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Do I need a new video card to go with my new monitor?
Lord Jezo
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I have in the mail coming to me a 24" LCD, so everything will be running at 1900x1200.
My vid card is an 8800 GTS with 320 megs of ram.
Will I be able to run anything or am I locking myself out of playing games because my monitor is too big? I don't care about AA and AF and all that, heck, I dont even turn the details up all the way in all my games, but will I be able to run anything newish at that kind of resolution with the 8800 card?
My vid card is an 8800 GTS with 320 megs of ram.
Will I be able to run anything or am I locking myself out of playing games because my monitor is too big? I don't care about AA and AF and all that, heck, I dont even turn the details up all the way in all my games, but will I be able to run anything newish at that kind of resolution with the 8800 card?
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But in general, you SHOULD upgrade. With the advent of the 8800GTS 512mb, your card suddenly became inferior, and that was years ago.
I will have to experiment then to see if I can run things at another resolution then.
With a Core 2 Duo 6600 chip what kind of card should I be running these days to actually get things nice on my monitor?
These days is it more important to get a new CPU or a better GPU?
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I'd say go for one of the 4850 - 4870 line of Radeon cards. But atleast get a new Core-2-Duo before you do. E8400 is the prized winner in the Intel line of Duos now.
Yeah, it's mostly things involving a lot of text that will really look bad at non-native resolutions. I've played platformers and FPSs at non-native resolutions and been fine. Strategy games, not so much.
It's best to have a CPU and GPU that's well suited to each other, but if you're looking to play in high resolutions the GPU is the most important component. Playing a game at 640*480 and 1920*1200 is pretty similar to the CPU since most of it's work takes place before the rendering.
I currently have a GPU way overscaled to my CPU (a Nvidia 9600GT on a Athlon 3700+ 2200MHz single core) and the most games have very similar framerate at both 640*480 no FSAA and 1680 4xFSAA.
A test you might want to read: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-gpu-upgrade,1928-8.html
One example from that test: Crysis 1920*1200 High quality on a 9800GTX:
The difference on a Quad core system going from 2.4 to 3.2 GHz, a 33% increase in CPU power, is a FPS boost of 1.5%. The difference between a Quad core at 3.2 GHz and a Dual core at 2.4Ghz is under 7%.
TLDR: If your CPU is not slowing you down on low resolutions it will not slow you down in high resolutions.
Oh yeah?
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