New machine will it be hindered? with oldish Graphics card

-oRnein9-

I am waiting on delivery of my new components
Amd 64 3400+
MSI Neo Plat
Muskin level one
74gb Raptor

I was just wondering since I won't be able to afford a new graphics card for a while, how will my Ge-Force fx5600 do in this rig will playing doom3 and HL2?
Thanks
Richy.

jor el

The FX5600 is hardly a poor graphics card. I'd say it should be fine as Doom3 is supposed to work with a GF4. I'm hoping it'll be OK on my fx5200, untill I can afford the two hundred notes for a Radeon 9800 pro.

uberpixie

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040809/doom3-04.html

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/doom-3-tests_4.html

have a look through these.

Your gfx is a right bottleneck. You prob will be playing doom on medium quality in 800 x 600 or there abouts(still will look great though tbh).

BKtje

To answer yoyes question: yes

Your pc is only as fast as its slowest part.
SHould play ok tho

Thordon

Im in a similar situation, my card is the worst part of my PC, but I can run doom3 on high at 1024x768 smoothly, even during fights. Compared to my old Athlon 1.1ghz and 1 gig of SDRAM133 and same card, its MUCH faster. CPU/RAM does make a big difference.

nadir

B-K-DzR wrote:

To answer yoyes question: yes

Your pc is only as fast as its slowest part.
SHould play ok tho

I think the most important thing to take into account is graphic library extensions. Geforce4 type cards wont support the latest vertex - fragment shader extensions etc.
However the card is an fx so it does, that wills ave you from software rendering all those lovely shaders.
Id say that amd 64 will run a sweet game of DOOM3. obviously a 6900 would run it sweeter, but you should be fine.

-oRnein9-

Cheers for the advise lads, I think if my new machine can handle doom 3, then i'll hold out until Half-life 2 comes out and have a thourough read through some solid benchmarks but whichever card performs best in Half-life 2 I'll be buyin.
Nice 1
Richy.