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Originally Posted by 28_Condor
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GPU and RAM. RAM is cheaper and apparently is the most affecting performance in this game...
You did not say what your OS, but it must, without doubt, be the Win7 
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Where did you get the notion that RAM is most affecting performance? Back in the old day higher clocked mem meant alot. Nowadays its neglectable. Or if you were talking about gigs of RAM? the game only uses 2.x gig tops... Most computers have 3 or 4 gig I think. It being a 32 bit application more than 4Gig of ram is overkill.
In my opinion harddrive and cpu are the most common bottlenecks in these types of games. Offcourse you shouldnt use a 6600gt graphics card but a 4870 ati with 1gig should in most cases suffice.
I am planning to do a reinstall of win7 and use my sas 15k rpm drive for windows and il2/dcs A-10C. SSD might be on my wishlist soon but i'll try the 15K drive first. Because il2 not utilizing all memory even if you have win7 64 bit and 12 gigs of mem means it will use the HDD. And we all know that a 7200 HDD is the bottleneck on all systems.
Furthermore this game is not fully optimized for multithreading/multiple cores. sigh... DCS A-10C has this problem as well..
So if you have the option to choose between a dualcore with higher speed or a quad/octa core with lower speed of the same type, then the dualcore is a better investment. offcourse be aware of cpu throttling that exists nowadays. some types throttle higher than others.
edit: For any of you guys using multiple screens, touchscreens, eyefinity etc... What we discovered on the A-10C forums is that 1 GOOD card with multiple connections for monitors is better than 2 graphic cards. people switching back to 1 graphics card got an increase of 20 frames per second in combination with helios and eyefinity setups etc.