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Hardware Recommendations For Newbie?

#1 mgboonsboro

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Posted 21 August 2006 - 12:27 PM

Can anyone tell me if there are any/many games that would not play well with an ATI x1900 video card?

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#2 Wizdabest

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Posted 21 August 2006 - 02:11 PM

Are you kidding, that should be a good card? Unless its like Oblivion or GRAW which are total hogs anyway, its all going to depend on the rest of your PC specs.

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Posted 21 August 2006 - 02:41 PM

Depends on what you mean with play well.

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 12:11 PM

Whats graw?

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#5 Mr Alpha

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 05:49 PM

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. A really good game.

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Posted 27 August 2006 - 11:00 PM

I have Oblivion and even with all the settings turned up I get no slowdowns. X1900 is a very good card for gaming. But, as Wizdabest said, the rest depends on your config. You could have the fastest card in the world but if the computer is slow to begin with, the performance increase will be minimal.