The amount of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has now reported to have passed 25,000 apps by one site tracking comings and goings within it. (source: WindowsPhoneAppslist, July 2011)
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I got a 9800 GTX and can run literally anything crysis, Far Cry 2, COD4 and 5 Maxxed on 1920 x 1200. And when I say maxed I mean EVERYTHING at max including Anti Aliasing and full filtering. I get a steady 160-200 FPS in COD4. And high 50s with FC2 and Crysis. Why? Because I am running a Core I7 920 with unlocked multipliers. I honestly thought I would be getting rid of my 9800 when I bought it and upgrading to something more beastly. I think a lot of people are overlooking how much performance gain you get out of this new platform and would rather stuff 1000$ worth of graphics cards into a dated expired platform. My vote is upgrade to an I7 if you have the money, grab one of these
Hmmm.. strange.. some of the reviews above use i7 procs and don't match your results there guy.
Are they unlocked? I also use a stripped OS, very stripped. Plus it is a GTX + not just a GTX. Also..... I have a 150 gig SAS drive at 1500 RPM so hey maybe I'm just deranged, or maybe a benchmark on some doucheballs comp is not the end all be all of the potential of a particular platform.
Ya the GTX 250 is identical to the 9800 gtx+ and the benchmarks do match, guy. Maybe you should know wtf you are talking about before opening your chops.
Well the reviewers list their system set ups.. pretty much all of them are i7's but I didn't notice anyone overclocking them. They are getting closer to 30FPS in Far Cry 2 but also aren't OC'ing or using 15000RPM hard drives (I'm assuming that's what you meant). But I somehow doubt your OC'ing efforts are getting you nearly 100% performance boosts over professional reviewers who are very good at setting up systems.
The GTX+ is also a more expensive (30%-50% depending on brand) card that uses 90 more watts at load... but yeah, it's a good card.. don't see anyone denying that nor do I see anyone claiming you need a $400 card to game at high performance. It hasn't been that way for a good 2 years.
By the way.. the 30FPS I mentioned in FC2 is fairly consistant accross all the review systems that are using core i7's.
Relax dude.. I'm not exactly sure what your problem is.. I'm just pointing out that your numbers are nearly double the FPS of what professional reviewers are claiming with the card you own.... it makes your claims rather suspect IMO.
You can't really compare benchmarks of articles to your own unless you grab the FPS at the exact same scene in the game as they do. Many reviewers also use an average.. meaning they can get 100fps just standing around, and drop to 30fps in heavy action, and average it out to 65fps, where many users will just post the highest FPS they can get. (not saying that is what you did MK, just making a point)
Also, I've used a heavily stripped down version of XP, and also played games in 64-bit vista, and only had maybe a frame or two difference in performance between the two. As long as nothing is actively running (taking up CPU cycles), and you have enough RAM, the OS doesn't have a huge impact on gaming performance.