Recently acquired some old systems (one with a Q9550 and the other with a Q6600) and was wondering what're some good period-accurate graphics cards to pair these with.
Any suggestions?
Graphics card for an Intel Quad Core machine
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Re: Graphics card for an Intel Quad Core machine
Core 2 Quads, eh?
Those are around the 2008-ish era. So the later pre-GTX series graphics cards would be a good fit from that era.
Like GeForce 9 if you can find those. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_9_series - or the first-gen GTX series the 200 series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_200_series
Or the early Radeon HD series cards. Like a Radeon HD 4000 series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_4000_series
Ironically enough the OpenGL version in these cards is just barely high enough to run modern-day GZDoom, but to be quite honest performance is going to be fairly shit.
I mostly know about it because that was a period when I had to do some extensive computer upgrades in order to be able to continue playing my games, so I was somewhat familiar with what was available back then. It's also when I got my first and only MacBook from Apple - a late 2008 model - and I am really familiar with the specs on that. It had a Core 2 Duo with a GeForce 9600M.
Those are around the 2008-ish era. So the later pre-GTX series graphics cards would be a good fit from that era.
Like GeForce 9 if you can find those. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_9_series - or the first-gen GTX series the 200 series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_200_series
Or the early Radeon HD series cards. Like a Radeon HD 4000 series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_4000_series
Ironically enough the OpenGL version in these cards is just barely high enough to run modern-day GZDoom, but to be quite honest performance is going to be fairly shit.
I mostly know about it because that was a period when I had to do some extensive computer upgrades in order to be able to continue playing my games, so I was somewhat familiar with what was available back then. It's also when I got my first and only MacBook from Apple - a late 2008 model - and I am really familiar with the specs on that. It had a Core 2 Duo with a GeForce 9600M.
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Re: Graphics card for an Intel Quad Core machine
When I had such a system it came with a Geforce 8600. That was perfectly fine back in the day for most games I played - the only thing to look out here is that if you want to play anything with OpenGL - Don't! Get! AMD/ATI!!! This was a generation for which their drivers were so bad that they'd not even run GZDoom well.
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Re: Graphics card for an Intel Quad Core machine
That period's the start of the CPU slump, so probably about anything from GF8 upward should be fine (including AMD GCNs), the RTX20xx+/Navi+ cards are probably too much. There's at least 8 years of appropriate GPUs so tons of versatility is had.
but if you really wanted to go hard period correct, Geforce8/9, RadeonHD3850-6850, and maybe a PhysX card (as this was when 'physics cards' peaked before GPUs could compute worth a damn).
Period correct retail AAA gaming on it would probably hit the SecuROM serversDestablished wall most likely though...
but if you really wanted to go hard period correct, Geforce8/9, RadeonHD3850-6850, and maybe a PhysX card (as this was when 'physics cards' peaked before GPUs could compute worth a damn).
Period correct retail AAA gaming on it would probably hit the SecuROM serversDestablished wall most likely though...