New Rig for SOW:BofB What should i get

[klem]

Originally Posted by DoolittleRaider

[As an aside, to shed some light on my personal perspective, I'm on the far side of 67...]

So, I'm a mere whippersnapper at 63...

......I wonder why Oleg/1C can't now provide some very specific information on minimum necessary and maximum usable/desirable specs. Surely by this point they know how their engine will, or will not, use multiple Core technology. Will dual core be a minimum for effective BOB performance, even if not 'required' ? Will quad-core be the 'main' approach??? Will Six-core, up to 12 thread be a total waste in Oleg's opinion? Will RAM of 6GB, let's say, be the max that Oleg can see being usable for BOB on release?
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I can see why early in development, or even a couple of years ago, they would have been reluctant to commit to any 'recommended' specs....but now...Why not?
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I couldn't agree more. Oleg must have some idea of what will be needed and if he doesn't he's leaving things a bit late for a near future release. A guide should be possible for decent framerate expectations and settings, even if it's only what he has been developing on, and an equipment estimate for high or max settings at reasonable framerates should be possible and helpful to people like me with a budget limit which sets boundaries anyway (I accept that I may not be able to afford a max settings rig).

My situation is one of a limited budget burning a hole in my pocket which will get eaten by less important domestic issues (IMHO ) if I don't use it. Someone mentioned starving children. I have two in their mid-late twenties and they are still starving (apparently)

I could wait for Sandy Bridge but I don't doubt I couldn't afford it and I don't believe that it will knock the i7 970+ CPUs down to the current 950 price level I can afford. They will stay high for some time. Also the GPU landscape is fairly well established for the near future with ATI 5970s, and probably 6970s, and NVidia 580s being outside my budget. So I may as well go now. I have been offered an i7 950, 6Gb, SSD, 4.2GHz overclock bundle by Scan (overclock is under guarantee) which should futureproof me for a while. I am only now trying to decide on the GPU which will probably be a 5870 if SoW hasn't been written for Tesselation etc. Why buy something I don't need? I run a Flight simming rig (IL-2, SoW, FSX). And I don't need the 6000s 3D. My current choice is between cheaper but slower 6870 (optimised for Tesselation) or more costly but faster 5870.

Come on Oleg - give us a clue!

BTW, there is another thread running about system specs
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=16401