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fshaharyar

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i am new at this forum whenever I have bought a new rig all of my friends have complained me that my gfx performance is not upto the mark

recently i bought a radeon hd 3450 for about $55 which goes with my 780g chipset
but i badly want a good gfx that can play crysis at 30 fps at res of 1280 with 4x aa

pls could you help me with this
 

colonelblake

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OP, what cpu do you have ?

@customisbetter, a 9600gt with my 5600x2 runs crysis at all high at 1280, but without aa. in a big firefight with smoke and explosions the aa drags down the fps.

 

customisbetter

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oh my bad. My 8800gs does 1280 @ high but my memory bandwidth won't let m use any AA so i figured that the increased bandwidth on the 9600 would compensate. Thanks for the correction!
*colonel what speed is your 5600 at?
 

gjdixon

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i got a ati(amd) 4850 and i play crysis on high res 1680x1050 plays vary nice
(cpu amd x2 5800
4g ram 6400)
next card to it in nvidia is 9800gtx
 
^My only downside to the 9600GT is it has half the shaders of the 8800GT so I don't think it would play as well.

I would suggest the 4850 or the 4870 as they have a massive amount of shader power and so far are showing good results in Crysis and with driver updates should imrpove more.
 

Nik_I

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i highly doubt a 9600GT would cut it. i have a 4850 and i cant even get super smooth framerates in crysis @1680x1050 on high. i'm going to blame this on my cpu, which is an amd, just like the OP's.
 

homerdog

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My factory OCed (650/950) 512MB 8800GT does Crysis on all high at 1440x900 with *no* GPU related slowdowns that I've seen. Of course this is without AA, but MSAA in Crysis = fail anyway (doesn't work on foliage).

fshaharyar, what CPU do you have? The benchmarks generally don't show it, but when the action gets heavy in Crysis a fast CPU helps a lot.
 

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