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Sunny Dove · **04-23-2010, 03:35 PM**

Mason Wrote:
Quote:(i7 930, 12gb ram, 2tb hdd, 2x ATI 5770 in Xfire, thank you Uncle Sam!!)
A bit overkill- but god damn!!! You are set for a few years for sure.

Yeah, that'll do the job Wink

. I run an i5, 8gb ram, 1tb hdd, and an nvidia gt230. I think I'll be fine running on high specs as well.

**04-23-2010, 10:09 PM**

Just wondering what you guys are using all that RAM for?
I've been using just 2GB for going on 7yrs now and haven't seen any significant decrease in game playablity in the types of games I play (MMO, RPG,RTS, and FPS). Of course I'm not running the x64 systems either because I haven't seen much added bonus in their architecture besides adding more RAM past 3.5GB.

Bear · **04-25-2010, 04:41 AM**

12GB RAM? WHYYY? I don't think you could possibly multitask enough to ever use 25% of that! (I'm gonna buy 24 just to show you up! >: O)

2TB, you gonna download half the interwebs?

haha, sorry, I'm just jelous, I've been running a 180gig HDD, for over 5 years now, I'm surprised it hasn't died yet...

ah the 5770, good choice, my next GPU is definitely going to be ATI. Nvidia needs to get their heat issues under control considering I've had my 9800GX2 burn out 4 times and I've got 8 fans in my comp (not including the one on the card)

Smiling River · **04-25-2010, 01:18 PM**

2TB is great xD I've got a lot of movies/shows/comics/music/pics on my 1TB external, and some on my 500gig internal and I am almost maxed out. I'll try to weed out some stuff that's not so good and keep the favorites... but I might need an additional 2TB external HD myself soon. In short, yes I do have half the interwebs... in movies anyway XD

12gig RAM does seem like a lot but I donno... requirements for games keep going up and I'm sure 12gig RAM will be standard in average PCs in a year or two. I see refurbished PCs with 8gigs RAM going for like $600 now- so yeah... not sure why but you need more RAM to keep up with new software. >_>;
Personally I'm gonna stop at 6 on my current PC.

Bear · **04-25-2010, 10:09 PM**

GPU's have onboard memory though, so you only really need 2-4, I've never seen anyone able to utilize over 4, hell, before vista you couldn't get over 3.5

and 600 bucks? seriously? You can't get 8 gigs alone for less than 350, so every other component must be absolute shit.

Smiling River · **04-26-2010, 05:30 AM**

Surely you didn't expect a top of the line video card there as well... but, have yourself a peek at buy.com Big Grin

I was quite surprised myself. Remember I am talking about refurbished. Brand new is of course more expensive.

Nanapariri · **04-26-2010, 02:15 PM**

Since I have to play on a laptop and I don't have some of those specs I'm not going to be able to play for a while. Cry

Bear · **04-26-2010, 06:18 PM**

Tsumi Wrote:Since I have to play on a laptop and I don't have some of those specs I'm not going to be able to play for a while.

I'm sure you'll be able to play, it'll just be like a picture slideshow! haha XD!

You still have time to get a new comp!!!

Kylin · **04-26-2010, 06:20 PM**

I believe an interview previously stated that the alpha specs would be higher than the final version. I can't remember where I saw it but I'm pretty sure they said that. So don't worry too much yet ^^

Eva · **04-26-2010, 06:34 PM**

Sparks Wrote:Just wondering what you guys are using all that RAM for?

The game will take up part of that. I also do a good deal of work with Photoshop and various other graphics, audio, and video editing software (Adobe Premiere and SoundForge primarily), and sometimes I have the IDE for PHP up as well. And I have a hard time closing Firefox tabs/windows. It's a problem. I think Firefox alone with all of the tabs/windows I keep open gobbles up about 3gb. A lot of this stuff I do simultaneously.

Bear Wrote:I don't think you could possibly multitask enough to ever use 25% of that!

You don't know me very well then. :twisted:

Bear Wrote:2TB, you gonna download half the interwebs?

The system actually came with 1tb drive and I just put my old HDD in as a slave drive, copied everything of importance (or so I thought) over and formatted it for the extra space. 600gb are already in use and I managed to wipe out most of my music, so I'm going to have to go back and rip a ton of cd's again... >.>

A few years from now I'm just going to have to scrap it and get myself a hellabyte drive.

**04-27-2010, 01:27 AM**

Kes Wrote:
Sparks Wrote:Just wondering what you guys are using all that RAM for?
The game will take up part of that. I also do a good deal of work with Photoshop and various other graphics, audio, and video editing software (Adobe Premiere and SoundForge primarily), and sometimes I have the IDE for PHP up as well. And I have a hard time closing Firefox tabs/windows. It's a problem. I think Firefox alone with all of the tabs/windows I keep open gobbles up about 3gb. A lot of this stuff I do simultaneously.

If its just for the game, then RAM really shouldn't have much to do with it. Unless you have lots of background programs running at the same time. I know a test using Crisis to show what RAM does with 3GB/6GB/12GB and it was like 1fps difference between the 3 and 12. Should be able to have ~100tabs open in each for firefox w/o much problem at 3.

You using xp, vista, or 7? If vista or 7 then turning off your HDD indexing should give you somewhere between 40-50% of your RAM performance back. Also can turn off start-up applications if you don't use them all for some decrease in usage.

Verranicus · **04-28-2010, 12:47 PM**

Can one of you do me a favor and let me know if I'd be able to run this on my PC? I have a PS3, but I'm vastly more comfortable playing MMO's on my PC and it'd save me 30 dollars or so on pS3 peripherals.

AMD Athlon 54 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
4GB of RAM
GeForce 9400 GT

I don't expect it to dazzle me with it's graphics as I know my video card is "old" (by PC standards), medium-low settings would be good enough for me. Thanks.

Eva · **04-28-2010, 04:23 PM**

From what I gather, it should be able to run on this rig, probably not too badly either. It will be interesting to see how the specs differ when the game goes live.

Arzy · **07-11-2010, 06:19 PM**

At times like these, I'm happy that I've invested in buying a new computer. Beautiful graphics add to the gameplay experience, of course, for a fan of the game, being able to run the game is enough.

Duuh....can't wait for the release...

ArmachiA · **07-11-2010, 07:38 PM**

Someone on a different forum is reporting that he's able to run it pretty smoothly on a Dual Core processor with 4 gigs of RAM and an 8800GT video card. He just turned off Shadows. Seems like the game isn't going to be quite as extensive as we thought

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