As far as my own predictions come, I'm quite sure that multicore processors will be utilized. I think that was also stated by a dev some time ago. So a Quad core processor(which is kinda becoming the norm) is a good place to start IMO, since that's the route the gaming industry in general is taking nowadays. It will most probably not be able to utilize hyper threading(higher end i7's), no games are yet and there's only a small handful of games out there that can utilize even four cores still. Threading a game engine is no trivial feat of software engineering.
I have almost the same rig as you Genbrian, but a 5870 1gb and 8gb ram. If I can't max(or atleast close to max) CoD:IL-2, I'd be very surprised.
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