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GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) FPB 1GB 192-bit GDDR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130625

If so how well does it work i just bought one off of new egg.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    I have pretty much the same, but the 2GB video memory version.

    All I have to say is it works great!

    I got it for the DX11 capabilities, and it works great for that. I just wish they would correct the black textures. I know they said they did, but the NX Ent ship still has a big black section on the saucer, and SFA still has some black sections where shadows should be in the Doff Office.

    But otherwise it works great!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    I use the 4 gb version and it works great. First got its test run on skyrim and now with this game. Both I could run at max settings with absolutely no lag. I think the card memory is also dependent on your ram but if you got both in good amounts you should be good. The only problem I get with dx 11 is the nebula flicker, but non of the weird black textures as others have experienced.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    OK cool then i paid for a good card then.
    I got plenty of ram.

    8gigs of Rip Jaw memory
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    The 550 is a good card, but the 460 is better. The 460 is that anomaly in the Fermi family that just stands out for being awesome.

    My 460 runs BF3 on ultra 1680x1050 at 50-60fps with the factory overclock. Runs Skyrim on ultra with modded FXX injectors and higher resolution textures all around at 60-80fps..The card's a monster. And it's well under $200.00..It's ridiculous.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Its a decent mid range card. It will handle most games near maxed out, and it has pretty good efficiency and power draw.

    Lol at the guy who bought a 4 gb version of that card. You dumb bro. 1 Gb is plenty, 2 gb is a little dumb, 4 gb is idiocy.

    More VRAM doesnt make your card any more powerful, and sometime makes it slower because that much ram requires you to lower the default ram speed, thus slower due to less memory bandwidth.

    Also, speaking of too much ram, 4 gb of system memory is enough for any game, x86 games can only use 2gb at once and there are almost no x64 games out there, and even x64 games dont show any benefit from more 4 gb.

    8gb is fine, but 16 is total waste for gaming.

    also, you will be amzed at difference between your 8400 and your new gtx 550, you are talking over 10 times more powerful, if not more.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    LiNalas wrote: »
    Its a decent mid range card. It will handle most games near maxed out, and it has pretty good efficiency and power draw.

    Lol at the guy who bought a 4 gb version of that card. You dumb bro. 1 Gb is plenty, 2 gb is a little dumb, 4 gb is idiocy.

    More VRAM doesnt make your card any more powerful, and sometime makes it slower because that much ram requires you to lower the default ram speed, thus slower due to less memory bandwidth.

    Also, speaking of too much ram, 4 gb of system memory is enough for any game, x86 games can only use 2gb at once and there are almost no x64 games out there, and even x64 games dont show any benefit from more 4 gb.

    8gb is fine, but 16 is total waste for gaming.

    also, you will be amzed at difference between your 8400 and your new gtx 550, you are talking over 10 times more powerful, if not more.


    Being prepared and having a computer that will be able to handle alot of games both present and future is not dumb. Yeah i have 16 gb of ram too so I suppose that is over kill but I paid less then 1000 for the system built so I think it was well invested for the next few years or more.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    I have the 560ti, 2GB, and I run it with max settings under Linux via Wine. So if there were performance issues, I can't tell. All my chums on Teamspeak seem to think this game has much higher capabilities than the other MMOs out there, so I would say you should be fine.

    HTH.
    [schotty@bigred ~]$ glxinfo | grep GeForce
    OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCI/SSE2
    [schotty@bigred ~]$
    
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    cjytopher wrote:
    Being prepared and having a computer that will be able to handle alot of games both present and future is not dumb. Yeah i have 16 gb of ram too so I suppose that is over kill but I paid less then 1000 for the system built so I think it was well invested for the next few years or more.

    Getting a video card with 4 GB RAM is not being prepared for the future, it's falling for marketing techniques. Currently, 1 GB of RAM suffices for all but the most recent games / high-end (=multi-monitor) systems. This has been the case for some time and is unlikely to change soon.

    While the 550 Ti is a decent mid-range card, it's by no means going to last forever. By the time that 4 GB video-RAM is required for popular games at mid-range settings, the 550 Ti chip will be hopelessly outdated.

    To add insult to injury, what's far more important than the size of the video-RAM is the speed of it. Faster is more expensive, obviously. Videocard manufacturers generally go for cheaper RAM on the models with more RAM, to keep costs down. Because 4 GB of high-speed video RAM is quite expensive. You don't even see it on the $500 top-end videocards. So these budget / mid-range models with a ton of RAM will almost always perform worse than models with the same chip but less RAM.

    A good guideline for 99% of the computer-users right now: Unless you do multi-monitor gaming, investing in more than 1 GB of video-RAM, iwhen a 1 GB model is available too, s a waste of money.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Rannasha wrote:
    Getting a video card with 4 GB RAM is not being prepared for the future, it's falling for marketing techniques. Currently, 1 GB of RAM suffices for all but the most recent games / high-end (=multi-monitor) systems. This has been the case for some time and is unlikely to change soon.

    While the 550 Ti is a decent mid-range card, it's by no means going to last forever. By the time that 4 GB video-RAM is required for popular games at mid-range settings, the 550 Ti chip will be hopelessly outdated.

    To add insult to injury, what's far more important than the size of the video-RAM is the speed of it. Faster is more expensive, obviously. Videocard manufacturers generally go for cheaper RAM on the models with more RAM, to keep costs down. Because 4 GB of high-speed video RAM is quite expensive. You don't even see it on the $500 top-end videocards. So these budget / mid-range models with a ton of RAM will almost always perform worse than models with the same chip but less RAM.

    A good guideline for 99% of the computer-users right now: Unless you do multi-monitor gaming, investing in more than 1 GB of video-RAM, iwhen a 1 GB model is available too, s a waste of money.


    Well if it upsets you then maybe you can talk to the people that built my computer and give me my 20.00 (that was the price difference in memory sizes for me) difference for getting like 3 extra gigs of memory on that thing. It wasn't expensive, I have tried out multi monitor gaming (so fun on flight simulator!) so I guess im glad for getting the extra. I also have yet to try the 3d aspect (still need glasses).

    The topic is about the card brand and not how much memory I have in it. Point was and is, it works perfectly and since I don't have both types of cards and playing them separately, I can't compare how the two run only assume from what people tell me and know from my own personal use of it. The card (regardless of memory) works, I can attest that my 4 gig version works flawlessly, there's nothing it hasn't been able to run at max settings. And im sure if you have the 1 gig version it works just as well, but I can't verify that with my own personal opinion since I haven't used the 1 gig version.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    i paid 600 for mine lol if you look below i paid for a Lower end CPU but this CPU not even maxed out on the speed i don't even want too push it too 4 GHZ but i can if needed i bought the Rip Jaw memory which it is a great price i think at the time i got it on sale 2 sticks a pop And my mother Board MSI is good i paid 100 flat for it I can Over Clock any thing i put on the Board.

    Here is what i got if you want too see.

    CPU
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103873

    RAM
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231278

    Mother Board
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130275

    The CPU was 3GHZ i think my main board was able too unlock both the Cores Most CPU cores are Locked for Safety reason's.There are some boards out there that can unlock them.Through the BIOS and i safely OC mine too 3.66GHZ
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    LiNalas wrote: »

    Also, speaking of too much ram, 4 gb of system memory is enough for any game, x86 games can only use 2gb at once and there are almost no x64 games out there, and even x64 games dont show any benefit from more 4 gb.

    .


    This is a common misnomer.
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
    There are also modified kernels to the X86 line that allow usage well above 4gb of ram. You know these flavors of x86 windows as NT Example: Windows NT4.0 server.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Specialized version of x86 windows that can address more than 4gb of memory has nothing to do with the FACT that x86 programs do not use more than 2gb of memory.

    Only 3 games out there even have x64 exes, crysis 1, half life 2, and skyrim. A modified skyrim uses more than 2gb of ram, it is the only game in existance that does.

    Also I did some research on the 4gb Point of View GTX 550 Ti, turns out it uses regular DDR3 memory instead of GDDR5 like normal 550.

    IT HAS AROUND 1/4 THE MEMORY BANDWIDTH OF NORMAL GTX 550.

    So 4 times the amount of memory, but at 1/4 the speed.

    My old geforce 6800 had around that much memory bandwidth, and that card came out around 7 years ago.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    you know whats funny about some of these ppl that bye these Video cards that cost over 500$ I bet this card will out perform them Expensive ones easy lol.I think some ppl waste too much money on a card when some of them have the same settings.Way pay more then you have too.i don't care if you got boat loads of money i think its kinda point less too spend 500+ on a video card when a card that cost 150 can do the same thing if not better.It all depends on your setup.
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