8600 and COD4?

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ThatDood

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I have an 8600GT and it is great for what I do. My lil bro wants COD4 for Christmas and he needs to upgrade his video card. Would the 8600GT 256mb be good for this game or is there something better for around $100 to $140 ish?
 
See if you can splurge a bit more for a HD3850. They go $180 average but if you must, try to find an used powerhouse from last generation (7900/x1900) on the forums.
 
An 8600GT would run it fine at lower resolutions. I run COD4 at 1680x1050 on an 8600GTS with all in game settings maxed, 16xAF and no AA. You should be able to find an 8600GT for around $100, or an 8600GTS for around $120 and the GTS is roughly 20-25% faster. To play at high resolutions he will need more GPU horsepower though.
 
I got my 1950pro512mb for cheap refirbished on newegg for $99. It plays cod4 great maxed out. Should do fine for your brother
 
hunter33 said:
An 8600GT would run it fine at lower resolutions. I run COD4 at 1680x1050 on an 8600GTS with all in game settings maxed, 16xAF and no AA. You should be able to find an 8600GT for around $100, or an 8600GTS for around $120 and the GTS is roughly 20-25% faster. To play at high resolutions he will need more GPU horsepower though.
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It also depends on what settings he wants to run it in. I run COD 4 on a X800XL with 1680 X 1050 resolution and it runs great with normal trextures and everythign else on low/off. With an 8600GT he would be able to run at that resolution with higher settings than me, but not max.
 
Gabriel said:
It also depends on what settings he wants to run it in. I run COD 4 on a X800XL with 1680 X 1050 resolution and it runs great with normal trextures and everythign else on low/off. With an 8600GT he would be able to run at that resolution with higher settings than me, but not max.
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Well he has a dell 19" widescreen monitor, not real sure what the max res. is on that. So what do you guys think? Would the 8600GTS be much better and more bang for the buck?
 
ThatDood said:
Well he has a dell 19" widescreen monitor, not real sure what the max res. is on that. So what do you guys think? Would the 8600GTS be much better and more bang for the buck?
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1440x900 is the max res and an 8600gts would be good for COD4 at that res. the only problem is the 8600gts usually costs quite a bit more than the gt.
 
cannondale06 said:
the 8600gt is fine for COD4 and max settings at 1024x768.
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or medium-low settings and 1620X1050/1600X1200.

Imho, todays midrange lineup from both AMD and Nvidia is appalling. The 8800GT is twice as good as the 8600GT in most departments and yet they represent side-by-side price points from NV. [/B]The smallest gap between the 8600GTS and 8800GT 256mb, is in the ROP output department: 9.6Mpixels/sec compared to 5.4Mpixels/sec. If you can go for the HD3850 I would strongly suggest you do it, as its without a doubt, in the enthusiast crowd, and goes for cheap.

Brent Justice said:
We consistently saw [the HD3850] smacking around the 8600 GTS factory overclocked video card.
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when he says "smacked around", he doesn't mean by small margin.

and I'm slightly suprised no one's offered up the hard numbers.

But of course a budgets a budget. The 8600GT is nothing to cough at, but for that amount of money I would buy a high end card from the last series (such as the X1900GT already listed or this 7900GS).
 
I like turning everything on max, and max resolution for my screen, and my 8600GT's performance is meh, some places it's fine, others with a lot of people on screen it stutters a bit, if you can afford an ATI 3850 i would reccomend it if you like all the eye candy.
BTW my max resolution is 1440x900
 
Ok, so if I go with the 3850 would the 256mb one be good enough to run the game at decent res.?
 
3850 will suit his needs, COD4 is not too demanding, any midrange card would do just fine.
 
aFive said:
3850 will suit his needs, COD4 is not too demanding, any midrange card would do just fine.
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I think the 3850 is better than the 8600GTS or is it 8600GT.

but I could be wrong.

Go check the 3850 benches vs the 8600 for comparisons.
 
I played through the entire game with all settings maxed at 1280x720 on a 8600GT coupled with 2GB RAM and an X2 5000+

It was smooth.. to be honest I didn't bother to check the FPS. Looked like it was running at 50-60FPS in most parts, but in intense areas I think it dropped to like 35-40.

I'm happy with the performance of this card... couldn't justify spending the money on a 8800GT with the kind of performance it gets in Crysis, so I'm waiting for the 9xxx series
 
x3sphere said:
I played through the entire game with all settings maxed at 1280x720 on a 8600GT coupled with 2GB RAM and an X2 5000+

It was smooth.. to be honest I didn't bother to check the FPS. Looked like it was running at 50-60FPS in most parts, but in intense areas I think it dropped to like 35-40.

I'm happy with the performance of this card... couldn't justify spending the money on a 8800GT with the kind of performance it gets in Crysis, so I'm waiting for the 9xxx series
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if you actually had every setting at max then there were times that you went below 25 at that res. theres also no way you had AA on without some slowdowns. I basically have the same pc specs as you and played the demo at 1024x768 maxed out. I went below 30fps quite often with 2x AA enabled. the game was still smooth with AA but it was much better without it.
 
cannondale06 said:
if you actually had every setting at max then there were times that you went below 25 at that res. theres also no way you had AA on without some slowdowns. I basically have the same pc specs as you and played the demo at 1024x768 maxed out. I went below 30fps quite often with 2x AA enabled. the game was still smooth with AA but it was much better without it.
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Yes, I didn't have AA on. I just mean all the visual settings in the game were maxed.
 
MrWizard6600 said:
Brent Justice HD 3850 review said:
We consistently saw [the HD3850] smacking around the 8600 GTS factory overclocked video card.
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when he says "smacked around", he doesn't mean by small margin.
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AMDXPCottonFire22 said:
I think the 3850 is better than the 8600GTS or is it 8600GT.

but I could be wrong.

Go check the 3850 benches vs the 8600 for comparisons.
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lol. Were not even at 3 pages and you've given up reading the posts?
 
Somebody said they're running COD4 at 1680x1050 with in game settings MAX with an 8600gts.

OMG somebody is a bastard. YeAH,YOU CAN run the game, but it plays terribly, TERRIBLY.

I got two 8600 GTS in SLI and it can run quite smoothly at 1680x1050, but only one 8600gts is NOT going to cut it. Now, you will have an enjoyable experience with your 8600 gts, for sure, bbut forget MAX settings.
 
It's true you can max out CoD4 with a 8600GTS at 1680x1050, but without AA (I can vouch for that since my roommate has a 2.8 e6300 and 4gb and an evga 8600GTS 512mb)
 
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