Best and Cheapest Video Card

**rion** · December 22nd, 2009 12:59 PM

bleh...Inconclusive results, needs a real test equipment... =(

kanina stock gpu 2:17 sec

just now, downclocked: 3:21 sec
then stock again: 3:13 sec

perhaps the cpu eist and c1e factor, I should have disabled them before testing, to isolate gpu alone...

with my inconclusive results, I think there might be a little difference on the power consumption. but the temp is definitely better on downclocked. so downclocked ko na.

on my 9600gt, didn't notice a significant improvement on power consumption and temp. but sa 4850, noticable sa temp. hope this little findings will help others.

**Revenant** · December 24th, 2009 07:47 AM

The wife surprised me with a Palit GTX 275 last night. She didn't want to give it on Christmas night so I could set it up earlier and spend Christmas Eve "playing" with her instead of fooling around with my new toy. Damn, it's 10.5 inches long and has two fans. Arkham Asylum!

**Jun aka Pekto** · December 24th, 2009 08:41 AM

GTX 275

Oooooh. Nice card.

I'd buy one. But, I wanted an ATI card to pair with my AMD cpu.

**rion** · December 24th, 2009 12:33 PM

nice new toy! now that's a high-end card.

not so happy in my His 4850, more weird stuff with Ati... I get a lag when I open any image for the first time. the second time and the rest, it's fine though... Then, it lags when I press "printscreen" while playing Left 4 Dead 2" had more weirdness on both my x1650 pro pcie and agp. lags with custom skinned windows, specialy with windows blinds...

in fairness, His IceQ looks nice for a 5.4k card. hehe...

**Jun aka Pekto** · December 24th, 2009 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by rion

nice new toy! now that's a high-end card.

not so happy in my His 4850, more weird stuff with Ati... I get a lag when I open any image for the first time. the second time and the rest, it's fine though... Then, it lags when I press "printscreen" while playing Left 4 Dead 2" had more weirdness on both my x1650 pro pcie and agp. lags with custom skinned windows, specialy with windows blinds...

in fairness, His IceQ looks nice for a 5.4k card. hehe...

At least you can grab game images with PrtScn. Me? games like FSX and X-Plane 9 do fine with PrtScn (without any pauses). With some games like Crysis, I have to resort to FRAPS probably due to Windows 7 forcing blank images. But, I haven't seen any pauses with mine using either FRAPS or PrtScn.

The closest game I have to L4D2 is Half Life 2. Same thing. No pauses.

I get a momentary blink of the eye pause whenever I load an image. But, that's been the case with every Windows OS and every video card I've ever had.

How long of a pause are you talking about? It sounds like the image is pausing as it loads into memory and being loaded from a cache with subsequent openings of the image making load times quicker.

I don't see it on mine. Are you sure it's not from a tweak you made?

I mean there's such a thing about being overzealous with tweaking a system for efficiency. There's always a chance a tweak will improve one thing and then interfere with something else.