Poll: How well does your PC run games

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ParadiseOnceLost

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My computer is about two steps above a graphing calculator in about a year (which unless my plans go awry, will be when I have graduated college/become gainfully employed) I want to learn how to work on a computer, buy a good gaming rig, and become a PC elitist that looks down upon people who don't have high end gaming systems. (just joking)
 

Hateren47

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Phenom x4 2.21GHz with a Radeon HD4870. With that in mind I'm gonna say it runs everything surprisingly well. 30-60 FPS in every game I've tried and the sliders always goes to max or higher.
 

DeepComet5581

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Better than I expected.

Got Mass Effect 2 a couple months back. Checked System Requirements Lab, and they said that ME2 would Skull-fuck my PC all the way to Hades.

Played it on high settings - Not even a stutter.
 

Eclectic Dreck

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Incredibly well. Granted, it rarely gets a workout as I tend to use my PC to play the various RTS and RPG's that I love so dearly rather than the eye-candy laden and system abusing cutting edge FPS games. I got over graphics as a selling point a loooooong time ago.

When it eventually starts to struggle, the board is easily capable of handling a more powerful processor, my memory could be doubled for a pittance, my video can be scaled through crossfire for a tiny sum and an entirely new revision of video card is available for a few hundred bucks. Really, the only problem I have is that I tend to leave a lot of memory hungry apps open at once. Just right now, after finishing a few rounds of Dawn of War 2, I noticed that I have firefox open (~300 megs - I have a LOT of tabs open at once), iE (~100 megs - lots of sites I use don't display properly in firefox), Thunderbird (~60 megs - quite a lot for something that just pesters me with e-mail notifications) Eclipse (total of about 1 gig - 200 for the actual program and the rest for the various instances of the Java VM running. Apparantly I didn't kill the various processes it was running before playing) and Folding @ home which happily chews away at a full core of my processor. In total I was using about 30% of my CPU and ~45% of my memory and still played Dawn of War at the highest settings in the largest games without a hitch. And, the actual computing hardware only cost me 900 USD. More than a year ago.
 

Lizardon

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My 3-4 year old laptop can still handle most new release game with the graphics settings on either high or normal. Haven't tried Crysis on it, I don't think it'll handle it.
 

Korten12

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Darkness62 said:
Korten12 said:

Me trying the Lost Planet 2 Benchmark.

Wierdly enough, I can run Crysis, settings all max and no lag.

Though that wasn't DX11 like the Benchmark is.
That is not bad, PS3 and XBox can only run Mafia II at 24 FPS.
yeah though I thought I should have been able to run it with no problems at all. :(
 

Delusibeta

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While I wouldn't say I can run *everything* maxed out (Just Cause 2 gets a bit choppy, but runs fine on Medium), I haven't ran into a game I can't run.
 

ShawnShady

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I guess it runs games fine, except GTA IV, it doesn't support a comfortable game when the graphics are full D:
 

10zack986

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My parents bought some default Costco PC. I checked the specs and realized that it should be able to take an HD 5670. So I ordered it, installed it, and I couldn't be happier. It can run Fallout 3 maxed, games like Crysis and Shattered Horizon on medium.
 

WittyInfidel

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I haven't come across anything I cannot play on ultra-high settings yet. PC is custom, built it myself. *bows*
 

SuperNashwan

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To the OP

I am running a pretty ancient mobo, with the best gear I can probably get for an outdated architecture. Ive got an AGP machine (rather than the newer PCI-e) with an Athlon X2 processor, plus an ATI HD 3850 512 Mb graphics card. It can do crysis warhead, Fallout 3, and all my games at full settings, but I dont have vista or windows 7 so never seen the DX 10 effects in Crysis 1.

It can run every game I have at full settings, all except on some games dynamic shadows need to be set at medium or it chugs a little. I get best consistent frame rate at 1024 x 768 resolution. As most new games tend to be developed with a dual console / PC route in mind, current graphics demands dont tend to push my machine that far. However there are some 'PC developed' games like Metro 2033 that are pushing the envelope, and pretty soon you will need one of the NVidia GTX range and at least an Intel i5 or i7, or one of the AMD Phenom or quad core chips.

Dual core with a 256 Mb graphics card seems to be the minimum at the mo.

I recently saw a Dual Graphics card (Not SLI or crossfire, it was two GPU's on one board) in the GTX 480 range for £900.00. That made my eyes water ....
 
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suprisingly pretty good. just built it recently with a rough 600 dollar spent on it

got a hd 5770, phenom 3.2 ghz x2, 4gb of ddr3 ram, and a decent mobo to hold it together i suppose.

runs everything (i have tried) so far at high or ultra without breakin much of a sweat
 

gigastrike

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2.5GHz dual core

2GB RAM

NVidia 8600 Graphics card

It works, but not well by modern standards.
 

veloper

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3.2 ghz phenom II x4; radeon 4870; 4 GB DDR3

Runs everything smoothly at 1680x1050 on high settings.
 

ScRaT_the_destroyer

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i recently dropped £120 on a gtx460 768mb, and to be particularly honest, it's mega :D
it replaced a 512mb 8800gt which while still decent just wasn't cutting it in BC2 (me likes me anti-aliasing). it reinvigorated my oc'd pentium E5300 system to the point i'm thinking ill hold off on a nice shiny new i5 until june
 

Christemo

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i can get Dead Rising 2 on pretty good settings, and everything maxed out in BFBC2, so im happy with my tower.