DiD i make the wrong choice??? advice needed its killin' me here o.O
i want to be a casual gamer. And despite being in that category of not having the latest hardware, i believe i have good extremely modded hardware (i'll post my rig's PICs in the forum soon) to play my games at near max settings:
(WoW, CS, HL, HL-2, Unreal Tournament 2004, Doom3, F.E.A.R.)
with often good effect...i checked benchmarks on the internet and i have no need to get a pci-e. on top of that i've went over to a buddys house on their new system to see what games look like with max settings. its seems to me that i prefer trilinear filtering maxed & ansisotropic maxed rather than enable AA. with AA disabled, i found that most of the jaggies played at 1280x1024 resolution were not visible at all.
My system rig so far is:
Athlon XP-M 2600+ oc/ed to 2.647GHz on AiR (prime stable)
2GB RAM (2x512MB BH-5 OCZ + 1xCorsair 3500LLPRO 1GB)
750GB Seagate SATA-II Barracuda 7200.10 TCQ
Audigy 2ZS
3Com 3C905C-TX Ethernet Adapter
so keeping my current rig with the benchmarks, i should do fine with either a AIW-X800XT or a AIW-X800XL. I clicked the 'pay now' for the order for the AIW X800XT hoping i made the right choice.
did i really? or is it true the xl has more pixel pipes than the xt?
(WoW, CS, HL, HL-2, Unreal Tournament 2004, Doom3, F.E.A.R.)
with often good effect...i checked benchmarks on the internet and i have no need to get a pci-e. on top of that i've went over to a buddys house on their new system to see what games look like with max settings. its seems to me that i prefer trilinear filtering maxed & ansisotropic maxed rather than enable AA. with AA disabled, i found that most of the jaggies played at 1280x1024 resolution were not visible at all.
My system rig so far is:
Athlon XP-M 2600+ oc/ed to 2.647GHz on AiR (prime stable)
2GB RAM (2x512MB BH-5 OCZ + 1xCorsair 3500LLPRO 1GB)
750GB Seagate SATA-II Barracuda 7200.10 TCQ
Audigy 2ZS
3Com 3C905C-TX Ethernet Adapter
so keeping my current rig with the benchmarks, i should do fine with either a AIW-X800XT or a AIW-X800XL. I clicked the 'pay now' for the order for the AIW X800XT hoping i made the right choice.
did i really? or is it true the xl has more pixel pipes than the xt?
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thing is how about someone explain to me about the differences in a nutshell between a pixel and vertex shader and how they affect performance?
the aiw x800xt is supposed to be better no?
Pixel and Vertex Shaders
Only other one I would have recommended would have been the Nvidia 6800GT
thanks for the wiki. i'll disregard what my friend said over AiM about the aiw-x800xl having more pixel and vertex shaders and cheaper only because of lower clockspeed.
missing detail? is it because it doesn't support shader model 3.0?
i thought of that too, but i wanted a fm/tv tuner and don't have any room left in pci slots for a card. as far as i know, ati's aiw x800 series is the best agp solution for those who don't wanna jump on the pci-e bandwagon yet. like me! the 6800gt is a damn good card tho =)
besides i just love playing my movies on ATi hardware with minimal cpu usage.