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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:


--- Quote from: elkameleon on February 20, 2012, 02:17:36 pm ---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.

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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:


--- Quote from: ark_ader on February 20, 2012, 03:39:56 pm ---How does the GMA X4500 perform in standard resolution?

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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).

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