Bandwidth Place 2

I am getting the following for Christmas...
LG - 8x Internal Blu-ray Disc/Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive
Ill update my profile when I actually install it.

Bluray burner?? awesome

Got it but I can't playback blu-ray disks untill I upgrade my video card. Im looking at ...
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/PNY+-+NVIDI ... 8006355798
Look good?

Is that faster than HD4850?

I got the card but not for the $140. I got it for $80. Now it plays the BR disks but will only play up to 720p cus that's the max resolution of my monitor. Oh well, better then nothing and a good price on a video card.

The card will be fine. Also, with Adobe CS5 using CUDA, you're set. ^^

WOW I reinstalled Bio-shock and turned everything UP. Looks great with no hesitation

Horray, <buzz kill>kind of!
"thanks" to the gaming industry almost completely siding with consoles, most games should run well on modern PCs. Consoles are now what.. 5 years old? Its not like console hardware got any faster, and therefore game graphics/physics didn't get any better either. Hard to see any amazing video card killers in this kind of climate. The makers of Crysis have turned to consoles!</buzz kill>

Well, that's what I do and have to go by. I don't do flash. The best I have from Adobe, other then acrobat, is Photoshop Elements. I know of no other way of testing my card other then comparing what I had with the 7600 GT to now. But, I will also say I like gaming. We just got a PS3 and that looks awesome. Is there something I can post to benchmark my video card that I do not have to pay for?

http://unigine.com/download/
These are DX11 benchmarks (they will look less-awesome under DX10) and therefore aren't exactly suitable but at this point in time they are the what comes to mind first.

Heaven (mine):

FPS: 46.6
Scores: 1173

Settings:
Render: direct3d10
Mode: 1024x768 windowed
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled


As for the PS3, go play the two Uncharted games Uncharted 2 graphics have got to be the best I've seen for the PS3, which also shows in my watt usage measurement. That game not only broke the peak watt usage I've measured for the system, but is able to keep the watt usage at that new peak. This can only mean even better and heavier usage of the PS3 hardware than any other game I've come across.

Heaven:

FPS: 35.4
Scores: 890

Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1024x768 windowed
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled

AND

FPS: 40.7
Scores: 1025

Settings
Render: direct3d10
Mode: 1024x768 windowed
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled

I assume I could get higher if I upgraded my ram and cpu. In any case I am happy with the score

Just gotta build a system with dual Core i7-975, 24GB RAM, dual HD5970's with Lucid Hydra, and this for storage.

*with jaw hanging open*

This is the site for my card
http://www3.pny.com/9800-GT-EE-1024MB-P ... 0C331.aspx

Some funny stuff with nVidia lol.. chips like their G92 have been die shrunk again and again and have appeared as Geforce 8 and 9 series cards, and also as a GTS 2 (10) series card.

A single generation of GPU design is used in 3 generations of their video cards. Some people are lazy in that company. >_>

Wait for the release of Adobe CS5, I will envy you so much . Your card has CUDA!