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CatFangs806 on 16 January 2010
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Soleron said:
CatFangs806 said:
Soleron said:
CatFangs806 said:
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I think the biggest bottleneck in any machine these days is the GPU. Especially if it's integrated graphics. Mine works great, but I have to play Call Of Duty 4 in low settings. And I have a quad-core and 8 gigs of ram. I shouldn't have to play games in those settings. Oh well, it's more optimized for HD video editing, which is one of the main reasons I bought the computer. Can't complain.

You know a $50 graphics card would solve that? GPUs are really cheap.

AMD's upcoming 8xx integrated grahics will be DX11 and perform like a $50 card too.

My power supply is only 350Watts, though. I don't want to have to replace that. Is there a good graphics card that can run on that and at least run Crysis fairly high along with other new games?

What's your CPU?

According to Anandtech, a 5770 will get 26fps on 1680x1050 Gamer Quality with a Core i7 920 at 3.33GHz (i.e. higher power than the vast majority of CPUs) and uses 236W under load, well below 350W.

It's an AMD athlon 2 x4 quad core at 2.6GHZ