what graphics card would be for me (im quite specific)

lally07

lally07

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HI again

I need a card to allow me to play mid-range games and also have the option to play Crisis and all that but definately not all the time because i am not an intense gamer. I need it to run NFS Pro Street easily aswell.


My Budget is around £100, $200 (sorry)


PS: At the moment im stuck with a 8400gs so you can see why im desperate
 
NFS: Pro Street, from what i have heard is pretty graphics heavy. Games like pro street are made for console's and not pc.
 
9600GT $189 UDS
if u want to go over your budget about $20 USD get a 8800GT
if u want to go over your budget about $5 USD 3870
 
g25racer said:
NFS: Pro Street, from what i have heard is pretty graphics heavy. Games like pro street are made for console's and not pc.
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Are you assuming that a PC couldn't run NFS: Pro Street?? :eek: :P

On topic:

That 8800GT is a really good choice. But if you find a good deal on the HD3870 or the 8800GS (as Oscar said) either would work for the occassional medium settings gamer.
 
g25racer said:
NFS: Pro Street, from what i have heard is pretty graphics heavy. Games like pro street are made for console's and not pc.
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PCs always have an always be 1 step ahead of a gaming console.
an i can play pro street on my 7300GS(wich is a very crap card cant wait untill my 8800GT or 3870 3 days to go)
 
reddevil6 said:
na it only plays it on med at 1024 x 768 thats on my dads pentium D computer.
but still great card for price.
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Your Dad's Pentium D will be bottle-necking it, Corey (ThatGuy16), back when he had one of them had Crysis running on High and Very High, with a AMD X2 CPU...
 
reddevil6 said:
PCs always have an always be 1 step ahead of a gaming console.
an i can play pro street on my 7300GS(wich is a very crap card cant wait untill my 8800GT or 3870 3 days to go)
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Im not saying my pc cant play it but, its just not made for pc. It is really heavy on the shader mainly b/c it is still an arcade game like every other console based game.
 
g25racer said:
Im not saying my pc cant play it but, its just not made for pc. It is really heavy on the shader mainly b/c it is still an arcade game like every other console based game.
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it may be but this is what GPUs are in consoles.
PS3 could not find out what but evry page says a tinny bit less powerful than a 7800GT
the XBOX has a geforse 3
could not find a XBOX 360 one
 
Kornowski said:
Your Dad's Pentium D will be bottle-necking it, Corey (ThatGuy16), back when he had one of them had Crysis running on High and Very High, with a AMD X2 CPU...
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Actually, Corey is running HD3870's not HD3850. ;) But yeah they're pretty close and you're right, probably the Pentium D is the one causing the bottleneck. With my current system (X2 3800+, 2GB, HD3870) I can play Crysis with a mix of mid/high at decent FPS. I'm sure the HD3850 paired with a better CPU will do better. :)
 
ramodkk said:
Actually, Corey is running HD3870's not HD3850. ;) But yeah they're pretty close and you're right, probably the Pentium D is the one causing the bottleneck. With my current system (X2 3800+, 2GB, HD3870) I can play Crysis with a mix of mid/high at decent FPS. I'm sure the HD3850 paired with a better CPU will do better. :)
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Or you can OC it. :P

Have you tried, by the way?
 
OC'ing mine? no I haven't. I've been tempted to though... :rolleyes:

Does GPU OC'ing have to be done from BIOS? If so, I can't cause my MB is blocked (OEM comp)
 
Nope, just load up rivatuner or ATItool and raise both core an mem clocks. Couldn't be easier.

Too bad about the locked MB, i feel for ya. :)
 
I can only reccomend the 3870 (or the 3850 for that matter). seeing as you say you're not much of a gamer, do you bother with the idle power consumption of the card? (the power consumption when youre in windows doing nothing for example, basicly all non grafics intensive stuff) because if you are, then the 850/3870 smokes nvidia :) if you're not fuzzed, I suppose the 8800gt would be nice. (tough, I really cant complain about my card, I really like it! ^^ )
 
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