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[clear_lot]

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Yo Gamerz..


I have one issue with my display. When i m playing mafia II or , dirt2 (in dx9) or F1 2010, ( all games at 1920*1080) i see some very light horizontal lines moving upwards from base of monitor . they are very light, and can be seen only upon proper observation( esp. in game menus , and in mafia II, when i am looking at walls ). I dont see these lines in all games, but only in the games which i mentioned above. Issue does not occour on normal desktop usage.
These lines do not occur in battlefield BC2 , SBK 09, or NFS undercover. Is there any problem with my grafix card? Btw, i use normal VGA cable and not DVI cable.
Any help would be appreciated .

this could be screen tearing due to vertical sync problem.
try this: open nvidia control panel> manage 3d settings> global settings> vertical sync> change setting to "force on" and click apply.

 

[furious_gamer]

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^^Have a look at this:
[GO] Sapphire Radeon 6900 Series DX11 Graphics Card

Decent pricing. I wish the price will be same in every state.

 

[uniyal2k5]

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hi
i am planning to buy a graphics card for my pc...

config is :-
AMD anthlon II X2 250
3.01ghz , 1.75gb ram
gigabyte ma78gm-us2h motherboard
monitor is samsung b2230 full hd

my requirements are :-
1. playing HD movies 1080p
2. playing all new directx 11 games at decent resolution
3. loads of mmorpg's(Massively multiplayer online role-playing games)

my budget is around 7-9k
excluding the cost of upgrading my ram to 4gb

suggest something good..

 

[Ishu Gupta]

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HD5770 Twin Forzer - 9k
GTX 460 - 10k <--Recommended

HD5770 Twin Forzer - 9k
GTX 460 - 10k <--Recommended

 

[Faun]

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Suggest the best VFM graphics card that will serve me well for Year 2011, exactly 1 year.

Normal resolution I will be playing on: 1920x1080

Detail: High or Highest.

 

[ssb1551]

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^^Whats the budget??
Without any limit you can go for GTX570 or 580!!

 

[Faun]

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GTX570 and 580 are not VFM considering I will not go beyond 1920x1080 and after 1 year I will not require that card.

Consider budget to be b/w 7k and 25k. The lower the better. Also, both red and green team options.

 

[vickybat]

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@ Faun

Radeon 6870 @ 14k should be your best bet. A wonderful card at a great price. Though if you can wait a bit , i would suggest to grab a gtx 560. Its on the way.

 

[aby geek]

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@faun agree with vickybat , gtx 560 should be there by jan 16 ,after it launches 6870 will get a price cut,then you can decide between them.

 

[topgear]

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Hi, could someone please elaborate the difference between normal gaming cards and workstation cards like Firepro series.
I'm an engineering student and only good at photoshop, flash as of now. but i believe i'll be working on CAD etc in future, so will a workstation card be of help to me? i'm not much of a gamer but play occasionally, so 2-3 year old games are just fine for me.
i will be buying in the first week of january with a budget of around 8-10k
also, will availability be an issue?

for 8-10K budget for workstation GPU you should consider getting ATI WS cards - look at PC Buying Guide 2010.

^^Rendering speed in better in workstation cards.

That true.

Actually in hardware point of view there is little difference between a Gaming card and a workstation one. It is the driver dedicated to each of the products that make the difference.
Gaming cards dirver concentrate more on single precision Floting point instruction execution speed and hence sacrificing the accuracy. But accuracy is not a main parameter for gaming.
In workstation cards, drivers are optimized to concentrate on double precision floating point instruction executions, hence increasing the performance in rendering, calculations but sacrificing their gaming performance.

A lot of advance users actually hacked the BIOS of a normal gaming card with the BIOS of a similarly powerful Workstation card and used it as workstation card.

Actually they have some discrete and thats' why they performs 2 times better than normal ( and even hacked ) cards.

^^thats quite informative but then why is the price of workstation card so high ?

as they perform better in the apps they were meant for and driver developments of WS requires more man power and resources and time - so the cost of development, drivber update is quite high and that's why they cost most.

^^
Licensed drivers to guarantee a certain accuracy of render.

the cards also are lot faster in apps they were meant for. That's why a WS card performs almost 2x faster than a hacked gaming ( soft moded ) gfx card with same gpu using same drivers.

so does "hacking the bios" involve lot of effort??

No - you can anytime try soft hack if you have a compatible gpu series.

^
More knowledge than effort.

And confidence - "My GPU won't brick."

soft hacking is a safe method - you just have to emulate the WS card using a normal gaming card - so any changes can be reverted without any issue.
It does even requires bios moding. So it's very safe.

Basically if you have a board with IGP or multi GPU setup this trick can ban tried.

You can even try this even if you have a single gfx card since it's soft moding only and very safe.

BTW, i'm talking all this after reading this - it's has how to's, performance diff everything you need to know about

Tech ARP - NVIDIA GeForce To Quadro Soft-Mod Guide Rev. 4.1

 

[ganeshg]

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hey guys whats the deal with dx11 games can i play them on a gfx with dx10. are there any dx11 games out there suggest some........

 

[Faun]

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@vickybat and @aby geek
Everyone says wait...I gotta wait then.

 

[abirthedevil]

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dx11 games will run with dx10 on dx10 cards, but personally dont feel dx11 is very significant up till now best dx11 game so far battlefield bad company 2 here is the list of games till oct 2010 List of games with DirectX 11 support - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Ishu Gupta]

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@ topgear
GTX/Quadro/Tesla ? my opinion on today?s GPU selections for rendering | jeffpatton.net

*www.cgarchitect.com/news/Reviews/Review076_1.asp

Those links say the Geforce cards perform faster than WS cards. They only lose when the scenes are larger than the onboard VRAM.

 

[quad_core]

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this could be screen tearing due to vertical sync problem.
try this: open nvidia control panel> manage 3d settings> global settings> vertical sync> change setting to "force on" and click apply.

thanks,, will try that out n let you know .

 

[Faun]

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Decent pricing. I wish the price will be same in every state.

Moar prices:

MSI ATI 6950 - Rs 18400 **FREE SHIPPING**

MSI ATI 6970 Rs - 22990 **FREE SHIPPING**

[GO] MSI 6970 & 6950 are here - Ready Stock Order Now

 

[clear_lot]

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seems like SMC started reading this topic and heardthe bad things we were saying about them!

a merry christmas to all of you:C_xmas::C_xmas::C_xmas::C_xmas::C_xmas::C_xmas::C_xmas::C_xmas::C_xmas::C_xmas:


ENJOY AND GET HIGH!!

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

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same to you clear_lot

 

[aby geek]

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i have read something about a 6890 in october 2011 its supposed to be a part of the other island family.looks like a rumour to me.

 

[Piyush]

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oct 2011!!!
and that too for 6890...

must be a rumor