Following up from my HD 3870 video — this time I picked up an untested HD 3850 from 2007 for $9.90. Cleaned it, repasted it and threw it at 6 games on a Core 2 Duo rig.
• GTA San Andreas
• CoD4 Modern Warfare
• Tomb Raider Underworld
• Just Cause 2
• NFS Most Wanted
• Crysis
Temps hit 106°C but it survived.
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4 monthsAt that rate, you’d be better buying one of those minipc’s and game on it instead.
t. I have a orange pi 5 max and I’m quite sure I can run most (if not all) games you’ve mentioned.
- 4 months
Pressing x to doubt on the orange pi 5 - box86 ain’t that good, yet, surely? :)
PS: OP appears to have a VERY old rig - perhaps they can’t (or don’t want to) upgrade to mini-pc?
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 3.8GHz OC
- RAM: 8GB DDR2
- GPU: ATI Radeon HD 3850 512MB
- Storage: 1TB SATA SSD
- PSU: 450W 80+ Bronze
- OS: Windows 7 x64
FWIW, I can run all of the games demonstrated on my Lenovo M93p tiny at good speeds (and that only takes about fifty watts of power / cost $50-70 USD)
Nowadays it’s all about FEX – they’ve done some significant changes thanks to valve. Including reducing all the “chit-chat” between layers, making the game be as “native-like” as possible. Also, what you’ve said/implied seems to be the case regarding OP’s rig – no comment on that.
