Best card for 1920x1200 gaming?

[twoodster]

Hey

Right now I've got an 8800GTS 640meg, but I think it's on its way out! If I play intensive games at 1920x1200 it tends to pack up after about 30 minutes. What's considered the best card for games at high resolutions? I'd love to try and max Far Cry 2 out as much as possible in the next couple of weeks!

Will my processor be a bottleneck? e6600 Dual Core? Don't really want to replace that right now though

Tom

 

[twoodster]

Cool, the 4870 is tempting - although I've always stuck with Nvidia cards in the past! Any brand in particular?

 

[twoodster]

I'd guess the cheapest.

Well I'd like the quickest out the box really, as I think I ballsed up the last card with overclocking I might take it easy this time!

 

[twoodster]

Right, I'm all ready to go for the 4870 1gig, but I'm a bit unsure on the whole PCI Express 2.0 thing. I'm pretty sure my rather dated ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 is only PCI Express 1.0. Will it still be compatible?

 

[twoodster]

It is backwards compatable I think so no problems.

Cool - performance wouldn't be noticeably worse then?

 

[twoodster]

Well I've ordered the 4870 1gig Powercolor jobby. Just opened up my computer though and I only appear to have the 1 power connector - whereas the 4870 requires 2. Can anyone direct me to what I need to buy? I'm a bit clueless in regard to cables and stuff - I don't have to buy a new PSU do I?

 

[twoodster]

Nice one, cheers!

 

[twoodster]

Just got the card, and unfortunately it doesn't come with an adapter I've had a rummage through my box of bits, and all I can find is a Compupack A001-W011 Rev B. Not really sure what it is, but its 2 x 4 pin sockets (although only 3 pins in each) into a 6 pin socket (which only seems to have 5 connections in it!). Is that any good?

 

[twoodster]

Never mind - I tried it and it seems to work ok!

 

[twoodster]

since we're on the topic..

would a 8800gt play TF2 and CoH at that res, without AA, comfortably? want to get a new screen, but would like to hold onto this card for at least another 6 months/year

Can't speak for TF2 but I was running Company of Heroes at 1920x1200 with an 8800GTS 640meg and it seemed ok