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Father Xmas

By Father Xmas,
Posted on: 2011-03-22 20:11 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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I have a computer that has built in video, It has a ATI 3000 video chipset, I want to upgrade the video, I will NOT be running Ultra Mode. The system has a 480 watt PS,and only has a HD, nothing else. I was thinking of buying a GeForce GT 430 . i picked it mostly due to 1 gig ram and only a 350 watt PS needed.


Is this a bad choice? instead of Duel boxing ,with my I7/470,I will be using the second box for my second account.

Any thoughts?

ps at 1600X1200 I can get between 15-30 fps with built-in video

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The GT 430 is a strange bird. It's a mutant cousin of the 9500GT. On one hand it has 3x the CUDA processors and 2x the raster units of the 9500GT. But on the downside it has 1/2 of the texture units.

So it can compute shaders faster, write pixels out faster but handles textures slower. Tom's lists it faster than the 9500GT. Adjusted for clock speed we are talking 3x faster compute, 2.5x faster pixel processing and 2/3rds the texture processing. My SWAG is around 25% faster in modern (shader happy) games.

For what you are looking to do it should be reasonable.

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