MasterP said:
Nickname: The 7600 would play L4D and CoD4 at medium. If we’re using something like Crysis as the baseline for NEW then nothing we can price him will meet that short of spending money on a NEW video card. NEW card to play NEW games, old (cheap) card to play old games. You just can’t get around the whole “get what you paid for” thing.
The 9600 I posted averages 20-30% better in benchmarks and the CPU is roughly 25% faster. Other than that I guess they’re virtually the same speed.
My laptop’s 8600 can barely play l4d at medium…. and major’s new laptop has a 9600 and can barely play l4d at medium so yeah, I’m gonna stick with my statement about the 7600 not being capable of playing newer games at medium settings.
And LOL have you even looked at benchmarks of the 9600gso vs the radeon 4670? or gaming benchmarks of the q9400 vs x3 720?? Maybe next time do your homework but since you are incapable I will do it for you…
radeon 4670 vs geforce 9600 gso:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2330188,00.asp
extremetech said:
When judging the performance of these cards, two main points come to mind. First, they’re remarkably evenly matched. There are some games and settings where either ATI or Nvidia runs quite a bit faster, but on the whole we’d call it a draw. Only when you enable anti-aliasing does the ATI card regularly run most games faster
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3405&p=7
anandtech said:
the 4670 outperforms the 9500 GT, and where it doesn’t out perform the 9600 GSO it is competitive.
q9400 vs x3 720:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showd…?i=3512&p=8
the only GAMING benchmark where the 720 really loses is far cry 2, in the other 3 they are virtually equal
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showd…?i=3512&p=8
forgive the fact that its the q9450 instead of the q9400 (the 9450 is faster), but the x3 720 clearly wins in farcry 2 and l4d, clearly loses in bioshock, and is fairly even in the other gaming benchmarks.
so basically I would like to see where the “9600 I posted averages 20-30% better in benchmarks and the CPU is roughly 25% faster” comes from. quick edit: my statements are assuming gaming only. Clearly the q9400 has advantages for other applications.