5050e and gaming

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fhetw

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Was thinking of spending a little on upgrades and was wondering if the 5050e would be good enough to play newer games decently. Would be pairing it with a 4850 and 4gb ram. Mainly looking at the 5050e bc of TDP. I know most people are putting these things in htpc's but I just need an upgrade on my old ass p4 2.8, and am not a hardcore gamer by any means.
 
What resolution? It would let you play most games with decent settings at modest resolutions.
 
At 720p or 1366x768, it would be enough to max out pretty much anything with a 4850. At 1080p, you'll have to start turning things down, but it's doable.
 
Zero82z said:
At 720p or 1366x768, it would be enough to max out pretty much anything with a 4850. At 1080p, you'll have to start turning things down, but it's doable.
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You got it backward, at a higher resolution, the CPU is less important than lower resolution. It is when the GPU are taking more loads.
 
alg7_munif said:
You got it backward, at a higher resolution, the CPU is less important than lower resolution. It is when the GPU are taking more loads.
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Even so, the stress placed on a CPU also increases as the resolution goes up. It's just that the relative importance of the CPU relative to the GPU becomes less. Anyway, my previous post was in terms of his CPU and video card combined, not just one or the other.
 
prob 1900x1200. couldnt find any benchmarks for it, but based on the comparable ones provided, I think im just gonna get it. thanks all
 
fhetw said:
prob 1900x1200. couldnt find any benchmarks for it, but based on the comparable ones provided, I think im just gonna get it. thanks all
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Good choice; I just installed a phenom 9850 BE last night; at stock it's so much hotter, that I'm looking for something to UC and UV it. It doesn't seem a whole lot faster than my 2.3GHz X2 45W TDP CPU it replaced, although I haven't played PoP on it, so it hasn't had it's first real test yet. But it runs so damn hot that I'm going to need an app to uc and uv it before I try PoP on it. 38 C idle, for every core with an AC freezer 64 Pro and AC MX-2.
 
I wouldn't really consider that heatsink a quad core one. Maybe a Xigmatek-S1283 or something but not the Freezer 64.
 
Just wondering how this setup (ie. keeping the 5050e as the processor) would fare with a slightly lower spec graphics card, such as the 4670. I gather the 4670 doesn't need additional power, and I'm wondering if there might also be a fanless version. Was thinking that this, along with a fanless cooler for the 5050e might give a nice quiet PC and work on a 350w PSU, and would handle video effortlessly

BUT...

how would it do on Half-Life 2, Star Wars Lego (I think these are my most demanding games, although I play Sim City 4, Civ 4 probably as much or more.) Also, how would it handle the Orange Box - I'd probably want to be able to play that once I get round to completing Half-Life 2.

My prefered resolution on my current monitor is 1280x960. Would I be able to play on max settings, or at least get decent frame-rate at lower settings?
 
meyles said:
how would it do on Half-Life 2, Star Wars Lego (I think these are my most demanding games, although I play Sim City 4, Civ 4 probably as much or more.) Also, how would it handle the Orange Box - I'd probably want to be able to play that once I get round to completing Half-Life 2.

My prefered resolution on my current monitor is 1280x960. Would I be able to play on max settings, or at least get decent frame-rate at lower settings?
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You'd probably be able to handle all of that fine. A friend of mine ran the Orange Box on a Radeon 9800XT with everything maxed out and didn't have too many framerate problems. Your PC will run those games perfectly, even with a 4670.
 
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