Dirt 3 - 8600GT 512MB

System specs:
AMD Athlon x2 64 6000+ @ 3.13Ghz
4GB Kingston DDR2 667 RAM
nVidia GeForce 8600GT 512MB DDR2
HDD: 320GB SATA II / 3GB/s

Settings are shown in the video

FPS: also shown in the video.

Overall:
This is a very good looking and seems very well optimized for any midrange gaming rig just like mine.
Although I did have the impression it was using quite a lot of RAM compared to Dirt 2. It barely used the CPU at 20-30% which means that background operations such as programs like: Steam, Skype etc. do not dent performance. If you are playing a higher resolution I would suggest ( at least for this card) to make all the settings which are on high with me to medium thus decrease the load on the Graphical memory and increasing productivity. ( In lame man's terms less System memory that has to be used = that the card concentrates it's power to it's memory which leads to more FPS)

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[1Adr1an6]

Looks great !

I got this game free with my GIGABYTE 6950, can't wait to play it !

[newgenerationisbg]

@1Adr1an6 Good for you! It's a really good game, but that graphics card is overkill for any game, let alone one based on a racing game engine!

[1Adr1an6]

@newgenerationisbg yeaa, well.

I guess when it's a racing game it had better be well optimized, what settings are on ?

Max or ??

[newgenerationisbg]

@1Adr1an6 I think it was a mix between Medium and High, although they are shown in the video. And I was running a 4 year old graphics card back then, so maxing out most games wasn't an option.

[SNOWBALL585]

well at least u dident and up last ;)

[newgenerationisbg]

@SNOWBALL585 LOL, that was the benchmark, all AI driving. I don't controll them. Otherwise all that would be left of them is scrap metal ;)

[rockingitalready]

@newgenerationisbg thanx for replying.

[newgenerationisbg]

@rockingitalready Should run just fine, Even though your Core 2 Duo is a slower clock speed it is still much better than my CPU.

[rockingitalready]

hey man, got a 8600gt @ 1gb with a core2duo 2.66ghz with 4gb DDR2 ram will it run fine on xp sp3?i mean smoothly and nice graphics.

played dirt2 @ max graphics

[newgenerationisbg]

@AmberJones42 hmm. The processor does kind of bottleneck the Graphics card for you. But with the big caches that Intel uses, I think you will run it just fine on high and 1280x720 or even a higher resolution.