recomendation for a video card?

I looked at the website for that HD card, it said 450w. I'm getting the 8500GT (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...t_shr?_encoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance) because it's cheap, my PSU can handle it, and I can do battlefield 2 and other games like that at good settings. I see 8500GT cards doing good work on Crysis with medium to medium-high settings. But I would choose to set itself for optimal settings. The PSU upgrade is just too costly, and the 8500GT will do me good enough with my current games (and I don't really care if I can't have the highest settings) and will hold me until my real gaming machine is done, which will be at the least a year (maybe 2 years, I'm going to take my time),when the 9800GT might not be one of the best cards for the current games, and the video card will be one of the later parts I buy, but I'll make sure the motherboard has good plugs. lol. I just typed more then I needed to, didn't I? lol, again.
 
ducis said:
you going to be very disappointed when you pop in the crysis disk and watch a power point presentation of ingame screenshots
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haha :) thats a little exaggerated...
Now with the 8500GT you will have to play on everything on low, and play at 800/600. With that you can get about 18 Average frames or so.It is playable.

I play on my little overclocked 8400GS and i have everything on low @ 800/600 and i get 16 FPS on average.And i can still play just fine...

IF you overclock the 8500GT then you could probably get 22FPS with everything on low.


^ and racerfly, if you go on 800/600 with med. settings, it will not be playable...you would be lucky to get 10FPS...Med high is just out of the question, thats wen the slideshow starts to premier...
 
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this is something that's sort've funny that happens with my current integrated graphics (and idk why). You all know the the ATI x200 integrated graphics is pretty terrible, right? sadly, that's what I have at the moment on my motherboard. the sort've funny thing is that I can play the Crysis demo with everything at lowest settings, actually sort've good. by that, I mean it actually runs pretty clearly at the skydiving part and also when I'm running around. it only slows down a lot when there's lots of things showing (lots of buildings or AI), or if it's saving, or if I do something for the first time that I haven't done yet, or in a while (like the first time I shoot a gun, or get in a vehicle), which I guess means that's what the RAM is for, right? I currently, at the time of typing, have only 1gb, but I'll have 3gb in a couple days. after that, I'm going to try it again and see if there's a difference. I'll try it again wih the new video card, too, of course.
i type too much. lol
 
Getting 3GB of Ram and a 8500GT, isnt going to blow your mind, you will notice a change, but youll be able to run it a 15-20fps on all low, and the end of the day you get what you pay for. Better Graphics = more £$
If you want to run med high settings, get a 4850 or a 9800GTX, with a 450W PSU.
 
I got the RAM today and I successfully installed it. Booted up my computer and made sure it detected it. It said 2.93gb, close enough. I know that's system files & etc. Anyway, I opened Crysis (by the way, I'm using the demo at the moment, I don't have the full yet), and it loaded up, like, 3x faster. I opened my save, which is about half way through it. It loaded up in a little less than 1 minute, I think. When it started, there was NO slowdown, ever. It was actually at about 5 fps, I think. It actually went up to about 10 fps now and then for a bit. Pretty good for ATI x200 Radeon integrated graphics. What do you think about this?
 
Here's an idea. Click here

There are supplemental power supplies out there that are dedicated to just powering a graphics card. So keep your original PSU. I would buy this SPSU and a GeForce 8 series graphics card.
 
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