Who cares?

maikai · **Memory**: 16GB DDR3 1600 8-9-8-24

i find it interesting that people spend $300-$500 for a video card and all they care about is their 3DMARK score. who cares? everytime i buy a new card i run that test 1 time and then uninstall it and never use it again. sure if i could play the benchmark like a game id run it all the time. all i care about is what my games looks like and how they run. so enough about 3dmark scores. buy the card for the games u play. its about image quality, drivers, and features.
ive always been a hardcore NVIDIA fan but i recently bought an ATI X800 Pro. i must admit its a very sweet card. every game runs flawlessly with all graphics cranked up. honestly, i wanted an nvidia but when u cant find one for sale then youll settle for the next best thing. i still want the nvidia card just because i love their drivers and of course the ability to run pixel shader 3.0 which will be on tons of games in the near future.

ReBeL · 07-03-2004, 08:59 | posts: 2,097 | Location: Tennessee

maikai, I can promise you that most of us that are shelling out the money for these graphics cards aren't buying them just for high 3dmark scores. That is just what a lot of the topics center around because it is a popular benchmark used for comparison purposes.

Darrin · 07-03-2004, 09:39 | posts: 1,738 | Location: Australia

I use 3d mark for testing stability of drivers and my bios setup if i change it, i cant sit there and play a game for hours waiting for it to go belly up, plus I bench mark at the max res and with 6x aa and max aniostropic filter to really burn in things.

There are heaps of people though who get a new card just for the higher scores, EG far cry only runs about 10- maybe 20 fps better than an X800 card over a 9800XT card in the same rig. Hmm, all that cash for 10-20 FPS but you do get 9000 or so points more.

The other thing that makes it hard for a lot of people is that people like your self come in and state "its a very sweet card every game runs flawlessly"

Come on dude, so every game runs at MAX res and 4x AA with 16samples of anio filter and it never ever drops a frame below 60 EVER? Every game has ZERO artifacts, glitches or graphical bugs caused by driver or software. Hmmm.Dont get wrong, i am not having a go at you

VashTheStampede · 07-03-2004, 10:36 | posts: 2,246 | Location: Chicago Il

even if people just do it to benchmark thats there buisness. some poeple have the money. and some poeple like to take there things to the extreme and share it while others are all about gaming

wilka91 · 07-03-2004, 11:17 | posts: 204

I don't even use 3d mark, it's pointless ...

NAJMI ADNAN · *Last edited by NAJMI ADNAN; 07-03-2004 at 13:28.*

I buy a gfx card just to push 3DMark score beyond a normal gfx card do.Look at my 9600XT(in my sign) it is beyond a normal 9600XT achieve. But what I like about this is after get a high score,I enjoy playing games with max detail.I even play FarCry with my 9600XT at 1024x768 res with maxed detail with 4X AA and 4X AF with no lag at all.I didnt even see or feel any performance diffrence with 4X AA enabled or disabled.

maikai · **Memory**: 16GB DDR3 1600 8-9-8-24

ok thanks for input guys, but darrin when i run a game i dont look at frames per second. so i wouldnt know how many frames its running. all i know is it plays smooth and no their is no stutters. besides reviews lately have showed that its the cpu limiting games as well. i dont mind spending $500 on a vid card as much as i mind spending $1000 on a processor, which by the way takes forever for the price to go down significantly

VashTheStampede · 07-05-2004, 10:49 | posts: 2,246 | Location: Chicago Il

the processor is the bigges tthink in ur comp. that matters the most over anything else

omniviper · 07-05-2004, 11:23 | posts: 364 | Location: cypress ca

vash has a point. but yeah frankly, screw the benchmark scores. ill do only benchmarks to burn in my card and check for stability.

btw vash wtf, the other day you had only 800+ posts and now youre suddenly up 1000+ plus? damm man you sure do monitor these forums

07-05-2004, 18:37 | posts: n/a

I only use 3D mark as a stability test. In game speed is all that matters to me as a peformance "benchmark"

**well... -** 07-05-2004, 20:01 | posts: n/a

Well... benchmarking does not mean everything but it at least tells you what kind of hardwares are good for your games! Benchmarking is a third party evaluation tools!

My story tells, I bought a set of PC with some idiot retailer recommendations... and it sucks. I can't even play need for speed underground at middle range setting!!!

Thru benchmarking, i learn hell lot of stuff and my PC work dame well now BUT i wasted a lot of money for upgrading.

See, sometimes benchmarking tools does contribute...............