9550 for half life

**broar94** · November 20th, 2004, 01:42 AM

hi , i might be going for Asus 9550/GE card which is 250/400 and the review on the internet says it is value-for-money card and they got a average about 36 fps at 800x600res high quality ( Doom 3 ) and 30fps in far cry - 800x600 resolution maximum quality . this card is pretty cheap over here ( i'm in India ) i wish i am in us so i can get xfx 6600GT easily . that is not possible .

so i am asking you guys if this one will run Half Life 2 smoothly and will it work smoothly in 800x600 high quality? i can get Asus 9600XT but i dont want to waste a lot of money on that since i am not a heavy gamer anymore....

thanks in advance

**broar94** · November 20th, 2004, 01:56 AM

bump

**someone16** · November 20th, 2004, 02:52 AM

Assuming its the 128 bit edition, it should be fine for half life 2 as the game is very flexible with different types of hardware you have. There's a review on Anandtech on performance of different video cards playing half life 2. Even a old old gforce 4 mx can pull out decent fps.

**rrcn** · November 20th, 2004, 04:01 AM

oops wrong thread.

**BeatYouWithShoe** · November 20th, 2004, 04:05 AM

People are over estimating the system requirements used by HL2, the engine is coded so well that I can play it on my GeForce2MX perfectly smooth ( on the lowest res, textures etc. of course ) so that card will do fine.

**broar94** · November 20th, 2004, 04:45 AM

yeah decent FPS with very bad image quality . i wouldnt like to play the game with that card ( yep i have geforce 4 mx 440 at the moment

) which is why , i am looking to upgrade my graphics card

. do you think WoW requires high-end graphics card ?

**bombledmonk** · November 20th, 2004, 05:21 AM

I play @ 1200x1024 everything on high and the FPS rarely drops below 20, most of the time hovering in the mid 30's and always very playable. That is with a 9600np which is about equivalent or less powerfull than a 9550.

**BeatYouWithShoe** · November 21st, 2004, 10:33 PM

Originally Posted by broar94

yeah decent FPS with very bad image quality . i wouldnt like to play the game with that card ( yep i have geforce 4 mx 440 at the moment

) which is why , i am looking to upgrade my graphics card

. do you think WoW requires high-end graphics card ?

No WoW does not, i've played it on my GeForce 2 as well.

**broar94** · November 22nd, 2004, 07:25 AM

Originally Posted by bombledmonk

I play @ 1200x1024 everything on high and the FPS rarely drops below 20, most of the time hovering in the mid 30's and always very playable. That is with a 9600np which is about equivalent or less powerfull than a 9550.

thats unbelieveable . what sort of games do you play ? played ur half life 2 , doom 3 ??

btw, thats very good news to me!

**broar94** · November 22nd, 2004, 07:30 AM

can you please post your card speeds ( core/mem ) ? the one which i am looking for is having 250/400 ( core/mem ) .. should I go for 9600np then if this is too low ? and over-clocking potential of this card is none ( thats what i heard )

**sweeper2** · November 22nd, 2004, 07:57 AM

i have a Gigabyte Radeon 9550
I use the Omega Drivers which allow overclocking...i have it running

250 Core
225 Mem

i had a score of 3480 in 3d2k3 (overclocked) can't remember how high...

also i played Doom3 fine, not sure the settings..used the default settings I guess...and also play NFSU2 well also...

it's a good card and overclocks well, i am looking into getting a Zalman Heatpipe or Giant II or III for it ...comes with a dinky little HS....

**Peter M** · November 22nd, 2004, 09:03 AM

Plain 9600 is 325/200 core/RAM, 9550 is 250/200. SE versions use the same frequencies, but with 64-bit RAM for halved throughput.

**broar94** · November 23rd, 2004, 07:34 AM

damn guys! i am really really annoyed . the card ( asus 9550GE ) is not available anymore. crap man .. everytime i deal with buying of graphics card, it always turns out to be bad day!!!!!