will the Radeon x1650 run supreme commander

My 1650xt struggled with it, on low settings it could only ever get up to about 700 - 800units before it just couldnt handle it anymore.

If you have a few quid spare get the 1950pro, it should be alrite.

the x1950 one indeed a great card
but i am a afraid of its power consumption
even if i have 500W PSU with PCE-E power pin
but i cant get the combination of power with best outcome
and don't want to increase my electric bills its important to me

thanks for advice
you really helped to redefine my research about it

isnt sup com more cpu demanding than gpu demanding?

Its both but for different things.

If you want tons of grapihcs like high quality, then you need high graphics power.

If you want tons of units and stuff to work smooth, you need a good CPUand ram.

But just because you dont have a superb graphics card and cant put it to max quality doesnt mean you can have tons of units. Personally on mine when im using everything on max with 4x SSAA and 4xMSAA with about 800units id guess I get about 20FPS, because its all smooth but when I zoom right in I can see a bit of stutter on units when they move.

Turning the mini map off solves that though.

Of coarse if I wanted I could just put 4x AA and everything on medium and it probably wont ever slow down

I expect it would be a lot more then that for mine, since I've been using like 16x AA.

Still, at least my 7950GX2 in SLI mode gives 80% performance boost, thats pretty damn good. Matches performance of a 8800gts 320mb