Quick Question. 8800GT enough for MW2 and Dragon Age @ 1920x1080?

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I'm trying to help a friend decide last second if he should stick with his 8800GT and get a 24" LCD or get an HD 5770 and stick with his 17" 1280x1024 LCD. Whatever he doesn't get now he'll get down the road but his main concern is will the following setup play Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Dragon Age: Origins @ 1920x1080 if he goes with the 24" LCD?

Gigabyte 785G mobo
Phenom II 945 @ stock 3ghz ( for now )
Reference 8800GT 512mb
3gb DDRII 667 in dual-channel

Think the above will play CoD MW2 and Dragon Age @ 1920x1080 at max detail? I know it'll play but the question is at what detail.

Personally I'm leaning towards the extra real estate now and just turn the settings down a tad untill he can afford an HD 5770 and if anything they will come down in price by the time he can't handle mid-high detail without AA.
 
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The LCD would be a substantially more worthy upgrade, and even if he couldn't play those games maxed out at 1920x1080, he could still play at resolutions higher than 1280x1024.

I would wait for the 6 series Radeons or the lower-end Fermi cards before shelling out money for a graphics upgrade. An 8800GT should be fine.
 
I just noticed NewEgg dropped the price of the 28" Hanns-G to $299 shipped, a $90 diffy between the 24" and the 28" so I might push him for that and he won't need to upgrade his LCD ever at that point.

I think I'ma push him towards the 24" or 28" unless someone thinks that'd be a bad idea for the time being and he should get the 5770 instead.
 
MW2 was borderline on my 8800gt @16x10 max but no AA - the more demanding levels such as contingency were in the low 30s for extended parts, at 1080p I would say a good few of the levels would chug, but he could always run non-native or drop the settings to medium-ish.

Apparently, dragons age does not require much more than 30fps to be playable, but can be quite demanding in parts (more so than MW2).

So like you said basically!
 
it wont be i get some slow downs on a few lvls with my 4870 its cause of the 512mb of memory
 
check if his 8800GT will overclock at all.. if he can get the shaders stable at 1728mhz it should run MW2 fine.. sure you'd have to turn some of the eye candy off but most of its useless anyways.. the biggest killer is the particles.. even with my 8800GT @ 760/1890/1050 at 1920x1200 the particles caused my frame rate to drop in the single digits but other then that the game ran at about 35-45 fps.. not great but was playable.. but mine had the volt modded bios.. so im in agreement with everyone else.. go with the larger monitor/resolution.. stick to native resolution sizes though.. eg, 22 1680x1050, 24 1920x1200 or 1080p.. the odd sizes like 28" at 1920x1080's just useless because even at 28" you still only get the same pixels as a 24" monitor at 1920x1080p all you end up doing is stretching the image.. save the 90 bucks toward the 5770 or 5830 or 5850 for a later date and get the 24" display..
 
Interesting, cause DA runs like shit on my 8800GTX at 1080P even with my cpu at 3.2
 
Well, after reading everyones posts here he went with the 24" LCD and the HD 5770 and decided to eat ramen noodles and Mac&Cheese for the next month :)
 
^

He ecould proablly just not eat at all, and get 2 5770s.

People can go about 1 month w/o food, and it;s defffinatly worth it!

jk.
 
just for comparison

I can run Bad Company 2 with a 8800GTX stock @ 1920x1080 with medium settings, 2xaa 2xaf and vsync on and the lowest framerate is 50.
 
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