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Firstly I have an HP pre-built with a Pentium D 925 at 3.0Ghz, 2GB DDR2 800 RAM and a GT 240 which I recently bought.
I asked a few questions on Tom's Hardware a few weeks ago on whether a Pentium D system is worth upgrading and I also asked if it could play the latest games on LOW settings and LOW resolutions and they all said HELL NO!
Though they said that it could handle 2008-2009 games just fine on MEDIUM down till LOW settings, so I just bought the only GT 240 available locally, in the UAE, I got the GT 240 1GB DDR3, in case you wonder why I didn't get a G92, it's because I have a 300w PSU. Also the card is running in PCI-E 1.0 at half the bandwidth
Anyways, I got it and tried out some games and the results... AMAZING!!!
First I played Fallout: New Vegas, by default the settings were set to high, (There is LOW, MED, HIGH and ULTRA).
So settings High 4xAA and 8x Anisotropic Filtering.
Resolution 1680 by 1050, which is the resolution of my 20 inch monitor.
And what framerate did I get,
MIN: 20
MAX: 60
Average: 30
So people just said that it wasn't a very demanding game so I risked getting Just Cause 2 (This happened today).
And what are my results in Just Cause 2?
Settings were automatically set to Medium-High with 16x Anisotropic Filtering and 4xAA, Shadows are medium, water is very high, object detail is high, only shadows are medium and SSAO is low. The resolution is 1680 by 1050.
The GT 240 PhysX is on, so it's also doing PhysX do reduce the load on the CPU.
I started the game, the frame rate was 15-25, though mostly it hit a solid 20, it was running fine but soon in intense moments it became unplayable so I turned off some NVIDA features like Point light specular and Bokeh filter and enhanced water which didn't even make a difference, though I have to admit the enhanced water does, the difference was minor though only recommended for multiple GPUs exclusive to NVIDA.
Turning those off brought my my frame-rate up to 40 and now the games runs at 20-45 with an average of 22 in complex maps and 25+ in most of the game.
Next thing you know I was happy playing Just Cause 2 at acceptable settings at a high resolution with a 4 year old Pentium D.
I then decided I have to share this with you people because you told me that it couldn't do ***.
I asked a few questions on Tom's Hardware a few weeks ago on whether a Pentium D system is worth upgrading and I also asked if it could play the latest games on LOW settings and LOW resolutions and they all said HELL NO!
Though they said that it could handle 2008-2009 games just fine on MEDIUM down till LOW settings, so I just bought the only GT 240 available locally, in the UAE, I got the GT 240 1GB DDR3, in case you wonder why I didn't get a G92, it's because I have a 300w PSU. Also the card is running in PCI-E 1.0 at half the bandwidth
Anyways, I got it and tried out some games and the results... AMAZING!!!
First I played Fallout: New Vegas, by default the settings were set to high, (There is LOW, MED, HIGH and ULTRA).
So settings High 4xAA and 8x Anisotropic Filtering.
Resolution 1680 by 1050, which is the resolution of my 20 inch monitor.
And what framerate did I get,
MIN: 20
MAX: 60
Average: 30
So people just said that it wasn't a very demanding game so I risked getting Just Cause 2 (This happened today).
And what are my results in Just Cause 2?
Settings were automatically set to Medium-High with 16x Anisotropic Filtering and 4xAA, Shadows are medium, water is very high, object detail is high, only shadows are medium and SSAO is low. The resolution is 1680 by 1050.
The GT 240 PhysX is on, so it's also doing PhysX do reduce the load on the CPU.
I started the game, the frame rate was 15-25, though mostly it hit a solid 20, it was running fine but soon in intense moments it became unplayable so I turned off some NVIDA features like Point light specular and Bokeh filter and enhanced water which didn't even make a difference, though I have to admit the enhanced water does, the difference was minor though only recommended for multiple GPUs exclusive to NVIDA.
Turning those off brought my my frame-rate up to 40 and now the games runs at 20-45 with an average of 22 in complex maps and 25+ in most of the game.
Next thing you know I was happy playing Just Cause 2 at acceptable settings at a high resolution with a 4 year old Pentium D.
I then decided I have to share this with you people because you told me that it couldn't do ***.