Prices on those range from €470,- to €617,- over here. :o

You can buy an average desktop or laptop for 600. :nope:

And all of the models available are 2GB. :hmmm:

Yes agreed, over here its around £550 pounds last time i checked, and they had none in stock, like i mentioned in another post going for the 5870, around £330 pounds, perhaps not sure if vapor x series attatched 2gb have to check up more as briefly viewed,as not planning to purchase until march and price drop. But Sir Arclight its crazy i know, the things we do to have a game run smooth near max settings yet at half cards capabilities, and nice temps in case. Its a big leap in card for me, but i see sh5 being a good one. If i hadnt sold my car recently i would not be spending this amount.:)

5870 should come with 1GB; 5970 is a dual-gpu card iirc, so it comes with twice the memory (note however it still has 1GB effectively, that's just how SLI/CrossFire works).

Prices are retarded at the moment. ATI was having some yield problems with these chips (quite common issue after moving to new manufacturing process), and the enthusiasts are snapping them up where available. Prices should drop once availability gets sorted. :-?

Still not too sure about driver support though. :hmmm:

Good day, Sir Arclight, read into alot about dx11 last night, one does hope sh5 has this offering, some of the images are astounding, i have a feeling this just might, as not released until march, still going for the 5870, not paying the extra 50pounds for the vapor x model though as no need to oc this card at all and have plenty cooling in my rig. as for the 5970 check again i think its just a single 2gb not 2 way. may have to remove one of my s flex 1200 rpm side case fans to squeeze it in. What you going for in march ?or you keeping present card? :)

Howdy. :salute:

5970 is dual-gpu. :yep:

Single 2GB would be ridiculous imho; most people still have 512MB or less. Doubt any game out there would know what to do with it. :hmmm:



I'm sticking with this card untill it's warranty runs out, if I can. Not that it matters: took it apart 2 or 3 times to clean it and replace the thermal compound for something better. Darn thing just cost me enough to make me wanna stick with it as long as possible. Oh, and it still does a fine job, not entirely unimportant. :88)

And there's still the option to OC, now that you mention it. :hmmm: :D

DX11 offers more than eyecandy. I think the most important thing is further optimization for multi-core CPUs. Having a quad might finally give some more payoff. ;)


* :rotfl2:
Just looked it up; my warranty expires March 3rd. :lol:
Maybe a DX11 Nvidia if the price is right. :hmmm:
If the card starts to struggle. :yep:

try alot more payoff. Harmonious conjunction lol :up:

I just thought of a great way to blow the dust out of my computer case .
http://huskynorth.biz/2/components/c...2f679519fb.jpg
It works a treat .

I bet it does! :rotfl2:
I'm glad DX11 is being as well received as it is. With games on the way, and buying an OS with DX11 early next year, I think it would be "wise" to get the hardware as well. :hmmm:

That'll be my excuse for getting it, anyway. :88) :lol:

Just how official are these specs? I'm thinking of buying a new machine while a lot of retailers have got sales on, but I'd hate to buy something based on this information only to find out the game is much more demanding in reality. :hmmm:

Don't forget, mods usually make a game much more demanding too. :hmmm:

well as the thread title says, maerean_m is one of the sh5 devs so who should know better than him?

that said, things could always change by the time the game actually gets released.

Running a 2.7 dual core with 2GB of RAM at the moment, and a 256MB Radeon X550 that doesn't even cope with SH3 properly.

I'm looking to put together a system on PC Specialist with a 2.6GHz quad, 4GB of RAM, and a 1GB card.

I shall prevail. :arrgh!:

Great my computer Can run this game although not at highest graphics but close to it

Running on a laptop now, and I'm going to have to keep going on a laptop for personal reasons.

Laptop I'm looking at is a ASUS G50VT:

2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo
2mb Cache
4GB DDR2 RAM
NVIDIA 9800 GS 512MB Card
Vista Home Premium

Shouldn't have a problem, but then I wonder if I can run it decently on my current system:

ACER Aspire 4520

AMD Athlon 64x2 @ 1.8 Ghz
512kb Cache
NVIDIA GEFORCE 7000
4GB of RAM
Vista Home Premium

I don't need the game turned all the way up, I just want to be able to play it at a decent framerate.

Can I?

You mean GeForce 7000M? No, that's not going to get it running smooth... or at all, for that matter. :)

* even 9800M might be a bit light for SH5. :hmmm: