I play SH4 & many other games just fine on my older machine. I'm not saying it's out of date old; it was top of the line a couple years ago. My specs are:
ASUS A8N SLI Premium socket 939 (mature not ancient)
AMD64 FX-60 dual core CPU (overclocked to 3ghz for my amusement)
2 x 1gig sticks of Patriot DDR (upgradable to 4)
Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS sound card
eVGA 7950 GX2 (overclocked to 595 core & 1600 memory also for amusement)
Antec 550 watt true power power supply
Windows XP home (I'm cheap like that,I had pro on another machine & it's not worth the extra price imo)
My CPU & GPU(s) are water cooled by Danger Den
My system rips through everything on high settings that I've played so far. I built this system for Aces High & it performed well; if you have ever played that game you'll know how it bogs down systems. I reccomend eVGA strictly on the basis of warranty & customer service; they are second to no one. I'd also stay far away from Vista for a few years & let everyone else test it. The video cards are the real quandry; DX10 is coming sooner than later & video cards are way too expensive. In short whatever video card you get you'll have to live with a while unless you're made out of money & the better the video card the more power it'll need (as a general rule), so do not skimp on your power supply, get a good one - good reputation & high wattage output. Newegg is an excellent place for PC parts & they can sometimes get you your stuff in under 24 hours depending on where you live.
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