Game:

Doom (2016)

Duration: 4:21

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My Specs

-Dell Inspiron 620
-Intel Core i3 2120 3.3 GHz
-Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 950 OC'd 1236 MHz Base/1425 MHz Boost
-8 GB DDR3 1600 Mhz RAM
-EVGA Plus 80 500 Watt PSU

This is just a little video to show my little Sandy Bridge Core i3 pushing this GTX 950 at almost all ultra settings. I held off buying a new GPU for the longest time because I was going to just get a totally new computer with a way more powerful CPU. Well.....I had the extra $120 bucks left from the holidays and decided to just go for it whether my CPU was up for the task or not. Much to my surprise my i3 still has quite a bit of fight left in it and with a few tweaks I was able to get this game rolling at a steady 60 frames. There are spots where the CPU does hamper performance, but nothing too bad. Overall I'm now able to play Doom in excellent frame rates vs. my acceptable to low frame rates on my GTX 650. This video was made as a public service announcement that you can still have a lot of fun with some significantly outdated hardware if you're smart about tweaking your settings instead of automatically setting everything to low. Doom has some of the best tools to tell you exactly what is going on with your computer and where your bottlenecks are at to be able to figure out what settings can stay up and which ones need to be taken down a notch. Pretty much I found that everything that has a nightmare setting needed to be set to high. This game is so optimized it's ridiculous. I wish all games were programmed as well as Doom 4.

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