pc test

[Coen020]

yes, metro 2033 is indeed a beautiful game, thus a nightmare for pc's luckily i could run it maxed out. perhaps you should try A.R.M.A 2 aswell, i believe it has a demo aswell.

[Ploughman]

ARMA 2 is the only thing that gives me hope. I've a Q6600, GT9800 and 4gb of RAM on Vista32 and ARMA 2 runs like a beautifully rendered dream.

Originally Posted by Coen020

yes, metro 2033 is indeed a beautiful game, thus a nightmare for pc's luckily i could run it maxed out. perhaps you should try A.R.M.A 2 aswell, i believe it has a demo aswell.

ARMA 2 is a good suggestion. It's a game that is both CPU and GPU intensive and will give you a pretty good idea. . . but that's all it will give us since nobody here (save Oleg and Luthier) have the game.

The best thing for the OP to do is wait for the game to come out! Don't cash in your old system, don't buy a new system, just wait and see!

The OP or anyone could build a new system right now, a kick-ass system that will run SOW maxed out, but you'd feel pretty foolish if Intel/AMD/Nvidia/ATI decided to have a price war or some sort of big sale and you spend more money than you needed to.

PC components go down in price the longer you wait. A month and a half might make a hundred, or three hundred dollar difference, or maybe something might get released that has even better performance at a reasonable price.

Basically what I'm advocating is try benchmarking your patience instead of clicking "Buy Now" on something that might be a rash decision.

[Sauf]

Yep Spec Jock I do realise that, wan't planning on buying anything atm, its early on a sat morning here and lacking a friday update to peruse through i thought id just run the demo to give myself a rough idea of how it will perform for want of anything else to do. Will definatley give ARMA 2 a go aswell.

ps, still downloading

[blampars]

Metro 2033, Mafia 2, dirt 2 would all be good demos to test your system. X3 benchmark demo is pretty hardcore benchmark. I still use that to test systems. Mafia 2 demo has a nice benchmarking sequence in it too so you can see what kind of performance you get.

Metro is a really great game. If your PC can handle it you might consider purchasing it.

I just noticed you said something about running minimized. Don't benchmark in windowed mode, you'll not get an accurate benchmark compared to full screen benchmarks.