TheRealMafoo said:
Will either of those play Crysis on high? Oh, and I am going to get more ram (I only have 1 gig), and I have an AMD DX2 3800+ CPU. Is that too slow for today's high end games? Thanks for helping. I usually spend months looking into all this stuff, but being you already have, and I trust your judgment, why bother :) Oh, and thanks Soleron, but Crisys in high is what I am looking to play. (I also have a 2560x1600 monitor, so I want some older games to play well at high resolutions.) EDIT: I run XP, and will be skipping Vista all together, if that matters in your assessment. |
Hot damn! 30" monitor... Ok you need a good fillrate, high memory bandwidth and you will start to need more than 512mb of ram very shortly if you want to run games at your native resolution.
It really depends a lot on you, do you care about slowdowns or do you like running games at their highest visual quality at a framerate that is less than ideal? If you aren't sensitive and are willing to play at 1280/800 - half your monitors native resolution, you could probably get away with running any of the three cards listed above with some CPU intensive settings turned down to medium such as physics. However if you are sensitive, then I would suggest the Radeon 4870 - High memory bandwidth, 1gb ram and fast as a single GPU without being too expensive. I believe that the 4870 will show its class above the g92 cards like the 8800gt because they are quite bandwidth limited.
Budget also plays a big part as well, ideally with a monitor like that I would tell anyone with money to spend to buy the best card they can afford because they need all the performance they can get to push games at such a high resolution. BTW I expect the 4870 to be $3xx and the 4850 to be $2xx.
For the ram - definately upgrade that, you can get 2gb of patriot ddr2 for $25 with MIR.
As crysis doesn't scale well with SLI/Xfire I would recomend you get a good SINGLE gpu.
Tease.
