Wednesday, September 22, 2004
I installed a new graphics card in my pc yesterday, since on board graphics are always a bit pants.The Sapphire Radeon 9600SE is dead easy to install and deffinitely faster than the on board chipset, but having read a few reviews since fitting it, I wish I'd read them before buying it. Obviously I've had nothing in the same price range to compare it with, but it would seem that it's actually something of a lame duck in terms of outright 3D performance.
I guess thats what happens when you just wander into PC World with the intent of buying a card without doing your reseacrh first
Still... no big deal really, since I'm not a hardcore gamer by any means. Most of the games I play are on emulators and the Namco System 22 and Sega Model 2 emulators I'm messing around with like it just fine.
Update:
Ok, sod all that. I don't care what the reviewers say about this card.... I just installed Farcry on my pc to give the card a good workout and it's absolutely breathtaking. So the graphics settings may all be on medium to get a fluid framerate, but when it looks this good, who cares? It does make me wonder just how good it'd look with everything on 'Very High' settings, but even so... I'm gobsmacked.
Labels: games, graphics cards
Steve 1:13 PM [+]
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