Recommended graphics card for Super Street fighter 4?

[emb]

Long story short, I'm in the market for a cheap graphics card (with PCIe x16 1.0) that will play Street Fighter 4 at full speed. Does anyone have any suggestions?

About a year ago I purchased the following motherboard and processor for my MAME cab. I knew that after buying it, the on-board graphics (Intel GMA X4500) would not be powerful enough to run Street Fighter 4 at decent settings. Now that my cabinet is complete, I realize that I really want SF4 in my cabinet. I took a gamble assuming that the FSB and CPU speed would be fast enough for when I later added the graphics card.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128470
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115056

Processor Info:
Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 Wolfdale 2.93GHz (BX80571E7500)
1066MHz FSB, 3MB L2 cache

Motherboard Info:
Gigabyte GA-G41MT-S2P
Intel G41 North Bridge, Intel ICH7 South Bridge
DDR3 1333
1 PCIe x16 slot (doesn't appear to be 2.0)
Graphics: Intel GMA X4500

Is this CPU fast enough even with a decent graphics card to play this game? If so, can you recommend any cheap graphics cards that will perform well enough to play this game?

[elkameleon]

I have a geforce 9800GT in my cab, which is an older card, and it plays great with that game. I'm not running it at HD resolutions though.

[emb]

I have a geforce 9800GT in my cab, which is an older card, and it plays great with that game. I'm not running it at HD resolutions though.

Does your motherboard have PCIe 2.0 support? Mine doesn't unfortunately. While it is compatible, it would run at half the bus speed.

However, I will have something to reference as a base if your motherboard has only PCIe 1.0 support.

[ark_ader]

How does the GMA X4500 perform in standard resolution?

[emb]

How does the GMA X4500 perform in standard resolution?

Horrid. Very unplayable. At the bare minimum settings i'm lucky to get 20-30 FPS. I could be wrong by a few FPS since I tested it 6 months ago (my memory has faded a tad).

[elkameleon]

I have a geforce 9800GT in my cab, which is an older card, and it plays great with that game. I'm not running it at HD resolutions though.

Does your motherboard have PCIe 2.0 support? Mine doesn't unfortunately. While it is compatible, it would run at half the bus speed.

However, I will have something to reference as a base if your motherboard has only PCIe 1.0 support.

It probably is 2.0 compatible, but honestly that game isn't really that intensive graphically. You should be more than ok with anything better than a 9800GT, which you might have a hard time finding anyways.

[paigeoliver]

Steam suggests a GeForce 8600 or better with 512 Ram or better. That is some years out of date, so a lot of budget cards should be able to handle it.

[emb]

Steam suggests a GeForce 8600 or better with 512 Ram or better. That is some years out of date, so a lot of budget cards should be able to handle it.

Do you have any suggestions for a budget card that performs as well or better than the 9800? I have not been in the loop of graphics cards since the voodoo 3s and TNT

[paigeoliver]

I don't have a suggestion for a specific card no. As I only tend to get knowledgeable about specific cards when it comes time to buy one.

However you would be fairly hard pressed to find much worse than that even available right now, particularly in a store.

If you search google shopping for GeForce all the ones with the 3 digit numbers (like 430, 520, etc), are better than the 8600.

[elkameleon]

Knowing how much you are looking to spend will help out, sub-100 dollars, you'd be pushing to find a decent all around card.

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

I'm running it at 800x600 on a 3.2Ghz C2D on an absolute budget/low-end AMD HD4250 at an average of 40-50 fps. I would venture that any video card that costs >~$100 would do just fine.

[draginit]

here are the min specs off the game box itself(arcade Edition):

P4, 2ghz or higher
1G ram or higher
Nvidia GeForce 6600series or higher, ATI radeon x1600 or higher, Vram 256MB or higher

i can tell you im running the absolute minimum using the nvidia 6600 and it runs perfectly.

[emb]

How about picking up an Xbox 360 instead? 

 

Because it is more cost efficient and flexible to run a PC.

[emb]

Thanks for your input. I ended up purchasing a GeForce 520 GT. From all the above previous posts i think it is more than powerful enough to run, along with leaving me the potential for playing some more graphical intensive games.