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Ron Overdrive
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Join date: 10 Jul 2005
Posts: 1,002
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01-05-2006 14:43
From: Torley Torgeson 300kiloBytes/sec or 300kilobits/sec? If it's the former, I'd be very surprised because I've never seen SL's download rate jump that high. Inworld, press, CTRL-SHIFT-1 to call up the stats and look on the right. It shows the transfer rate in kbps, or kilobits per second. I have mine set to 900, I've watched it on many occasions hit 700 - 800 and once in a while spike past 900 all the way past the 1.0mbit marker. Most of the time though it spikes to 300 when first entering a sim and slows to around 32 - 64. |
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Hammerund Schlegel
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Join date: 26 Jul 2004
Posts: 17
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01-12-2006 16:39
From: Torley Linden Even with an extremely fast graphics card like an Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX, it won't use all the tasty power inside, and you need a superfast CPU paired with that, as well as top-notch RAM, AND a fat Internet connexion with as little packet loss and latency as possible, and you'll still get serious hits in framerate. Yes, I can confirm that - I get 10-15 frames with a X2/4600, a GF 7800GFX and a very fast internet connection.  |
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Hammerund Schlegel
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Join date: 26 Jul 2004
Posts: 17
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01-12-2006 16:43
From: LittleSuzie Alexander Sorry.. I inherited the GEForce 5200 PCI card from my previous PC, when i upgraded the motherboard to a WinFast NF4UK8AC running the Athalon cpu. This board hasnt an AGP slot, but has PCIE-16 support.
Funny enough the GeForce 6600 is also available as PCIE as well, but i really need to feel i've some chance of geting some improvement before spending £80 on a card that might or might not make much difference! The 5200 is a minor performance card, it actually is a Mx440/460 in disguise. You will certainly see an improvement when you switch to a 6600. You also should consider the 6600GT (also available for AGP) or the plain 6800 (also for AGP) which are each a bit stronger than the previous. |
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Molly Switchblade
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Join date: 9 Jan 2006
Posts: 25
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been there, done that
01-12-2006 22:05
From: Hammerund Schlegel The 5200 is a minor performance card, it actually is a Mx440/460 in disguise This turns out not to be the case. At least I wasn't true when I worked at NVIDIA on these GPUs. A Geforce4 MX 4x0 are NV17 and NV18 DX8 GPUs, depending whether they have AGP4x or AGP 8x respectively. The NV17/18 are basically GeForce2 with extra vertex shaders, and are essentially not even as powerful as a GeForce3 (NV20). On the other hand, the GeForce FX 5100/5200/5300/5500 are all variants of the NV34, a AGP8x DX9 compliant GPU. The NV34 offers two real genereations of improvement over the NV17/18, offering higher memory bandwidth, extra vertex shaders, extra pixel shaders, and more pixel pipelines. There's no real comparison. The FX 5200 blows away the MX 4x0 series. However, they each represent the lowest of the low end of their respective marketing generations. Give me a GeForce4 Ti4x00 over a FX 5200. For games, I'd recommend better frame rate over better image quality any day.
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