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Is a 6800nu powerful enough?

cleanbluesky

cleanbluesky

cleanbluesky

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To get decent gaming performance from a 19" or 19" widescreen monitor?

I'm not a game head, but I do play DOD Source every now and again and want a reasonable frame rate... would it be possible to play on lower resolutions if I decide to get a larger monitor?
 
It should be ok for the source engine at 1280x1024, especially if you have a go at unlocking the extra 4 pipes and clock it.

You can always run at a lower res, but this can result in cropping or the blocky effect you get when running at the LCDs non native resolution.
 
thanks dave... I will do the groundwork on this but is there a 7xxx AGP series card that would serve a 19" monitor better than my 6800nu? Or ATI, I'm not prejudiced...
 
Most powerful AGP card is ATI's X1950, nothing yet from the 7xxx range, though there's a midrange 7xxx card rumoured to be in the pipeline.
 
Minstadave said:
Most powerful AGP card is ATI's X1950, nothing yet from the 7xxx range, though there's a midrange 7xxx card rumoured to be in the pipeline.
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Yeah, but bear in mind that it would be an AGP stopgap before a probably upgrade next year...

I want to spend as little as possible as the only reason I would upgrade AGP is so that I can get a better monitor...
 
my 6800nu ran hl2 very well, was easily able to do 1600x1200 but no AA. mine was fully unlocked and clocked.

6800nu is a very good card still and older games like DoD etc will run really well on it. only newer stuff made it struggle like fear and oblivion.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
my 6800nu ran hl2 very well, was easily able to do 1600x1200 but no AA. mine was fully unlocked and clocked.

6800nu is a very good card still and older games like DoD etc will run really well on it. only newer stuff made it struggle like fear and oblivion.
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I'll second that. HL2 runs great on my stock 6800GT. HDR on, AA and AF off. 1680x1050.

But then, my 9600XT ran HL2 fine ;)
 
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