7900gtx is the best of those two and it will run games on max for pretty much ever untill games become direct 10 only which will be like 2-4 years mastershake575
lol see my dad wants it to last long its a alienware mALX
7900 GTX's, or 7900GS.......do games run on max settings? And how much longer will it be able to run games on high/maxed?xfactor19990
dont this tread question depend on what game you play more then what you got as hardware ? you can play solitare and lemmings, tetris and minesweeper til your computer die of old age and your mobo's battery is out sometime in the year2017. but if you planing to run newer games like Flight simulator Xand Dirt etc etc on Ultra settings, thats max on those games, your graphics are allredy down mark.
[QUOTE="xfactor19990"]7900 GTX's, or 7900GS.......do games run on max settings? And how much longer will it be able to run games on high/maxed?knut-am
dont this tread question depend on what game you play more then what you got as hardware ? you can play solitare and lemmings, tetris and minesweeper til your computer die of old age and your mobo's battery is out sometime in the year2017. but if you planing to run newer games like Flight simulator Xand Dirt etc etc on Ultra settings, thats max on those games, your graphics are allredy down mark.
Exactly, but ya it will not last you five years and dx10 games are coming out next year and chances are you will want to play them. Just wait until the new nvidia and ati cards come out and then the 8800gtx and 8800gs will have a price drop.
best program I find to overclock both ATI and Nvidia, is ATItool (yes its called ATI tool, but works on a nvidia cards, thats how I got my volt modded 7900gs xt to 677/835).
Alienwares are overpriced (by atleast $500-$1000), but anyways...
Thats a good card (both of them). Im not sure they will max games out for more than another year or so (although it will last long, just not on max). Reason why is because the new DirectX 10 (aka the next generation of video cards) just started comming out, and games will start be using DX10 graphics for max settings, and eventually only DX10 visuals within the next 2-3 years. The 7XXX series of video cards only run DX9, although really well. So the card's will probibly last about a year running on max settings before the new DX10 games will be out.
The 8XXX series of video cards from Nvidia can run both DX9 and DX10. The 8800 GS is a very good card thats both affordable and will last litterally, several years because it uses the new DX10 technology. Its worth around $270 retail.
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