So, Nehalem is OK?

[Flyby]

Originally Posted by alert

More gigahertz is going to be a necessity? How much "more", even the best today CPU cant go over 4GHz too much and game that wont run decently on most mid-range machines with vital features on, would be marketing disaster.
Future lies in multicore CPU, that's sure, but SoW develpment was started in sometimes in 2005 and is hard to elieve that Oleg targeted "recomended specs" at CoreI7 Extreme OC to >4Ghz..

Shall I say "as many ghz as you can get"? If, as you imply, Oleg did not target the corei7 at >4ghz I still feel that to run the sim smoothly (with many features turned on) will/may require at least one dedicated core at about 3.6ghz. That's just me thinking out loud. I don't think SOW will be GPU-limited so much. But with all the stuff going on in SoW_world besides flying, I still look at ghz. If we have to turn settings down, well that's to be expected with Oleg's work. But I think in the end we will all try to max everything out, then scale back as little as we can and still affect smooth game play. Sure poor performance with vital features turned on might be a real marketing disaster, but I think most people will want to turn on as many "optional" features as they can. I guess that's the basis of my viewpoint.