dahuman said:
I don't know dood, I maxed everything out in GTA4 and the Core i5 went up to about 80% at some parts and that really scared the shit out of me lol. oh and that's on a 4890 so it might be a little lower if I had Nvidia. |
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article/2008/12/15/grand_theft_auto_iv_gameplay_performance_iq/1
GTA IV is more demanding than Crysis. It's the game that hardest hits the CPU out of all of them. And it is a very poor console port that doesn't scale well when you throw hardware at it. Looking it up, the people who are playing GTA IV with an X4 945 and a GTX 260 [which is inferior to the 4890] have smooth framerates.
Every single game except this and Crysis will have smooth framerates on high resolutions and max settings with the 5850 and an >= an E8400 or X3 720 or X4 630. A Core i5 would get you nominally higher framerates, but when they're already so high you can't tell by looking then it doesn't matter.
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