Core requirement?
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I know the beta is an unfinished piece of work, but I was curious if it's going to be refined enough to run on a dual core system. Crossing my fingers I don't have to splash out on a whole new rigI will if I have to though!
dual core is so 6 years ago
. buddy its time to upgrade.
Thanks for the advice but it doesn't really answer the question
it 'may' run on a duel core, a user posted the other day that they got it running on a 2 core celeron cpu once he had enabled hyper-threading. to be fair though it was a bit of a weird machine as the rest of it was fairly high spec (R290/16gb ram ect.)
if it does though its not going to be the best experience so as Mobius said, time to upgrade.
one option instead of a new machine would be an incremental upgrade, start off by swapping the board/cpu/ram then move on to the power supply when you have more cash (provided your current psu can handle the new chip). the final piece would be a new graphics card
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I know the beta is an unfinished piece of work, but I was curious if it's going to be refined enough to run on a dual core system. Crossing my fingers I don't have to splash out on a whole new rig
If you have a Intel 775 based mother board you can probably pick up a core 2 quad cpu. I put a Q9550 in mine and o'clocked it 10%. This with my 8gb ram and trusty GTX560 1gb video it runs perfectly. Usually 40fps in space and 30fps in a station. This setup also runs X-rebirth no problem and everything else you want to throw at it.
Don't be put off by people telling you to get the latest and greatest. It is NOT needed.
here here. i build computers for people as part of my job and i'm often taking work off other computer shops who just want people to spend as much as possible on a new pc, the funniest one so far was a shop insisting that someone needed to spend £750 on a graphics card just because they did a little work in photoshop! i built the whole pc for less than that.
i sit down with the customer and find out what they are going to use the system for then build it to do the job they want rather than going right for top spec bells and whistles. i'll always add a bit extra power to give it longevity and leave room for upgrades if their needs should change in future but nothing too fancy if they dont need it, total waste of money.
for this game the most its going to need for quite a few years is a 6 core FX and even that would be considered a little overdone.
Actually I do have a 775 mainboard, and I was hoping to squeeze a quad core into it. I'm looking at my options now, but I can certainly afford a new cpu - just wasn't keen on rebuilding the entire system. Thanks for the tips guys
I retired two years ago after to the same thing for 30 years. Good on you for doing the same thing.
Cheers
I retired two years ago after to the same thing for 30 years. Good on you for doing the same thing.
Cheers
selfish reasons - lots of return customers and recommendations galore, for a lot of shops they are too interested in short term gain to bother too much about proper customer service.
