Which one is best suited for.....?

[onewecallgod]

At the consequence of running single channel?

[leon_belmont]

I have Vista 32 bit, but all looks good except the card , that it isnt satisfying me at all ,it can run Last Remnant with impressive clarity graphics ,but the game runs a little bit slow confronting it with XBOX 360 version.

I saw the specs of the game and it needed 512MB VGA,2GB RAM ,2.8GHZ Pentium IV,and 20GB of HDD.

I wonder why it runs slower than the XBOX 360 version,maybe my graphic card needs another update ?

PS. This graphic card supports 1920x1080 maximum resolution,and its great for the videos,but i hoped it was great for the games too.

[onewecallgod]

PS. This graphic card supports 1920x1080 maximum resolution,and its great for the videos,but i hoped it was great for the games too.

Just because the card supports that resolution doesn't mean it'll be able to draw anything other than your desktop or basic web browsing.

[Zach]

You need at least a GTX 260 or R4870/4890 to play games in those resolutions with any sort of good performance and graphics details..

Also.. Last Remnant was a good attempt by Square.. MUCH better than their Final Fantasy ports to PC, however they chose what is possibly one of the crappiest engines to do it on.. I cannot STAND the PC version, as I tried the demo, and because the engine doesn't support streaming textures, you get that stupid low quality textures for a brief second every time a new section of the game loads... Very annoying when navigating cities, etc..

I thought you didn't want to run these kinds of PC games anyway? And I'm guessing other resolutions may not look as nice on your TV except for the 1080p mode? My brothers is the same way. If you're locked into one or two resolutions, you have no recourse but the buy a real graphics card. Which is going to cost around or just over $200 USD.

Otherwise you should not be gaming above something like 1440x900, assuming it can even handle that..
I would have told you to get at least a R4850 if you had said you wanted to do real PC gaming, but you said that wasn't what you had in mind, if I recall correctly.. Mostly videos and emulators I think you said..

You have some options at this point.. Turn off Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering, if they are on.. or at least don't run them higher than 2x/2x, 2x/4x, or 2x/8x (FSAA/AF). At 1080p you will not have too many issues with disabling AA/AF altogether anyway, and it should at least be bearable to look at. If your card has options to optimize for speed at the expensive of quality you can try that too.. You also will just have to pony up and turn down the graphics settings in the games you are playing.. If they have an auto-detect mode let them do that - but it may try to fudge with your resolution and stick you in a lower one on some games..

Also your RAM is gonna be a limiting factor in some games, so you'll just have to live with that.. You should have gone with 4GB (2x2GB) so you could run dual-channel mode, and then if you upgrade to 64-bit OS later on, you'd have a little more RAM to use.

[leon_belmont]

I just wanted a simple card like the one u told me,if i were to go for real gaming i would have get a NVIDIA HDMI 1GB 179USD at ebay,but i just thought maybe my HD3450 would handle the game i was just tryin. Maybe i will upgrade or maybe not,(but about 70% not) as i have downloaded a lot of DEMOS and FULL GAMES from PSN(Playstation Network) and i am enjoying my PS3 now more then ever. At least it can play Gamecube almost100% and Wii about 65% and thats great for me.(talking about HD3450 not PS3 here )

[Zach]

As long as you are happy with the options you have, that's all that matters.