A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:
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Ant wrote:
Hello!

I cannot seem to find benchmarks, articles, stories, etc. on how
high-end video cards (e.g., NVIDIA 8800 GT with 512 or so MB of memory)
run on low-end systems like an Athlon 4600+ X2 system (nothing is
overclocked) with Windows XP Pro. SP2 (IE6.0 SP2 and all updates).

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/$500_gaming_pc_upgrade/

That should help you.

I basically did this with the exception of a few things. This
article assumes that you already have a case and decent PSU and
possibly the drives. In my case, I did; Antec Sonata II case with an
Antec Earthwatts 500W PSU. I put out the additional $20 to get the
GeForce 8800GT SSC card, plus the additional $40 and went for the
Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 motherboard, and still clocked in under $500USD.

Now I'm not much of a gamer; I flight sim, so this worked out
quite well, plus leaves me room to go quad core when Phenom prices
start to drop. But you'll get some good benchmarks on the card and
platform you're looking for there. Just keep in mind that this article
came out before the G92 cards were released, but should still be fairly
current.

Perfect. So, I should get about 30 FPS average on my old system with a
GeForce 8800 GT card in Crysis demo with high settings. Too bad it
doesn't mention other cards like the recent ATI cards.

Now, I need to figure out what to do with the fullscreen TV loss with
8800 cards.
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