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Originally Posted by Drtyrm
That was pretty much my point. There is no possible way that Xregg's screenies prove anything about the mass appeal/success VG will experience. Only beacuse his performance is so far above average as to be statistically insignificant.

P.S. And obviously I wish I had $4600 to spend on new computer!

A machine as follows:

3.2ghz dual core or one of the core duos
2 gigs of ram
xfi card (gets you 5fps)
fast HD (raptor, etc)
ati x1950xt 512meg
dd2-800 RAM / fast FSB

isn't that expensive and does quite well. You could run 1920x1200 in balanced or better mode and get 30 fps in most place except for some cities or areas where there are lots of players. You don't have to have a quad core duo with 4 gigs of ram and an 8800. If you do the game will run even faster, but the above system runs the game great at high rez.

I run a machine about 8 months old:

2 3.8ghz xeons
8 gigs ram
xfi card
x1950xt
ddr2-400

The clock speed of the xeons doesn't help much -- a core duo with better cache and memory management is actually better -- we are not that cpu bound. The 8 gigs is a waste (I was hoping for a 64bit client sooner as opposed to later, but priorities changed -- so 4 gigs would be more than enough). And the ram is semi-slow but all I could get at the time with a xeon motherboard. I run an average of 30fps at 1920x1200.

I'm not saying performance isn't an issue, but I'm also saying you don't have to buy an uber machine to get good graphics and performance either.

I like GamePC - Custom Built Computers -- they have the hot hardware and do a good job on setup and have decent prices. The cheapest way to build a machine if you want to do the work is to buy all the components via egghead or something, but I prefer to spend a bit more and go through gamepc.com -- plus they burn in your machine. Most people I know who have bought all the components find that some component is bad and has to be replaced and I just don't have the patience for that.

Here's a system that would run VG *very* well (note I set it up with xp64 since that also gets you about a 5% increase in performance even though VG is a 32 bit app having everything else running 64bit seems to really help)
1 x Intel Pentium-D 915 (2.8 GHz) Dual Core Retail - $128.00
1 x Zalman CNPS8000 Cooler for Socket-775 / AM2 - $58.00
1 x Asus P5B Intel P965 Retail - $185.00
2 x Corsair XMS DDR2-800 1 GB TwinX Pack - $436.00
1 x Western Digital Raptor 150GB 10,000 RPM OEM - $338.00
1 x Mitsumi 7-in-1 Beige Memory Reader / Floppy Drive - $35.00
1 x Sony AW-Q170AB Black Dual Layer DVD ± RW / CD-RW OEM - $85.00
1 x Sapphire Radeon X1900 XT PCIe 256MB Retail - $298.00
1 x Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio OEM - $90.00
1 x Lian Li V1200B Plus II Black EATX Full-Tower - $298.00
1 x Silverstone ST75F 750W Power Supply - $198.00
1 x Microsoft Windows XP Professional (64-bit) OEM with Vista Upgrade - $198.00
1 x 1 Year Parts and Labor Standard Warranty Included Free - $0.00
1 x Full GamePC System Assembly (Single CPU System) - $225.00



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