Hi Dallas > I got disappointed in my new video card today. > I have been running a Gforce 7900 gt 256 mb. > I upgraded to a Gforce 8600 gt 512 mb > The problem is that with the 7900 my 3Dmark benchmark was 4400 > With the new 8600 the benchmark is only 4300. 100 points lower than > the old card. > How is it the 8600 is considered a improvement? Who considers it an improvement? The few reviews i looked at were pretty critical: http://www.techspot.com/review/51-nvidia-geforce-8600/page4.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-8600,1585-5.html http://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/f22/nvidia-officially-launches-geforce-g80-mid-range-series-benchmarks-inside-32591/ http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1079/11/page_11_final_thoughts/index.html http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/xfx_8600_gt/10.html http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1082/14/page_14_final_thoughts/index.html from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3DMark : The measurement unit 3DMark is intended to give a normalized mean for comparing different visual processing units, which proponents assert is indicative of end-user performance capabilities. Critics counter by stating that it is a synthetic measure of real-world performance. -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.
