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Old 22nd Dec 2007, 10:35
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Which is better for counter-strike and world of warcraft? NVIDA GeForce 7300 LE Video 256MB or the 128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8300H. I see ones bigger than the other buy LE and H?
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Old 22nd Dec 2007, 10:39
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To be honest with you they're both lousy graphics solutions and provide pretty much the same amount of performance.

The 7300 is DX9 only with it's pixel pipes and vertex shaders, the 8300 is DX10 and DX9 with it's stream shaders which take the place of the pixel pipes and vertex shaders in the 7300 making it, supposedly, a better performing architecture.

In higher end cards, this tends to be so. But in the low-mid end segment this hasn't been the case so far. AMD's X3850 might change that but we'll have to see.

Anyway, out of the two? Neither. But if forced to choose? 8300.
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Old 22nd Dec 2007, 10:45
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alright thanks, and if it comes down to the 8300 sucking, ill buy an 8800 gts. thanks, because the computer im buying comes with the 8300, or theres another one i was looking at with a 7300 so i didnt know which one.
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Old 22nd Dec 2007, 10:59
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if i buy the 7950 gt or 8800gts with the amd processor i talked about, will i be able to play crysis?
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Old 22nd Dec 2007, 11:35
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yeh depending on the rest of your specs i have the 8600gt and it runs crysis fine
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Old 22nd Dec 2007, 12:06
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Crysis is heavily dependent on the gpu. Like the majority of game titles nowadays.

You'll be able to play at decent frame rates, with a lot of detail, at upto 1680x1050 with the GTS.
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Old 22nd Dec 2007, 16:20
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whats the purpose of 2 graphics cards? was looking at this video on youtube and the guy had 2 8800 gtx graphic cards.
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Old 22nd Dec 2007, 16:24
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double the graphics cards = double the fun. Well thats the idea anyway.

Big performance boost with dual graphics but you start talking a lot bigger bucks for that.
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Old 22nd Dec 2007, 16:26
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how do both work when theres only on input coming off your monitor?
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Old 22nd Dec 2007, 16:34
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Think of it like a dual-core processor. Its the combined power of two to make the job half as laborious - if that makes sense.

Its only really needed in gaming, i believe, maybe wrong here, that they render alternate frames so that each card is doing half the work. This leaves you more power to pump up the settings to max.
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