1680x1050 upgrade
Sunday, October 14th, 2007 - 6:27pm
So I currently have an Athlon 64 3200+, a 6800 gt, and an nforce 3 motherboard of some sort.
What I want to do is upgrade my machine to be able to play "Company of Heroes(and expansion)", "tf2 and all half-lfe 2 flavors" and "command and conquer 3" at 1680x1050 with all the bells and whistles on. What is the most economical and smart way for me to do this?
I figure the motherboard, processor and video card would need to be upgraded, but I'm not sure if its a good time to do that or what the best route to take is right now.
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Check out the $1500 PC thread. I made a really nice PC for about $1100 and it runs everything at that resolution.
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Now's as good a time as any for an upgrade. The amount of power you can put in a PC at the moment for a relatively small amount of money is really impressive.
The game's you're talking about would run great on any Core 2 rig with 2gb of ram and an 8800. If you go budget(ish) on the processor the games will still run great and you should be able to put it together for a good bit less than a grand, assuming you're carrying over things like hard drives, the case, and optical drives.
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Resolution (someone prove me wrong?) is only a function of the video card I believe. The CPU doesn't know form rendered resolution.
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QFT. I'd definitely recommend at least the 8800GTS for pushing high detail at 1680x1050.
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I'm sitting on a 4200 X2 with 2gigs and a 1950pro and I can't convince myself to upgrade. I play/played all these titles at 1680x1050 with just about all the setting to full or to a point that I couldn't see any difference: Bioshock, Stalker, Portal, TF2, HL2ep2, CoD4demo, QuakeWars demo. I even had a more than acceptable performance with UT3. Maybe I'm getting old or maybe I've gotten tired of forking out a heap of cash for 15% more performance but I'm going to hold off for now and wait for the next generation of GPUs and see what DX10 has in store.
Also I have a MSI k8n neo2 motherboard. It maybe nforce3 and agp but I'm mounting this boyo on the wall when he finally kicks the bucket. Probably the best bit of kit I ever bought.
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And the monitor! (am I allowed to win a point on a technicality?)
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