Far Cry... AGP x850XTPE

[Eureka]

Okay, so I've started playing Far Cry... and it's bringing my 6600GT to its knees. I'm not planning to upgrade to a PCI-e anytime soon, so what's the best card. I want to be able to play at 1600x, no AA, and very high settings. Is the AGP x850XTPE good, or a bit overkill? What other cards could handle my requirements?

Norm

 

[Powermoloch]

X850XTPE will suit your needs, of course I own a x850xt non pe (hehehehe). Anyways, first take a look on an article @ Tomshardware.com on the variety of AGP cards that are available atm

I have 17inch LCD...so i'm ok

 

[Eureka]

Well, what's your other specs? I'm afraid my 2.6ghz P4 might bottleneck.

Norm

 

[Powermoloch]

Here it is my friend:

CPU: AMD Sempron 3100+ paris 1800MHz @ 2069MHz
Motherboard: Abit NF325-A7-A01
Memory: 1024 MB of PqI DDR 400
Video Card: ATi X850XT AGP ATi Radeon
Hard Drive: Diamond Max Plus 9 ATA 133 80.0 GB @ 7200 RPMS
Monitor: MAG LCD 17''

3dmark05: 6100+
3dmark03: 12,000 +
3dmark01: 21,000 +
AQ3: 63,000 +/-

 

[Eureka]

Only 6000 3DM05 with the x850?? Hmm... well I guess that's good. Well, I guess your system is close enough to mine otherwise.

Norm

 

[Powermoloch]

:thumbsup:...although a cpu upgrade sounds tad a bit better I dunno

 

[Cheesetogo]

Originally posted by: Powermoloch
:thumbsup:...although a cpu upgrade sounds tad a bit better I dunno

The video card upgrade would be considerably better for getting an increase in performance.

 

[sundev]

Originally posted by: cevilgenius
Okay, so I've started playing Far Cry... and it's bringing my 6600GT to its knees. I'm not planning to upgrade to a PCI-e anytime soon, so what's the best card. I want to be able to play at 1600x, no AA, and very high settings. Is the AGP x850XTPE good, or a bit overkill? What other cards could handle my requirements?

Well I played that game at 1680x1050 (close enough to 1600x1200) with my 6800GT with all very high settings (no AA, but I think some AF, I forget), and it worked perfectly, never below about 40 FPS if I recall correctly.

I think that the cheapest cards that can handle the game at those settings would be the X800XL and the 6800GS (the X800XL matches/beats my 6800GT in FarCry, and the 6800GS is close enough to not make a big difference).

 

[w00t]

Originally posted by: sundevb

Originally posted by: cevilgenius
Okay, so I've started playing Far Cry... and it's bringing my 6600GT to its knees. I'm not planning to upgrade to a PCI-e anytime soon, so what's the best card. I want to be able to play at 1600x, no AA, and very high settings. Is the AGP x850XTPE good, or a bit overkill? What other cards could handle my requirements?

Well I played that game at 1680x1050 (close enough to 1600x1200) with my 6800GT with all very high settings (no AA, but I think some AF, I forget), and it worked perfectly, never below about 40 FPS if I recall correctly.

I think that the cheapest cards that can handle the game at those settings would be the X800XL and the 6800GS (the X800XL matches/beats my 6800GT in FarCry, and the 6800GS is close enough to not make a big difference).

X800XL runs Farcry great for me though i have a 17'' CRT... 2005fpw here i come

my rig scored a 5,000 in 3dmark05.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: sundevb

Originally posted by: cevilgenius
Okay, so I've started playing Far Cry... and it's bringing my 6600GT to its knees. I'm not planning to upgrade to a PCI-e anytime soon, so what's the best card. I want to be able to play at 1600x, no AA, and very high settings. Is the AGP x850XTPE good, or a bit overkill? What other cards could handle my requirements?

Well I played that game at 1680x1050 (close enough to 1600x1200) with my 6800GT with all very high settings (no AA, but I think some AF, I forget), and it worked perfectly, never below about 40 FPS if I recall correctly.

I think that the cheapest cards that can handle the game at those settings would be the X800XL and the 6800GS (the X800XL matches/beats my 6800GT in FarCry, and the 6800GS is close enough to not make a big difference).

:thumbsup:

I run FarCry at the same settings on my 6800GT (1680x1050, no AA because it's too slow), and framerates are very acceptable - I don't think I ever really see below 35-40fps either, and it's usually closer to 60 (at least in the MP maps I play frequently).

 

[Elfear]

FarCry ran great on my X850XT PE. I played at 1680x1050 4AA/16AF all details maxed. It was definetely faster in that game than my 6800GT.

 

[Eureka]

Hmm... well right now I'm waiting for BF and see if there's any good x850xtpe deals... if not I'll just go down to a 6800GS or x800xl or something like that.



Norm

 

[Eureka]

Also, how much would a 6600GT AGP sell for? I've overclocked a lot and whatnot...

Norm

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: cevilgenius
Also, how much would a 6600GT AGP sell for? I've overclocked a lot and whatnot...

Norm

Probably around $100 +/-10.