'Wonderman' wrote:
| OK. I went to Best Buy and bought a PNY 8600GT 512K with GDDR3 memory.
And
| a real loud fan so its going back. The fan itself isn’t too loud but in
| this case it is like a Dustbuster.
| My Windows Experience score went from 4.3 to 4.7 with the card itself
going
| from 4.3 to 5.7. The CPU is the constraining score at 4.7 so the
| speculation about FSX was correct actually. It ran a bit more smooth but
it
| wasn’t enough to knock you back in your chair.
|
| In CAD rotating a 3D solid was quite a bit smother and for the sum total
of
| the user experience I’ll go for the fanless one form NewEgg.
|
| My last question for the group is whether to go for the Gigabyte 8600GT
with
| 512K of GDDR2 or the same card with 256 of GDDR3 ? Some of the comments
| about the heat those cards generate were a concern as well.
_____
Clearly you need a better performing CPU, as that is the weak link indicated
by the fairly useless 'Windows Experience' test. My T7200 2.0 GHz X 4 MB L2
cache Dell Inspiron notebook with a 8600M GT beats your CPU score and the
low power (low clock speed) 8600M GT comes in at 4.6, just below your 8600
GT at 4.7. I certainly would not call my notebook a serious gaming system;
the 3DMark06 score is ~ 3800 unless I overclock the video card (which quite
easily will handle a 30% clock rate increase.)
A noticeable improvement for your system is going to require more than going
from last generation's midrange video card to a current generation midrange
video card.
But evidently you don't want to hear that.
Phil Weldon
"Wonderman" wrote in message
| OK. I went to Best Buy and bought a PNY 8600GT 512K with GDDR3 memory.
And
| a real loud fan so its going back. The fan itself isn’t too loud but in
| this case it is like a Dustbuster.
| My Windows Experience score went from 4.3 to 4.7 with the card itself
going
| from 4.3 to 5.7. The CPU is the constraining score at 4.7 so the
| speculation about FSX was correct actually. It ran a bit more smooth but
it
| wasn’t enough to knock you back in your chair.
|
| In CAD rotating a 3D solid was quite a bit smother and for the sum total
of
| the user experience I’ll go for the fanless one form NewEgg.
|
| My last question for the group is whether to go for the Gigabyte 8600GT
with
| 512K of GDDR2 or the same card with 256 of GDDR3 ? Some of the comments
| about the heat those cards generate were a concern as well.
|
|
| "DRS" wrote in message
|
| > "Wonderman" wrote in message
| >
| >> I was considering upgrading from an XFX 7600 GS 256 to this -
| >>
| >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125083
| >>
| >>
| >> FS X is a bit too choppy in the old card and I could use a boost in
| >> CAD as well. Any thoughts appreciated. BTW I'm running a nearly
| >> silent Sony desktop so fanless is really important.
| >
| > Given the 8600GT's DX9 performance is roughly that of a 7600GT it's not
| > much of an upgrade from a 7600GS.
| >
| >> Stay informed about: 8600GT Thoughts ? 
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