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**johngalt** · 07-27-2008

Honestly, I'd rather pay $299 for the card now (it may be a bit more as I don't look for Water cooled) than spend more for the increased power consumption on the HD 48xx series.

Besides, it is almost a written rule that the performance of nVidia cards increases over time with newer and better drivers.

I have an 8800 GTS but since mine is the G92 GPU based card, I was, with a bit of hacking and a lot of help from fellow Guru Skunksmash, able to get the nVidia PhysX software running in conjunction with newer drivers that make full use of the PhysX software - and though my 'benchmark' from 3D Mark doesn't show it, I have a *massive* increase in graphics due to the PhysX engine now running and the new driver.

07-27-2008	#6 (permalink)
johngalt Vista Ultimate x64 MAK, OpenSolaris 5, Gentoo 2008.1.... 3,848 posts	Re: Going from NVidia to AMD card.... Honestly, I'd rather pay $299 for the card now (it may be a bit more as I don't look for Water cooled) than spend more for the increased power consumption on the HD 48xx series. Besides, it is almost a written rule that the performance of nVidia cards increases over time with newer and better drivers. I have an 8800 GTS but since mine is the G92 GPU based card, I was, with a bit of hacking and a lot of help from fellow Guru Skunksmash, able to get the nVidia PhysX software running in conjunction with newer drivers that make full use of the PhysX software - and though my 'benchmark' from 3D Mark doesn't show it, I have a massive increase in graphics due to the PhysX engine now running and the new driver.
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