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I need your advice on this: Im going to build a new gaming computer but im not sure which graphics card to get. I can either get a BFG nVidia Geforce 7900GTX at £350 (with better stats but ive heard most of these cards have problems) or the Point of view Geforce 7950GTS at £390? What i want is to play Oblivion at full spec with no slowdown but will i need 2 of these beasts in order to do that? Are there any other cards with huge stats out there? I basically want the best card money can buy under £400. All advice welcome. Thanks in advance.
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Posted: 2006-07-20 22:30:58
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Posted: 2006-07-20 23:01:57
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Did you mean 7950 GX2 or Geforce 7900GT(S) ?
and may i just point out that Oblivion generally performs well on ATi's solutions(x19xx series) and you can turn on HDR and AA at same time ,which you still cant do in nVidia's solutions.And importantly what resolution do you intend to run the game at? Ill quote from xbit's review of gx2
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
We don’t test this game with turned-on full-screen antialiasing because GeForce 6/7 based graphics cards do not support HDR alongside with FSAA whereas the game looks better with enabled HDR than without it.
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In the open scenes of TES IV the GeForce 7950 GX2 feels the lack of memory bandwidth, especially in high resolutions. However, the new card is strong enough to keep the frame rate at 48fps even in 1280x1024. This is good considering the graphical complexity of this game.
This result, especially the minimum frame rate, is comparable with that of the Radeon X1900 XTX and GeForce 7900 GT SLI. The min frame rate parameter is sometimes even more important than the average performance of a card. For example, the speed of the GeForce 7900 GTX may bottom out to 15fps and this is the point where the game doesn’t run smoothly anymore. Such slowdowns are quite dangerous in combats when you want accurate control over the character in the presence of enemies. And it is in combat scenes that slowdowns are most likely to occur because the enemy models will have to be rendered in the frame.
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this is a good place to go through before you make your decisions (although a bit outdated).
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[ This Message was edited by: shyam335 on 2006-07-21 03:34 ]
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Posted: 2006-07-21 04:20:41
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