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welcome back to harbor unboxed for another episode of what does it take to play now last time we checked out prey and for that title the risin 5 1400 coupled with the geforce gtx 1050 Ti worked out very nicely at ADP this time however we're going to check out four and again we're looking at 1080p targeting around 60fps I do really enjoy the odd racing simulator when I get time to play them and I have spent a bit of time over the years playing the various dirt titles in the series so I'm keen to give this latest version a shot as the game was just released yesterday I believe that's when I got into it I had much time to enjoy the game while really play it too much and the footage shown in this video was recorded with me playing with a keyboard rather than a game controller or even better a steering wheel so far the games been very well received scoring a 9 out of 10 or better at major publications while gamers themselves seem to be giving it at least an 8 out of 10 so good stuff to do it for I think this is because the game does a good job of catering to a wide range of skill levels and there's a diverse range of cars and game modes to mess around with visually the game is very good that said it's not amazing graphically it won't impress like project cars did upon release for example but it's certainly not great overdue at rally there is a good level of graphical customization as well but sadly the built-in benchmark that was so good for helping users determine if the settings would allow for smooth gameplay on the system doesn't exist in this version as it has in the previous few versions so that's disappointing anyway based on my testing so far I recommend the following new hardware for getting the most bang for your buck in dirt 4 for the CPU the pentium g 4560 worked a treat rarely did utilization reach 70% and was for the most part found hovering around 50 to 60% the system was also configured with a gigabytes of ddr4 2400 memory for the graphics card I played around with a few options here mostly focusing on the geforce gtx 1063 gigabyte and raid rx5 seventy four gigabyte those were quite similar for the most part though I did notice that the 1063 gigabyte drops it down to lower frame rates more often making the rx 570 my preferred choice for this title here's a quick side-by-side comparison between the rx 570 and GTX 1063 gigabyte before moving on exclusively to the rx 570 footage with the G 4560 running the show No you need to believe and remove your face Jacob wheeler you and right sex into left five right for nine dubbed cat and right sex don't get 200 200 over bumps 100 let's sex doctor at left over 250 200 of the Bucks right six and left five four through ten worth six of aggressed 200 200 of em ups 80 right four more at right six 250 affinity to stop take it up to the marshal Oh well they have it for a smooth 1080p experience using the ultra quality preset which does enable four times msaa I recommend the RX 570 coupled with the G 45 60 as you've seen the game isn't particularly demanding on the CPU you will want at least four threads for this title and that's exactly what the super affordable G 45 60 offers of course if you can't afford something a bit more substantial at the Rison v 1400 which packs 8 threads that's going to be a better option but having said that don't expect to deliver much in the way of extra performance when playing direct for especially if you're using a mid-range GPU the game is also quite light on memory usage it's certainly not a memory pig with the rx 570 installed we saw only 4 gigabytes of RAM allocated and by Ram I do mean system memory that figured get increased to almost 5 gigabytes with the 3 gigabyte GTX 1060 installed as the smaller via Ram buffer on this graphics card was forcing some game assets in the system memory so that coupled with the fact that I was using the G 45 60 processor with 8 gigabytes of ddr4 2400 memory is probably the reason why the 1060 suffered more severe frame drops using a more powerful CPU with higher frequency memory would no doubt help to mask the 1063 gigabytes shortcomings for those of you who'd like to see a heap more graphics cards benchmarked as well as additional resolutions but I have some good news for you next week I will be delivering a much more in-depth to dirt 4 benchmark video that does exactly that covering all the current and previous generation GPUs for now though the good news for PC gamers is that dirt 4 appears very well optimized and with a few tweaks will still look very good while enabling the game to play on entry-level Hardware at least modern entry-level Hardware anyway that's going to do it for this one I'm your host Steve see you again soon guys Oh