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hey guys welcome back to harbor unbox for another episode of what does it take to play previously we looked at what kind of hardware gamers need to play dirt for at 1080p and maintain over 60 FPS at all times the focus here is on new hardware so we went with the pentium g 45 60 and Radeon rx 5 70 and that combo delivered very impressive results for those of you unfamiliar with this series the point is to quickly show gamers in five minutes or less what kind of hardware they need to achieve a set performance criteria in this case we want to play destiny 2 at 1440p and maintain around 60 FPS for the most part Justin you too as a brand new toddler just hit beta status and I have to say the game looks amazing developer Bungie recommends gamers ensure their systems packing at least 2 geforce gtx 970 or radeon are 390 and for the cpu a core i5 2400 or horizon 5 1600 x currently i'm testing around 30 GPUs in destiny 2 up to P 1440p and 4k using the higher quality preset so I've already got a pretty good idea of what kind of performance gamers are looking at with a varied range of hardware for those wanting a game at 1440p I found that Bungie are right on the money as I found both the GTX 970 r9 390 deliver a great experience pushing over 50 FPS at all times and often hovering around 70 FPS and of course this is with the high quality preset for a similar experience though on modern hardware the three gigabyte version of the gtx 1060 works very well in this title as i'm about to show you unfortunately though please be aware whenever i enabled the on-screen statistics the game would crash after about 60 seconds or so and then I would have to restart the single-player tutorial from the start so unfortunately I do have very limited footage with all the information up on the screen and you know I realized that's quite disappointing before we get into that though here is a look at the quality settings used for now I've avoided using the highest preset which uses msaa and I found the impact on performance was massive while the improvement in quality really wasn't noticeable so with the high preset enabled the anti-aliasing mode is said to SMA an HD IO screen space ambient is used I found that with most of the graphics cards tested even the ultra high-end models dropping down from the highest quality preset to the high quality preset improved frame rates by over 80% and like I said there was really no noticeable difference in image quality the GTX 1063 gigabyte wasn't much slower than the six gigabyte model and even at 1440p there were no missing textures or issues with the single-player toriel which looked amazing I might add as for the CPU the developer recommends the horizon 5 1600 expert I found the exact same experience with the horizon 3 1200 and that's without overclocking the CPU so for this what does it take to play episode I've used the r3 1200 and GTX 1063 gigabyte for the most part frame rates at 1440p did stay above 60fps and the small pass I was able to show before afterburner caused the game to crash we saw a minimum of 51 FPS and an average of 63 fps for those of you wondering the same hardware combo was good for an average of 102 FPS at 1080p with a minimum of 78 FPS for a game that looks this amazing and isn't even released yet I have to say destiny 2 appears extremely well optimised for the PC at least that's been my experience so far destiny 2 does utilize core heavy CPUs very well and by that I mean it spreads the load across all physical cores very well and I've seen this on the horizon 5 1600 and r7 1700 that said the game doesn't give the CPU a huge amount of work so while the work the CPU does have to do is balanced across all the available calls very nicely it's still not enough to overwhelm a modern quad core at times though the Rison 3 1200 did see CPU utilization spiked at around 90% but for the most part it was really hot ring John around 60 to 70% looking at the frame time data the game played extremely smooth with the r3 1200 and GTX 1063 gigabyte combo so this is what I recommend gamers bring to the table for playing destiny r2 and all of its glory at least with settings that make sense are there any other games you'd like me to check out with certain test criteria such as targeted framerate quality settings or resolution for example anyway if so let me know at section below and I'll do my best to make that happen also keep an eye out for the massive destiny to GPU comparison coming in the next day or two I'm your host Steve have fun gaming guys