G550 Gaming Performance

[xbnmx]

How well does the G550 perform in gaming, does it's performance signifigantly scale with CPU increases, and how is it's IQ?

[Maggi]

it crawls really slow in 32bpp, but it seems to be flying in 16bpp ...

it scales nicely with faster CPUs, but mainly it's held back by its 64bit bus.

What do you mean about its IQ ?

[Novdid]

That's what ati people call overall quality.

[Maggi]

I see ...

well then, 2D looks awesome (very good) and 3D too, except for EMBM which has gotten butt ugly on G550

As I said above, performance is only good in 16bpp and all transparencies like fog and smoke look quite ugly in hicolor, but 32bpp is not an option for gaming (speedwise).

[xbnmx]

Actualy...

IQ stands for Image Qualitu, and I'm a 3dfx'er. I think I'll use a G550 anyway, and also put in a Quantum 3D Mercury Sub-System for gaming, by the way, i read that EMBP is not working with the G550 when it's conected using DVI, perhaps that's the problem...