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Will this work?

PewPewLazerKittyzPewPewLazerKittyz Registered User regular
edited January 2009 in Games and Technology
Hello, I am thinking of getting an 8800GT to play L4D and TF2 the rest of my specs are:
Pentium 4 3GHz CPU.
1GB OCZ ram.
500w PS.
100G Sata HDD.

Could I play L4D at medium graphics?

Thanks in advance.

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  • killa283killa283 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Yes.

    2GB of RAM is dirt cheap nowadays.
    May look into that as well to increase your performance.

    I am running L4D at full awesomeness 1680x1050.

    with
    Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz <--- important
    2GB DDR 2 800 MHz <--- important
    EVGA 8800 GTS (512MB) <--- important
    ~470watt PSU <--- important
    320GB SATA HD <
    not as important

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    probably should be in Moe's

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    2GB of RAM, a Core 2 Duo and an 8800GT will serve you just fine.

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  • RohanRohan Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    The guy wants to buy an 8800 to play those games with his current system, he didn't say anything about buying new processors and ram.

    To the op - yes, that will be fine. Although ram is dirt cheap nowadays.

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  • theSquidtheSquid Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Hell I'm playing it with a AMD 3000+, 3GB RAM and a 7600GT just fine.

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  • PewPewLazerKittyzPewPewLazerKittyz Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Well would this be as good/better?

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127387R

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  • Shady3011Shady3011 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    A lot better. I run L4D at max settings with my 9800 GTX+. Keep in mind I also have a Core 2 Duo and 4 GB of RAM so I'm not bottle necking my video card though most Source games run fine even with older processors.

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  • JamesDMJamesDM Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    TBH, L4D is pretty scalable. I run it great on low with my laptop.(specs below) While it is not preferable it does run and def. gets the job done.
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK53 1.7GHz Dual Core Processor
    160GB (5400 RPM) Hard Drive
    1024MB DDR2 SDRAM
    nVidia GeForce Go 6150 graphics card

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  • Shady3011Shady3011 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Well rule of thumb is your Half-Life 2 settings dictate most other Source game settings. Probably most true with Episode 1.

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  • PewPewLazerKittyzPewPewLazerKittyz Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Great, thank you all I am getting:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127387R

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182074

    For $130 with shipping so I am very exited. See you soon on the servers.

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