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Need some videocard techie help
Replies: 17Last Post July 11, 2008 8:44am by Dickij03
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8500gt is like 50 bucks on tigerdirect.com right now.  It's not worth buying anything under a 7900gt.

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If you want to do it on the cheap get an 8600GTS bare minimum or get an older generation high end card. My 7800GTX still pulls it's own weight, I can't afford a high end card right now and it does the job, so if you can pick something like that up cheap second hand it should work well, although not as future proof for DX10 but it's a more powerful card.

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Quote: from Tursi Askari at 5:31 am on July 9, 2008

O-rly? Just done a bench with my brothers 8600GT 512mb, all settings on medium, no AA, reso 1440x900 = 14fps average during the plane scene at the beginning of the game, and the first run up the beach averaged 16fps. And you should know that motion blur is even more GPU intensive and when that was turned off, FPS jumped to 19 on the beach.

Low settings yeilded 19fps on the plane with 30 on the beach (dropped to 20 when looking at the flare).

What OC were you running?


He was running at a much lower resolution (1024x768) unlike 1440x900 which explains his higher fps.

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