Satisfying FPS
The (OEM) Sapphire brand PCI Express x16 graphics card with ATI Radeon X850 XT (256mb) arrived yesterday. It was quite simple to get installed - the difficult part being prying the computer case peripheral slot cover plates out of the chassis so I could actually plug a card in. The card needs 2 slots - one is the PCI-e card itself and its peripheral connectors, the neighboring slot is for the fan unit.
I got WoW to over 100 fps once I changed some video options I previously couldn't adjust because the motherboard (GMA 900) didn't support those features. Then I decided to crank up the graphics settings to full bore just to see how it affected my frame rate. It does, sometimes by 25%, but in general the look and feel is freakin' fantastic. I also enabled 2x multisampling which seemed to be negligable to the frames per second.
I do not have "full screen glow effect" which is their name for anti-aliasing - it makes things fuzzier and sometimes less real or legible. I do have 1280x1024 24-bit color, 24-bit samples and only Ironforge thus far has had any stuttering effect on the FPS. Then only temporarily - it seems the level of detail handler works fairly well.
Oh, and I'm back on DVI connection - purity of image and color incarnate.
I got WoW to over 100 fps once I changed some video options I previously couldn't adjust because the motherboard (GMA 900) didn't support those features. Then I decided to crank up the graphics settings to full bore just to see how it affected my frame rate. It does, sometimes by 25%, but in general the look and feel is freakin' fantastic. I also enabled 2x multisampling which seemed to be negligable to the frames per second.
I do not have "full screen glow effect" which is their name for anti-aliasing - it makes things fuzzier and sometimes less real or legible. I do have 1280x1024 24-bit color, 24-bit samples and only Ironforge thus far has had any stuttering effect on the FPS. Then only temporarily - it seems the level of detail handler works fairly well.
Oh, and I'm back on DVI connection - purity of image and color incarnate.