Will A GTX 260 Suffice?

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Rapolyne

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• Oct 29, 2008

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Hello - I'm in the process of building my first computer.

I wanted to know if this card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130398
would achieve a reasonable frame rate with highest settings on a game like Crysis.

Not 100% sure if this is related, but I'm planning on 8 GB DDR2 1000 and Q6600

Thanks for reading.

Edit [1]: 1920x1200

 

Last edited: Oct 29, 2008

ghost_recon88

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• Oct 29, 2008

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What resolution will you be playing at? RAM obviously won't be a limiting factor

If you can get that quad overclocked to 3.6GHz or better, it should pair up nicely with that GTX260.

 

Alien432

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• Oct 31, 2008

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I agree with Ghost, Nividia GTX260 is tuned to play nice with Crysis. Two of them in SLI is even better !

 

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Resolution will have a lot to do with it. You could probably get away with 1600x1050 4x AA and have decent framerate.

I would wait a little longer before buying a video card. Die shrinks are coming out. Lets see how well those perform.

 

atm743

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• Nov 1, 2008

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the 260gtx 216 core is really a 280gtx but its laser cut so the other shader processors are locked

 

ghost_recon88

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atm743 said:

the 260gtx 216 core is really a 280gtx but its laser cut so the other shader processors are locked

Click to expand...

So is the normal GTX260.

 

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• Nov 1, 2008

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Yes it should.

 

d3v0

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• Nov 3, 2008

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A single GTX 260 is just fine for that resolution. You can run high graphics on most games, even with some AA maybe

I would drop the 8gb to 4gb. It is simply not necessary, literally no applications use that much RAM outside of having hundreds of items open in Photoshop CS4 or something. That much ram will make your NB chug power and thus limit your overclock on the Q6600, which as a quad will already put quite a strain on the NB.

 

BossBorot

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• Nov 3, 2008

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the gtx260 core 216 isnt worth the price premium over a normal gtx260 IMHO

 

d3v0

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• Nov 3, 2008

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It is if you are doing a step-up and they're the same price

But retail-wise, you are correct.