Intel HD2000 ok for Team Fortress 2? Or GeForce 430/520?

[jiewmeng]

Is Intel HD2000 in the i3 2100 ok for Team Fortress 2? Or perhaps I should just get a ASUS 430GT or perhaps ASUS 520?

 

[Gulli]

Is Intel HD2000 in the i3 2100 ok for Team Fortress 2? Or perhaps I should just get a ASUS 430GT or perhaps ASUS 520?

Get an HD 5570, 6570, 5670 or 6670 (I put them in order of increasing performance). Every one of them is more powerful than the GT 430 and GT 520 and often cheaper as well.

 

[jiewmeng]

Get an HD 5570, 6570, 5670 or 6670 (I put them in order of increasing performance). Every one of them is more powerful than the GT 430 and GT 520 and often cheaper as well.

So the intels integrated graphics will not work well with TF2? Ideas?

 

[Gulli]

So the intels integrated graphics will not work well with TF2? Ideas?

No, integrated graphics are way too weak for modern games.

 

[jaguarskx]

It's always better to spend money on a video card rather than relying on integrated graphics.

The Intel HD 3000 graphics core is better for games than the Intel HD 2000 and is only found on the "k" version of Sandy Bridge CPUs like the i5-2500k and i7-2600k. The Intel HD 3000 is slightly better than the Radeon HD 5450 desktop video card. It is quite impressive for Intel, but even the Radeon HD 5450 is not considered a gaming card. The Intel HD 2000 is probably around 20% - 30% slower than the Intel HD 3000 graphics core.

The best you can hope for with today's games with an Intel HD 2000 / 3000 (and Radeon HD 5450) is low resolution and low graphics settings.

To give you a sense of what the performance of the three above mention graphics cards/cores see the following review which includes the Radeon HD 5450. Note that the benchmark are based on high quality graphics and the PC used has an Intel Core i7-920 @ 3.8GHz. As mentioned before, the Intel HD 2000 is probably about 70% - 80% performance of the Intel HD 3000 / Radeon 5450.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Zotac/GeForce_GT_430/

 

[jaguarskx]

Regarding TF2...

That game will probably be playable at medium quality graphics because the game is relatively old and the Valve's Source Engine is not very demanding. So even a more recent game that uses the Source Engine (like Left 4 Dead 2, or Portal 2) should have decent performance at low resolution.

 

[Abe504]

you can run this game fine at medium settings, ive been playing this game since i put together my computer, its not demanding at all. But thats really as far as you can go with the integrated graphics

 

[jiewmeng]

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