Better than 8800GTS?
1876717
The current GTS is beaten by the new 8800GT and the 8800GT is only beat by 8800GTX barely. There will be a new revamped 8800GTS later out this month but if you an get your hands on a 8800GT and with a little overclocking you have a superb card at a great deal in your hands. Bonus it has DirectX 10 support.
1407746
Thanks for your response. Yes, I still need to know why the price is more for the 880. May be, someone else can answer that.
1876721
the new GTS with the G92 and 512 specs will have a bigger fan than the GT, heat has been the major problem of the GT cards and in performance its gonna be slightly faster with a 128 shader comparing to the 112 from the GTi say wait they should be out on the 13th of DEC
138732
It will depend on the game you're playing. Older ones like WoW will be fine, but any new ones you will probably not be able to do that as the GT 840M is a mid level GPU. To play the newer more demanding games on high settings and maintain good FPS as well as record with FRAPS you will want a GTX 870M or 880M, the 860M may cut it but you will probably some log FPS drops.
1401810
Good luck...I have four TS140's and I have had great luck turning them into solid workstations. Aside from the one exception, 3 of 4 have Xeons, ECC memory, SSD OS Drives, RAID Data, and GTX 750 Ti Video. I like them so much, I wait for crazy sales and pick another up as my next project. Low 200's for the i3-4130 and low 300's for the e3-1225v3 is really hard to beat. The one you got is the best deal because is has Xeon and the extra drive bay.
1955391
yes. in gaming performance its on par with the 8800gs. so you can expect high settings (if not max) on new games, but with limited aa if any, and settling for lower resolution such as 1440X900 and below to achieve optimum performance. move up to 1680X1050 and compromises in settings may need to occur to maintain smooth gameplayso think of this as an 8800gs for todays games rather then yesterdaysand for games two or three years old? this card should max out most. plus its latest tech, dx11, and HTPC people drool over it. apparently its an all around good card for hd, vids, viewing pics, movies, all that stuff yes. in gaming performance its on par with the 8800gs. so you can expect high settings (if not max) on new games, but with limited aa if any, and settling for lower resolution such as 1440X900 and below to achieve optimum performance. move up to 1680X1050 and compromises in settings may need to occur to maintain smooth gameplayso think of this as an 8800gs for todays games rather then yesterdaysand for games two or three years old? this card should max out most. plus its latest tech, dx11, and HTPC people drool over it. apparently its an all around good card for hd,... » Read More yes. in gaming performance its on par with the 8800gs. so you can expect high settings (if not max) on new games, but with limited aa if any, and settling for lower resolution such as 1440X900 and below to achieve optimum performance. move up to 1680X1050 and compromises in settings may need to occur to maintain smooth gameplayso think of this as an 8800gs for todays games rather then yesterdaysand for games two or three years old? this card should max out most. plus its latest tech, dx11, and HTPC people drool over it. apparently its an all around good card for hd, vids, viewing pics, movies, all that stuff « Show Less
103863
The graphics on the 2.0Ghz model are perfectly fine for your purposes. I have one of these machines and it is excellent for just what you plan to do. Enjoy!
531485
I can run my computer at 1333 and 2.4k mghz and can't tell a difference on my gaming rig running SLI 2x NVIDIA 780 cards. I have been building my own computers for fifteen years I would say if you already have 16GB in your rig then no. Wait until your next big upgrade. I needed to upgrade because of my new motherboard and CPU. Others that want the latest and greatest would say otherwise.
2032171
The gtx780 will be faster but has less memory. The memory will only be a factor if you are running 3 or more monitors. Both cards will handle any game on the market like a champ.
186715
The GV-N65TOC-1G is marginally faster though I would suspect that they would perform similarly. In Crysis you would see about a 5 frame drop on the '650 Ti' vs the '650 Ti OC'.
1747597
The only difference is 500GB of non SD - extra storage and 16GB of exrra RAM. The Qosmio's are known to over heat and my ASUS (so far) hasn't overheated after 8 hours of continuous game play. The system runs quiet too. Despite the the fact it's pretty heavy (though not too heavy), the laptop is a solid choice. Also, the Nvidia 880M (4GB) is a very very good card and you can't go wrong with that. I would have to look at the screen definition. However my ROG is HD and I assume the Samsung is too. Good luck with your purchase!
1015570
i picked mine from this list, make sure its better than onboard Intel graphics if you have that.http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html
504977
I had the same question. i got a good price for the 830 and its slightly upgraded. I am very happy with it.
786732
Yes it is better, the one from Nvidia that is similar and quite a bit superior in some points is the 750 gtx.
1012596
I'm using this board right now and it's pretty good. I would say any nvidia gtx hight than 600. It might be old but it performs great. Just be very gentle when installing it.
1058334
Edison Sandoval knows what he's talking about his answer is correct. John Livingston does not know on board graphics vs. the 880M. The on board graphics will share the system memory not the 880.
177172
I just downloaded the demo and cranked up all of the settings (@2560x1600) with my GTX 780... I was getting about 200 FPS in the flight sim part.In other words, this card is about 3x more powerful than you really need--anything over 60 frames per second is wasted on most monitors. You could spend only $150-200 and get something that's more than enough for flight sims. The GTX 760 is reasonably priced, as are the older versions of the Radeon cards (ex. 7950 Boost).