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Recommended and Preferred System Requirements?
JuggyJugs
Member Posts: 64
Anyone know or know where you can find information on system requirements?
How scaleable is the game? Can anyone run it a la WOW?
My comp is about 5 years out of date. I have a P4 3.0, 2G ram, 7600 GT Nvidia Card
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There hasn't been an official statement, but the minimum requirements will be low. As for recommended, I would upgrade yours some if you are wanting to be closer to the preferred (you left out an r in the title) side of things.
I'd love to upgrade. Can't really decide what to do though. Nehalem chips coming later on. Potentially will be using different Sockets. Dunno if its better to have the best of this generation technology or wait for next gen.
If I did it now. x38 chip set., q6600 cpu, 2gigs 8500 ram, 8800GT card
or wait it out for P45 or G45 chipset.
I'd agree on the c2q and the gpu, although the ram and mb are your personal choices. I stuck with asus p5n-d and 6g of ddr2 800 (PC 6400), vista is a pain at times but oh well.
Also, this board does have it's quirks, if you do like to overclock... I run my C2D 6750 at 3.4 (stock 2.66), but a lot of people have massive problems.
I'd be to scared to OC anything. So i'd opt for higher performance ram or factory oc'd parts.
I've read many complaints about ASUS customer support. I'm really leaning towards gigabyte boards.
I can't say that I'd switch to Vista yet.
I did it just so I could be used to it before I had to switch over.
As long as the board will support the latest ones, you would be okay. Although, I can promise you, we will see a lot of new things hit the market within the next year or so, and the older things will drop like rocks in prices. That's why I haven't bothered grabbing a C2Q. By the time my C2D actually needs upgrading, the C2QX (or even the next chip beyond that) will be quite a bit cheaper and still good.
If you are familiar with 3DMarks06, here's a good example for you. My system (as it is clocked now), gets over 12k on the score. I can run Crysis and every other game out there at 30+ FPS. The naked eye can't really see faster than 25 FPS, so this works out great. There was a system submitted this month, that got a score of 35k. For some reason, the hardware is going into massive overkill, so over the next few years, we will hopefully see it slow up some so we can get some new designers actually using it.
Good point. Though Extreme chips rarely drop in price. I've seen last gen chips still around 1000$
The q6600 i think will last a long time. Not many programs utilize 4 cores. When they do it will keep you competitive.
The reason why the C2QX chips haven't dropped is because they have unlocked multipliers. Even if they aren't the top of the line, that alone still makes them worth a bit. (again, an overclocking thing) >.>