Cheapest PC config for playing SFV *competitively*?

[VirtualLarry]

Would an i5-2500, H61 mobo, 16GB of DDR3, and ... hmm... say a R7 260X, or R9 270X 2GB suffice?

Or should my friend just buy a PS4 to play it? He's leaning that way, after I told him that I would sell him a Haswell i3 with GTX750ti 2GB card for $500. And a new PS4 is only $350.

His current PC is an AMD X4 640 3.0Ghz quad-core AM3, with 16GB DDR2 (a recent upgrade), and a GT610 (because the HD3000 chipset IGP sucks these days).

 

[SPBHM]

the game is very light on the CPU, maybe just a VGA upgrade would work, you can play it fine with a 260x (but with settings a little bellow the PS4)

 

[Ancalagon44]

PS4 would be the most cost effective route.

 

[Denithor]

Competitively meaning against friends at home on the same screen or online? If online, do the PC and PS4 use the same pool of players for multiplayer matches? If not, PS4 all the way - that's where the player population is going to be.

 

[Ancalagon44]

Competitively meaning against friends at home on the same screen or online? If online, do the PC and PS4 use the same pool of players for multiplayer matches? If not, PS4 all the way - that's where the player population is going to be.

Yeah it does support cross platform play.

However, do you have to pay for PSN Plus in order to play multiplayer? If so, then if he buys a PC, he won't have to pay a monthly fee in order to play online.

 

[purbeast0]

the cross play works great too. netcode is pretty amazing in this game as well, although matchmaking is a different story.

also if you haven't been following, sf5 has had one of the worst launches ever. it's barebones as hell and the online has been an utter disaster. they took their servers down for maintenance the other day and i tried online last night and the matchmaking was definitely faster and working better, but i was only on for like 30 minutes.

back to the crossplay, my buddy lives in AZ and i'm in MD, and i'm on ps4 and he's on PC, and it felt like we were sitting in the same room playing eachother. the rollback code is leaps and bounds better than the input delay based stuff they used prior. it's not quite as good as killer instincts netcode, but it's very close and gettinb there.

also, ragequitting is a HUGE issue online right now in ranked. i havent' done much ranked at all myself, but what i've been reading it's a joke at higher levels. there is absolutely no penalty for ragequitting so there are tons of "high level" people right now who don't belong there.

 

[Homerboy]

I only came into this thread to make sure purbeast0 was in the thread

 

[purbeast0]

you know it! i'm definitely a sf fanboy (fighters in general) but i'm also realistic and critical about things that suck, and the launch of sf5 was laughable.

 

[renz20003]

Would an i5-2500, H61 mobo, 16GB of DDR3, and ... hmm... say a R7 260X, or R9 270X 2GB suffice?

Or should my friend just buy a PS4 to play it? He's leaning that way, after I told him that I would sell him a Haswell i3 with GTX750ti 2GB card for $500. And a new PS4 is only $350.

His current PC is an AMD X4 640 3.0Ghz quad-core AM3, with 16GB DDR2 (a recent upgrade), and a GT610 (because the HD3000 chipset IGP sucks these days).

System Requirements

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OS: Windows 7 64-bit and above
Processor: Intel Core i5-4690K @3.50GHz or AMD FX-9370
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DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Sound Card: DirectX compatible soundcard or onboard chipset

I couldn't imagine that it would require such a powerful cpu, SF4 runs around 40 fps on my best buy windows 10 tablet.

If he could find a fair deal on a gtx960 that might be a worthwhile gamble.

 

[zinfamous]

man, I haven't played an SF since SFII and SFII turbo, arcade and SNES. I could roll some people with my mad Ryu skills back in the day.

I used to love fighters but they lost their appeal some time ago--I think the last one that I played frequently was Tekken II on PS1.

 

[purbeast0]

man, I haven't played an SF since SFII and SFII turbo, arcade and SNES. I could roll some people with my mad Ryu skills back in the day.

I used to love fighters but they lost their appeal some time ago--I think the last one that I played frequently was Tekken II on PS1.

sf4 brought back my passion for them, and that brought a resurgence of fighters too. it's pretty much the only multiplayer genre i play now a days. even been to evo twice, once to compete.

 

[TheELF]

System Requirements



I couldn't imagine that it would require such a powerful cpu, SF4 runs around 40 fps on my best buy windows 10 tablet.

If he could find a fair deal on a gtx960 that might be a worthwhile gamble.

It doesn't, it runs at ~55FPS @720 max settings with an g1820 and a GTX650...
And I'm pretty sure the 55 is due to some weird vsync issue,in windowed it runs at 30FPS in battles while the menu runs at 60...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt1yk07mtTc

 

[purbeast0]

it is weird too, because (at least on PS4) the backgrounds run at 30fps while the gameplay runs at 60fps.

 

[VirtualLarry]

If he could find a fair deal on a gtx960 that might be a worthwhile gamble.

I picked up several GTX950 OC 2GB GDDR5 cards off of Newegg on ebay. Hopefully, those will do the trick.

 

[futurefields]

PS4

 

[VirtualLarry]

It doesn't, it runs at ~55FPS @720 max settings with an g1820 and a GTX650...
And I'm pretty sure the 55 is due to some weird vsync issue,in windowed it runs at 30FPS in battles while the menu runs at 60...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt1yk07mtTc

So, do you think it would play OK at 720P, at Med. or whatever it takes, on an Athlon II X4 640 3.0Ghz quad-core, and a GT740 1GB GDDR5 card?

I know that I said that I bought some GTX950 cards, but I might put them into my three rigs, and sell my friend my GT740 that's in my i3-6100 right now.

 

[TheELF]

That's the usage I get on the 650 and g1820 at max ~50 something FPS*,I have no idea how much stronger or weaker the 740 is but the CPU will be ok to run it.
The 1Gb mem might be a problem with max settings,but lowering textures only should be enough to fix that.

* so it's not vsync after all, it's the 650 being a bit too slow.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Thanks!

 

[Denithor]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8225/best-video-cards-june-2014

The GeForce GT 740 is for all practical purposes a rebadge of the GTX 650 with a lower retail price of $89. NVIDIA’s official specifications call for 993MHz on the core clock versus GTX 650’s 1058MHz, but most cards are going to be above this (some exceptionally so). As this is a rebadge this means we’re looking at another GK107 product. While NVIDIA already has the more efficient GM107 GPU, GK107 will still be with us for some time to come as GK107 is notably smaller than GM107, making GK107 cheaper to fab and a better fit for these sub-$100 cards.

GTX 650 was a crap gaming card when released, still crap under the GT 740 nameplate three years later. Don't do your friend like that, give him a GTX 950.

EDIT: For reference, even the "GTX 650 Ti Boost" - which I have - isn't much of a gaming card. And it's substantially better than the vanilla GTX 650. So, yeah...

 

[TheELF]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8225/best-video-cards-june-2014



GTX 650 was a crap gaming card when released, still crap under the GT 740 nameplate three years later. Don't do your friend like that, give him a GTX 950.

Can't and don't want to argue with that,it is pretty crappy,but if the friend only ever want's to play SF V at 720 it can pull of close enough to 60FPS with max settings for it to be an option.