sapphire radeon hd3650 im amazed - NS4Sale

willyjwebb · 06-01-2008, 02:28 PM

so i just bought a hd3650 to go with my home theatre pc, my reason for buying it was for 1080p video output, but when i installed it i decided to download the dx10 demo of crysis. to my surprise, i can run the game in directx 10 on medium and get 25-30 frames a second and dont notice any slowdowns. i tried some older games like fear, bioshock and farcry, and they all run really well. im running my pc to my lcd tv. so i have the resolution at 720p. im using ocz value ram and a pentium e2140. now, is this normal or should i not be able to run games that well with this 70 dollar video card? i can play bioshock maxed with dx10 enabled, i tried lost planet in dx10, playable on anything but high. im not a visual whore, so i dont mind running games on low and medium settings if need be. i have to say this card is very good for the price. farcry was played on very high settings, fear on high. i used to have a radeon x1650 and i couldnt do that with that card, and it cost me almost 200 dollars, not to mention having an e6420 proc at the time. so now i have 1/4th the cache but twice the video ram. also hd video quality is very nice. anyway,anyone who does moderate gaming, or doesnt mind not playing every game on the very highest settings, i would definaly reccomend this card at the price its sold. thanks to mysterybyte as thats where i picked it up for 70 plus tax

Terran · 06-08-2008, 11:59 AM

im thinking of going to MB next weekend and picking this up, sounds alot better then my X1300, and ive been looking for a new card to.

willyjwebb · 06-09-2008, 12:35 PM

i just started playing some older games like riddick and the prince of persia games and they run maxed out very well. tried unreal tourny 3 and hellgate london and work well, so unless you want max res on everything you touch then its perfect