VGA question

[hemagoku]

i have a geforce 7300SE/7200GS ,everyone is telling me its bad ,and it doesn't support dx10 ,so i was thinking of buying a new card ,8500GT so is it good ? ,btw i have a single core

[deep.in]

Well i think you better buy 8600GT...it is better, and i doubt price will be much higher than 8500

If you are real gamer, and want to play new games at highest settings, i think you need to buy something better, but if you are gamer like me, 86GT will be more than enough Yes, i have 8600GT, and it is kinda fast. Tested it on Crysis...runs smoothly on medium settings, i didnt try high settings, because 2GB of RAM isnt enough. Also tryed it on ParaWorld, FEAR...no lag at all. Since i play only few times in a month, i didnt tested it on more games, but i think it will work just fine

Soon i'm gonna try it on Turok...yes, the new Turok Good luck buying

[Blurred]

Change your processor too single core is bad... Get at least dual or quad

[AXII]

PALIT 8600 GT SONIC is overclocked version.Also good results about o/c again.



80nanometre 289Milyon transistor
CPU SPEED 600
Parallel cpu speed 1200
Parallel cpu number 32
Memory Speed 1600
Memory 256mb
Memory Interface 128-bit
ROP 8
Interface: PCI Express
DirectX version: 9-10

[pr0klobster]

You could always consider spending the $30-40 more and get an 8800GS w/ 192-bit interface and 128 megs more texture memory, if you're thinking pure budget card.

8800GS benches about 9000+ in 3dmark06 as opposed to 5-6k for the 8600GT. The performance in games is also higher.

[JacksColon]

8800GTX FTW!

[sting13]

Your cpu will bottleneck, it MIGHT run 8600gt but it definally wont run 8800gt. Even if you buy you wont see much of an improvement with single core.

[pr0klobster]

Your cpu will bottleneck, it MIGHT run 8600gt but it definally wont run 8800gt. Even if you buy you wont see much of an improvement with single core.

A single-core CPU rig purely for gaming actually isn't any slower than a dual-core in a game that is NOT optimized for dual-core. In many games it is faster. It would depend on the processor speed and CPU family too, although the IPC (instructions per clock) of a dual-core is typically higher. Dual-cores benefit the OS more than anything in terms of "smoothness".

SRO seems to dislike dual-cores anyway, since we've seen so many people reporting that the processor affinity fix helps their crashing problems. (Although, fwiw, I have never needed to manually set the affinity, I just do so I can use the second core for other things; and on my system SRO ran faster with both cores enabled.)