Thursday, February 7, 2008

New videocard, but which one?

Recently I finally made the upgrade to the dual-core era, but I decided to use the onboard graphics of the Asus M2A-VM HDMI motherboard. Based on the AMD 690G, with Radeon X1250 graphics, it basically supports everything up to DirectX 9.0c. And I didn't expect to do a lot of gaming.
However, recently I wanted to play a few games again, mostly try Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. And doing that on a 690G/X1250 is really not advisable. So I started looking at what videocard might be a viable option for me.

It should not be to expensive (so <= €100,-), preferably passively cooled, and be the fasted possible within those requirements. Now I have been very interested in the new Radeon HD 3400 / 3600 series. But until now I could not find decent benchmarks with both series included. Today I found those at Legitreviews.com.

I will definatelly skip the HD 3400 series, but I think the HD 3650 is really a viable option.

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