I am currently using a GeForce 7500le and i can hardly play test drive and the graphics card waz in shock when i tried to click on NFS Carbon so if i buy 2x 8500gts can i put the graphics to max on test drive and will it run smooth and will it wrk with other l8 games plz answer,is this the right thing to do ?
P.S I am not rich so dont say get 8800 cards
2007-12-23 06:58:19 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
I have answered your question
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071223111818AAcOWp9&r=w&pa=FZptHWf.BGRX3OFMiDxRVMWw.i4I7FY9edKvXpW813gempVX5w--&paid=answered#E5BxK1S6DmVCTpPD99_h
by the way 8500GT's are also very weak for gaming and like I said in my answer above adding two cards won't make much difference, you won't be satisfied. Just get a single powerful card. With your budget the HD3850 is perfect.
2007-12-23 07:36:12 · answer #1 · answered by Friendly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
130 $ for two 8500gts...... i dont know really, im just guessing.ok , i looked up the benchmarks on 8500 gts, not much better than the 7500le.... but a little. 8500 is not even listed on some of the test i looked at. i am guessing that is because newer games require 8600. in my opinion you would probably be better off getting one 8600 gt , gts for around the same price. also you may need to upgrade your power supply.or u could save up, be patient ,and get an 8800 gt.another 130 $ and all the games will work ( except maybe crysis)
2007-12-23 07:32:03 · answer #2 · answered by NONAME 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To me it is not a good idea. The 8500 GT is one of the lowest on the 8 series lineup. Actually, you can afford an 8800 GT 256 MB. I got mine for $210.00. If you get 2 8500 GTs you will spend just as much. The 8800 is miles ahead of the 8500.
2007-12-23 07:10:24 · answer #3 · answered by hrm98_98 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try this site to see how your existing system stacks up. You may find it's not the graphics card where the bottleneck is:
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest
Test Drive needs 512 MB graphics RAM for optimum results, although it will run with 256.
You should increase the RAM to 2 GB before thinking of changing from what I think is an adequate graphics card.
2007-12-23 07:07:12 · answer #4 · answered by Michael B 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Since NFS Carbon requires at least one of these:
NVIDIA GeForce 7950 series
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 series
I'd recommend you look at a GeForce 8600, like this.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3514923&CatId=1560
2007-12-23 07:13:26 · answer #5 · answered by Spartacus! 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋