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[Elkarlo]

Nothing, i DID however upgraded my System in January

Amd FX6100 Hex Core with a XFX AMD HD 6870 2GB i took over from old System.
16GB Ram for the System,
Dual HDD one for the System and one for Games to be fast.

Edited by Elkarlo, 29 June 2012 - 08:50 AM.

[BIackice]

I am going to wait and see how the game runs. But I would love an SSD and a second video card.

[Jakebob]

been planning on getting a new video card at some point anyway, but going to wait till August 7th to see how my current one does first. (Radeon HD 5450)

[bLitzLRC]

Preparing my system with lots of fruits and vegitables along with pepto bismal.

[PoPuP]

upgrading video from my older dual HD4870's to a single 4G GDDR GTX 680

[CSG Gunslinger]

scrounging parts (ram, cpu), installing win7 x64 and saving my pennies to upgrade from video card.

[Comguard]

I go with an Athlon x2 240 and a Radeon 5750 and 4GB of Ram.

Think about upgrading the processor to a Phenom II X4 and replace the Graphics with a 7770 or 7850. But the situation is too tempting as to building a new system right away.

And SSD - is nice. Can recommend it to everyone - it's not just for gamers! Everyday-work profits from the increased speeds of a SSD, too. All the tiny breaks Windows takes (Opening browser, opening Office, opening this programm, something else happens) - gone. A SSD gives Users an improved responsitivity of their system they can't achieve with any other hardware upgrade.

[Nairdowell]

Brand new desktop - everythings here except for the comp itself (and it arrives next Thursday!)

3rd Gen Intel® Core™ i7-3770K processor (4 Core/8 Thread)
Features an 8MB L3 cache and 3.5GHz processor speed with Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz.
16GB DDR3 SDRAM
NVIDIA GTX 560 graphics
With 2GB dedicated video memory

Asus 27" Widescreen Flat-Panel LED HD Monitor, 1920 x 1080 maximum resolution, 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio, Ultrafast 2 ms response time

New speakers with subwoofer, and a desk to sit it on.... My old Logictech Extreme3DPro should be good to go....

[Wraeththix Constantine]

I have to flush my coolant and probably clean my fan screens.

The coolant flush seems appropriate. I will not have a cool truck to do it though.

[silentD11]

I'd actually say SSDs are more important for general PC use than gaming. The general speed in booting, opening things, file transfers, is all HUGE for gaming.... the game loads a little faster and then your the first person into a map sitting their with your thumbs up your *** waiting for everyone else to join.

I'd advise everybody use SSDs, but they aren't really a gaming upgrade.

[Fullmetal691]

Going from an i7-2760QM, 16GB of ram, and an intel HD 3000 with nVidia Quadro 2000M to an i7-3720QM, 16GB of ram and an intel 4000 with nVidia Quadro K2000M. oh. not to mention the 1920x1080 display.

[Pendraco]

My older Dual-Core system with 4 gb ram just wasn't going to cut it.

Recently purchased a new computer

i5-2320 processor
8GB DDR3 memory
NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 graphics

I think this just exceeds they're recommended system requirements. Now if only the founders packs will be on sale until next payday I'll be set!

[Crescent Fresh]

Recently upgraded my machine to run 2 GTX 570's in SLI (with 2.5GB of VRAM) on three monitors with nVidia Surround.

Crytek Engine 3 supports nVidia surround right?

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I still need to get a good joystick, so I'm thinking i'll go total badass with
Flight System G940


Also thinking about getting the TrackIR 5 if the devs add support for it. Will be pretty sweet to disable the HUD and use the cockpit for info.

Edited by Crescent Fresh, 29 June 2012 - 09:36 AM.

[Striker1980]

silentD11, on 29 June 2012 - 09:27 AM, said:

I'd actually say SSDs are more important for general PC use than gaming. The general speed in booting, opening things, file transfers, is all HUGE for gaming.... the game loads a little faster and then your the first person into a map sitting their with your thumbs up your *** waiting for everyone else to join.

I'd advise everybody use SSDs, but they aren't really a gaming upgrade.

I'd agree, I had a reasonably speedy install of Vista (minimal rubbish on drive) and it still took a minute or so to get in. Then another minute or so to get into a 'usable' state.

When I first installed Win 7 with an SSD it went down to 10 secs to boot up.

I'd still say it's 15 secs to password screen and from there 30 secs to ready to game SSDs are really a game changer in terms of start up (and general application running).

I use a traditional drive to store saved files etc and you really notice when you go from SSD to old fashioned Drive.

Edited by Striker1980, 29 June 2012 - 09:37 AM.

[Vilekon]

Got a new rig a couple months ago.

i5 - 3570k
16GB DDR3
ATI 7970
SSD - Oh do I ever love the boot-up times on this thing. Never going back to a HDD.

[Pax Noctis]

I may underclock (well, technically "overclock less") because I suspect my 2 video cards will be putting out a lot of heat and it's summer here so I don't want the damn computer shutting down because something is overheating.

Otherwise that's about it. I'm already maxed out on RAM, with an SSD and a RAID0 array for backup storage and installations.

Edited by Pax Noctis, 29 June 2012 - 09:38 AM.

[Max Power]

I'm going to wait and see how my current pc does with it. Kinda hoping it struggles cause I'm just one good excuse away from building a new system as my current one is starting to show it's age.

[MC Hammer]

Upgrade? Will this game not run on my Comadore 64?

[Crescent Fresh]

Pax Noctis, on 29 June 2012 - 09:38 AM, said:

...with an SSD and a RAID0 array for backup storage and installations.

Just FYI, RAID 0 doesn't backup your filesystem, it's just meant for better read performance. In fact, if any of the drives fail in that array configuration all data is lost.

[C0LD]

Purchased another 120GB Sata rev 3 SSD for just MWO I was already way above spec.

Now if I only had a beta key....

Crescent Fresh, on 29 June 2012 - 09:43 AM, said:

Just FYI, RAID 0 doesn't backup your filesystem, it's just meant for better read performance. In fact, if any of the drives fail in that array configuration all data is lost.

Actually it's both for read and write performance depending on how good your controller is this may be significant. You're right though, raid 0 is not redundant which makes it a RAID misnomer.