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Area-51 m5500 performance, what do you guys think?

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3/12/06 at 2:34am
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Hey guys,

I just recently got my m5500, and was wondering what other people thought of it, what games it handles well, etc. Personally, I've been playing CS-Source a lot.. I'm able to run that maxed out at 1680x1050 (my native res) so it looks sweet. I ran Doom 3 today and got that to run on Ultra settings with the resolution up to something like 1280x1024... it looked fantastic. Quake 4 ran very smoothly on 1280x10124 on High settings and 2x AA.. I ran the demo so I couldn't test Ultra, but my opinioin is it would lag a bit. Then came F.E.A.R. .. I tried running the single player demo, and it completely kicked my ass. To get it to run smoothly I was running everything on medium at 1024x768, and it looked like crap... what's the deal? Quake 4 has the same release date... meaning it's just as recent of a game, and it looks sweet... like eye candy.. IGN says that the actual game runs more smoothly than the demo, but it can't be by much. What do you guys think?
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3/13/06 at 10:55am
So far I've been surprised at how well the go6600 handles games. Here's what I've tried so far (have the 2.0GHz with the 256MB vid card - currently with 1 GB RAM):

Guild Wars - all settings maxed at 1660x1050 - runs great

COD2 - plays best at 800x600 with some eye candy turned on. Game looks surprisingly good at this resolution and is very playable.

F.E.A.R. - plays well at 1024x768 with most other settings on medium. Setting FSAA to 2x takes out a fair amount of the jaggys. I can bump up the resolution one step, but have a little bit of lag. Again - it looks okay and is very playable.

EQ II - playing at 1280x? res and it looks good and plays fine with most other settings on high. Can bump up the res to max and it still plays, but then need to turn down some of the effects. Again - very enjoyable.

I'm assuming I'll be able to increase some of the options on COD2 and F.E.A.R. once I go to 2GB RAM.

All in all - very happy with the gaming performance. I prefer to play FPS games on my desktop anyway, but I it would not be a hardship to play them on the m5500. For RPGs, the machine is great.
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