While playing a few demos like Quake 4 I noticed that my PC was great at rendering but very very poor at holding a nice steady framerate that was nice and high for an FPS game, the card was a 7600LE...................very basic card and far worse then a 7600GT, so I already knew that the card was holding the machine back drastically and decided to upgrade it to get better peformance, so I finally decided to get a 7950GT, I didnt care about DX10 and just wanted to play stuff like HL2 and Quake 4.

So I got the new card, installed it and realised that the card wasnt getting enough power and the card automatically had to reduce peformance accordingly, so I got hold of the tech guy who installed my card and ordered a new 600W PSU, so within hours the guy was round and installed the new PSU............but it wasnt still getting enough power. Then I realised you have to have another cable in the back as the PSI just wasnt enough, I noticed the cable in the box but thought it was for SLI, so he put the cable in and the card was now running normally.

So I try a few demos and the difference is phenominal, Civ 4 runs on max at 60fps, Quake 4 runs on max at 60fps only slowing down to around 35 when the action gets intense(demo so the final version will likely run even better), FEAR at almost everything max at a nice steady framerate etc. So the card is great, getting F.E.A.R, HL2, Doom 3, Quake 4 and BF2142 in the next few weeks.

Heres a few pics






Thanks for reading, see you in the forums, on live or if you want to play a PC game just send me a message, c ya.