GTA4 for PC is fine, people just like to bitch. I played it on an e5200 + 9600 GSO(both heavily OCed) and it ran acceptably at 1280 with few noticeable problems. I'm sure it will run beautifully on a c2q + 260.
This is flagrantly untrue. An e5200 is $73 on newegg while the e8400 is $165. That's a price increase of a full 125% and the extra cache on the e8400 will get you at most a 20% increase in performance depending on the application.
And if you are going to venture into that price range you might...
I've got an e5200 running at 3.3 ghz on stock cooling. Just upped the voltage to 1.26, the FSB to 266 and a 2/3 fsb/ram divider runs the ram at its normal speed (ddr2-800)
Doesn't go over 50 degrees C even when gaming. I'm sure it could go higher but I figured if I'm going to push it I should...
Unless you upgrade that CPU the wisest choice would be to look for one of the 9600 GSO deals that have been around lately. Here's a nicely overclocked one for $55 after rebate;
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814130361
Might still need a new PSU for it. If so the HD4670 is an...
Actually it's $17 dollars more because the Asus(which does have 4 dimm slots) is $10 off through the combo like I said. I plan on throwing a real video card in this thing so the IGPs features aren't really an issue.
That board is ATX anyway and I need a microATX for this case. Would've said...
Hmm, the chipset on that board seems pretty old. I've been looking at the cheap Foxconn boards with AMD 700 series chipsets but I've never really heard of Foxconn.
Alright, the system in question currently has a 754 socket board and I'm doing a rebuild up to AM2 with a very limited budget. I'm recycling the case and the drives so essentially I need a CPU, MB and RAM. After the RAM I have about $100 to spend on CPU/MB
After looking around newegg the best...
Alright, I've been researching this stuff for a while but need to make a decision.
I've been waiting for the price of the HD4670 to come down but my patience is at an end. I'd probably go for the 9600GSO deal that's $50 after rebate even though I hate dealing with rebates but it's a dual slot...
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