Crysis on 512MB GeForce 8600GTS???

How will crysis run on a 512MB GEFORCE 8600GTS???

I am looking for well valued graphics cards that will run crysis on a fairly high setting without spending over £170 ($350)

if you put an extra 20 quid on your budget you can get an 8800 GTS from Ebuyer. i think the 8600GTS will run crysis (DX 9) on fairlyhigh settings probably 8X AA(most likely 4Xthough)max really.yoyo462001

Ok thanks thats quite helpful. I see you have one yourself on your "RIG"... I assume you can run all your current games on high settings.

What made you say DX 9? Is crysis DX 10 much more demanding? How does Dx 9 compare with Dx 10?

[QUOTE="yoyo462001"]if you put an extra 20 quid on your budget you can get an 8800 GTS from Ebuyer. i think the 8600GTS will run crysis (DX 9) on fairlyhigh settings probably 8X AA(most likely 4Xthough)max really.polarwrath11

Ok thanks thats quite helpful. I see you have one yourself on your "RIG"... I assume you can run all your current games on high settings.

What made you say DX 9? Is crysis DX 10 much more demanding? How does Dx 9 compare with Dx 10?

What is the difference 8X 16X ???? What do they mean?

Anti-aliasing is what grpahics cards do these days to smooth out edges in games and make it look so much sweeter. X16 AA smooths out egdes much more than X8, theres a big differnce between no Anti-aliasing and X8 but very litle between X8 and X16.

if you put an extra 20 quid on your budget you can get an 8800 GTS from Ebuyer. i think the 8600GTS will run crysis (DX 9) on fairlyhigh settings probably 8X AA(most likely 4Xthough)max really.yoyo462001

While writing your response, you really should've reminded this OP about the wastefulness of going beyond 256 MBs of RAM on a 128 bit medium performance video card. The memory system bandwidth is too narrow and the core speed too slow to make use of any more VRAM than the 256. The extra VRAM is strictly a marketing scam.

P.S. (in Edit) I wonder if outages here yesterday and again for a few minutes today are related to this slowness of the forums to refresh individual threads? There's supposed to be a further response from YoYo in here, according to the index page, but it's not showing up yet (a half hour after I initially composed my comment). Meanwhile, I did omit one proviso when saying that the balance beyond 256 is useless.

It won't be used by any games, but potentially there can be applications dealing with very large files, such as audio, photographic, and video projects, that could use the extra VRAM. I don't use PhotoShop myself, however I've been advised that it will not see any advantage from video cards with more VRAM than a game can use, either.

[QUOTE="yoyo462001"]if you put an extra 20 quid on your budget you can get an 8800 GTS from Ebuyer. i think the 8600GTS will run crysis (DX 9) on fairlyhigh settings probably 8X AA(most likely 4Xthough)max really.Kiwi_1

While writing your response, you really should've reminded this OP about the wastefulness of going beyond 256 MBs of RAM on a 128 bit medium performance video card. The memory system bandwidth is too narrow and the core speed too slow to make use of any more VRAM than the 256. The extra VRAM is strictly a marketing scam.

Will a GeForce 7300LE do any good with 256 RAM or should I just get a new one. And how come the card says,

Dedicated Memory: 128mb

Total Memory: 256 mb

Will a GeForce 7300LE do any good with 256 RAM or should I just get a new one. And how come the card says,

Dedicated Memory: 128mb

Total Memory: 256 mb

Hatiko

Will a GeForce 7300LE do any good with 256 RAM or should I just get a new one. And how come the card says,

Dedicated Memory: 128mb

Total Memory: 256 mb

Hatiko

You already have what will surely prove to be an adequate response to the real question within a question from what you wrote above. You are here in a forum on a web site dedicated to game play, therefore, your rather vague phrase "do any good" ends up being interpreted as if you wrote something on the order of "Can I play games with a 7300 LE and do so enjoyably?"

In the real world outside of games, HP sells tens of thousands of cheap PCs with that same video card included, and it works just fine for business applications, such as charting, graphing, spreadsheets, and Powerpoint Presentation Shows, even decently for various casual games (2D) that are popular. But you asked here, and the question was NOT taken at face value.

When did we start monopoly?Hatiko

What do you mean by that? :p

How about a eVGA Geforce 7900GS?Hatiko

I would suggest getting the x1950Pro instead of the 7900GS. Its only 10-20$ more, and performs better, iirc.

How about a eVGA Geforce 7900GS?Hatiko

im getting the 8800 GTS card, how will this card perfrom on crysis? and also just generally with other pc stuffblingbling4

Okay so thats good, so how Crysis handle on the rest of the specs?

Processor

Intel Viiv Core 2 Duo E4300 Processor (1.8GHz,800MHz,2MB cache)

Operating System

Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium- English

Memory

2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]

Monitors/Displays

DelL 19 INCH Silver Wide Flat Panel (SE198WFP) - UK/Irish

Hard Drives

250GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst cache

so will this p/c be able to run the 8800 GTS card?