XFX Geforce 8500GT Fatal1ty Video Card Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by geoffrey @ 2007-12-24

The XFX Fatal1ty series have recently not only been upgraded in the mainstream segment, since few weeks we have now Fatal1ty entry-level graphics cards. Aimed at the professional gaming market, could we have a Best Buy in our hands?

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Call of Duty 4

Call of Duty 4
Official website

Call of Duty 4 is back on PC, the last installment was COD2 which was WW2 orientated, COD4 takes us to the near future where we now have the fight our way through cities and duck from enemy snipers, charge encampments in the middle of the night with green tinted goggles strapped on our heads. As with the previous games, COD4 is a fast paced game with an arcade approach the FPS shooter genre. Respawning enemies and unlimited “health” are just some of the features which make this game less than realistic, but not less entertaining.

The game engine can be quite taxing once you crank everything up to maximum settings, but the end result is worth it, with realistic smoke effects and large scale battles.

Madshrimps (c)


With medium image details enabled, COD4 looked very well on this low-end 3D rendering card. Gameplay wise you would 'feel' that something just isn’t exactly how it is used to be, not when using stock XFX 8500 GT, but we did get very reasonable gameplay offered. Off course, stock vs oc, the stories continues with another 45% increase in frame rate when choosing the latter!

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Comment from Massman @ 2007/12/24
Good work, Geoff. The overclock seems to be worth it

 

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