AMEN to that brother!
Battlefield 3 announced
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Oh, I can completely understand that from a PC Gamer's perspective. Though it seemed like maybe he was a console gamer too from his statement of being ready to pick it up for the XB360. Anyways, I wont get into the effective additional taxes/charges PC and Console gamers pay in order to play or which one costs more overall for fear of taking this thread way off topic.
If more games were as polished as BF3 looks to be, then PC gaming would greatly benefit.
If more games were as polished as BF3 looks to be, then PC gaming would greatly benefit.
Specs?
2600k @ 4.4ghz with a Hyper 212+ cooler, MX-4 Thermal compound
Haf X Case
Asrock Z68 Extreme 4 Gen 3 Mobo
8GB CL9 1600 Corsair Veng RAM
Zotac 580GTX AMP
128GB Crucial M4 SSD
OCZ ZX 850w Gold Plus PSU
All for around $1320 incl tax (various deals, variousp places). At that price, I wasn't going to wait.
Very nice! Yeah I just built two machines for friends in the last two months and I was surprised how much you can get quite inexpensively these days. Both machines were around $1000 and made very few compromises...
I'm impressed that you got a GTX 580 and SSD into that price point though. Must be somewhat less sales taxe where you are than here (12%) to have made that work
lol what's regularlyI'll donate you a copy of BF3 is you'll play it regularly
j/k
http://planetbattlefield.gamespy.com/fullstory.php?id=165433
Open beta date announced! It'll be running from September 29th through October 10th.
Those who pre-ordered via Origin or own MoH, will receive 48 hour early access. The rest of us will have it in our hands on the 29th. It's completely open, for all platforms. There will be an option in Origin to download the beta when it's released!
Open beta date announced! It'll be running from September 29th through October 10th.
Those who pre-ordered via Origin or own MoH, will receive 48 hour early access. The rest of us will have it in our hands on the 29th. It's completely open, for all platforms. There will be an option in Origin to download the beta when it's released!
Also official requirements now from here:
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
OS: WINDOWS VISTA (SERVICE PACK 2) 32-BIT
PROCESSOR: 2 GHZ DUAL CORE (CORE 2 DUO 2.4 GHZ OR ALTHON X2 2.7 GHZ)
MEMORY: 2 GB
HARD DRIVE: 20 GB
GRAPHICS CARD (AMD): DIRECTX 10.1 COMPATIBLE WITH 512 MB RAM (ATI RADEON 3000, 4000, 5000 OR 6000 SERIES, WITH ATI RADEON 3870 OR HIGHER PERFORMANCE)
GRAPHICS CARD (NVIDIA): DIRECTX 10.0 COMPATIBLE WITH 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA GEFORCE 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 OR 500 SERIES WITH NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GT OR HIGHER PERFORMANCE)
SOUND CARD: DIRECTX COMPATIBLE
KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
DVD ROM DRIVE
RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
OS: WINDOWS 7 64-BIT
PROCESSOR: QUAD-CORE CPU
MEMORY: 4 GB
HARD DRIVE: 20 GB
GRAPHICS CARD: DIRECTX 11 COMPATIBLE WITH 1024 MB RAM (NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 OR ATI RADEON 6950)
SOUND CARD: DIRECTX COMPATIBLE
KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
DVD ROM DRIVE
Not sure why you need a DVDROM if you get it online though...
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
OS: WINDOWS VISTA (SERVICE PACK 2) 32-BIT
PROCESSOR: 2 GHZ DUAL CORE (CORE 2 DUO 2.4 GHZ OR ALTHON X2 2.7 GHZ)
MEMORY: 2 GB
HARD DRIVE: 20 GB
GRAPHICS CARD (AMD): DIRECTX 10.1 COMPATIBLE WITH 512 MB RAM (ATI RADEON 3000, 4000, 5000 OR 6000 SERIES, WITH ATI RADEON 3870 OR HIGHER PERFORMANCE)
GRAPHICS CARD (NVIDIA): DIRECTX 10.0 COMPATIBLE WITH 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA GEFORCE 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 OR 500 SERIES WITH NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GT OR HIGHER PERFORMANCE)
SOUND CARD: DIRECTX COMPATIBLE
KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
DVD ROM DRIVE
RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
OS: WINDOWS 7 64-BIT
PROCESSOR: QUAD-CORE CPU
MEMORY: 4 GB
HARD DRIVE: 20 GB
GRAPHICS CARD: DIRECTX 11 COMPATIBLE WITH 1024 MB RAM (NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 OR ATI RADEON 6950)
SOUND CARD: DIRECTX COMPATIBLE
KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
DVD ROM DRIVE
Not sure why you need a DVDROM if you get it online though...
Do they still sell sound cards these days? I haven't heard anything about them in years!
They've got to be the best described specs I've seen in a long time. Very easy to understand exactly what you're gonna need.
Interesting that 3870 / 8800GT level performance is required as a minimum though. I wonder how the lowest detail levels will compare with the console versions.
Interesting that 3870 / 8800GT level performance is required as a minimum though. I wonder how the lowest detail levels will compare with the console versions.
do games still support that Seriously though, would I even be able to use it on a spdif to home theatre setup configuration? Don't you need special PC speakers connected via seperate analogue cables?
I could be talking rubbish there btw.
The best option these days is to do HDMI to a receiver. Second best is a relatively cheap sound card with decent DACs + headphones or speakers. There's really no need for hardware audio DSPs these days... software is easily fast enough and much more flexible.
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Of course. I went onboard for about ten minutes with my new build, before buying an Xfi Titanium. Being an self-proclaimed "audiophile," onboard wasn't cutting it, and it only got worse the louder you turned up the volume. The quality in audio became noticeably worse. Albeit, they're not what I'd classify as imperative for most users, but I like nice, crisp audio.
Sorry to derail the topic to sound cards but yeah the quality is night and day. I used to have a gigaworks s750 7.1 hooked up to the PC but now its doing audio duty on the PS3 as my home theater speakers. I just need an HDMI receiver (Denon here I come) and that will then allow me to get the 2.1 setup to a 7.1 setup like it was but I will probably stick with 5.1 for space purposes. I wish I still had them hooked up to the PC though because the sound was amazing especially in games like Crysis and Battlefield and so on.
