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I have my New PC !

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i just wanted to ask if i can play actual games with it (cuz now i just dont have the experience cause its new maybe some of you has a system thats almost equal to mine ) when i buy a better graphics card ( Geforce 8600 GT or Radeon x1950PRO )

Dual Core 1.8 GHZ
2048MB DDR2 RAM
ATI RADEON 2400 XT ( lol i know the card sux for acutal games )

well i payed 450 euro.......

thats all i write cause i think thats enough....
what do u think ? i mainly want to play COD 4 !
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wow ahhh i havn't a clue my video card is NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 and Bioshock goes slow i can't play Gears Of War which i payed $50 O_o if i work this summer i'm buying parts and building my own computer....call it The Super Computer :lol:
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lol great.....but this doesnt answered my question :lol:
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Re: I have my New PC !

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hurenBock wrote:what do u think ? i mainly want to play COD 4 !
Cod4 is perfectly playable on even older machines.
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freakboy wrote:
hurenBock wrote:what do u think ? i mainly want to play COD 4 !
Cod4 is perfectly playable on even older machines.
not really if you got a crappy video card COD4 might not run
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depends what you mean by 'crappy'
shader model 2.0 cards aren't crappy unless they're gffx
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Sm2 cards came out a million years ago.
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32-bit processors came out in 1987. These suckers can run Crysis.
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I can run COD4 with my R9800SE perfectly so... and this card came out like four years ago. Four years in gaming is like a century irl.
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lol idk have u guys seen actual benchmarks of the RADEON HD 2400XT ?

i mean ok when u activate AA 8x and AF 16x then its pretty sure that the performance breaks in......cause with these options they benchmark all cards.......

but i dont want to play with everything setting to high ! i want to play without AA and AF and 800x600 that would be enough for me.......

all i want are 25-30+ frames constantly ( in COD 4 )
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i mean ok when u activate AA 8x and AF 16x then its pretty sure that the performance breaks in......cause with these options they benchmark all cards.......
There's not much sense in using antialising with high resolutions, you won't get noticeably better picture. I myself thought of buying AGP edition of HD 2600, this card should be sufficient for some time.
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yeah youre right i think the same about this........

when u run high res u wont see a noticeable diffrence at all......
but thats it how they test the performance of new cards......
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well if i were you i wouldnt buy that HD2600 CARD
dont know but i wouldnt buy her

just check some benchmarks.......i mean i would tend to spend a few more bucks for having a card thats able to handle future games.......then having a card thats already to weak for actual games

i will buy myself an RADEON x1950 PRO found a dealer who offers it for 120 euro thats cheap they other dealer wants 170 !

and damn the card is almost 30% faster than an GFORCE 8600 GT that costs 110 euro
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Post by Narfous »

hurenBock wrote:just check some benchmarks.......
the 'slow' hd benchmarks were done before ATI fixed a recent drastic performance bug in their drivers.
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didnt knew that narfous.......

anyways i buyed myself now a RADEON x1950 PRO using the CATALYST v8.1..........

CALL OF DUTY 4 runs PERFECTLY on medium settings @ 1024

DOOM 3 runs perfectly on HIGH settings @ 1024

KANE AND LYNCH runs a little bit slow sometimes but almost 20-25 frames.....all the time.....

CONDEMNED runs perfectly too ! @ 1024 and medium - high settings....

ARMED ASSAULT runs damn slow......dont know why i use V1.0 without any patch.......

MOH AIRBORNE runs good but just medium settings @ 800x600

these are all games i lent from the video store to check performance.......
BTW i also GOT VIETCONG 1 but that game doesnt want to START under VISTA.........

i read that the MULTIPLAYER MODE isnt COMPATIBLE with VISTA but singleplayer should be working.......well i didnt use PATCH v1.60 though will install it and check again then........

but if someone knows how to run it plz tell me bye
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