Can you guys check my new system specs for SHIV?

[Snakeeyes]

Ok... I cracked and the wife was fed up with the cursing coming from the office.. I bought a new system tonight.

After Silent Hunter III Grey Wolves Mod crashed to desktop tonight three times the house agreed that I should not wait until November. You should know that with SHIII with GWX a single saved game takes 4 minutes to LOAD!!!!!!! I've been known to have a quick shower as I load a game. Pathetic I know. NO LONGER!

Here are my new specs. Please know that my family is NOT wealthy but I was able to get it for $1051.00

I'll upgrade to 2 GIG memory by Christmas.

Will SHIV run well?

Let's look at what I currently have and then what is coming...

BEFORE:
Pentium 2.8 (after I upgraded from a 2.2 a year and a half ago)
Nvidia 7800GS AGP 256 Video RAM
1 Gig system RAM


AFTER:
*BASE_PRICE: [+905]
CAS: ($20 off Mail-in Rebate) X-Cruiser Mid-Tower 420W Case W/ WINDOW,
MultiMeter Display & Control (Blue Color)
CASUPGRADE: 12in COLD CATHODE NEON LIGHT [+10] (BLUE COLOR)
CS_FAN: Extra Case Cooling Fan [+3] (2 x Fans [+3])
CPU: (Sckt775)Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo E6600 CPU @ 2.4GHz 1066FSB 2x2MB L2 Cache
EM64T [+64]
CD: (Special Price) 18X DVD+/-R/+/-RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (SILVER COLOR
[+9])
FAN: INTEL LGA775 CERTIFIED CPU FAN & HEATSINK [-42]
HDD: Single Hard Drive (160GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD [-11])
MOTHERBOARD: (Quad-Core Supports) Asus P5N-E nForce 650i SLI Chipset LGA775
FSB1333 DDR2 Mainboard
MEMORY: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)1GB (1x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Memory (Corsair Value
Select or Major Brand)
NETWORK: ONBOARD 10/100 NETWORK CARD
OS: Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Home Edition w/ Service Pack 2 [-15]

I'M NOT WILLING TO GO WITH VISTA YET! No way!

POWERSUPPLY: 500 Watts Power Supplies [+49] (**Recommended** NZXT PF-500 500Watt
Power Supply)

I can always upgrade power later.

SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO

(I'll upgrade later... Volcano's sounds will make up for not having audigy yet)

TEMP: THERMAL TEMPERATURE LCD DISPLAY WITH 3X FAN CONTROLLER [+12] (SILVER
COLOR)
USB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports

VIDEO: NEW!!! NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT 512MB 16X PCI Express [+123] (Major Brand
Powered by NVIDIA)
WNC: Netgear WG311T Super G 108Mbps PCI Adapter [+40]

[tater]

I just upgraded to a core2dua machine.

Before that, I played SH4 with a AMD 2600+, 1 gig ram, and radeon 9800 pro, and I was suprised how well it played. Slow to load games, and a little choppy in TC. But I played with many of the settings set to at least medium at 1024.

Your "before" machine looks better than my old one, FWIW.

Your new machine will rock, it's very similar to the one I use now.

tater

[GT182]

Snakeeyes, looks to be a very good machine. :up: Better than mine and I can play SHIII and 4 with no problems. I'm still running a p4 3.2E CPU with 2 gigs of DDR RAM and an XFX 6800XT 256mb 256bit card. Yours will even run FSX with very good framrates and no problems.

[kiwi_2005]

First thing i looked for was System Ram and Video card.

With the upgrades Yes SH4 will run fine! In fact it will run fine with everything turned up and resolution of 1280x1024 or probably higher. :D

[hooverfan]

So I guess saving for my Athlon 64 X2 4800+, 2GB DDR2-800 Ram, NFORCE4M-A MB, Geforce 8800GTS is not necissary? It'll be overkill for SHIV?

[orangenee]

So I guess saving for my Athlon 64 X2 4800+, 2GB DDR2-800 Ram, NFORCE4M-A MB, Geforce 8800GTS is not necissary? It'll be overkill for SHIV?

Overkills a good thing plus it'll last you a good couple of years.

[stabiz]

So I guess saving for my Athlon 64 X2 4800+, 2GB DDR2-800 Ram, NFORCE4M-A MB, Geforce 8800GTS is not necissary? It'll be overkill for SHIV?

No, thats not overkill. With AA and AF enabled at high resolutions even that system will struggle at times.

I run the game at max settings in 1280x1024 with 8x AA and experiences pretty decent frames in heavy combat, but still low figures in port.

8800 GTS
2GB ram
E6600

[clayp]

This is close to overkill.....:D

[Swat]

It will run just fine.I have something similar - Core2Duo E6600,2Gigs of RAM and x1900XT and I go in 1280x1024,everything maxed except of volumetric fog + 6xFSAA - you will be satisfied,enjoy your new rig:up:

[AVGWarhawk]

I run mine on a nintendo game cube;) . No really, I bumped by rig up to 2 gigs and it made a world of difference. AMD 3200+ and ATI 1300 512mb card. Decent frames that seemed to have gotten better with 1.3. You'll be good with what you purchased.:up:

[switch.dota]

The RAM is seriously lacking. In order of desirability (and performance), from best to worst:

- 2 x 1GB
- 1 x 2GB
- 2 x 512MB
- 1 x 1GB

As you can see, you single 1GB module choice is the worst possible as far as RAM is concerned. You should really try to upgrade even more in that area. I for one would shave quite a few $$s off of pointless gadgets such as tiny LCDs and lights in the case. Getting neons instead of RAM is like getting a spoiler for a bulldozer.

[Snakeeyes]

So I guess saving for my Athlon 64 X2 4800+, 2GB DDR2-800 Ram, NFORCE4M-A MB, Geforce 8800GTS is not necissary? It'll be overkill for SHIV?
No, thats not overkill. With AA and AF enabled at high resolutions even that system will struggle at times.

I run the game at max settings in 1280x1024 with 8x AA and experiences pretty decent frames in heavy combat, but still low figures in port.


2GB ram
E6600

Hey guys. Made a few changes and got the 8800 GTS along with updating my RAM to 2 GIG in 2x 1 Gig pieces. All I can do now is wait. My gaming 'puta pretty much died on me last week and with it my SHIII Grey Wolves campaign I was in. ****. Well, at least I got the campaign off on the flash drive before everything went to hell. I'm going to kick off SHIV with all the patches for the first time probably early next month. This wait is killing me.

[PepsiCan]

Ok, the 7950 is one of nVidia's best cards to date. But it will not do DirectX 10, only 9.0c. Not a big thing as neither SH4 nor Windows XP will support Dx10 anyways.

But if you plan to buy other new games as well as upgrade to Vista in the near future, you'll want a Dx10 compatible videocard (there's a demo on subsim for pt-boats that show cases the difference between 9.0c and 10. You'll want 10 after seeing that). Look at the new ATI card or a nVidia 8800GTS for a good Dx10 card that will not gobble up all your cash like an 8800GTX or Ultra.

Just my 2cts