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GGKoul:
I have a 9700AIW and its a great card. No issues with Far Cry or Half-life2. But you the 1gig of ram and a good CPU to run those games at max detail anyways.
So if you have a high-end pc, I wouldn't cheap out on a low-mid end videocard.
RayB:
I have a 9800 Pro 128mb. I run Far Cry with all settings on HIGH. Half Life 2 I get excellent results with, but it chugs sometimes. But I had only 512mb of ram when I was playing it. 1 gig is better. Plus now I think I'd recommend going with 256mb of VIDEO card ram if you can afford it.
Abomination:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on October 06, 2005, 04:38:43 pm ---FYI, my ATI 9550 can play fear demo at highest setting, there are some glitches at maximum setting.
--- End quote ---
At what resolution? I read a review with a guy who had an AMD FX and 2 7800gtx's in SLI that couldnt run fear at max settings.
BobA:
Some cards will and sometimes the same card won't so could we please post CPU info as well so we can see what the limiting factors might be?
Thanks
BobA
krick:
Just my $0.02...
Personally, I'll never buy a video card with a fan again. I've owned four so far and the fans are always really crappy and fail after a year or two even with regular cleaning. Plus they're almost never replaceable.
If you have to run the latest and greatest games at the highest resolutions with all the eye candy turned on, then you probably don't have a choice.
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