Time to make Gameplay faster!

[ExoticBud]

200$ is enough to get an HD 4850 and a nice quad core CPU IF you get it used off eBay.


[Edit] that card should fit with your specs, you'll be able to play BO med/high, but GTAIV you pretty much MUST have a quad core.

What if i get it off of newegg or tigerdirect?

[Rien]

200 dollars is really not enough to get something capable of running IV

[Danny]

I have a 4850, dual core AMD II and 2GB of ram, I run GTA IV at my maximum resolution with everything except draw distance up fully.

I don't think you need a quad core.

[Dominator33]

I have a dual core 2,2 ghz and a 9800gt 512mb and IV runs like shit on mine

[Blackbean]

i has AMD Athlon II X4 635 n GTX460 and i get 40fps on daytime and 28-35at night
i need more ram tho

[ExoticBud]

I didn't ask what you guys had, no offence.. but i need to figure out good parts.

[Kase]

I didn't ask what you guys had, no offence.. but i need to figure out good parts.

They're probably giving you feedbacks about parts you could buy. There's a topic about some good PC parts as I mentioned before, you can have a look there. 

[Danny]

I was purely stating that you don't need a quad core processor to run GTA IV with good fps. What you do need is RAM. I noticed a huge amount of difference in frames when 2GB of ram was taken out of a computer with 4GB originally. Especially on Windows 7.

For your $200 budget I'd personally recommend buying the following hardware:
ATI Radeon 5670 1GB
AMD Athlon II X2 3.2GHz
G.SKILL 4GB DDR3

Total: $190

With shipping, should come up to around your maximum.

This should Run GTA4 around the same as (probably better than) this guy's computer: (bear in mind he's recording with fraps, which drops the FPS by about 15-25)

Gta IV - XFX Radeon HD 5670 1GB

[ExoticBud]

I was purely stating that you don't need a quad core processor to run GTA IV with good fps. What you do need is RAM. I noticed a huge amount of difference in frames when 2GB of ram was taken out of a computer with 4GB originally. Especially on Windows 7.

For your $200 budget I'd personally recommend buying the following hardware:
ATI Radeon 5670 1GB
AMD Athlon II X2 3.2GHz
G.SKILL 4GB DDR3

Total: $190

With shipping, should come up to around your maximum.

This should Run GTA4 around the same as (probably better than) this guy's computer: (bear in mind he's recording with fraps, which drops the FPS by about 15-25)

Gta IV - XFX Radeon HD 5670 1GB

Very nice, even more then I asked for.. why couldn't anyone else do it like this? RoFL

[BrainDeadGamer]

I might not be right here, but i think you need a new motherboard if you wanted to go with a AMD CPU..which would add likely another 100 dollars