Supreme Commander
Supreme Commander (DirectX 9)
This real-time strategy game boasts an incredibly beautiful graphics engine that really stress our GPUs here as well as being one of the first games to be really multi-threaded as well.
This game is very CPU dependent, but we DO see SOME changes as the GPU changes between the AMD and NVIDIA camps. The 8800 GTX and Ultra are much faster at the new SupCom RTS though the Ultra doesn’t offer much over the GTX in this title.
The 8800 Ultra looks like it
The 8800 Ultra looks like it might be a decent gain over the 8800 GTX in GPU limited games. Very expensive though, when you could just overclock a GTX.
Honestly I’d probably get the
Honestly I'd probably get the GTX and overclock, but I love the idea of the quiet cooler. I'll have to wait to see if they get cheaper on eBay or something in like 10 or 11 years…