Can i play any good games on max?

[porsche997]

Hi,

I was wondering whether you guys think i can play any games such as cod4 or fallout 3 on max/high settings?

These are my specs:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ @ 2.3ghz
2.5gb DDR2 ram
ATI Radeon Hd 4670 512mb DDR3
Vista Ultimate

Ask if you lot need to know anything else

Thanks

 

[Helloworld_98]

you can play them, it's just the fps won't be that high.

well you might get 30fps on COD4.

 

[porsche997]

hmm thats 30fps on max settings you say?

 

[coozie7]

Depends on the monitor resoloution but do not expect miracles from the card.

Edit:
Please do n't double post, it makes it hard for us to follow what is going on.
On a 720 TV you should see good framerates with CoD because it is not particularly hard on the system but not for more demanding games.
I find the two biggest losses in speed are due to AA and shadows with texture and shader detail having less of an effect, particularly at low resoloutions (like 720 TV).

 

[bige420]

or that cpu for that matter

 

[Kari]

while talking about _good_ games, you could give Planescape Torment a try... And you'll be able to max out everything on it P

 

[porsche997]

ah rite, thanks for the info srry bout double posting it said it had an error creating the thread when i made it so i made another not knowing that one went through

 

[dokk2]

Most newer video cards require at least 2.6 ghz to run without being bottlenecked..

 

[porsche997]

means im 300mhz off then :S

 

[kite212]

just oc the proc to 2.8 and youll be good to go, i got my old 4200+ 2.2 up to 2.8 stable

 

[efeat]

Most newer video cards require at least 2.6 ghz to run without being bottlenecked..

That's a 2.6 ghz Core 2 or equivalent cpu....


An athlon 64 x2 4400+ at 2.6 ghz is still going to be lacking. Even if you got it up to 3.6 ghz, a stock phenom II or Core 2/i7 would still kick the pants off it. On the other hand, that magic 2.6 ghz figure is referring to high end graphics cards (4870/gtx 260 and up), not the 4670. Overclocking would still give you better performance, so give it a shot. Like coozie said, just don't expect miracles.

 

[porsche997]

ok, the thing is that my bios doesnt let me overclock so i got ntune and got processor up to 2.7ghz but it never saves, whenever i restart it goes back to default