• From: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Registered: 2007-10-10
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Topic: Video card and rig

Does anyone else on here use a nvidia 8500GT?  I just swapped it out for my old 7300 and I want to know what kind of results other people can get in FS and other games.

Rest of my pc goes something like this:

AMD Althon63 X2 4200+ (2x2.2ghz)
3gig ddr2-4200 ram
X-fi extremegamer sound card
8500 GT 512mb

  • Registered: 2007-09-30
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Re: Video card and rig

how can you have 3gig ram

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  • Imperial
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Re: Video card and rig

yultemsee wrote:

how can you have 3gig ram

3 1 gig sticks? 2 1 gig sticks and 2 512 sticks?  There are lots of ways.  Can't say I've used a 8500GT though, but I'd imagine it would be able to run FS smoothly on all high.

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  • From: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Registered: 2007-10-10
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Re: Video card and rig

Sorry, to clarify, 2 gig sticks and 2 512 sticks.  Oh, and now the core is running at 2,354 mhz.  Gotta love the gigantic fan amd includes with they're processor's-I think it could cool down my car.

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  • Registered: 2007-08-03
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Re: Video card and rig

nice rig man, i like your setup tongue i want to get a 8500 when i can afford it.. but as imperial said, it should run fine on high and when i do get one, (if i ever do! tongue) i'll try and tell ya how its workin out tongue

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  • Blah64
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Re: Video card and rig

I got an 8800GT, and it runs this game fine on highest settings.  It is much better than my previous integrated 6150LE.

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  • From: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Registered: 2007-10-10
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Re: Video card and rig

the 8800 is in a class of its own.  It out-renders the 8500 almost 10 times over, and thats not the box numbers based on integrated grafix, thats benchmark scores.  But the 8500 does pretty good, i can max 2142, and I can max everything but AA(only on x2) in oblivion. but... the 8500 is only around 100 usd, so im fine with it. It actually sucks less power than my 7300 gs did, with twice the integrated ram, which is what let my OC my dualcore again.