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LH865:
Glad I could help. If you decide to upgrade you GPU get ATI 4870 or even better get the 4870X2, IMO it's better that the current NV

tlabbe:

--- Quote from: LH865 on August 13, 2008, 01:22:38 am ---Glad I could help. If you decide to upgrade you GPU get ATI 4870 or even better get the 4870X2, IMO it's better that the current NV

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Thanks again for your help, very appreciated. I am really anxious to see if the added RAM will indeed make a huge difference vs. the current 1GB. I never thought ATI were better than the current nvidia offering, is it still a pain updating drivers like in the past or things have really changed since then? During the times of the Catalyst 3.1 drivers those were a pain to update, so far I have the Catalyst 8.3 and they seem to have made an improvement since then.  Never had a problem updating Nvidia drivers (when I had a Geforce 2 back then...)

Thierry

LH865:
A long time ago I only have 1 Gb ram then upgraded to 2 GB and I can confirm it will give you boost, especially FPS wise.

About the GPU I currently upgraded to ATI 4870 the 512 version and extremely happy with it. It's not just the price but also the performance. Before this I have GTS 8800 320MB and I was thinking to get the GTX 260. But lots of people recommend to get 4870 and seen lots of benchmark for it.

The newest ATI driver (8.7) is good as well maybe better than the current NV driver.

tlabbe:

--- Quote ---A long time ago I only have 1 Gb ram then upgraded to 2 GB and I can confirm it will give you boost, especially FPS wise.
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Agreed. The 2GB of ram REALLY made quite a difference. Very impressed by the boost!

Thanks for your help mate! And all I thought my video card wasn't powerful enough, can't wait to test out JFK now!

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