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NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE?
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23. September 2007 @ 19:28 |
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You have a PCI-E 16x slot so the card Sam recommended will work.
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23. September 2007 @ 19:44 |
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I have the same PC(i got it for $180). I putted a 80mm fan in the back, also upgraded the PSU, graphic card, and the ram.
You definitely need to upgrade the PSU, it comes with a 250watt or 350w PSU, which barely making it.
since you're on a limited budget maybe this PSU helps
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDet...ductCode=370565
stop hoping, start loving.
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24. September 2007 @ 03:45 |
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Indeed, you'll definitely need a more powerful PSU to run a high end graphics card.
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24. November 2007 @ 10:49 |
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I think people are exaggerating rather too much on how much the GeForce 6150SE sucks. Because really, it doesn't. I also just got a new pc with this graphics card and I've been playing games such as; Half-Life 2, F.E.A.R, Doom 3, etc., and yes, maxed out, not minimal settings. Though I won't say it's the best graphics card, it's definitely not crap either. There is slight lag in some parts of top end games, but other than that I can't complain. If you have problems with it, get the newest drivers and that should fix most issues.
Though a year, down the line I would highly suggest getting a newer graphics card, only due to it being outdated by then.
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24. November 2007 @ 11:32 |
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I doubt you are playing FEAR maxed out with that. What resolution are you running it at?
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24. November 2007 @ 14:59 |
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I have played alot of games with my 6150 and ive been playing unreal tournament 3 the last few days. sure I know that a 8800(which im getting real soon) would be much better...but the 6150 is not as bad as most would make it out to be...my monitor is a samsung widescreen @1440x900.
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24. November 2007 @ 18:39 |
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Which is better the 7350 LE or the 6150 SE?
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24. November 2007 @ 18:44 |
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Honestly neither. Video cards are so cheap now that you owe it to your self to get at east a 7600GT.
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24. November 2007 @ 21:06 |
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Total bull, a 6150SE can't play FEAR at anything above 640x480 on high settings. You might be able to manage 1024x768 if you put the detail down low, but never 1440x900, not unless you can play FPS games at 5 frames per second.
OmriSama: The 6150SE is pointlessly awful. The 7350LE isn't so bad, but if you're a gamer you want something at least as poweful as a 7600GT.
I'll quote notebookreview forums (and yes, the mobile 6150se is the same as the desktop 6150se)
F.E.A.R.
If you can't tell by now, I've been pretty keen to try and push the Go 6150 as hard as I can. I've heard reports of F.E.A.R. running on peoples' Radeon Xpress IGPs, so I figured...why not? And I gave F.E.A.R. a go. Like Doom 3, I was impressed.
Again, as I mentioned before, the Go 6150 hates lighting and shadow effects, so Volumetric Lighting and Shadows were disabled. These were the settings I ran F.E.A.R. at:
* 640x480
* COMPUTER OPTIONS:
o Single Player Physics Medium
o Multiplayer Physics Medium
o Max Software Sounds Medium
o Particle Bouncing Medium
o Shell Casings Off
o World Detail Minimum
o Corpse Detail Minimum
* VIDEO CARD OPTIONS: EFFECTS
o Effects Detail Medium
o Model Decals Medium
o Water Resolution Medium
o Reflections & Displays Medium
o Volumetric Lights Off
* GRAPHICS
o FSAA Off
o Light Detail Minimum
o Shadows Off
o Texture Filtering Trilinear
o Texture Resolution Medium
o Videos Medium
o Pixel Doubling Off
o DX8 Shaders Off
o Shaders Maximum
With these settings, I benchmarked:
* Minimum FPS: 18
* Average FPS: 28
* Maximum FPS: 57
* 31% of gameplay below 25 FPS
* 66% of gameplay between 25 and 40 FPS
* 3% of gameplay above 40 FPS
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24. November 2007 @ 21:48 |
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Ummm, i dunno what else to say? Im running a dualcore amd with a 6150 and I do play those games. No need for me to lie...
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24. November 2007 @ 21:53 |
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Yeah but at what resolution? Can you post a screenshot of your settings?
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24. November 2007 @ 22:34 |
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Sure, you can play FEAR, but at high detail it'd have to be at some pants resolution like 512x384.
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25. November 2007 @ 22:59 |
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Originally posted by batman30:
Ummm, i dunno what else to say? Im running a dualcore amd with a 6150 and I do play those games. No need for me to lie...
Same here. AMD Athlon 6000+. I don't see why I'd need to lie about what games I can play or not :/.
And I'm running at 1024 x 768. Yes, not the highest screen res. But any higher and the screen gets too stretched out because I have a widescreen monitor and I haven't seen any widescreen screen res. in FEAR, unlike HL2, which I run at 1680x1050 and maxed out settings.
Don't you people believe I'd find something better to lie about than about how my comp. runs games, because I couldn't give a crap if I had to run it at low or high settings, as long as my games run is good enough for me.
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25. November 2007 @ 23:06 |
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FEAR can support widescreen resolutions, right off the bat if you have the expansions. If you don't, then you can change the config file to use one. Unfortunately at that low a pixel count there aren't really any well used widescreen resolutions, the lowest I can think of is 1280x800 which may run a bit slow on a 6150.
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25. November 2007 @ 23:11 |
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The only reason we doubt you is because everyone else says the opposite. My old 7600 GT didn't run fear on high, and it's miles ahead of the 6150.
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25. November 2007 @ 23:11 |
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Yah, I don't have the expansions. Change to config file, ah, never tried that xD. Thanks. But yes, I think it would run rather slow if I had it running any higher than 1280x800, and I'm wanting 1680x1050...
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25. November 2007 @ 23:15 |
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Originally posted by abuzar1:
The only reason we doubt you is because everyone else says the opposite. My old 7600 GT didn't run fear on high, and it's miles ahead of the 6150.
Well yah, but it doesn't really matter. And I do think I'd find something better to bs about than a game.
And question to throw out there, my computer tells me I have 1336 MB of Video Memory. Correct or incorrect would you think? Before my Nvidia drivers were updated it was saying 623MB, possibly 2x graphics cards running?
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25. November 2007 @ 23:17 |
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Your integrated graphics shouldn't be able to call on any more than 256MB of your RAM. IGPs don't have any RAM of their own, so it may just be showing how much system RAM you have free.
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25. November 2007 @ 23:19 |
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Incorrect, you don't have video memory. You share your system memory with the video controller.
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25. November 2007 @ 23:20 |
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Ok. But it's been saying that for over a week now. I have 3GB's of ram, so it'd prolly be up there, so maybe?
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25. November 2007 @ 23:21 |
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Wait you have three gigs of RAM and you don't buy a video card? lol
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25. November 2007 @ 23:22 |
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Whatever it says, I don't think the 6150 can call on any more than 256MB. Even if it could that'd be pointless, because it couldn't process that much at once anyway.
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25. November 2007 @ 23:24 |
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Originally posted by abuzar1:
Incorrect, you don't have video memory. You share your system memory with the video controller.
Kk, figured as much. Not liking integrated chips as well as others I've ran before.
Is the ATI Radeon 9550 any better than the Nvidia 6150SE? 'Cuz I have an extra 9550 card from my old crap broken computer still...
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25. November 2007 @ 23:27 |
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I don't really know for sure. Why don't you buy a graphics card? They are cheap now days.
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25. November 2007 @ 23:27 |
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Probably, if not by a whole lot. The burning question though is, which socket is it for? If it's AGP and your current PC uses PCI Express it's a nogo I'm afraid.
If it's PCI, it'll be too slow to be worth bothering with.
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