Received my GeForce 6800 card yesterday (cheers Nvidia!) and promptly swapped out my GeForce FX for it. First thing I noticed was that the design is far better, it doesn't take up 2 slots in the case anymore, but the fan is far more effective and it's got a cool heatsink. It's quite noisy though, but I nearly always work with music on anyway so I don't care about that
I wanted to try out some of the new Nvidia tech demos on it, but all you can download from their web site are videos - pah! So I gave Fry Cry a bash and it blew it away - ansiotropic filtering, full-screen anti-aliasing, a monster resolution and detail set to high for everything and the game still rocked along (avg. 55 to 70 fps depending on indoor/outdoor). Quite impressive stuff.
Then I checked out the new demo of Joint Ops (the only on-line game I play), it was released only last night and is built from the final release code - wow, superb stuff! I played solidly for 4 hours with detail set to high for everything, all shadows on, a nice high crisp resolution, anti-aliasing at x4 and all particle effects on. Remember this is an on-line game, most of the time those kind of features lag you into hell and back - but I came in the top 4 on every game I played and there was no slow-down once the map had loaded. Sniping from 700m away across the volcano map, hidden in grass and foliage, as attack choppers strafe the land and things explode all around is just an awesome experience.
Anyway I've yet to try the card with any DBPro stuff (I'm on holiday this week
) but I'll be doing that later on to see how it scores.
I know that if I had a better motherboard it'd be even faster - I only have an AGP x4 slot, but a x8 would double the bandwidth available to the card - and a PCI express slot would double that again. But for now, I can live with it
Cheers,
Rich 'HALOfourteen kills you with a headshot' Davey
"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde
