New Rig for SOW:BofB What should i get

[DoolittleRaider]

Originally Posted by HFC_Dolphin

OMG, this is mad people's forum
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Third: there are kids dying of starvation. Don't spend thousands of dollars for an extra frame in a game. Even if you donate to UNICEF, it's STILL a wrong luxury to aim for 123 FPS instead of poor 120 FPS...

Possibly there is a language problem...but nevertheless I have to point out that it's my money...If I want to light a cigar with a Hundred dollar bill, it's my choice.....
... I'll judge what "luxury" is 'right' for me, as will others judge for themselves.
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Signed..."Cranky Old Man"

P.S. I'll probably only leave this post up for a day or so, then delete.


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[kendo65]

Originally Posted by szala11

Dude! If you want to run BOB flawlessly you should get at least the 6 core i7980X. Anything weaker will struggle with BOB.It is just a few more bucks! It is said there will be lots of planes flying at the same time in SOW. and more important : drop in another gtx480 if you plan to fly near buildings. But i'd wait for the gtx580. 2 of them.

We really have no way of knowing this at this time. Although SOW will be multi-threaded it is fully possible that 4 cores will be sufficient to do the job. Anything more may be of no benefit - it may even be that clock speed for the individual cores may be more of a factor. We don't know!

Also, I'd be surprised if any current games even use more than 3 cores.

Ditto on the graphics....this is the area where I'd be most cautious. I think there are subtle indications (speculation yes..) that nVidia may be the way to go with SOW.

But Szala, your strategy of going for the absolute best (most expensive) on every level could well not be the best one - in that the extra expenditure over a more modest i7 say could be wasted. We really do need to learn a little more about how the game will respond to more cores versus clock speed, and just how CPU V GPU dependent it will be.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Apparently Intel has high hopes for Sandy Bridge!

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/san...-i7,11464.html

Unless you need to upgrade now, I'ld put off the upgrade.

Cheers!

[Triggaaar]

Another vote for:
Wait

Unless you have to build now, wait until we know more. We don't yet know if BoB needs 6 cores to run at max (it might) - you may for example be better with a 4 core i7 or and AMD cpu, then spending more on the GC - with the amount you're spending, I'd think of going better than the 480, either 580 or 6xxx series, but again you need to wait to see what BoB wants.

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

Apparently Intel has high hopes for Sandy Bridge!

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/san...-i7,11464.html

Unless you need to upgrade now, I'ld put off the upgrade.

Cheers!

"Sandy Bridge represents the largest increase in computing performance in our history"

wow .. you do not normally see Intel saying things like that