Hi guys. i wonder if my pc spec,

Pentium D 3.0
4GB ram
Nvdia Geforce 8400 GS

i wonder if i upgrade only my graphic card, can i set a better graphic resolution ? not nessesary to be extreme high graphic performance but at least mid range.

if yes, any recommended graphic card?

SC2 has more demand in respect to CPU. I would focus on that first.

My obsolete in the market now GT230 was entirely capable of supporting medium low. Probably a card range of RM200-300 should be capable just fine.

My 2 cents.

you are using pentium d? or better processor?

if i change my graphic card will the game play smooth if i set the graphic to at least mid low??

u need more power if u want to play smooth at low or medium.
smooth is like when big battle happen you dont want it to be bottle neck and cost you the game.
A lot of korean actually set their graphics to low to avoid that, eventhough they got better cpu and graphic card.

Means gpu has no help in the game play performance when we set the graphic higher, right? Cause at the moment my game play might lag/pause for a few seconds halfway in the game. That Time i was Wondering is it the gpu or cpu problem

All the setting at lowest

gpu of course have impact on graphic at higher lvl fps wise.

example, low settings you could achieve 150fps
medium 90 fps
high 60-70fps
ultra 55fps.

the more fps the better.

I am using I5 Processor, first generation.

I am using Radeon 7750 (a low spec RM230 card) as my GPU

I get about 120 FPS and dropping (as reach unit max combat etc)

My graphic settings are mostly low but with medium shaders. This is because I want a lot of FPS for streaming and smoothness over graphics ;s.

This post has been edited by DuskBin.Marksman: May 27 2013, 11:55 AM

choose wisely if you want to upgrade the gpu, you dont want bottle neck to be happened on your pc

You have a processor that's at least 5 years old and a video card that's at least 4 years old.

Theoretically, a better video card will give you better framerates and visuals. Unfortunately, your Pentium D processor is a bottleneck. Granted it is a dual core chip, it is only slightly better than the Pentium 4 chips that came before it. Its L2 cache of 1MB could only do so much for a game like HotS.

After a decent video card upgrade (say GT4xx series), I say you'd be lucky to get 30FPS at mid settings in the first 6 to 10 minutes of a multiplayer game. Then you'd be on the losing end of a late game 200/200 battle.

Should I upgrade my processor as well? If yes, any recommended processor? Which sit my current board?

should AMD FX-4100 Quad-Core + 580 GT be enuf to run SC2 on extreme?

The best you could go is the 3 year old Core 2 Quad processor. I doubt you'd be able to find this or any of the compatible processors for the LGA 775 chipset nowadays. Just save up for a new desktop, you'd be wasting your time and money for 3 year old parts that are still not up to par with what is currently being offered in the market today. There are decent i5 packages, just take a walk around Lowyat or Digimall.

Seriously, why?

First look, I can barely tell the difference between Ultra and Extreme. But reading through other threads, I found out that the ONLY difference between Ultra and Extreme is Ambient Occlusion (aka, refined shadows). This effect reduces your FPS by 30%.

But to seriously answer your question, you have a 2-year old processor with a 3 year old video card. With a decent amount of RAM and a good cooling system, you might be able to get 60FPS on Ultra. Then, if you go up to Extreme, factoring in the 30% FPS hit brought by the Ambient Occlusion, you're left with 42FPS. Not much room to work with when you get to 200/200 battles. Running two GTX580 cards on SLI would give you more than 80% performance increase (almost 100% in some cases). But, of course, you have to have 2 GTX580 cards and a compatible motherboard.

4 Gig ram btw...


http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1461/9/

works quite well on WOL but can hardly find benchmark/review on HoTs

i think that is your problem

how come not much benchmarking on HotS?

What GPU are you on?

This post has been edited by fujkenasai: May 30 2013, 03:12 AM

random google, 2nd result:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/StarCraft-II-...ed.89920.0.html

im still on my 7 year old pc, 8800 ultra

wow what settings do you play your games on wow.

well on that like that you gave there were no graphic cards older than the 600 generation

medium/high mix lol

go upgrade 600 generation then

700 is out y bother with 600 unless titan which I can get my dream camera with it XP