People that play games at 1280x800 or 1280x1024 are budget gamers. And any budget card will be just fine, though the GeForce 8600 GT simply doesn't cut it anymore due to lack of framebuffer and raw power.

That 8600 GT does however get a little better once you take down AA levels a bit more. My advice for you though, is to consider a small upgrade. Notice that the first three multi-GPU solutions all show 185 FPS? Yes Sir... that's a CPU bottleneck.

Final Words

Okay guys and girls. This concludes our Left 4 Dead VGA graphics performance article. This title should really not be any problem for a modern PC and definitely doesn't need high-end gear. The three cards that really shine (for the money) are GeForce 9800 GTX+, GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon HD 4870.

We had a lot of fun doing this article, as quite frankly... the game is just pure fun to play. It's bloody, messy, has humor, looks pretty good and the simplicity really works in this title.

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