agent_x007 wrote:Clearly you didn't searched enough ;) […]
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Skyscraper wrote:I have never really found any use for anything faster than a GTX 285 when it comes to DX9 stuff in Windows XP.
Clearly you didn't searched enough 😉
Crysis DX9 3840:2160 (Downsampling to 1920:1080) @ CSAA 16x : LINK
Try to do that on GTX 285 😁
With Dual Xeon 5080 I would go for GTX 960 or 1050 Ti (if budget permits).
If I would like to play Crysis in 4k I could use my main system! 😀
Note that my best Doom 3 score with the overclocked i7 2600k @5.2 was made with a slightly overclocked GTX 580 in XP. As my score got beaten by Steves overclocked Ivy Bridge E + GTX 680 I will probably use one of my GTX 780 Ti the next time I try to take back the throne 😉. If I can be bothered at all that is as the Gigabyte Z68 G1.Sniper 2 motherboard I used cant overclock Sandy Bridge with the UEFI and cant run Ivy Bridge with the BIOS. I could get an i7 3770k to replace the 3770@4.1 that sits on the board at the moment but the bug infested board wont support voltage control at all with Ivy Bridge.
For the reason mentioned above I feel that Sandy Bridge is the way to go for benchmarks but downgrading from UEFI to BIOS just to do a bench is a bit of a pain...a risky one. With the BIOS I doubt there exist a better motherboard for overclocking Sandy Bridge though, under all that silly bling there are some really solid components. I could get a newer system that could beat Steves score (I dont own anything newer than Socket 1155) but whats the fun in that? As my i7 2600k did 5200 MHz with ease air cooled (5000 MHz 24/7 stable) I bet it could hit 5400 or even 5500 MHz for benchmarks with cold water from the tap. 😀
On topic.
For me the Geforce GTX 285 is the best video card there is for DX9 gaming in XP. It can use old and proven drivers and it can run any DX9 game at 1920*1080 or 1920*1200, most of them* maxed out with decent AA settings.
*Not Crysis, play Crysis using a modern system!
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.