Hi, I have a fairly nice computer and I could run games like battlefield 2 amazing well. I recently went from a 15" LCD to a 20.1" LCD and now everything has to be toned down a lot if I want to play without lagging... I am looking for a new video card I could get that wouldn't cost me over $200 and that could run most high end games at a resolution of 1400x1050, on highest detail, and with ZERO lag. These are my specs according to http://www.systemrequirementslab.com CPU You Have: 2 processors running - Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 w/ HT technology CPU 3.00GHz CPU Speed You Have: 3.00 GHz Performance Rated at 4.50 GHz System RAM You Have: 2.0 GB Operating System You Have: Microsoft Windows Vista Professional (Build 6000) Video Card You Have: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 (GeForce 6600) Video Card Features: Video RAM: You have - 512.0 MB Video Card 3D Acceleration: Yes Video HW Transform & Lighting: Yes Vertex Shader Ver.: You have - 3.0 Pixel Shader Ver.: You have - 3.0 Video Card Driver Version (DirectX) Your driver version number is: 7.15.11.6369 Sound Card You Have: Realtek AC'97 Audio Sound Card Driver Version Your driver version number is: 5.10.0.6250 Free Disk Space You Have: 235.1 GB (I have a 320GB HDD + a 80GB HDD)
Well since you have AGP, a 7800/7600 would do fine... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130274&Tpk=7800 Wont play Crysis on max though... Only a 8800 will. Why dont you just turn down the resolution?
Yes, the majority of people I know with 3.0Ghz P4s (and amazingly I know about 6 of them) all have PCI express. You'll find newer games a struggle, as your CPU is quite slow, but you've got plenty of RAM. I'd recommend something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102094
I just recommended some one this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814241063 Its a bit high in price, but it is a well performing card.
Well that one actully has a decent cooler on it, or so it seams. it looks just like the power cooler, and judging from the reviews, it doesnt have any cooling problems either. The AGP version did, not the PCI-e version, which is the one I recommended.
Stupid TEC. When do they come in handy anyway? I hear the Vigor Monsoon II keeps the CPU below 0C, but I dont know how that would work since it has a fan... No watercooling involved.
The smartass answer is 'a miracle'. The realistic answer is that it depends what you mean by high. If you mean maximum detail, tough luck you can't do it. If you mean medium to high detail with a few settings off, you could probably do it with an X1950XT, which cost around $180 from newegg.
Not necessarily, I wager I could manage it fine at 1024x768 with my X1900XT, and a lot of people play games at that resolution (to my amazement). Time will tell I suppose. I think what we should reiterate is that 1280x1024 on high is about as far as you could go (or 1440x900 for widescreen users) with today's graphics hardware.
Taken from Cevat Yerli Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek, has recommended an Intel Core 2 Duo e6600 processor and an Nvidia Geforce 8800 and at least 2GB of RAM to get the best experience out of Crysis. http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=905
Since that's what the average top end PC has these days, he's just picked out benchmark components. At a 3Ghz overclock, my E4300 will do it fine, and an X1900XT isn't too far off an 8800GTS, so I think I'll manage fine, but I have to say Waymon, I think you'll want a new CPU before you play it...
Thanks for all your help guys, I looked into the X1950XT and it looks suitable, I was wondering if there was anything a little better than that for under $250 (also a gecube), and since I'm only familiar with nvidia what would the x1950xt and something higher than that be comparable to?
In response to question 1, not that I can think of In response to question 2, it's similar to a 7950GT In response to question 3, not as well as the X1950XT.
The 8600 will probably run Crysis with medium/low settings, but mostly medium. Their are videos on youtube that show people playing with the 8600 in the Crysis Beta. I know sam, my P4 sucks, and all of them do when it comes to gaming. I'll be getting a Q6600 G0 stepping though and probably oce it to at least 3.0 Ghz. I was looking more into the 8950GX2, and I've found out that there isnt even clarification on it yet, so it probably wont be released (if it ever will be) before or around Christmas. It looks like the 8800GT will be that card. However, I did read that Ati is releasing a duel GPU card in November, so I might trade to that card if their isnt a 8950GX2.
