Mine runs great. Starcraft II on ultra, Modern Warfare on highest, even Crysis on high. If you have the cash, I strongly suggest building your own compy. It's much cheaper and more fun than just going to Best Buy and picking one up.
Poll: How well does your PC run games
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I know little about the subject. All of my games are are 2005 or earlier, except Serious Sam HD, and I have to turn down the resolution a few notches to get a decent frame rate. Go ahead and groan, everyone, but what exactly is the video card, and can I replace it without tearing my laptop apart?
Bare minimum settings on WOW, in a completely deserted zone, I manage... 16 FPS? Aion runs at 9. :|
You're probably talking about the 5970, from ATI. It's essentially 2 slightly cut down 5870 GPUs on one PCB, and it is... no, it was the largest and most expensive and highest performing single card available. Not anymore. I give you, the Asus Ares! ($1200 USD)SuperNashwan said:
(A regular 5970 is the small one)
I can only barely play any new releases. I have to play civilisation 5 on low settings, when your computer can't even run a Civ game you know it's time to upgrade.
I can run any game on the market, though I haven't got anything from within the last year or so. So far it runs everything fine on the higher settings, fine meaning no lag and full framerate, but I don't have very many graphically intense games that I truly enjoy...Atm I'm trying to beat Majesty's expansion, a game many times harder than the original despite carrying the same difficulty descriptions.
Lol yes I probably looked at both ranges and got confused ... it was the 5970! I am getting old ... wheres my teeth gone? **wobbles whilst looking for slippers**Wolfram01 said:You're probably talking about the 5970, from ATI. It's essentially 2 slightly cut down 5870 GPUs on one PCB, and it is... no, it was the largest and most expensive and highest performing single card available. Not anymore. I give you, the Asus Ares! ($1200 USD)SuperNashwan said:
(A regular 5970 is the small one)
That ares looks rather nice too. I wonder how long it would be before you had to upgrade though? Would all that throbbing power keep you in games for a few years, or will the base architecture get superceded too quickly for it to be worth having to sell your mother for?
Well it can easily max out any game with even 3 monitors right now. Games generally aren't getting all that more demanding anymore, Crysis is still one of the most demanding and only Metro 2033 compares. I think with that GPU in an i5 750 or i7 950 rig you wouldn't need to put a penny into it for at least 5 years and still play at highest or at least very high settings.SuperNashwan said:
Pretty damn good. I use a 2.8Ghz quad core i7, 6GB ddr3 ram and a 1700Mb geforce gtx480 (sure they run a little loud and warm but TOTALLY worth it!)
Got a new system just now. It's kinda like this one, only a step down:
I have an i5 650, and a Radeon HD 5670 instead. But i think it's still quite enough. I'm not big on fancy graphics, or the types of games that use it the most, like fps' or third person action games.Charcharo said:
pong is a system killer. shudder.
c2d oc to 3.8 ghz, 4 gig ddr2 ram, 8800gt, run anything fine even games that others complain about on other forums, but them i play on a samsung lcd tv which sports lower res than most gaming monitors.
resolution has a ton to do with how a game runs, if you can lower it it helps a ton the problem now days is lcd have a native res and anything non native can scale pretty badly, were for crt you could drop the res to 640x480 or up it to 1200x1080 and the image quality will be mostly uneffected. had to run crysis at 800x600 on my old crt when my pc was a bit less powerful to get it at very high settings.
c2d oc to 3.8 ghz, 4 gig ddr2 ram, 8800gt, run anything fine even games that others complain about on other forums, but them i play on a samsung lcd tv which sports lower res than most gaming monitors.
resolution has a ton to do with how a game runs, if you can lower it it helps a ton the problem now days is lcd have a native res and anything non native can scale pretty badly, were for crt you could drop the res to 640x480 or up it to 1200x1080 and the image quality will be mostly uneffected. had to run crysis at 800x600 on my old crt when my pc was a bit less powerful to get it at very high settings.
It can run Crysis on highest settings.
Yes the pricetag read: "One human soul"
well actually I bought loose parts and put them together, but hey you get the idea.
Yes the pricetag read: "One human soul"
well actually I bought loose parts and put them together, but hey you get the idea.
