nope its not. its a load of rubbish. if you want a dx10 card you gotta go to at least an 8800gts. If you cannot afford it, go for something older like an x1900pro, 7900GS, 7600GT.
i would recommed the this card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814127305 my friend put one in his and he is able to almost keep up with my 8800GTS
not really, its a decent card for the price. DO NOT GET A 8500GT. Go for ATLEAST a 8600GT if not for the o/c edition since those and above willl actually be usefull for dx10. The 8600gt o/c is a pretty damn good card. For ATI, not much choice really, 2900xt pretty much
Ohms law, what settingsa re you using, it sounds liek you're loosing very low settings as the 8800GTS with a mild overclock would be in excess three times as power in most applications. x1950pro is faster than the 2600 and the 2600 is only "almost as fast" when you use low settings and you're CPU limited. here is a challenge for you, open up World in conflict, set it to say 720p(1280*720) max out every ingame setting under DX9. this includeds setting antialiasing to 16xQ. Then tell me two things - 1 is the game playable on the 8800 with very smooth frame rates? 2 on the 2600XT would it have been a more smooth experience just to open power point and view slides? then repeate the above with counterstrike source and pretty much every other game. heck jackup the resolution etc. some games admitedly you'll neeed to try @ 4xAA but the point remains, the 8800 can mantain playability in situations where the 2600s just stutter. regardless the 8500 is a joke. consider: 7600GT x1650XT depends on what you're doing, the 2900s are looking more and more promising each passing month. I still don't regret buying an 8800 though as it is/was notably cheaper. I can tell you that at this point DX10 compatability is largely a marketting gimmick. The only game which benefits from DX10 at this point would be bioshock. The performance hit in othergames is too excessive. the 8600s and 2600 are struggling in newer games, by the time DX10 in mainstreme they will be entirely obsolete.
my 8800gts is running on maxxed every thing same as his but like i said "almost" in my post, i know why tho now, he was running 800x600 while ill was running 1440x900, and i over clocked my card from 500MHZ to 580MHZ, im going to go for 600MHZ tho see how far i can push it... and no im not cpu limited my X2 6000 is rated equally to the e6600 i looked at bench marks before buying. <_<
and the only way i was rated equally to is that both run stock, when over clocked im out performed, but i dont want to clock my processor, gfx card i rly dont care to clock it cuz i know what im doing
yes i understand that, but when the potential for X is greater then the potential for Y, X does not equal Y. here, what im trying to get at. despite the fact that @ stock the 2 chips are similar the difference is that the 6600 has far better performance capabilities
yes i understand that and the way u get that is overclocking it, i dont want to attempt over clocking witch is y i went amd, it was cheap then the c2d's and at stock witch is were i am leave it at was the same, the price = x2 $169 vs c2d $220 and + another thing is that the new am3 processors will be able to be used on my pc with a bios update.
a 20-25% overclock will not generate a 200-300% performance delta... and I know it's a sin and a shame to link to THG because their charts are... well let's just leave it at that http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_200...8&chart=318 but... just take a look. then add 20% more to the 8800s score