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hijynx54

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I am currently in the process of building a new rig and need help trying to pick out a good video card. I don't want to spend all that much, so was hoping to find a site that had a listings of benchmarks for all the most common cards. I once saw a list from tomshardware I think a year or two ago that listed like 30 different cards and their benchmarks in a single graph. Is there any newer version of such a graph?

I was going to use my radeon 2600xt pro 512mb, but was told that the card is not good for my use since I plan to do some light gaming. I also have an 8600gt OC 512 by BFG, but was unsure how that matched up to other cards. Namely the 9600gt and 8800gt I was looking at.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
2600XT 512 < 8600GT < 9600GT < or = 8800GT

Generally, the 2600s and 8600s aren't good for playing games, so the 9600Gt would be a good choice.
 
While I am aware of that, I am trying to calculate bang for buck too :) If the 9600 isn't SIGNIFICANTLY better than 8600, I might stick with 8600, if 9600 isn't too expensive, but provides adequate performance based on the price difference, I would get that. Hence the question about a large benchmarking graph :)
 
Could an 8600gt oc 512 with a Q6600 or Q9300 and 4gigs of ram handle most games on reasonable settings? I would be running on XP pro. The only real graphic intensive game I played is everquest 2 to be honest. I was running it mildly decent on my X2 4400 7800gtx and 2gigs ram a few months ago.
 
In that case, a 8600GT should be fine. Heck, a HD2600XT 512 should be more than enough also.
 
9600 is more than significantly faster than 8600. It makes the 8600 look like it was made with a hamster wheel running the graphics.
 
Really? Others here told me the 2600xt is really terrible and won't do it at all. So I thought the 8600gt would do it.
 
What resolution / settings do you want to be playing on?

To be honest, EQ2 isn't a very demanding game (or at least it shouldn't be). I believe the top of the line card was the 6800 Ultra when it came out.

Could just get a 9600GT to be safe though.:D They're around $130 after rebate. A 8800GS is also a good choice. ~$100 after rebate.

According to this guy:
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=21179

EQ2 runs good @ 1400x900 on his X1900XT on very high settings. The HD 2600XT 512MB should be able to match the X1900XT performance, give or take a few FPS depending on driver version. I think it'll do fine.

It seems that EQ2 is "extremely CPU limited". With a Q6600 or Q9300, you should be able to tear through it.
 
Lucky777 said:
EQ2 runs good @ 1400x900 on his X1900XT on very high settings. The HD 2600XT 512MB should be able to match the X1900XT performance, give or take a few FPS depending on driver version. I think it'll do fine.
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FWIW a 2600XT is quite a bit slower than an X1900XT, and afaik EQ2 will have it trailing significantly. I don't think even modern games place the 2900XT twice as powerful as the X1900XT (in several games it actually loses when AA is applied), and as 2600XT is always less than half as fast as that (has fewer than 40% of the stream processors, so no surprise) the math is pretty simple.
 
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