my poor FX5600 (yeah I know :p going to buy new pc so..)

all my settings are on maximum, because the card is worse enough.
My future card will be the 7900 GS and then 8800GTS (during money issues)

ps: this should be sticky ;)

the post with the pics, yeah i agree!

If its a older game, its usually 2x AA, 4x AF or 4x AA, 8x AF depending on the game.

In most newer games its usually just no AA/ 2x AF and medium-high details.

No, what's useless is testing it in a scenario where it isn't going to have any effect. Those pictures look the same because there's very little, if anything, that multi-sampling can improve. Multi-sampling and super-sampling are just different methods of anti-aliasing. At that resolution on a zoomed-in RTS you probably wouldn't notice the difference between everything being on compared to anti-aliasing being set low (e.g. 4x or even 2x) and the rest being off.

yeah of course, i agree, but its a better example in half life 2. They use a lot of fences etc. The effect you see with supersampling is just not worth it. Every review tells it. It just asks too much of the gpu.