AMD 3700 & 8800 good match? - Page 2

I will, thanks for your advice.

As a courtesy to those others who have wondered about the framerate/refresh issue here in the thread, I'll offer 1 link to clear up the fog in one post regarding confusing "response time" and "refresh rate", but encourage everyone interested to do their own research.

Basically, 90%+ of us use LCD monitors that cost under $500. These monitors have refresh rates typically at 80 and under.

This is a meaningful limit:

"It's important to realize that despite what the FRAMETIME option in D3 displays, if the numbers it shows are higher than your Refresh Rate, then your ACTUAL FRAMES PER SECOND IS EQUAL TO YOUR REFRESH RATE!

In other words, if you Refresh at 80Hz and D3 says you are getting 120fps, then you can only ever see 80 of those 120 frames per second!!! That means, you could spend a fortune on the latest motherboard, CPU, RAM and video card, only to have half that value wiped out by plugging it into a crappy monitor. Unfortunately, most PC sales people have no idea about this however, so they can claim [sarcasm] ignorance [/sarcasm] of this whole issue. "

http://www.planetdescent.com/d3help/framerate.shtml


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Regarding the stuff about "headaches" and framerates, one can only compare to the refresh rate of a book or magazine in good natural light, which is....quite...high.

Yes, like anyone who reads for more than 10 hours in a day, I've gotten headaches reading at those rather....high....framerates, heh heh.

But, we all need to be aware that it is in the financial interest of many sites to sell hardware. If they can convince us that we need something (usually more expensive), then they can make more profits.

For this reason, any assertions about benefits of expensive stuff really needs more than only a couple of hardware site links, IMO.

If I don't show back up here, it's because my time is very limited, and I cannot chase down every bit of stuff someone throws out trying to show off.

If someone has great info, by all means, educate us all with detailed stuff, and links, when you can.

I won't be responding to troll posts however, and since I'm in other forums, will be back here only when it's rewarding to me, of course.

Ive got an old 3700 lying around Ill donate to the OP, so he can sli it heheh, maybe holding back those evile bottlenecks.

I score 15,6 k @ 3dmark 06 ? id deff say that it is pretty much a bottleneck, at lower resolutions it will still be fine enough, I would suggest saving some money and wait

thats with a Q6600 and 8800GTS 512