Soleron said:
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. |
to be fair, I do a lot of multimedia stuff so it's better for me in general, most people don't need the power, but for 200 bucks, it's the best bang for the buck atm so I find it really hard to not recommend it. price is dropping a little too, it's such an awesome purchase.
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