http://cgi.ebay.com/Game-PC-Athlon-...0317673561?pt=Desktop_PCs&hash=item5ae0bf0c59 I might end up getting this,already have a HD, ill just install Windows xp and upgrade to windows 7 if need So what games can this play?
You are aware it's a rack-mount PC, right? Not saying it's a bad price but you might want to consider form factor.
You probably can't play modern games very well on that thing. StarCraft 2 might run okay, but apart from that probably not. It's seems like an okay price for what it is, but it's not really a gaming rig.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/10102/5 http://www.legitreviews.com/article/354/10/ http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/7900vs7950/7.html (most of these are with epic AA, 8Xs is IIRC, 1x2 SSAA + 4MSAA. So imagequality is much better) http://www.rage3d.com/reviews/video/nvidia7950gx2/index.php?p=5#Ghost%20Recon:%20Advanced%20Warfighter http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=114379 From http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=452407 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFlLmU9qELA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTE1I8WzQ7M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDV85MZM9ho http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFLbePqGQY0&feature=related I wouldn't recommend installing Windows 7 on this PC(at least not the 64-bit version). I'm not so sure how well it would perform. Windows XP should be fine.
I used to have a PC with very similar specs (I think I actually had the exact same GPU) and I seriously doubt it could run RE5. It had difficulty with the original Portal. Edit: Actually, now that I think about it it was probably a 7950GT, not a GX2. I've forgotten what that means. I think they intentionally name these things so it's difficult to tell which is which.
I played RE5 on an old Athlon 64 3200+ (single core) with the GeForce 7950 GT and 1 GB RAM, and got an average of 20-40 fps at 1024x768, medium detail level, so it was definitely playable. So that machine would play it even better. I'm going to try Duke Nukem Forever on it, since the requirements are quite similar.
CS: Source is old, so it should run without problems. It can probably run CoD4 too, at some level of detail...
Yes, since again, it's less intensive than RE5, which my old system can play fine; yours is more powerful, so it should do even better. Why not just check the system requirements instead of asking for each game here?
well as long as it is the 32-bit version(Because I've never used 32-bit 7), i have 64-bit ultimate with an Athlon II X2 @ 2.8Ghz with 2GB DDR2 Ram installed on my brother's PC and it doesn't quite run nearly as well as 32-bit XP did. And I have 64-bit 7 ultimate on mine as well, but my computer is much more powerful. also 7950GX2 is a Dual GPU card folks
If anything, depending on what you're doing 64-bit should be faster when you're comparing like with like. I could believe 32-bit XP would be faster than 64-bit Win7, though, but that is on account of the dramatic age difference between those operating systems and not on the word size the CPU is using.
XP can be faster on some setups. But on my own PC Win7 Ultimate 64 is much faster than XP,(I've had a dual boot on this setup in the past)32. So *shrug* I dunno. All I know is that a PC that is more powerful than this one from the OP post doesn't run W7u-64 nearly as well as it ran XP-32 with only 2GB of DDR2 Ram.
There could be all kinds of reasons for that. Resident software (AV suites especially), OS slowdown over time, driver issues... who knows.
Yeah, but i've never been one for shit like AV software when there are free progams that work so much better and don't waste system resources. And I have the same setup on that PC. The main contributing factor if any at all is because of the bottleneck imposed by the 2000 Mt/s HyperTransport speed on the motherboard when the CPU is capable of just a bit more than twice that. Also the Minimum Spec for W7u-64 is 2GB ram, so that can contribute as well(2GB of DDR2 RAM gets a worse score than a modern Sata II mechanical HDD, 5.4 in WIE) The PC in OP post is using an older CPU but with a mobo with a similar HT speed( up to 1600/2000 mt/s * the CPU supports only up to 2000) and slower 675Mhz DDR2 RAM. So it's basically just at the min spec for W7-64.
