i picked up a gtx 260 like a week ago from a local tech shop for free and it works! the performance is still amazing for such an old card it ran gta v at 1280x1024p all settings on normal at 70 and 80 fps with an i5 660 and 4gb of ram, truly an amazing card
the e8400 likely would have been the choice at the time, the 0.16 ghz wouldnt matter on a motherboard & ramkit that allows overclocking. Specially with how far the e8400 could be pushed. With my asus p5q premium, a pair of 2 gb 1066 mhz ocz reaper ddr2 sticks it reaches 4 ghz stable. The 9800 gt or a gts 250 would be a solid pick, maybe even 2 cards in sli for crysis.
The first PC i built was in the summer of 2008. I was on a very tight budget so i reused the case, psu, hdd. The cpu was a core 2 duo E7200 (which i used on 3.5 ghz) the mb was a Gigabyte P31-DS3L with 2gb kingmax 800 Mhz ram and the vga was the then brand new AMD HD4850 512Mb(Sapphire reference card) . It was very powerful at that time for the 1280x1024 resolution i used. The only game it couldn't run on max was of course Crysis. I switched from a pentium 4 2800 with a geforce 7600GS.
My first build was an E8400 and 8800GT! I remember getting a 40GB Intel SSD for my OS and only keeping one or two games on it that I wanted to load super fast. Loved that PC
I had this motherboard for one of my retro PCs. Sadly it failed around 2 years ago. Then I replaced it with a random Gigabyte P43 mobo and now the "luxury" variant of the P5Q, the Asus P5Q Deluxe with a second PCI-E x16 slot for crossfire, an on board on/off button, UEFI bios and a more beefy cooling solution. However for some reason Asus decided it was a good idea to run a big heat pipe from the CPU VRMs to the chip set and south bridge. It's chip set runs at 50 degrees C even in idle without a PC case, that is hotter than the overclocked Q6600 that lives in that PC. I love the Core 2 as it was my first computer that I can remember the specs off. I got handed down the old family PC in the early 2010's when I was 12. It had a Gigabyte 945P, a Core 2 Duo E6600, 2GB of DDR2 ram and a GeForce 8600GT. I used that computer until 2017 upgraded with 4GB of ram, a 120GB SSD and Windows 10 down the line. When I was 15 I wanted to upgrade that PC with a core 2 Quad, 8GB off DDR2 and a GTX 750ti, but my motherboard was so crappy it didn't support quad cores or 2GB DDR2 modules, so I build something entirely new.
reminds me of my first pc which was even more ancient!
i picked up a gtx 260 like a week ago from a local tech shop for free and it works! the performance is still amazing for such an old card it ran gta v at 1280x1024p all settings on normal at 70 and 80 fps with an i5 660 and 4gb of ram, truly an amazing card
right, I have a similar setup, but core2quad extreme and it rocks.
the e8400 likely would have been the choice at the time, the 0.16 ghz wouldnt matter on a motherboard & ramkit that allows overclocking.
Specially with how far the e8400 could be pushed. With my asus p5q premium, a pair of 2 gb 1066 mhz ocz reaper ddr2 sticks it reaches 4 ghz stable.
The 9800 gt or a gts 250 would be a solid pick, maybe even 2 cards in sli for crysis.
The first PC i built was in the summer of 2008. I was on a very tight budget so i reused the case, psu, hdd. The cpu was a core 2 duo E7200 (which i used on 3.5 ghz) the mb was a Gigabyte P31-DS3L with 2gb kingmax 800 Mhz ram and the vga was the then brand new AMD HD4850 512Mb(Sapphire reference card) . It was very powerful at that time for the 1280x1024 resolution i used. The only game it couldn't run on max was of course Crysis. I switched from a pentium 4 2800 with a geforce 7600GS.
My first build was an E8400 and 8800GT! I remember getting a 40GB Intel SSD for my OS and only keeping one or two games on it that I wanted to load super fast. Loved that PC
I had this motherboard for one of my retro PCs. Sadly it failed around 2 years ago. Then I replaced it with a random Gigabyte P43 mobo and now the "luxury" variant of the P5Q, the Asus P5Q Deluxe with a second PCI-E x16 slot for crossfire, an on board on/off button, UEFI bios and a more beefy cooling solution. However for some reason Asus decided it was a good idea to run a big heat pipe from the CPU VRMs to the chip set and south bridge. It's chip set runs at 50 degrees C even in idle without a PC case, that is hotter than the overclocked Q6600 that lives in that PC.
I love the Core 2 as it was my first computer that I can remember the specs off. I got handed down the old family PC in the early 2010's when I was 12. It had a Gigabyte 945P, a Core 2 Duo E6600, 2GB of DDR2 ram and a GeForce 8600GT.
I used that computer until 2017 upgraded with 4GB of ram, a 120GB SSD and Windows 10 down the line. When I was 15 I wanted to upgrade that PC with a core 2 Quad, 8GB off DDR2 and a GTX 750ti, but my motherboard was so crappy it didn't support quad cores or 2GB DDR2 modules, so I build something entirely new.
My first pc was an pentium 2.4 and 512 mb ddr and 40gb hdd ..
you should test gta 4 at 2008
Where are u from? :D
India
Serbia