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[Arnie1808]

I just thought I would ask and see if anybody had a similar set-up to what I have and how high do you think I will be able to put the settings?

I have -

Mother Board - EVGA nForce 790i Ultra SLi

CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.00Ghz

Ram - 4gig DDR 3 800.0 MHz

GPU - Nvidia 580 GTX 1536 MBytes of VRam

O/S - Windows 7 SP-1 64-Bit

Monitor - Dell 2007FP 1600X1200


In the Dev Update they have said that the older Quad Core CPU's handle the game well but I don't know how mine will compare with the Core i3-2500 they advise you to have plus I only have half the RAM they advise you to have too.

So as I have said above what do you think I can run it at High? Medium? Low?
I know I won't be able to go ultra lol but it would be nice to be able to play with high settings

[Stray Ion]

Your GPU should handle medium just fine. Since you used Vram I take it it is an onboard GPU. You might need more Ram as the minimum is 4 gigs and if it is onboard GPU you only have 2.5gig available. Your processor is fine.

[Lord Oonoopoo]

you should be fine on medium to high settings. a 3.00ghz possessor should be fast enough for MWO and you vid card is quite good.
the only problem i see is your ram. If you can I'd upgrade the ram to 8 gigs of 1600 mhz. 800 mhz is just to slow and with windows 7 eating half of it there isn't much left for MWO.

see you in game

[mrcarlton]

You're fine. But you're on an aging system, your mobo is reaching the end of supported processors so if you're worried about processor you'll want to replace that too. I was running crysis 2 on a worse, but same generation rig, and it ran fine. I in the end i just got a whole new one. In my case the mobo couldn't support DDR3 and my quadcore was a first gen qq6600. It was more convenient to just replace everything rather than keep outdated hardware.

Also note: 800mhz isn't great for DDR3, that's approaching highend DDR2 speeds.

Edited by mrcarlton, 27 June 2012 - 01:45 PM.

[BlackVoid]

Does 800Mhz DDR3 RAM even exist? may be just a typo?

Anyway, about VRAM, it's an onboard DDR5 RAM on GPU, and 64-bit OS will allow to use all 4Gb of RAM.

Unless MWOL has separate 32 and 64 bit executable (which is unlikely) than it will use 2Gb of RAM max even on 64-bit OS. Also unknown factor is multi-core support and optimization.

All this will be moot, if network code sucks. No matter how powerful you PC is, if servers are lagging, game-play will be horrible. If it is solid, than you just drop the resolution or details and off you go.

[Arnie1808]

Ok I have downloaded CPU-Z

and here is what it says -

Edited by Arnie1808, 27 June 2012 - 02:04 PM.

[Arnie1808]

Sorry I think the site restricts pic's so its too small to see

[Bloodshed Romance]

I think you'll be okay, my system i've been told will be med/high
and i'm running 2 1GB cards together.

but i'm with the others, I say get at least 8GB 1333mhz memory... 1600 is ideal..

Edited by Bloodshed Romance, 27 June 2012 - 02:18 PM.

[DeKamme]

I concur on the RAM upgrade, it's dirt cheap anyway. Any speed of DDR3 will do, the difference between 1333 & 1600 is very small (look at the stickies in Hardware on this forum, I can't explain it more clearly myself).

Gaming is usually way more GPU intensive then it is CPU intensive. CPU tends to be used for non-graphics calculations like AI, hit % or trajectories, etc. AI will be handled by other peoples' brains.

You could use the same hardware in a new mainboard with an i5 cpu, but I don't think you'll see that much of a leap in performance.

[Barbaric Soul]

I don't think, I know you'll be ok. Your Q9650 has plenty of muscle for todays games. I replaced a Q9650 with my 2600k, and to be honest, I would have been just fine staying with the Q9650 for atleast another generation. My Q9650 would OC to 4 ghz with safe voltage(1.34 volts I think) on a EVGA 750 FTW board. OC your Q9650 to around 4 ghz and run with it atleast until Intel releases Haswell(socket 1150).

Your 1 generation old top of the line video card is just fine for MW:O.

Your RAM is ok, but the Devs do recommened 8 gigs.

OS is fine.

Your monitor, OMFG, GET A WIDE SCREEN. I recommend looking into atleast a 24 inch 1920*1200 resolution monitor. You have the hardware to run a monitor like that, do it. Your wasting the money you spent on your system without a higher resolution monitor IMHO.

Arnie1808, on 27 June 2012 - 01:15 PM, said:

I know I won't be able to go ultra lol but it would be nice to be able to play with high settings

I'd be willing to bet you will be able to do ultra.

Edited by Barbaric Soul, 27 June 2012 - 03:21 PM.

[Oderint dum Metuant]

With a GTX 580, you will most definitely be able to do ultra.
The only upgrade i would consider to that is getting yourself up to 8GB of RAM.

[Arnie1808]

Ok this should help show you the pic above better -









The CPU is overclocked by the way its at 3.6Ghz at the mo

[Arnie1808]

Barbaric Soul, on 27 June 2012 - 03:18 PM, said:

I don't think, I know you'll be ok. Your Q9650 has plenty of muscle for todays games. I replaced a Q9650 with my 2600k, and to be honest, I would have been just fine staying with the Q9650 for atleast another generation. My Q9650 would OC to 4 ghz with safe voltage(1.34 volts I think) on a EVGA 750 FTW board. OC your Q9650 to around 4 ghz and run with it atleast until Intel releases Haswell(socket 1150).

Your 1 generation old top of the line video card is just fine for MW:O.

Your RAM is ok, but the Devs do recommened 8 gigs.

OS is fine.

Your monitor, OMFG, GET A WIDE SCREEN. I recommend looking into atleast a 24 inch 1920*1200 resolution monitor. You have the hardware to run a monitor like that, do it. Your wasting the money you spent on your system without a higher resolution monitor IMHO.




I'd be willing to bet you will be able to do ultra.

I am currently saving for a new monitor and it will be a 24" that can do 1920x1200

Just so I know when will the new set of CPU's come out the Haswell one's?

[Barbaric Soul]

Mar-June of 2013

[SNOWHOUND]

gaming is primarily based on the GPU not the CPU, normally when gaming the CPU (apart from loading the game / a map) is running at most about 25% load to near idle depending on what you are doing.

I wouldnt worry about it if i were you.

With your current setup i would think you could run a mixture of med - high settings.

Get some more ram if you want but it wont really improve performance a lot - maybe a few seconds off loading screens.

In my opinion it would be a waste of £20 - 30 as gaming heavily realies upon the GPU and that would be the first thing to upgrade if you cannot run the game. Hence i wouldnt really bother with upgrading anything else but the GPU should you need (but i highly doubt that you need to buy anything so leave the comp as it is, it will run the game to a sufficient level with a 580 in it i would bet my desktop on it).

Edit: ive just notcied that you have 800MHz ram? thats really slow as the standard clk for DDR3 ram is about 1600MHz. Are you sure you dont have DDR2 ram? as a core2 is last major revision of intel CPUs and at the time DDR2 was the ram that was readily available. (i think DDR3 may have still been in development / just coming out at the time your core2 was released in 2007/8-ish to consumers).

Edited by SNOWHOUND, 29 June 2012 - 05:56 AM.

[Arnie1808]

As you can see in the CPU-z pic on the memory tab it says -



Now that says the ram is running at 800Mhz yet the ram I have is this -

Gskill DDR3 2gb pc10666 1333 nq series
http://shoppingshopp...p-14997-62.aspx

and the mother board is this -



EVGA NF790i SLI ultra DDR3 LGA775
http://www.newegg.co...N82E16813188025

The system is overclocked to 3.6Ghz from when I bought it and my motherboard has a max ram amount of 8gig
But I don't know what ram to buy (do I just add another 2 sticks of 2gig or buy 2 sticks of 4gig) plus will it affect the overclock?

Edited by Arnie1808, 29 June 2012 - 01:06 PM.

[Randall Flagg]

You will be able to play on high if not max it out.

(Anyone who says otherwise is probably used to AMD drivers. LOL)

[Arnie1808]

Well fingers crossed

[Kazumi]

Your memory is 1600mhz. Forget the whole math and reasoning why they do it like that. But your memory is DDR3 1600. So you should only consider buying another 4GB stick if you've got "1" 4GB stick already. I highly doubt the game will use 4GB of system RAM. As even Battlefield 3 on full ultra @ 1080 does not even use 3GB of system ram.

[grimzod]

Arnie1808, on 27 June 2012 - 01:15 PM, said:

I just thought I would ask and see if anybody had a similar set-up to what I have and how high do you think I will be able to put the settings?

I have -

Mother Board - EVGA nForce 790i Ultra SLi

CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.00Ghz

Ram - 4gig DDR 3 800.0 MHz

GPU - Nvidia 580 GTX 1536 MBytes of VRam

O/S - Windows 7 SP-1 64-Bit

Monitor - Dell 2007FP 1600X1200


In the Dev Update they have said that the older Quad Core CPU's handle the game well but I don't know how mine will compare with the Core i3-2500 they advise you to have plus I only have half the RAM they advise you to have too.

So as I have said above what do you think I can run it at High? Medium? Low?
I know I won't be able to go ultra lol but it would be nice to be able to play with high settings

What do you get on the cryengine 3 sdk as far as fps?