Supreme Commander
At first glance, the numbers look terrible. But remember, this is an RTS, not a first person shooter. Consistent frame rates are more important than a high average frame rate and even 1280x1024 is playable.
Regardless, can you say "CPU bottlenecked?" Yes, Supreme commander doesn’t seem to care which video card is used. There is fluctuation here and there, but the benchmark is a replay of a saved game and won’t produce exact results each time it is taken, so we can conclude that the video card isn’t having much of an impact here. Let’s add some image quality options and try again:
Frame rates took a hit, but a relatively small one. And it’s the same old story retold, as the 8600 GT has playable performance at 1024x768 with IQ options enabled.
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the sims 2
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the best cpu
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The NEC Multisync 20WMGX2
How much more performance inprovement would it be sensable to expect from the drivers and partner overclocking?
Would it say get to the point where it would be viable for those with 7600gt and x1650xt cards to change over to these new "midrange cards" ?
Mactronix
Ive just upgraded from HD2600XT's (DDR4) in Crossfire mode and their performance as a single card solution were poor to say the least but very good in Crossfire (equal to that of HD2900XT/PRO on 3DMark06 - around 9,000-10,000 with 5000+ AMD)... but if you're upgrading from a 7600GT or X1650XT then I very much doubt there'll be much difference apart from the HD benefits. These cards are hugely limiting themselves with the 128-bit bus and it shows at high res's... maybe wait for the next wave of midrange cards to be released that could have 256-bit memory bus.