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PC nerds come at me!!
Despite starting the 20+ pages thread on FarCry 5 I still haven't played the game because my PC specs are a bit below the required setting and I am considering quite a few things to be able to play this game as well as other games. Will Elder Scrolls VI still be a PS4 game?
Upgrading my GPU to the recommended GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will cost more than just buying a PS4 as well as extra equipment to allow me to use my desktop monitor to play games.
Current specs:
CPU- Intel Core i-5 [email protected] GHz
Video Card- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
RAM- 8GB
I can also buy used PS4 games from FB groups for dirt cheap prices.
This seems to fit as I am not as diligent as some of you guys in researching the latest updates regarding PC specs and what not to keep up with what I need (never did).
So question is, do I buy a brand new PS4/ PS4 slim / used PS4? What problems would I encounter if I plan to use my desktop monitor to play PS4 games?
Despite starting the 20+ pages thread on FarCry 5 I still haven't played the game because my PC specs are a bit below the required setting and I am considering quite a few things to be able to play this game as well as other games. Will Elder Scrolls VI still be a PS4 game?
Upgrading my GPU to the recommended GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will cost more than just buying a PS4 as well as extra equipment to allow me to use my desktop monitor to play games.
Current specs:
CPU- Intel Core i-5 [email protected] GHz
Video Card- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
RAM- 8GB
Also, @SSgt Dickweed:
The i5-8400 scores 28% better in the UserBenchmark single core score and 37% better overall at stock than your i5-4460. If it can run an average of 109 fps (with a minimum of 97 fps) on Far Cry 5 Ultra settings @1080p, then I think it's fair to say that regardless of whatever theory is offered on Game Debate, your CPU is adequate to run the game at a playable framerate. Either the GPU or the RAM bandwidtth is your choke point (it's the GPU).
*Edit*
I'm trying to impress upon you how capable your CPU remains. The Intel 8th gen wasn't launched until October of last year, and even then nobody could find a damn 8700K until around January or February of this year.
So until the past six months the game developers were were effectively working with a level of gaming power that conformed to the i7-7700K or below, and they coded with the i5-7600K as the ceiling in mind:
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-7700K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4460/3647vs2310
In fact, your CPU is only 10% inferior to the i5-7400, which was released on January 3rd, 2017, and represents the bottom end of the gaming mainstream targeting the prebuilt market that doesn't overclock. Undoubtedly, Ubisoft wouldn't want to preclude this market:
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-7400-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4460/3886vs2310
Compare how your GTX 1050 Ti stacks up to the GTX 1080 Ti. The GTX 670 is its rough benchmark equal, and you can see the GTX 680 matches it in games in the benchmark jpeg I posted a few posts above-- the latter was launched in March 2012:
http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1080-Ti-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1050-Ti/3918vs3649
Check out the Steam hardware survey:
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam
Over half the gaming market today is still on Intel CPUs under 3GHz, and that breaks down with a large number of dual core CPUs, too (6 out of 10 gamer CPUs is a quad core, 3 out of 10 is a dual core, and 1 out of 10 is something else).
Intel Processor base frequency
You're still in the prime range. They target that middle 69%, chiefly, and mostly pander to the 7% elitists. Meanwhile, the GTX 1060 3GB, GTX 1060 6GB, RX 480, and RX 580 are the norm for GPUs, now, and all are considerably more powerful than the 1050 Ti.
- 24% from 2.29GHz or below
- 28% from 2.3GHz-2.99GHz
- 41% from 3.0GHz-3.7GHz
- 18% from 3.0-3.29 (you are 3.2GHz quad core w/3.4GHz Turbo)
- 23% from 3.3-3.69
- 7% from 3.7GHz+
I can also buy used PS4 games from FB groups for dirt cheap prices.
This seems to fit as I am not as diligent as some of you guys in researching the latest updates regarding PC specs and what not to keep up with what I need (never did).
So question is, do I buy a brand new PS4/ PS4 slim / used PS4? What problems would I encounter if I plan to use my desktop monitor to play PS4 games?
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