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You might want to refine the title further.  I came to the thread expecting to see images of Ford shutting down the country in a hostile takeover.  Quite disappointed :(

Need help finding or building a new PC for LCPD: First Response and other video games? This is the thread for you. This particular topic will be pinned and left open for anybody who has any questions on what to do about getting the right PC for their needs, and anybody who has input or suggestions for those people. The G17 community team has decided to put this up here in order to keep things here on the forum organized and convenient. Without further delay, let's get to talkin'. I'll start off by having a quick list of the most powerful equipment available right now, which I'll try and remember to update as new parts come out.

Processors:
Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition - Six cores at 3.9GHZ clock speed
AMD FX-8350 - 8 cores at 4.0GHZ clock speed.

Graphics Cards (single GPU):
nVidia GeForce TITAN - 6GB GDDR5 RAM on PCI Express 3.0
AMD Radeon 7990 - 6GB GDDR5 RAM on PCI Express 3.0

Motherboards:
ASUS P6T7 WS Ultimate Gamer - 3-Way SLI & PhysX, SATA 6GB (Intel based)
ASUS Crosshair V Formula - 3-Way SLI/CrossFire, Thunderbolt, SATA 6GB (AMD based)

Memory:
Corsair Dominator DDR3
GSkill Trident DDR3
Corsair Vengeance DDR3
Patriot Gamer DDR3
Mushkin Enhanced Silverline DDR3
Kingston HyperX DDR3

Power supplies:
Thermaltake
Seasonic
Antec
Coolermaster
OCZ
Corsair

Hard drives:
Western Digital (HDD & SSD)
Seagate (HDD & SSD)
Hitachi (HDD & SSD)
Toshiba (HDD & SSD)
Intel (SSD)
Patriot (SSD)
Corsair (SSD)
Kingston (SSD)
Samsung (HDD & SSD)
Crucial (SSD)
Mushkin (SSD)

Monitors:
Samsung
LG
Acer
AOC
ASUS
Panasonic
Viewsonic
Sony
Hanspree
Westinghouse

Peripherals:
Logitech
Microsoft
Razer
Roccat
Saitek
Steel Series

Key websites for information, reviews and benchmark tests:
HardOCP.com - News & review website
TomsHardware.com - News & review website
Guru3D.com - News & review website
HWCompare.com - Real world & synthetic benchmark tests of every major graphics card

This is just a VERY quick look at picking graphics cards for laptops. This is just the absolute basic, "graphics cards for dummies" kind of thing.
 
When picking a graphics card for laptops (and desktops as well), there is always a number involved.
For example:
Nvidia GeForce 650
 
The number is quite simple to explain, it works like this.
the 6 is the generation. With Nvidia, the higher the number, the newer the card.
the 50 is the version within the year. The higher the number, the better the performance.
Generally, performance has to do with the internal clock and all that good stuff.
People tend to assume that the first number (the 6) is what defines the performance, but it's not. For example, an Nvidia GeForce 480 is better than a 550.
 
The next thing you want to look at is the RAM the graphics card uses. The current best (as far as i'm aware) is known as GDDR5. 1GB GDDR5 ram should be enough for GTA IV, though i might recommend 2 just for security.
 
Now, in terms of the sager notebook, when you do the quick look, you see the 2.40 Ghz.
When you select the laptop, and before you purchase it, you get to customize what you get, everything about it.
 
This means you can put in a better processor, larger HDD, different graphics processor (if available), etc.
The Nvidia GTX 670MX with 3GB GDDR5 that comes standard with the Sager 17" NP9170 is definitely good enough for gta iv.
 
here are the CPU options:
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3630QM Processor ( 6MB L3 Cache, 2.40GHz)
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3740QM Processor ( 6MB L3 Cache, 2.70GHz) [+$170.00]
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3840QM Processor ( 8MB L3 Cache, 2.80GHz) [+$355.00]
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3940XM Processor Extreme Edition ( 8MB L3 Cache, 3.0GHz ) [+$875.00]
 
the i7-3740QM is definitely good enough for GTA IV.
 
 
I definitely recommend that you simply walk through the process of customizing a sager notebook, i'm not sure what screen size you want, but they have 15.6" and 17", and a whole bunch of others.
I think the 15" starts at 1099. When i was going through the process of customizing the one that i wanted, i think the end total was 1399, with a beefier processor and graphics processor.
 
Hope this helps!

It really depends we need your full specs. I look at computers like cars. If you have a race car with a really good engin; but have crappy tires chances are you are going to crash into the wall... So if you have a crappy CPU or little ram it won't go far in means of gaming. So I need your CPU ram and graphics card. I swear to god if you have a i3 i5 or i7 or some other CPU that's good and have crappy everything else I'm going to hunt you down and hit you