Lost Coast with Gecube X1950XT AGP

I decided to buy a nice DirectX9 system earlier this year. Some of the components are cheap and cheerful but still produce great results. This video of Lost Coast was made at 1280x1024 with the highest graphic settings and everything is running at stock speeds. I get 90FPS on the stress test with this config. For "old" hardware, that's not half bad.

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ @ 2.4GHz
ECS KV2 Lite extrEme
Gecube X1950XT 256MB GDDR3 (AGP)
2GB Corsair DDR SDRAM 400MHz
Antec 900 Case

Will upgrade to DX10 next year when everything is more reasonably priced!

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Entertainment

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• agp
• x1950
• x1950xt
• radeon
• ati
• gecube
• lost
• coast
• half
• life

[sTunzyy]

how many fps?

[daviethedrummer]

90fps but bottlenecked by the CPU

I tried this with a later system and got 120fps using the PCI-E version of the X1950XT and a Core 2 Duo.

[pogodrummer]

is that a source game? I mean powered by valve's source engine?

[daviethedrummer]

yup it's just an expansion level for HL2 - it was originally intended as a level for the game but they left it out and released it later as a stand alone level.

[Loiter88]

This is an addon for Halflife2?

[daviethedrummer]

Yeah you can download it through steam, it's about 150mb.

[iris030380]

@kniaugaudiskis 2600XT and 7600GT (the DDR3 version) are equally as fast. The 7600GS is about 30-40% slower at stock, but I OC'ed my PNY 7600GS on stock cooling with rivatuner and it now gets 8401 on 3Dmark 03. My PNY 7600GT gets 8970. So providing you own a good 7600GS, it is also about equal to a 2600XT. The 7600GT does not OC, maxing out at 9217 on 3DMark 03.

[66xXJOKERXx99]

What?!? This video was make with an AGP card?

[MrBlackCrow]

Do you tried at lower resolution to know if you are gpu or cpu limited ?

[I9kieran94]

this is the exact card i have, im still with the old agp as i only play css tbh. but i want to upgrade but cant afford lol, im only 15 xD

[kniaugaudiskis]

No, 7600GS is much slower that HD2600XT. Only 7600GT may be compared to it.

[hardrock6327]

I think the X1950 PRO 512MB would be closer to your needs, my friend.I would suggest though upgrading your case and buying a spacious one for more airflow and upgrading your PSU to something between 450 watt-550 watt.(The X1950 PRO needs minimum 450 watt PSU and for 2 X1950 PRO in CROSSFIRE you will certainly need 550 watts PSU.)