What Games will play on my system please.

Magic_x_uk

Magic_x_uk

Magic_x_uk

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Hi, wondered if someone in the know, would look at my system details and let me know, if it is worth while me buying games like Crysis / Call of Duty 4 etc for my system. As I am not sure what would work okay on my computer. As not really kept up on computer things for the last 12 months.

Thank you very much,
If you need any more info, just let me know thanks.


Motherboard Name ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
CPU Type AMD Opteron 146, 2500 MHz (10 x 250) @2.5ghz
System Memory 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
Video Adapter RADEON X850 Series (256 MB)
Audio Adapter Creative SB Live! 5.1 (SB0060) Sound Card
 
quite a lot, farcry will run and look great on that system, but being an x850 it lacks the SHADER MODEL 3.0 so newer games will not work.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
quite a lot, farcry will run and look great on that system, but being an x850 it lacks the SHADER MODEL 3.0 so newer games will not work.
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Which is a shame because it was and still is a great card. I had the x850xt PE version and it was brilliant. That's when ATI were good until AMD went and ruined it all by joining them. It used to run farcry / HL2 with ease on it and CSS all maxed out at 140FPS. If it had shader 3 it would most games today easily.

RoEy
 
I played COD4 on a simliar system and it did run but not great. That may be ok for some people but I like to play them how they were initially intened to play.

Try it and see what you think.

RoEy
 
1GB RAM will be a bottleneck, COD4 will take an age to load and freeze during gameplay. Even an old game like Quake 4 really does benafit hugely when going from 1gb to 2 gb.
 
I could upgrade if needed to, just at present have more important things to spend my money on you, But if i did upgrade what components should I look at changing ?
 
Magic_x_uk said:
I could upgrade if needed to, just at present have more important things to spend my money on you, But if i did upgrade what components should I look at changing ?
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Whats is important when specing a machine is that it is well ballanced for what you want to use it for. Fast processor and bucket loads of RAM for Video/photo work, high spec graphics card for hi res gaming.
Your system is well ballanced with the exception of only having 1 gb of ram, replacing either your CPU or GFX card would just create a bottle neck in the other unless you enjoy a specific type of game. FPS are generally gfx intensive although newer ones make good use of faster processors and multiple cores. RTS games tend to be CPU dependant.

Not a direct answer but food for thought. Remember that its not hard to build a good gaming maching for the price of a top of the range PS3.
 
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