Hardware & Technical Your Game System Spec

Jax · Jan 10, 2013

Philip Coutts said:
I think the need to upgrade was one of the things that turned a lot of people away from PC's and onto consoles. Consoles stay the same for 10 years + but in that time PC's have changed hugely.

Oh I don't know, that means PC's are usually more up-to-date hardware wise, and gives me something to do once a year. :smilie:

I5-2500K (running at 3.8)
16gb Ram
GTX 570

The yearly update will be around October so above spec will change by the time E: D comes out.

Bikky · Jan 10, 2013

True, but with Sonybox360 releasing new models every 3 years......

I've only just upgraded my pc after 6, and id did play the likes of Counter strike Source and Global offensive, and X3.

Now it plays them but the likes of Dust 2 on Global offensive i now get 130fps rather than 40, so the new GFX card at the end of the year will see me for 4 years of Elite Dangerous.

nsviper · Jan 10, 2013

Main kit as per signature - in addition:

HP 24" 1920x1200 HDMI Monitor
(but may try running it on my Samsung ES7000 46" TV

)
6TB SATA3 internal storage
4x2TB Raided storage on NAS

Unfortunately i'm on the end of a very long wet bit of string for my ADSL connection - due to distance from the exchange, best I can get is 2.5MB download speed, and no sign of FTTC as yet...

Not sure on controller yet, but I do have a USB Microsoft Sidewinder Freestyle Pro that still works - might dig that out.

Cthulhus · Jan 10, 2013

Greebie · Jan 10, 2013

I've been thinking of upgrading my machine for a while and will probabaly do so in order to get the best results out of E

. Current specs are...

Core2 Quad Q9450
Maximus Extreme mobo
8GB RAM
2x OCZ 120gb Agility 3 SSD in RAID 0
Sapphire HD 3870 X2

Philip Coutts · Jan 10, 2013

NSViper wow you are lucky I stay just outside the centre of Stirling and I struggle to get 2MB because BT made such a pigs ear of laying the cables.

Srefanius · Jan 10, 2013

At the moment:

E8400 @ 3ghz
8800 gt
4 gb RAM

in fall this year something like:

i5 4670
gtx 770
8 gb RAM

Dusty · Jan 10, 2013

Just upgraded my HDD GPU & RAM

CPU: Intel i7 2600k.
GPU: AMD hd 7850 oc.
RAM: 16Gb DDR3 1600MHz
OS: Win7 64Bit SP1.
HDD: 1.5T

Only thing left is that upgrade my gaming life with Elite: dangerous

jimgiraffe · Jan 10, 2013

Pants at the mo still trying to recover from pledge and talk missus round to a nice new system, but I guess a holiday for her would swing it or lie about cost.
"How much was that?"
"Not that much it needed doing anyway"
"It's not for that game is it"
"No, the other one is get very near to failure"
"Oh okay then"
Hmm how much could I spend???

Zangief · Jan 10, 2013

New PC scheduled for early 2014 methinks

Going to start saving now... I want to build an absolute beast... something that will dim the streetlights outside the house....

Memnoch · Jan 10, 2013

Intel i7 975X Stock
Asus P6T6 WS Revolution
12GB Corsair Dominator DDR3
Palit Nvidia GTX 580
Win 7 x64 Pro
HDD: 2x Intel 520 256GB SSD, 1 x 80GB WD HDD
Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty Edition
BenQ XL2420T 24 inch 3D monitor
Tagan BZ Series 1300W modular PSU

Next upgrade is probably going to be Haswell based. Not sure it's worth getting an Ivy Bridge one. I may get a 680 or whatever Nvidia bring out though. PCIe 2 is more than enough, even for a 680. Not sure about what their next offering will be like though.

Fillmore · Jan 10, 2013

Mrs Fillmore has said I can have a new PC for 2014!

Luv Ya Babe!

Abysinth · Jan 10, 2013

I wonder if this thread is all about the wrong question.

I think the right question is what sort of spec should be be aiming at?

It is six years or so since I built a computer for game playing - I sort of lost interest.

My sons and I had a server plus a machine each and when we played together the weakest computer was always powerful enough to run the games we liked.

Each single upgrade I purchased upgraded all the computers so when the top machine got a new processor, the old processor went into the next machine down and so on.

nVidia or ... ?
Intel i5 or i7 (I understand these are better than AMD atm)
motherboard manufacturer?

or am I just opening a can of worms?

CmdrBond · Jan 10, 2013

It's all one big CoW - however I believe there is more in the Intel over AMD than there is in Nvidia vs ATI.

Personally I am looking at

Asus Z77 Sabertooth Motherboard >> Clicky <<
Intel Core i5 3570k unlocked CPU
Corsair Vengeance PC3-12800C9 1600MHz CL9 Low Profile Ram - 8 or 16 gb - 16 is overkill though.

You can get that in kit form, except for an air cooler instead, for about £500

Then there is the GPU. At current prices it is looking to be a GTX 660 Ti - but I would love to put a 680 in there.

I am not to fusses about SLI or Physx - but if they are utilised to any great extent (unlikely) I might change my mind.

Memnoch · Jan 11, 2013

I've had a couple of SLI systems in the past, both separate and integrated cards like the 690. Maybe things are better nowadays but at the time it was very hit and miss whether you saw any benefit from those other cards. You either got nothing, horrible artifacting that made you turn it off or very small gains that made you wish you hadn't bought the second card in the first place. I have long since decided to buy the fastest single card I can comfortably afford and leave it at that.

IWC · Jan 11, 2013

If you wanna buy a computer that will play Elite smoothly, then wait, don't buy it now. Chill ... as we get closer to the release date, adequate specs will be published by FD, you can then go out and get something that gives you a cracking 60fps experience for half the price it costs now.

Hmmm Panni Panni umm, this is me meditating and waiting for the Alpha release.

Abysinth · Jan 11, 2013

IWC said:
If you wanna buy a computer that will play Elite smoothly, then wait, don't buy it now. Chill ... as we get closer to the release date, adequate specs will be published by FD, you can then go out and get something that gives you a cracking 60fps experience for half the price it costs now.

Hmmm Panni Panni umm, this is me meditating and waiting for the Alpha release.

I've just spent an hour comparing motherboards.

I'm not buying now, but I am going to start watching technology...

zmurf · Jan 11, 2013

IWC said:
cracking 60fps experience

Do you people actually see any difference above 50+ fps? I have a hard time seeing any difference at all at 25+ fps. I know that the human brain has a limit of seeing picture updates somewhere around 50fps. But I have always experienced that when it reaches 25fps it "floats".

Brian · Jan 11, 2013

Memnoch said:
I've had a couple of SLI systems in the past, both separate and integrated cards like the 690. Maybe things are better nowadays but at the time it was very hit and miss whether you saw any benefit from those other cards. You either got nothing, horrible artifacting that made you turn it off or very small gains that made you wish you hadn't bought the second card in the first place. I have long since decided to buy the fastest single card I can comfortably afford and leave it at that.

I agree, I have had disappointing experiences with SLI.

I have taken earlier advice and not gone for a Triplehead2go. I have bought a GTX680 which will run my three main monitors, but I'll also run my GTX580 for monitor four. I may have to bung in a second PSU to get this lot all running, but I've got a few decent ones lined up in my ebay watch list!!

This isn't all just for ED, I've been wanting to run a triple monitor set up, and upgrade system performance for a while now...

Brian

Cthulhus · Jan 11, 2013

I think that this game ED will stay on they market for a very long period like for some games like WoW (World of Warcraft) A 2005 game!

So, hope that the design (mesh, textures, details) will be phenomenal at the beginning. All of us will evolve later for a better computer in term of perfs.

now, if you look at WoW, it's so ugly ... Hope that after the game release + 8 years, the general look will still impressive.

The problem with WoW is that the designer make that game available for a large rang of home computer with low graphic cards...

That will be hard to found the good balance between perf / visual that can keep and live for several years.