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DedEye · 09-29-10, 07:15 PM

To some extent it comes down to personal preference.

For example, I used to buy a lot of different makes of motherboards, but recently have been sticking with Asus. I'm sure others have different favourites for a variety of reasons.

If you are fortunate and money is no object, get the latest and the greatest. If you're like me and have a modest budget, get parts that are one "step" below the best. They'll give you 75-90% of the performance at half to 2/3 the price. If money is tight, you'll really have to do your research.

I'm not sure how experienced you are with PC hardware, but it's handy to become proficient at assembling and disassembling general PC architecture components if you aren't already. That way you can buy 1 or 2 upgrades a year for cheap, and never have to worry about your system going obsolete leading to thousands of dollars for a new one. It is not difficult; like lego or tinker toys but with fragile blocks. The manuals that come with motherboards offer a lot of instruction on assembly.

If you are not already familiar with these websites, Anandtech.com and Tom's Hardware are great places to not only read reviews on components (high end and budget), but they also have a lot of very helpful articles on how a lot of this stuff works. There are many more websites out there, but these will get you started anyway.

So while I can't directly answer your question with specific hardware recommendations, I can tell you from my experience running it on 2 fairly decent systems (i5 750 with 2x ati5870, and a core 2 duo with geforce 8800GTX, both with 4gigabytes of fast ddr3 RAM), you'll want to build the fastest system you can to run Silent Hunter 5 in all of its glory. Having said this, it looks great and is entirely playable with lower settings if you can't afford to build a monster machine.

Hope this helps

09-29-10, 07:15 PM	#5
DedEye Electrician's Mate Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Edmonton Posts: 133 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	To some extent it comes down to personal preference. For example, I used to buy a lot of different makes of motherboards, but recently have been sticking with Asus. I'm sure others have different favourites for a variety of reasons. If you are fortunate and money is no object, get the latest and the greatest. If you're like me and have a modest budget, get parts that are one "step" below the best. They'll give you 75-90% of the performance at half to 2/3 the price. If money is tight, you'll really have to do your research. I'm not sure how experienced you are with PC hardware, but it's handy to become proficient at assembling and disassembling general PC architecture components if you aren't already. That way you can buy 1 or 2 upgrades a year for cheap, and never have to worry about your system going obsolete leading to thousands of dollars for a new one. It is not difficult; like lego or tinker toys but with fragile blocks. The manuals that come with motherboards offer a lot of instruction on assembly. If you are not already familiar with these websites, Anandtech.com and Tom's Hardware are great places to not only read reviews on components (high end and budget), but they also have a lot of very helpful articles on how a lot of this stuff works. There are many more websites out there, but these will get you started anyway. So while I can't directly answer your question with specific hardware recommendations, I can tell you from my experience running it on 2 fairly decent systems (i5 750 with 2x ati5870, and a core 2 duo with geforce 8800GTX, both with 4gigabytes of fast ddr3 RAM), you'll want to build the fastest system you can to run Silent Hunter 5 in all of its glory. Having said this, it looks great and is entirely playable with lower settings if you can't afford to build a monster machine. Hope this helps __________________ U-Boot Spezial Cocktail......neidisch?