Originally posted by: akshayt
But tomshardware show that AMD Athlon XP 2500 should be capable of playing games maxed out with 7600GT/1950Pro at 12x10
They can with a 7800GS, I haven't thoughly tested my 7800GS in my AXP's but while the frame rates don't really increase over a 6800, it does make the frame more constant, I wouldn't really try to play FEAR or similar games at 1280x1024...you get much better results at good ole 1024x768 and the IQ isn't much worse.
when testing my AXP's with the cards that I have in them, they spent a high percentage of the time below 40fps....but above 30fps so It makes no difference in how the games run anyway....30fps is considered to be smooth...you do realise that the human eye can't see any more than 25fps right? so anything past that is perceved as smooth.
Yes my rigs don't get super frame rates....but they don't get super low frame rate either IIRC my 3000+ lowest was 24 fps with 3% below 25 fps....sweet fvck all in the way of stuttering.
I have played FEAR on both rigs and they are pretty good, very playable, even the old 9700 PRO runs it pretty good for such an old card, although turn shadows and lighting to minimum does bring frame rates up considerably with little impact on IQ (so it's not as dark and creepy...so what?)
If you believe the crap that Toms hardware puts out then you are dumber than most of us thought.
I'll tell you what I'll do for you, Akshayt, when I get a bit of spare time in the next couple of days I'll post some results for FEAR for you using my 3000+ and a 6800, 6800GT and 7800GS and you can compare them if you want, I'll even underclock my AXP to give you the results for a 2500+ and 2800+ Barton if you want.
I won't bother with Q4, NFSC or other games...they all get beyond 60FPS when using timedemo's so their results are beyond good any way.