Waffentraeger
Legionary
(id: Daelon)
posted 04 November 2008 23:53 EDT (US)
Hey TWH,
Who here will be upgrading for ETW???
In may I upgraded to a Q6600, 2gigs of corsair and a 690iLT,
I ordered a eVGA9800GT on friday, and plan on ordering another one, 1 more gig of ram and vista 64bit for DX10..
Waffentraeger
Legionary
(id: Daelon)
posted 30 November 2008 02:22
EDT (US)
27 / 36
That would be an interesting concept.. I don't think they can imply just as much into those consoles as they can for the PC.
Lord_Morningstar
Legionary
posted 30 November 2008 06:02
EDT (US)
28 / 36
The computer I’m using now should be able to handle the game.
Just to reminisce for a bit, this thread brings back some memories of when I was hanging around these forums pre-Age of Mythology. Then, people were talking about having to upgrade to 256 MB RAM and actually get a dedicated graphics card. I was into PC gaming around 2002 and 2003, then my interest kind of dropped off a bit after I left High School and real life things like uni and work started to get in the way. I’ve had to take a bit of interest in computers again now that I’ve got a job selling them, and the changes have been phenomenal. My co-workers and I were rubbishing some desktop for having 1 GB of RAM. The second-hand computer I started playing AoK on had a 1 GB Hard Drive.
Waffentraeger
Legionary
(id: Daelon)
posted 30 November 2008 14:07
EDT (US)
30 / 36
Don't base anything off of whether or not your pc can run crysis. A solid game to base PC benchmarking is off of either counter strike source, where there is little or no memory leaks/CPU Cycle errors etc, MTW2 max settings/res, quake4 (weird light dynamics). And probably some other games, crysis is just god awful for benchmarking.
It's a nice pc though! I didn't think Dell made such screaming pc's, are you keeping vista?
Waffentraeger
Legionary
(id: Daelon)
posted 30 November 2008 15:02
EDT (US)
32 / 36
Nice! I am still debating on whether I should go SLI with another 9800GT, or stay with one 9800GT and get a dedicated sound card... These mobo's only get about a 30% performance increase when you SLI a 9 series..
darthvincor
Legionary
posted 01 December 2008 19:20
EDT (US)
33 / 36
"...1000 Watts is pretty much overkill, and 700 Watts is probably the most you'll need for a high end system at the moment. The new system I built is almost identical in spec to the one you just posted and I run it on a 700W PSU no problem. The money you save can be put towards say a RAM upgrade or a better graphics card."
Thanks Aftermath. That's good to know.
Waffentraeger
Legionary
(id: Daelon)
posted 17 December 2008 15:26
EDT (US)
35 / 36
A 260?? Nice! I was planning on getting a 280, but I don't think i'll have enough by the release of ETW.. It sucks getting paid once a month.