PostmanPot
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That's strange, since I can play all the latest games at either High or Medium-High settings.
What about Crysis?
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What about Crysis?
HavocXphere
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*cough* 800x600 *cough*GreatBigMouth said:
That's strange, since I can play all the latest games at either High or Medium-High settings.
While it's far from being the best card out there, it provides excellent performance for the price. (About R1200 new). I think it also received the award for "Best Budget Card for Jan 2008". I will try to find the link to the article.
What resolutions and which games and what settings for AA.
No offence to guys who have an 8600 but you would be a fool to buy one. You would be better of buying a second high end 7 series or the equivalent ati card or getting the ati 3850 for about R500 more or waiting for the geforce 9600.
The 8600 is not for gaming it's a good card for a cheap multimedia setup.
What resolutions and which games and what settings for AA.
No offence to guys who have an 8600 but you would be a fool to buy one. You would be better of buying a second high end 7 series or the equivalent ati card or getting the ati 3850 for about R500 more or waiting for the geforce 9600.
The 8600 is not for gaming it's a good card for a cheap multimedia setup.
While I agree that it isn't the perfect gaming card, if it can play Crysis (currently the most advanced game) at ANY settings, then it's good enough for quite a lot of people. Not everyone needs full AA etc to enjoy the game. I just finished Half Life 2 on pretty much the lowest settings, using a 9250 and thoroughly enjoyed it. I've since upgraded to an 850XT and am now semi replaying it at full settings and it's great to have all the extra stuff, but it doesn't mean that I'm gonna upgrade again to make my PC capable of full settings in Crysis. I'm happy to play it at lower settings if need be!
Yes but the question is if you are buying a card right now right at this minutes would you buy the 8600?? It wouldn't be a wise decision.
If your happy with your card fine but it doesn't change the fact that it's not a very good gaming card.
When does he want the card?? 9600gt is suppose to launch 21 Feb in the states. I would wait till the end of the month just to see if the 8600 gt doesn't beat the ATI .
9600gt launches 21 Feb.