I'm planning to upgrade to a GTS 250, will today games work on it? my other spec

I'm planning to upgrade to a GTS 250(cuz its the best card available within my budget and I have lost faith in ati after running into too many heating problems. I gues here in india they use cheap parts), will today games work on it(Say crysis(its old but then again it does enjoy murdering cards), modern warfare 2) ? my other specs are:

Win XP Media Centre

Pentium D 2.8 GHz 1 MB L2 Cache

2 GB DDRII RAM

Thanx for the(hopefull) Replies

srry it will bottlenec.. not happening..

i recommend the hd 3870 ot gf 8800series until you swap that cpu!

Oh jeez you should really take care of that processor instead.keiblerfan69

pentium D is not the worst of the worst, it has HT technology the same whats now in the corei7. Resident evil 5 recommends even a pentium d as a minimum for same that you would need an real athlon dualcore on my box.

[QUOTE="keiblerfan69"]Oh jeez you should really take care of that processor instead.SLI_Gamer

pentium D is not the worst of the worst, it has HT technology the same whats now in the corei7. Resident evil 5 recommends even a pentium d as a minimum for same that you would need an real athlon dualcore on my box.

[QUOTE="SLI_Gamer"]

[QUOTE="keiblerfan69"]Oh jeez you should really take care of that processor instead.MonsieurX

pentium D is not the worst of the worst, it has HT technology the same whats now in the corei7. Resident evil 5 recommends even a pentium d as a minimum for same that you would need an real athlon dualcore on my box.

no its not look at the resi5 benchmarks.

Yep!

Where?MonsieurX

yeah where is resident evil i was asking me the same, also the double post wasnt really necessary.

[QUOTE="keiblerfan69"]Oh jeez you should really take care of that processor instead.SLI_Gamer

pentium D is not the worst of the worst, it has HT technology the same whats now in the corei7. Resident evil 5 recommends even a pentium d as a minimum for same that you would need an real athlon dualcore on my box.

Yeah but I need to forget about the cpu as of now cuz upgrading the cpu means changing the mother board which causes the total to become thrice my budget!

I'll change my cpu but later(I guess I'll just build a new PC then), but tell me, so yes it might bottleneck my gpu, but will the setup atleast be better than my integrated ati xpress200.(preferably better than the laptop I have been playing all the latest games on, it has a 8400m gs with a core2duo T5550 1.83 GHz)

I'm not only buying the card for gaming, but also cuz I'm starting work on after effects and 3ds max. Atleast the card will work with those two right?

:( I'm so confused right now. It seems that all the excitement I had developed on saving all that money has gone down the drain.

Lets get started, What is you're budget? I think the GTS 250's go for about 150: Lets see what we can do: this and this would be a bettr idea. Yes its about 175$, But it's definetly a stepping stone to a better PC for you.

Suppose later on that I got a budget of 224 $ from MSI, gigabyte, and asus. Which mobo should i chose.

I only have the option of intel e7500 as of now.

Also keep in mind that i'm in india and hence don't have access to all the models.

Also to help you out with choosing the mobo just follow the foll. links to some of the choices i have(my budget would be below 5000)

http://www.priceindia.in/computer/asus-intel-motherboard-price/

http://www.priceindia.in/computer/msi-intel-motherboard-price-list/

http://www.priceindia.in/computer/msi-intel-motherboard-price-list/

http://www.priceindia.in/computer/intel-original-motherboard-price-list/

http://www.priceindia.in/computer/asus-motherboard-price-list/

Lets get started, What is you're budget? I think the GTS 250's go for about 150: Lets see what we can do: this and this would be a bettr idea. Yes its about 175$, But it's definetly a stepping stone to a better PC for you.

dared3vil0

[QUOTE="dared3vil0"]

Lets get started, What is you're budget? I think the GTS 250's go for about 150: Lets see what we can do: this and this would be ahttp://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27255522&tag=topics%3Btitle#quick_quote bettr idea. Yes its about 175$, But it's definetly a stepping stone to a better PC for you.

dhruv990

Well this guy seems to run it fairly well on his rig(im going to be using much lower settings)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw45biOZbCg

hello dhruv, i am also from india

i would suggest u a 9800gt with ur cpu.

i have a 9800gt but i use it with c2d 2.2 but i thing that there is not so much performance difference in c2d 2.2 and p4d 2.8

u may only get 2-3 frames less than my specs

i get 35 fps in crysis island benchmark (direct x9, 1024X768,high, 4X AA)

and bad company 2 runs silky smooth with all settings in highest, direct x 10 and 16X AA at 1024X768, beyond this i haven't tested because my moniter doesn't support it.

my specification is on my sig.

zotac 9800gt 1gb ddr3 cost me around 6450rs inr in lucknow . i have purchase it 15 days ago.

Not sure what power supply you have, but it's something you might need to consider judging by the age of your system. For a gts 250 or 9800gt, you'll need something like 400-450W with around 25a on the 12v rail.

But I don't think it's worth getting either of those cards with that CPU like that, at the most I think a 9600gt would be more appropriate. No point spending more on a card that'll just be held back.

hello dhruv, i am also from india

i would suggest u a 9800gt with ur cpu.

i have a 9800gt but i use it with c2d 2.2 but i thing that there is not so much performance difference in c2d 2.2 and p4d 2.8

u may only get 2-3 frames less than my specs

i get 35 fps in crysis island benchmark (direct x9, 1024X768,high, 4X AA)

and bad company 2 runs silky smooth with all settings in highest, direct x 10 and 16X AA at 1024X768, beyond this i haven't tested because my moniter doesn't support it.

my specification is on my sig.

zotac 9800gt 1gb ddr3 cost me around 6450rs inr in lucknow . i have purchase it 15 days ago.

aasim_nasa

So does anyone know if the bottleneck is worse than my performance with the pentium d and the x200? also will the bottleneck be worse than a core2duo and an intel integrated graphics(all the mobos within my budget only have those).

dont know what psu u got i know the 4670 is a low power card n should be alright with ur specs and those type of games at those res

dont know what psu u got i know the 4670 is a low power card n should be alright with ur specs and those type of games at those res

djdarkforces

so if u buy gts or 9800 now it will say it will give u a huge bump over ur previous graphic card which but not give the performmance that the card can give on duos and quads.bottlenecking means u will get only 5-10% less frames than it is on the faster cpu. i think go for 9800 and and save money for ur future cpu upgrade. gts outperformes 9800 only by a small margin and for ur currrent cpu 9800gt is the best and requires less power than gts250. if i was in ur place i surely buy 9800 and in 6 months or a year upgrade my cpu.

I recently upgraded to a GTS 250 and all my games work fine if not better but that CPU is a no no. I'm using a C2D E6750 2.66 GHz....not new but certainly is still pretty good since my monitor isn't exactly huge (its a 19 inch, thats what she said! =P) spiderman120988

[QUOTE="spiderman120988"]I recently upgraded to a GTS 250 and all my games work fine if not better but that CPU is a no no. I'm using a C2D E6750 2.66 GHz....not new but certainly is still pretty good since my monitor isn't exactly huge (its a 19 inch, thats what she said! =P) kraken2109

Now My card(xpress 200) got a min. score in 3dmark06 of 140 the intel got one of 0. My average is 196 intel gmas avg. is 132.

Now please tell me what will be better a gts 250 with a pentium d, OR an intel gma 950 with a core2duo(cuz thats what i can afford).

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-950.2177.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Radeon-Xpress-200M.2175.0.html

sure u have to go with gts250. intel accelerator with core2duo is the worst thing u are thinking about.

i bet u will get atleast 30 frames at everything maxed out with 4Xaa at 1024X768 resolution.

with intel accelerator u wont be able to even start the game.

and gts 250 is more beneficial to 3d's max than a core 2 duo with intel accelerator.

can u give me ur gtalk id so we can talk better and clearly on it.