the fps jumps to over 50. ANd the 9800m is a laptop card, not quite as good as the desktop card.
 
I am running the 9800GTX and it is a very good card. But it gets hot. I recommend you buy the successor 9800GTX+ where Nvidia made a die shrink to the GPU. It runs somewhat cooler. Also get sure you are running the newest drivers as the drivers before the 173 series were faulty and the cooling fan was not regulated so the cards could overheat. The standard version has 512MB graphics RAM. If there is a version with 1 GB onboard RAM buy this if your budget allows this because OFF would run better with more graphics RAM.

To deliver the amount of data fast enough to the graphics card I recommend a CPU well over 3 GHz. You need to get sure that the CPU is not the limiting factor or else the fastest graphics card will have no advantage.

Running my E8400 Dual Core at 4 GHz and with a single 9800GTX with standard clock and a resolution of 1920x1200 I get 50-60 FPS with 2x Anti-Aliasing and sliders 5-5-4-4-5-3 once I am at some height. Near ground I get around 30-35 FPS.
 
Also running a 9800gtx 512MB ( @ 40'C with Rivatuner spinning the GPU fan) , with an Athlon fx55 ( single core! ) @ 2.8GHz, 3gig RAM ( DDR ). Getting 20-30fps pretty much everywhere; res. 1280*1024, 2AA, (tweaks applied from this forum helped me get about 8fps extra; moved from a bit jerky to mainly smooth now) From what I've heard, a Nvidia card is definitely the most preferable ( over ATi), due to it doing D3D miles better. Beware of 'bargain - nearly new' 9800's; they might be fried 'cos of overheating / too low fan speeds. Vielen gluck!
 
As always ( voice of personal experience) when you seek an upgrade, make sure you have the needed wattage, replace now, rather than have stuff overheat later :kilroy:
 
gremlin

what board do you have that on?

and also, the rating of the cpu b4 you overclocked it?

thanks
 
overclocking

wow,,,3.0 to 4?

thout for sure you were going to say 3.3

im impressed,,,,

if and when i decide to spring for a new system, will be sure to get in contact with you
 
9800M GT 512mb in my laptop at 5 3 3 4 1 with 4x AA.... hangs around 30fps+/- 10fps depending on whats going on. As discussed, in a desktop card you will see much better performance from the same 9800GT. I think my card is comparable to an 8800GTS desktop card. I just wish I had 1gb of GPU ram to play with....
 
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