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Just wondering..
jones911
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I am able to run Vanguard around mdium setting, now my computer is still from the agp era, trying get atleast another year out of it but just wondering how big of a profermance increase can i expect with the following upgrades
I have a Radeon x1950 Pro with 512 mb, i am upgrading to a SAPPHIRE 100228L Radeon HD 3850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3
I also upgraded my ram from 2 gigs of CORSAIR XMS 2GB (4 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) and upgraded to 4gigs of Kingston HyperX 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)(bought 4 sticks)
How much of a performance increase can i expect? i know this is somewhat difficult ith out more info to answer but i am just curious
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video card you should about a 3-5 fps increase, memory will help only if your running a 64bit os, also your cpu could always use upgrading, no need for a dual though vg does not take advantage of em. 2.8 or higher
I used to run VG with a 1950 Pro with my old PC...the problem you have there is not card performance, but bus bandwidth. Although you might see a small increase in the range of 3-4 FPS, when the action gets hot with many things displayed on the screen at the same time I doubt a more powerful card will help you.
There was a dev. quote somewhere stating that due to VG exchanging massive amounts of data between GPU and CPU , the bandwidth between the two is essential in performance.
i run vanguard on max setting and get about 60fps. i have 4 gigs of ram and an nvidia 280 gtx 1gb graphics card. running it on 64 bit vista and an intel core2 duo processor @ 3.00GHz
Whatever the bottleneck of your system is should be replaced first. Upgrading other components will only yield a slight performance gain (depending on what it is).
IMO purching an AGP 3850 HD card is a waste of money in the long term; the available bandwidth of an AGP slot is laughable compared to pci-express 2.0 slots.
With the money you spent on that graphics card and 4 gigs of ram, you probably could have picked up a mid-end motherboard with a pci-express 2.0 slot, a cheap dual core processor, 4 gigs of ddr2 ram, and a decent graphics card for about $60-100 more.
(Looking at pricing on a 3850 AGP card -- $110 - $125, and pricing on your 4gb Kingston HyperX -- $130-135; Total = $240-260 )
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx -- AMD x2 5200 $62.99 Free shipping
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx -- Foxconn AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 $64.99 w/ $15.00 MIR
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx -- G.SKILL 2x 2GB DDR2 1066 $46.99 Free shipping
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx -- Asus 4850 512mb pcie-16x 2.0 $149.99 w/ $30.00 MIR Free shipping
Total: $324.96 before shipping cost on the motherboard
Total with rebates: $279.96 before shipping on the motherboard
My intention is not to make you feel bad about your purchase, but to think about your future purchases so that you'll get the most out of your money. I would return what you've bought, and look at other options.
I rebuilt an 6-7 year old PC with.....
CPU INTEL|PDC E5200 82.99
GIGABYTE GA-EP43-DS3L 775 84.99
MEM 2Gx2|GSK F2-6400 44.99
Threw in an old 8800GTX that was laying around and it runs VG on high settings in 1600x1200 at 50-60fps. The core2 duo processor makes for a huge upgrade in performance over a single core. I'm kicking myself for what I paid for my Alienware