My cards went all the way to 105c so I'd say yes the coolers were necessary in my case.

my gtx260+give poor fps in prototype
maybe i set the resolution to 1920x1080
ad will crash or give error when cutscene
any prototype player here?

i can play prototype in med setiings with 2xaa at 1366x768 using 8600m gt getting 30 to 38 fps ftw

According to Lingloong (who sold me the Xigmatek BattleAxe cooler), the Xigmatek BattleAxe cooler he is selling can fit on the GTX260 and GTX280/GTX285. However, it takes up more than 2 slots.

So there are two choices, either Xigmatek Battleaxe or Artic Cooling Tri-fan. I am pretty sure Artic Cooling performs significantly better but it is very rare and the fans cannot be replaced if something goes wrong.

For me, I buy 3rd party coolers because I usually cannot stand the heat and the noise (ie. high speed) generated from stock cooling. Anything that runs above 60c starts to annoy me.

mine just 40-50 fps with gtx260 max setting for prototype
but my lcd is 60 refresh rate
sometime can feel the screen like...not respond fast enough

still no idea when this cooler will come in right? i've tracked lingloong and modernopc's thread and they're not selling this yet. said ac are short on stock or somethinig.. btw xigmatek's battleaxe can fit on gtx285?? hmm will google bout that.

hey guys. how much is the gtx 285 and the gtx 295 now? planning to get one of them. and is there a difference between them? or should i wait for the 300 series? currently using 8600 gts 256mb.

GTX285 cureenly price is RM1400 and GTX295 is RM18xx...depent wahy can wait or not...if can wait then GTX300 series will be good

Thanks. I'll wait for the 300 series. heard its called the "Next-gen" of graphic cards or something.

when will the 300 series nvidia gc release?

rumors say somewhere around julai.but i've yet to see any latest news bout it

oni rumors bout the spec is it will be using ddr5,and have more thn 400 sp per card compared to the 240 max sp we have in our gtx285

wow,sure will burn a big hole in our wallet....

maybe it will launch this year.

by tat time all the cards now will be........well.........rubbish.

Omg.....where got that serious....still,all the cards will surely drop price...that's the perfect time to consider doing SLI

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u'll never know what's behind the sleeves of these gpu card makers.

i play prototype with full setting on 24" native res...1920*1080
no problem!!!

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Added on June 21, 2009, 8:29 pmi'm a slowpoke...
d new driver good r??

This post has been edited by tech_frix: Jun 21 2009, 08:29 PM

who is using gtx260+ playing the sism3 ?
can share ur settings and fps ?

hate sims 3...
make my pc slow like helll.....
bro, new driver ok r??

anyone who has working ambient occlusion with new drivers?

i'm using 2G ram for vista
now playing prototype with 1920x1080 resolution gtx260+
they say need more video ram for higer resolution
just thinking to add more 2G ram to my system
then maybe will increase the shared memory and then total available graphics memory.will it boost some performace under high resolution?