Your GTA IV Setup, Show Off-a-thon!

[johnny404]

Hey guys, I'm thinking of buying new ram, should I go and buy some 2x1GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz? or just stay with DDR2 @ 800MHz

Stay with DDR2, theres not that much of a differences and will save you a little bit of money...

thanks, yeah that's what I thought but indeed one day DDR2 will be as useless as DDR and everyone will be on DDR3, by that day DDR3 should be cheap as DDR2 now

[guiguipm]

Here is mine

MB: Asus P5K

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz

RAM: 2GB DDR 2 Corsair PC6400

GFX: Powercolor X1950 Pro 256MB

OS: Vista Home Premium 32bit SP1

19" noname LCD

 

[Abel.]

Here is mine

MB: Asus P5K

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz

RAM: 2GB DDR 2 Corsair PC6400

GFX: Powercolor X1950 Pro 256MB

OS: Vista Home Premium 32bit SP1

19" noname LCD

Check sig.

[vaudevillian]

Here it is. Before I ovorclocked it and hooked up a ac unit to it.

 

 

It in the dark

 

 

Specs:

 

AMD 64x2 4800 (oc'ed to 3.4ghz hooked up to a airconditioner)

Geforce 7900gtx x2(sli'ed both cards slightly over clocked)

2gb of kingston hyper-x

mobo: Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe

Usb Logitec Headset (no room for sound card)

Maxtor DiamondMax 500GB

 

There was a sound card in it before before I picked up my second 7900gtx

 

 

Early air testing with lower overclocks:

 

 

I blew my first processor I had with the system a opteron 175. I had that one upto 3.3ghz. But stupid me on air I thought it would hold. It was holding good at 3.1 but I guess pushing it was a dumb idea.

Edited November 14, 2008 by vaudevillian

[Abel.]

vaudevillian : Bloody hell mate, that's one cool looking setup. How do the SLI'd 7900GTXs perform?

Edited November 14, 2008 by elanman

[vaudevillian]

its 7900gtx's

 

With the slight over clock im about the same as a 8800gtx

[R.F.]

Here it is. Before I ovorclocked it and hooked up a ac unit to it.

 

 

 

It in the dark

 

 

 

Specs:

 

AMD 64x2 4800 (oc'ed to 3.4ghz hooked up to a airconditioner)

Geforce 7900gtx x2(sli'ed both cards slightly over clocked)

2gb of kingston hyper-x

mobo: Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe

Usb Logitec Headset (no room for sound card)

Maxtor DiamondMax 500GB

 

There was a sound card in it before before I picked up my second 7900gtx

 

 

 

Early air testing with lower overclocks:

 

 

 

I blew my first processor I had with the system a opteron 175. I had that one upto 3.3ghz. But stupid me on air I thought it would hold. It was holding good at 3.1 but I guess pushing it was a dumb idea.

Wow nice case man!

[Abel.]

its 7900gtx's

 

With the slight over clock im about the same as a 8800gtx

Oh, OK, cool, thanks for the information.

[vaudevillian]

Thought I might upgrade my video cards soon.

 

Thinking of 2 HD4850's but that would mean a mother board upgrade to support crossfire. But then I dont know if I could get the same overclock.

[BAMJ6]

My proposed barebone update.

 

As you already know i will move these components to a new barebone so i can run GTA 4 as best as i can without a quad core

 

RAIDMAX RX-450K 450W ATX12V Power Supply

LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black IDE GH22LP20

eVGA GeForce 9600GT KO 512MB PCI Express 2.0 x16

Maxtor IDE 6Y120PO master hard drive

Maxtor IDE 4R120LO slave hard drive

 

I will add those to this barebone

 

# DYNAPOWER TITAN-C2914 case

# ASUS M2N-SLI mobo (with 2 IDE ports)

# ATHLON X2 5400 2.8G - BRISBANE (65W)

# CRUCIAL 2GB DDR2 800 ram (1 stick)

 

I already spent 135+ dollars on the new psu, new card and the dvd-dl in October. Once i add the barebone next month, the computer GTA4tification will cost me roughly 400 bucks in 2 months. (roughly 450 when i buy the game). In the end it won't be a quad core, but for that amount GTA 4 will run fine on it and my current PC game Warhead will be great on a mainstream-gamer mix as opposed to minimum-mainstream mix on my current setup

[Abel.]

Thought I might upgrade my video cards soon.

 

Thinking of 2 HD4850's but that would mean a mother board upgrade to support crossfire. But then I dont know if I could get the same overclock.

You may want to try a single 4870 or GTX 260 216 core.

[vaudevillian]

 

Thought I might upgrade my video cards soon.

 

Thinking of 2 HD4850's but that would mean a mother board upgrade to support crossfire. But then I dont know if I could get the same overclock.

You may want to try a single 4870 or GTX 260 216 core.

Only thing about ATI's newest offerings is clock for clock spec for spec they should beat nvidia. Only problem is their drivers. A few more driver releases they might be trumping them out right.

 

Remember Im getting 2 cards as well and in most benchmarks and game tests the 4850 is only around 15 - 20% behing the gt280 having 2 4850,s the scalling is around 75% so I will be beating the gt280 hands down. I will be 50% faster then a gt280.

Edited November 15, 2008 by vaudevillian

[TheRealPcGamer]

All people know that we can use NVIDIA on 3 SLi, how about ATi's CrossFire ?

Is it able to own 3 X HD4870 ???

[Garfield 2]

My PC:

 

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 @ 2.66GHZ

8GB RAM

GeForce GTX260

1TB HDD @ 7200 RPM

Windows Vista Ultimate x64

20.1 Inch 1080i DELL monitor

 

Yes - It is mine. Paid 5000 euro in total

[Abel.]

 

My PC:

 

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 @ 2.66GHZ

8GB RAM

GeForce GTX260

1TB HDD @ 7200 RPM

Windows Vista Ultimate x64

20.1 Inch 1080i DELL monitor

 

Yes - It is mine. Paid 5000 euro in total

SSSwwwwweeer PC mate, check sig. Not a good deal though. (Yours)

Edited November 15, 2008 by elanman

[OysterBarron]

epic fail

 

Minimum: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz, AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4GHz

You Have: 2 processors running - AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-64 PASS

CPU Speed

Minimum: 1.8 GHz

You Have: 2.19 GHz PASS

System RAM

Minimum: 2 GB (Windows XP) 2.5 GB (Windows Vista)

You Have: 1.9 GB FAIL: Sorry, your computer does not meet this minimum requirement. You may be able to add more RAM which could make your computer more powerful. Click the 'We Recommend' to see how.

Operating System

Minimum: Windows Vista - Service Pack 1 / XP - Service Pack 3

You Have: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, 32-bit (Build Service Pack 16001) PASS

Video Card

Minimum: 256MB NVIDIA 7900+ / 256MB ATI X1900+

You Have: ATI Radeon X1200 () FAIL: Sorry, your video card does not meet this minimum requirement.

Video Card Features - Minimum attributes of your Video Card Video RAM: Required - 256 MB , You have - 830 MB

Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required - Yes , You have - Yes

Video HW Transform & Lighting: Required - Yes , You have - Yes

Vertex Shader Ver.: Required - 3.0 , You have - 2.0

Pixel Shader Ver.: Required - 3.0 , You have - 2.0

 

 

Video Card Driver Version (DirectX)

Your driver version number is: 7.14.10.510 FYI: Your video card driver version is provided for your information, but it is not part of this analysis. But proper video card driver versions are important to the proper operation of your product.

Sound Card

Minimum: Yes

You Have: Speakers (Realtek High Definiti PASS

Sound Card Driver Version

Your driver version number is: 6.0 FYI: Your sound card driver version is provided for your information, but it is not part of this analysis. But proper sound card driver versions are important to the proper operation of your product.

Free Disk Space

Minimum: 16 GB

You Have: 51.1 GB PASS

 

[-vilx-]

vaudevillian nice rig

my pc is about 1 year old ... but my monitor is 7 year old 17" Samtron, but it works 100%

[-vilx-]

My PC:

 

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 @ 2.66GHZ

8GB RAM

GeForce GTX260

1TB HDD @ 7200 RPM

Windows Vista Ultimate x64

20.1 Inch 1080i DELL monitor

 

Yes - It is mine. Paid 5000 euro in total

holy motherf*cker

5000 euro WTF ?????

[Brendan24]

Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 at 2.93GHZ

4 GB DDR 2 RAM

Nvidia EVGA GTX280 SCC

250GB Hard Drive with a 500GB external

Windows Vista Premium

22 Samsung Monitor

 

Can run damn near anything at full graphics settings. I have to turn down one or two settngs for Crysis though lol.

[OysterBarron]

My PC:

 

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 @ 2.66GHZ

8GB RAM

GeForce GTX260

1TB HDD @ 7200 RPM

Windows Vista Ultimate x64

20.1 Inch 1080i DELL monitor

 

Yes - It is mine. Paid 5000 euro in total

holy motherf*cker

5000 euro WTF ?????

holy sh*t you just shat over most peoples specs 1 tb omg

[Abel.]

Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 at 2.93GHZ

4 GB DDR 2 RAM

Nvidia EVGA GTX280 SCC

250GB Hard Drive with a 500GB external

Windows Vista Premium

22 Samsung Monitor

 

Can run damn near anything at full graphics settings. I have to turn down one or two settngs for Crysis though lol.

What settings? AA and AF don't count .

[mashine]

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13GHz on AC Pro Freezer 7

GeForce 9600GT ASUS Top 512/256

3GB RAM

320GB hard drive

Windows XP SP3, Vista x64, Mint

17'' Belinea LCD or 20'' 16:9 TV

 

Everything besides graphic card mounted almost year ago. Should do the work.

Edited November 16, 2008 by mashine

[Abel.]

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13GHz on AC Pro Freezer 7

GeForce 9600GT ASUS Top 512/256

3GB RAM

320GB hard drive

Windows XP SP3, Vista x64, Mint

17'' Belinea LCD or 20'' 16:9 TV

 

Everything besides graphic card mounted almost year ago. Should do the work.

Sweet, I'd add more RAM to take advantage of Vista 64's extended RAM usage.

[Brendan24]

Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 at 2.93GHZ

4 GB DDR 2 RAM

Nvidia EVGA GTX280 SCC

250GB Hard Drive with a 500GB external

Windows Vista Premium

22 Samsung Monitor

 

Can run damn near anything at full graphics settings. I have to turn down one or two settngs for Crysis though lol.

What settings? AA and AF don't count .

To be honest I can't remember. I haven't played it in a while. I think it was basically just a few DX10 goodies that I had to turn down to high. Things like volumetric effects.

[Abel.]

Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 at 2.93GHZ

4 GB DDR 2 RAM

Nvidia EVGA GTX280 SCC

250GB Hard Drive with a 500GB external

Windows Vista Premium

22 Samsung Monitor

 

Can run damn near anything at full graphics settings. I have to turn down one or two settngs for Crysis though lol.

What settings? AA and AF don't count .

To be honest I can't remember. I haven't played it in a while. I think it was basically just a few DX10 goodies that I had to turn down to high. Things like volumetric effects.

But why? on a 280? What resolution you using?

[Brendan24]

Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 at 2.93GHZ

4 GB DDR 2 RAM

Nvidia EVGA GTX280 SCC

250GB Hard Drive with a 500GB external

Windows Vista Premium

22 Samsung Monitor

 

Can run damn near anything at full graphics settings. I have to turn down one or two settngs for Crysis though lol.

What settings? AA and AF don't count .

To be honest I can't remember. I haven't played it in a while. I think it was basically just a few DX10 goodies that I had to turn down to high. Things like volumetric effects.

But why? on a 280? What resolution you using?

1680x1050. I think its more the processor thats hurting me. Not the GPU.

[Rcguy150]

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 6000+ dual core 3.0gtz

RAM: 4gigs DDR2

GPU: Nvidia 8800GTS 512 DDR3

HDD: 300GB SATA 3 drive

OS: WIndows Vista Ultimate 64 bit.

 

Will I be able to run GTA IV at full settings with decent frame rates?

[dannythepetrock]

 

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 6000+ dual core 3.0gtz

RAM: 4gigs DDR2

GPU: Nvidia 8800GTS 512 DDR3

HDD: 300GB SATA 3 drive

OS: WIndows Vista Ultimate 64 bit.

 

Will I be able to run GTA IV at full settings with decent frame rates?

probably.

 

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ @3.02GHz

512Mb Gigabyte 9800GT OC'd to 787MHz/1075MHz/1863MHz respectively.

2GB ram @667MHz

Vista Home Premium 32 bit.

17 inch LCD monitor

[mkey82]

 

My PC:

 

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 @ 2.66GHZ

8GB RAM

GeForce GTX260

1TB HDD @ 7200 RPM

Windows Vista Ultimate x64

20.1 Inch 1080i DELL monitor

 

Yes - It is mine. Paid 5000 euro in total

you got robbed.

 

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 @ 2.66GHZ - 300 EUR

8GB RAM - lets say you got the most expensive stuff - DDR3, 1333 MHz - 360 EUR

GeForce GTX260 - lets say you got the most expensive OC edition 896 MB - 310 EUR

1TB HDD @ 7200 RPM - lets say Seagate - 135 EUR

Windows Vista Ultimate x64 - 240 EUR

20.1 Inch 1080i DELL monitor - the most expensive DELL monitor I could find, 2007WFP - 435 EUR

 

TOTAL - 1780 EUR (and these are the most expensive parts I could find)

 

OK, throw in some nice MOBO (200 EUR), PSU (150 EUR) and a case (100 EUR). Maybe a BD device (200 EUR). That totals 2430 EUR.

 

Where did you buy that PC?

[Hugef1]

Win XP

2 gig ram

Radeon x1800

Athlon 3700+

 

I know. I won't be able to play GTA 4. Oh well.