Folks,
I am planning on building a new rig in the near future and wanted to know which video card would be sufficient for my gaming needs at the 1360x768 resolution (the native res. of my LCD TV)? The rig will probably have 2GB of RAM, an Intel E8400 (w/ P35 chipset), and run WinXP (so no DX10).
Ideally I would want the system to not drop below 30fps at any given time and run at 60+fps most of the time for the games I play with many eye candy features turned up (AA,AF, etc.). Basically any type of game that has been released or will be released soon I will be playing ( i.e. TF2, COD4, CoH, HG:L, Oblivion, The Witcher, CS:S, SC2 [LOL, near future] ). One notable exception is Crysis.
Money isn't really an issue, but I'm a value oriented person and would like to see some difference if I am paying the extra $$$. Also, no need to consider future proofing for games 6+ months away. Here are the cards I'm thinking about:
9600GT - Good price/perf., good power, don't like NV chipset shenanigans
8800GT 512 - Not too much more than 9600GT, is it overkill?
3870 - Was looking real good until 9600GT came out.
8800GTS G92 - Overkill? Diminishing returns?
3870x2 - Overkill/dim. returns x2? Some games don't like multi-GPU solutions.
9800GTX - Should be out soon right???
HD4xxx - LOL June-July timeframe?
NV GT200 - Paging TulipGTX...
So there you have it, I would love to hear everyone's opinion on what card I should get. Most benchmarks don't show numbers at low resolutions so it is hard to get a gauge of what is overkill or not. Thanks in advance!
I am planning on building a new rig in the near future and wanted to know which video card would be sufficient for my gaming needs at the 1360x768 resolution (the native res. of my LCD TV)? The rig will probably have 2GB of RAM, an Intel E8400 (w/ P35 chipset), and run WinXP (so no DX10).
Ideally I would want the system to not drop below 30fps at any given time and run at 60+fps most of the time for the games I play with many eye candy features turned up (AA,AF, etc.). Basically any type of game that has been released or will be released soon I will be playing ( i.e. TF2, COD4, CoH, HG:L, Oblivion, The Witcher, CS:S, SC2 [LOL, near future] ). One notable exception is Crysis.
Money isn't really an issue, but I'm a value oriented person and would like to see some difference if I am paying the extra $$$. Also, no need to consider future proofing for games 6+ months away. Here are the cards I'm thinking about:
9600GT - Good price/perf., good power, don't like NV chipset shenanigans
8800GT 512 - Not too much more than 9600GT, is it overkill?
3870 - Was looking real good until 9600GT came out.
8800GTS G92 - Overkill? Diminishing returns?
3870x2 - Overkill/dim. returns x2? Some games don't like multi-GPU solutions.
9800GTX - Should be out soon right???
HD4xxx - LOL June-July timeframe?
NV GT200 - Paging TulipGTX...
So there you have it, I would love to hear everyone's opinion on what card I should get. Most benchmarks don't show numbers at low resolutions so it is hard to get a gauge of what is overkill or not. Thanks in advance!
