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9800 Pro question

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Hey everyone,
My friend has a 9800 pro, ati brand, well he was moving his computer and broke off one of the capacitors or something. Well it doesnt work anymore. It is still undery warranty by like 4 years, but he doesnt want to mess with it. Ati said they would repair it, all i need to do is send it in. He offered to sell it to me for $80 and my nVidia 5600 256mb card. So it is a card and cash, all i need to do is send it in to be fixed. Is that a good deal, or is $80 to much for a card that will be repaired for free? Also I just got a Dell 2005fpw, which is awesome by the way, and my current 5600 is having trouble keeping up at the native rez of 1680x1050. I play CSS, UT2K4, WoW, a little Doom 3 and Far Cry. How will the 9800 pro run at that rez with like 4aa/4af? I only need it to get like 60, anything higher i cant notice. I can oc it a little, but how will it run stock at 1680x1050?
Thanks.
 
No it will not give you 60FPS in Far Cry or Doom, especially with any filtering turned on.

My 6800 GT would be unable to get 60 FPS in Doom 3 under those conditions.

If that is what you want your graphics card to do buy yourself a video card (or two) that sells for over $500.00.
 
the only thing that will give you that many FPS at those sttings, is an X850XT or an 6800gt/Ultra (Maybe, if you put them in SLI Yes)
 
If you refer to the [H]ard Doom3 guide, realistic settings for a 9800pro is 1024x768 medium - high quality with no aa/af.
 
I just got a 2005fpw from dell also, and you'll want to game in widescreen mode when available. I have a 9800pro that wasn't living up to its end of the bargain. I just bought an x800xl agp and get to pick it up tonight. With that lcd, you'll want one of the latest gen cards to appreciate it. The 9800pro is solid, and much better then the 5600, but you won't be pleased with it on the dell lcd. CS:S widscreen @ 1380x980 or something like that was getting solid fps, but just felt strange on my eyes. I would say get the 9800pro if you can't afford anything better since it's a step in the right direction.
 
I played doom3 on native 1280x1024.... no filtering, but got around 40-50 fps on my 9800 pro R360 core....definitely playable and it still looked good.
 
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