Got my new GPU, I'm amazed

Hello everyone! I just got my new Nvidia GTX 1050 TI Superclocked, which is a HUGE upgrade from my GT610. Previously, I couldn't run certain maps AT ALL, even with my AMD FX4300 and 8gb of ram, and I had to run everything else at the absolute lowest settings. Now, I can play all of the maps at max settings, with dynamic reflections off. The game looks so much better!

 

Is GT610 a GPU at all? At what circumstances one would buy that thing?

1050ti is great choice! Have you tried dynamic reflections or you just think you can't handle them? That thing is quite nice to have.
Anyway, enjoy your new life of many FPS and beautiful graphics

 

I'm relatively jobless, meaning cashless, so a 400$ IBuyPower was a good *cough*BAD*cough* choice, and I didn't know much about computer specs. And I can't really handle dynamic reflections, but I can play the game on high with every additional setting on

 

I can feel your same things man. I just got a RX 470 and its amazing aswell. I can pretty much run high settings with everything but HDR and dynamic reflections. Dynamic reflections is something I honestly don't like to begin with but its nice to have. It mainly kills frames too.

 

GT610 is a nice card for its purpose, it's an upgrade from GMA but the latest CPUs have stronger GPUs built in

 

Your going to be limited by that CPU in Beamng.drive but you should be able to run most cars or pickups tolerably. It'll be sufficient to play but by no means stellar. The gpu is nice though, you may have been better served by a Rx 470 at that price range (depending on what you paid for it). I almost bought a 470 but they had a sale where I got it (brick and mortar store) and ended up with an Rx 480 8gb. Runs everything with dynamic reflections on about medium (it can run high, but my maps aren't optimized enough in a few select spots, it gets choppy). All the stock maps run fine with it maxed though (because they aren't as monstrous).

Your 1050 ti should get you by for the next 2~3 years just fine - atleast another 18~24 months before you have to really be stuck running things on low, and even then, only with the newest cutting-edge game engines. While you have a lower-end gpu of the new 10xx series by nvidia, you also have the newer optimizations, driver support, and processing extensions, which means you can turn up details you wouldn't normally have been able to (on say, like a GTX 960 or 970 or older) for much less performance hit.

Don't expect a T-series truck to run very smoothly on an FX-anything cpu (or APU), however. If you can live with that consolation, you'll get by just fine.

--Happy Beam'ng!

 

Yeah, I'm planning on getting a better, more Intel CPU for my PC. I don't have a job, so I can't afford much. Mowing lawns can only get you so far. I have $130 saved up, and I'm probably gonna put that towards a new CPU. Next year though, If I can manage a job, I'll probably get some much better equipment. But for now, I was curious: can anyone recommend a good, not AMD CPU that can run beamng better? I'm looking at a price range of $100 to $180.

 

Wait until atleast after AMD RyZen (ZEN) is release in a few weeks, in the months following, if it's as good as AMD says it is and has demo'ed, CPU prices will fall!
Competition is good for the consumer/customer. This spring & summer will be a beautifully sweet time for some CPU-shopping.

Keep glued to www.guru3d.com or Anandtech or TomsHardware to keep an eye on what's coming out, what's hot, what's not (listed in order of preference).

Any intel chip 4xxx product family and newer will run Beamng.drive with ease and fluidity. A high-end two year old 4790k can run 7 vehicles in real time, more than that gets performance down under 24~30fps range or less. High-end i7 or i5 with high clocks (ghz) will also run the T-series at 40+fps always, usually 60fps. This is with a decent video board (and settings!!!) too.

 

I looked at the price of a 4790k, and I'm now curious. What good is a cheap (~$100) processor from intel?

 

Try this

https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Extreme-Quad-Core-Processor-1333MHz/dp/B000YQOHM2

 

Now I have 2 questions.
1. Is the second coming of christ upon us?
2. Is it you?
I now know what I'm going to buy. Thank you very, very, very, VERY much!

 

Good luck finding a motherboard that supports that CPU though.

 

I also have you covered

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAMF53D7126

Oh and yes, its the second coming of christ upon you

It wasn't that hard buddy. Just look up LGA 775 motherboards.


Looks at reviews

Yea, thats quite good. Seems like a good buy

looks at date

Don't buy it anymore

 

Alright, that's a nice CPU but it's not going to do much better on Beam than what you're using right now (though it may support up to twice as many cars before slowing to a crawl).
It's a nice quad core but honestly, it's hard to find a good motherboard for it that has the voltage regulation like the old gaming motherboards used to. In other words, you will get little to no overclock or you'll explode the motherboard's VRM possibly causing a fire. Overclocking that on the board shown in the link, will cause a fire. That's also a BTX board, and won't fit normal ATX cases. It will fit OEM cases from HP and some DELL's, so goto your computer shop you may find one. You can also buy heatsinks that can be stuck to those VRM's next to the cpu (the little black squares). That motherboard ONLY SUPPORTS 2GB OF RAM AS LISTED. THATS NOT ENOUGH TO RUN BEAM. YOU WILL BE WORSE OFF. Why would someone recommend a 2gb-max motherboard to run a 4gb minimum game?

Get a pentium dual-core cpu. They made a 3258 I believe, that was overclockable, like a 25th anniversary edition, that sold for 70$. That'll scream with Beamng.drive when overclocked, though it's not the worlds best CPU, and you have to get the right motherboard for it. Make absolutely sure you get the right one! You'll be able to upgrade the CPU later on down the road, too, if you should so choose, and have a decent motherboard.
An i3 is a little north of 100$ but the computer will be much smoother overall. If you can wait a bit, I think they're coming out with a K-series i3, If memory serves correctly, that's an i3-7350K and it's supposed to be better than sandy-bridge quads (2xxx). It's going to be a great solution to run Beamng.drive on. You will have a very good choice of motherboards, the newest standards, and a great upgrade path to a larger and more powerful cpu later on. This will be the longest-lasting choice.

If you really want a core2 motherboard:
I've had great luck with these core 2 motherboards here, they support 8gb of ram (though, the white-paper says the chipset can do 16gb, i'd trust 8gb), and supports the core2 quad 9550, not the 9650 (though, they're pretty much the same run, try your luck with it if you'd like, amazon has a great return policy). Ordered a few they work fantastic.
They're of better quality than the refurb the other guy gave you, and they're NEW. Still OEM, but it's a good quality board. No issues with it. P
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GG1M1AE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Just make sure to get the kind of CPU the board wants. Pay attention to wattage, that's important. More cpus work with the board linked than stated (I dropped an 5$ e6700 in it, worked fine).

I've been doing this stuff 22 years now as of this week. I learned PC hardware in the 90s.

Honestly, for the price you're going to pay, the newer i3 would be the best option. Even an i3-6xxx series is a great choice and can give AMD FX-63xx processors a run for their money (and beat them).

If you still require assistance, please mention so. Honestly, I wouldn't try to run Beamng.drive on core2duo/core2quad anything, it's not going to be any better than an AMD FX-series cpu or APU of equivelant speed, if not worse. Generally, the FX-series benches close realistically to the 1st-generation i7 chips.

 

Oh damn, you didn't have to write a whole article about CPUs. I was also just joking about the 9 year old processor. Unless I really guessed what he wanted

 

It's not too much to read, atleast I didn't have to publish a hard-cover version of this post - or divide it up into chapters, heh. Actually, I didn't want any bad karma so I tried to do the right thing - joking aside, there's plenty of games that'd run fine on the core2quad, but this just isn't one of them. If you had a good gaming/OC'ing motherboard and a good power supply to go with it and a decent air cooler, you could possibly see 3.8~4ghz with a good draw on the 'silicon lottery', but nothing's garunteed, and you'd be in the same boat as if you'd bought an FX-6300, which by chance, his system might take as it stands (and costs what that listed 9650 cpu does). That being said, you could easily get another few years out of a core2duo/core2quad machine if you just did email, netflix, or something similar with it. I just refurbished the machine with one of the boards I linked when the 9~10 year old board went south. Hey, 20 bucks on a budget where the affordable price is 0$ (I paid for it, she has two kids and a family and a home and vehicle payment)... it works.

If you want to run one or two cars, buy an i3 or pentium dual core, 4xxx series or better.
If you want to run 3~4 cars, buy an i5.
If you want to run 7 or more vehicles, buy an i7, preferably one on the x99 or the up-and-coming x109 (?) platform that has 6 or 8 cores. (my 4790k can reasonably do 7 but no more*)
Wait for Zen (RyZen) from AMD, which will bring affordable multicore cpus to the masses at near-or-equal-to intel performance ratings for LESS.

I'd wait for Zen, 'nuff said.

*the i7 4790k can do more than 7 (which it does do 7 in full motion) - I've had up to 18 at a time, if you don't mind... 10~20fps!

 

Im quite suprised that the Core 2 Extreme is even that powerful. At the time, I knew nothing about computers so I wasn't too aware about it.

 

I don't know sh*t about computers so I thought the core 2 might have been new XD Well, good to see you were joking, I'll probably buy a medium end I5, or something within a decent budget. Sorry about my extreme lack of intellegence. I know some stuff about GPUs, quite a bit about 3D modelling (Tech schools teach CAD, so I know nothing about blender), but yeah. So I'm guessing anything under $200 wouldn't be worth it?