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Far Cry... AGP x850XTPE

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Eureka

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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
 
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 🙂
 
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 +/-


 
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
 
Originally posted by: Powermoloch
:thumbsup:...although a cpu upgrade sounds tad a bit better I dunno 😕
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The video card upgrade would be considerably better for getting an increase in performance.
 
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?
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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).
 
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?
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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).
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X800XL runs Farcry great for me though i have a 17'' CRT... 🙁 2005fpw here i come

my rig scored a 5,000 in 3dmark05.
 
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?
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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).
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: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).
 
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.
 
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
 
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