paul06660
10-20-2007, 07:04 AM
Ill make this as simple as I can.
I built my current setup to play Doom 3 and Quake 4 and play them on high detail and have them play well. I put together this system 2 years ago first on a Via Motherboard, then on my prized Epox 865PE board. At the time I had a geforce 5200 256 mb. My geforce did a good job till I wore it out.
Then I bought my Sapphire X850XT last year when newegg got that strange shipment of cards with mixed fans and memory with the X850 pro bios. When I got mine, rather than just RMAing it, I flashed the XT bios and made it a true X850XT. Sapphire even tells you to do this on their site. I lucked out and got the 1.6ns memory chips and I set clocks at 525/600 (mild core overclock, HUGE memory overclock).
Well a year later I have played all my games like Prey, Doom 3, Quake 4, Need 4 Speed Most Wanted, Wolfenstien Enemy Terrority maxed out at 1280x1024 with 4xAA and 8xAF.
So earlier this year I was getting worried about being able to play the new Enemy Terrority Quake Wars. I pre ordered the game and the slip inside the plastic cd jacket with the cool poster said that you need a geforce 8800 series to be able to get the special effects.
Well earlier this week I bought my full registered copy of the game and installed it, set the graphics at 1440x900 (to match the resolution of my new 19" widescreen LCD) with ULTRA settings on the shaders and 2xAA. Then I restarted the game which you have to do after changing the settings.
To be honest I expected my computer to lag really bad. But when the game restarted everything loaded quickly. I went into immediate action online and I have to say that the game plays really nicely. Everything has a nice gun metal like surface with 3d detail on all the surfaces. The colors are really good too. Game play is really good too, although the system can lag a little bit when there are alot of players online and the action heats up. If I turn of AA things tend to run a little faster. There are alot of light bending effects too.
My theory is that I should upgrade to a Core 2 Duo Motherboard with AGP 8X. I think it is time for me to go dual core and the E6600 might be about right for me. Then later on use the E6600 to build a system with a HD2900 XT with 1 gig gddr4.
Tell me what you think, tomorrow I might have some screen shots to show you.
Cheers, paul06660
I built my current setup to play Doom 3 and Quake 4 and play them on high detail and have them play well. I put together this system 2 years ago first on a Via Motherboard, then on my prized Epox 865PE board. At the time I had a geforce 5200 256 mb. My geforce did a good job till I wore it out.
Then I bought my Sapphire X850XT last year when newegg got that strange shipment of cards with mixed fans and memory with the X850 pro bios. When I got mine, rather than just RMAing it, I flashed the XT bios and made it a true X850XT. Sapphire even tells you to do this on their site. I lucked out and got the 1.6ns memory chips and I set clocks at 525/600 (mild core overclock, HUGE memory overclock).
Well a year later I have played all my games like Prey, Doom 3, Quake 4, Need 4 Speed Most Wanted, Wolfenstien Enemy Terrority maxed out at 1280x1024 with 4xAA and 8xAF.
So earlier this year I was getting worried about being able to play the new Enemy Terrority Quake Wars. I pre ordered the game and the slip inside the plastic cd jacket with the cool poster said that you need a geforce 8800 series to be able to get the special effects.
Well earlier this week I bought my full registered copy of the game and installed it, set the graphics at 1440x900 (to match the resolution of my new 19" widescreen LCD) with ULTRA settings on the shaders and 2xAA. Then I restarted the game which you have to do after changing the settings.
To be honest I expected my computer to lag really bad. But when the game restarted everything loaded quickly. I went into immediate action online and I have to say that the game plays really nicely. Everything has a nice gun metal like surface with 3d detail on all the surfaces. The colors are really good too. Game play is really good too, although the system can lag a little bit when there are alot of players online and the action heats up. If I turn of AA things tend to run a little faster. There are alot of light bending effects too.
My theory is that I should upgrade to a Core 2 Duo Motherboard with AGP 8X. I think it is time for me to go dual core and the E6600 might be about right for me. Then later on use the E6600 to build a system with a HD2900 XT with 1 gig gddr4.
Tell me what you think, tomorrow I might have some screen shots to show you.
Cheers, paul06660