Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards

From	Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject	Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards
Date	2011-04-03 14:58 -0400
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On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 18:50:04 +0100, Toby Newman <google@asktoby.com>
wrote:

>On 2011-04-03, Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>Just a note to say that I tend to agree with all your points:
>>>
>>>Native res on flat panels
>>>   Being able to scale the res to acommodate for heavy games is
>>>   really useful.
>>>
>>>Greater than 60FPS needed for immersion
>>>   I played UT2003 at over 10O FPS and it just feels so silky
>>>   smooth at that rate. Not to mention it never dips below 60.
>>
>> Yep... I am playing some titles at 90-150fps with all graphics maxed,
>> and experiencing immersion levels that I haven't felt in a long time
>> (saying a lot for someone like me that seems to be growing
>> increasingly stoic about so many things).
>>
>>>Can I ask the spec of your machine? CPU, RAM?
>>
>> Surely -- bought this rig a couple of years ago, but the basics are
>> i7-965 running at stock speeds with turbo mode enabled (which means it
>> runs at 3.4ghz+ most of the time with no intervention on my part), 6GB
>> RAM, Windows7 64bit and of course the GTX590.  It's the vid card that
>> makes the difference, pretty much all of the core i7 chips that have
>> come out recently are worthy, and at at a price point much lower than
>> I paid for the 965 extreme edition when it came out 2 years ago. 
>>
>>>My nice CRT died 6 months ago and I'm using an old 4:3 CRT while I try
>>>and decide what to do next (hence my thread about choosing LCDs
>>>earlier in the week). I'm dreading launching hundreds of pounds on a
>>>new pair of LCDs and feeling shopper's remorse when they arrive and
>>>fail to tick all the boxes.
>>
>> I haven't really looked around to see if anyone is still making or
>> offering CRTs.  The one I've got now is holding up well enough, and
>> I've got two more in storage (hopefully age or the elements do not get
>> the best of the other two while not in use, but if it happens, it
>> happens).
>
>This review of the 120Hz VG236H from ASUS is quite glowing:
>http://www.anandtech.com/show/3842/asus-vg236h-review-our-first-look-at-120hz
>
>Does anyone know that screen or know of a better one?
>
>It supports NVidia's 3D Vision, but I'm still running XP so that's not
>going to be possible for me. I don't really want to buy Windows 7.
>That said, even without the 3D, the 120Hz is an attractive feature.

If I ever do replace my CRT for gaming I think it's going to need to
be 1200 pixels high.  Just me maybe, but 1080 vertical really cramps
my style.

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  Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards Tim O <timo56REMOVE@hotmail.com> - 2011-03-31 20:04 -0400
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                Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 01:23 -0400
                Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards Toby Newman <google@asktoby.com> - 2011-04-03 18:50 +0100
                Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 14:58 -0400
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  Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards john.dsl@frontier.com (John Lewis) - 2011-04-06 06:18 +0000
    Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 12:39 -0400

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