Hey guys I'm very exited to announce my new computer has been built!
Quick specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3GHz
2GB OCZ DDR2 RAM @ 1066
ATI Radeon 4870 512MB GDDR5
Asus P5Q Deluxe
250gb hdd

The frame rates are incredible, as in 160fps in the screenshot below in a replay of a LOTA race, and a constant and smooth 340 fps when driving around alone. WOW I'm really not used to such frame rates in LFS, the best I got with my old pc was around 60.

All settings which I could find I turned up to max, AA, AF, LOD, and all settings in CCC.

now use high res textures, nicer reflections and bloom lighting addon. i went from 250 fps to 70-80 with that

The new ATI 4870 cards use GDDR5 at 3600MHz, where GDDR4 went I have no idea

I wanna build the "same" PC... E8400 and 4870... so it sounds promising

Quote from G!NhO :

now use high res textures, nicer reflections and bloom lighting addon. i went from 250 fps to 70-80 with that

lol, i still have 320 with all that

Quote from Bose321 :

lol, i still have 320 with all that

yeah sure with bloom? you are just one big liar

show me a screenshot

Quote from G!NhO :

yeah sure with bloom? you are just one big liar

show me a screenshot

Only ricers use bloom... Useless...

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

Only ricers use bloom... Useless...

it looks good with bloom

btw bose first you said you got 270 fps and now you get 320 with bloom!?!?!? p*ss off

lol I meant GDDR5 on my video card, I missed the G. Anyway, I'm using some high-res textures, and I might start using the high-res skin service too. I'm not gonna go overboard with a bloom mod though, this isn't NFS.

Quote from shiny_red_cobra :

lol I meant GDDR5 on my video card, I missed the G. Anyway, I'm using some high-res textures, and I might start using the high-res skin service too. I'm not gonna go overboard with a bloom mod though, this isn't NFS.

the bloom is great, lfs looks way nicer with it. and i hate NFS so

that much fps may be nice, but unless ure using a crt at low resolution, you probably only got 60 or 75hz on your screen.
so that screen refresh the image 60 or 75 times per second, so even if your gfx card can dish out 300fps. you wont be seeing them anyway. its a nice thing to have sucha computer though, dont get me wrong, but in LFS cases, it wont change much.

I agree with you 100%, anything over 60 fps is useless (i have an LCD monitor with 60 Hz refresh rate). But it is nice to see the raw power of the computer, and the fact that gameplay is so smooth. I almost never got 60 fps with my old computer, so over 300 fps is a good feeling for me lol.