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#1 patrick157
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A PC is the superior choice to any human with a brain. You don't just get to play games on a PC, it can do everything else as well. PC also has a bunch of free games and if you decide to buy a game its normally $10-20 cheaper then any console game, also the add-ons are free unlike the $15 map packs on the ps3 and xbox 360 for most games. You can't forget the dedicated servers FOR FREE as well, normally a group will buy a server and then just ask for donations or get advertisers so we don't have to pay monthly for dedicated servers like xbox or get some stupid laggy host **** like ps3 (this is only some games, but most games have dedicated servers). Another thing with PC is that games have a far better community than the 10 year old dickheads on ps3 and xbox 360 who run around **** everything that moves. A PC can watch real 1080p not some upscaled bull**** like on xbox. Well, anyways my second choice is the xbox package because PS3 doesn't have **** on the upcoming xbox games and kinect. PS3 move is just some wii rip off while kinect is like the eye-toy perfected and upgraded, which is a good thing. Halo:Reach and Gears of War 3 are enough reason to own an xbox.

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#2 patrick157
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[QUOTE="patrick157"][QUOTE="MaoTheChimp"]

L4D runs fine on my E8400 (stock) paired with a 4890, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't run well with an i7.

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Soooo its not a cpu bottleneck??? cause i didnt think a 2.3ghz 4450e would bottleneck a card down to 15-20fps.

No, most people tend to go overboard when talking about bottlenecking. Running the hardware is different from what the game wants or needs. And your cpu is more then enough for both. Do you have any other games besides Steam(Source) based games? You to try other games and see if happens in them too.

I tried ut3 and maxed it out and everything ran smooth until i got into fights with lots of particles and such, and also my card is running at 55c in-game is that bad?

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#3 patrick157
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[QUOTE="shawn157"]he just checked it by having people with i7's having the same problem...MaoTheChimp

L4D runs fine on my E8400 (stock) paired with a 4890, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't run well with an i7.

Soooo its not a cpu bottleneck??? cause i didnt think a 2.3ghz 4450e would bottleneck a card down to 15-20fps.
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#4 patrick157
Member since 2009 • 35 Posts
Well if you google search "getting low fps" just look. .

There's no other possibility. When you turn settings and resolution down drasticly and still get the same fps, it's a CPU bottleneck. I doubt people with quad cores have this problem as well. If that were true, I would have seen TF2 in the same sentence as GTA4 everywhere.

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Also if it is cpu ima buy a new motherboard that can overclock and overclock my current cpu to around 2.6-3.0ghz and see what happens. I am just afraid of losing windows 7 because it was supposed to be an upgrade to my compaq presario vista...
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#5 patrick157
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[QUOTE="shawn157"]He did nothing happened also he mentioned other people with like i7's and better mobo's are having the same problem with nvidia cards anyone know what would cause this?neatfeatguy
If you're replying to me, I'm not sure where in any of the OP's posts you read that he uninstalled the drivers for his onboard graphics. Any GPU (be it on board or an actual video card) requires drivers to operate. When you have two drivers installed the drivers are going to conflict and cause issues. Yes, you may be able to play games with two drivers installed, but generally the problems that comes up is crashing and poor performance overall.

i pretty sure i uninstalled using guru driver clean i cleaned the nvidia chipset and nvidia display. In device manager there was no option to uninstall integrated and bios doesnt have it either so i just used that.
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#6 patrick157
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Ok i don't think it's a faulty card because it can run everything on high. But if i put it down to dx8 all low settings i still get the same fps as if it was all on high. 60-80fps no action 10-20fps in action. patrick157
Actually that now reminded me that the same thing happened on integrated graphics. I couldnt run dx9 settings at all with a 6150se nforce integrated. I put it on dx8 and i got around 40-60fps outta action 10-20fps in action. It wouldnt matter though if i changed texture detail to high and kept everything low or if i changed a few other things up, it still stayed the same. So could my motherboard be a problem?(people have the same problem as me even on better motherboards but its worth asking)
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#7 patrick157
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Ok i don't think it's a faulty card because it can run everything on high. But if i put it down to dx8 all low settings i still get the same fps as if it was all on high. 60-80fps no action 10-20fps in action.
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#8 patrick157
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Ok i just bought a corsair tx650w psu. NOTHING CHANGED. So that brings an end to the psu discussion and that the psu had nothing to do with this. So nao what?

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#9 patrick157
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the 4800 series didnt work...... but anyways ill brb going to best buy and getting a nice psu.
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#10 patrick157
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Wait a second i just realized something. I have a hd 4890 so i downloaded the 4890 drivers. But when i look under device manager it says my card is 4800 series and there's drivers for something that just says 4800 series, so should i get those drivers?
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