SOW System specs

[janpitor]

Overclock it to run FSX smooth . These chips are extremely overclockable. I personally have i5 and except I have 4GB ram instead of 6 and I will not make sli/crossfire setup because of PCI-E bandwidth it has almost the same computing power after overclock.

Originally Posted by imaca

Im amazed at the number of people who have high end (i7) systems.
What the heck do you do with all that cpu power?
Video encoding is the only thing that springs to mind, I can't imagine you would see any significant difference in gaming compared to a system for half the price (I guess you might need it for multi video card/display performance?).
I recently trialled a new Lenovo D20 workstation with Xeon E5650/Quadro FX1800 (we are upgrading at work) and was disappointed to see the tiny performance boost compared with my current Athlon II X2 system.
Typically, running Solidworks, I was looking at little more than 13% cpu utilization (1/2 a core).
I guess SOW will be more optimized for multicore, but I will be waiting until well after release before thinking about what to buy to play it.

[Flanker35M]

S!

Well, just upgraded my system a bit again. It runs any game I throw at it at the moment very nicely at 1920:1200 resolution as I have a 16:10 24" BenQ screen. I use only 2x or 4x FSAA in any game and Anisotropic filtering is most of times application controlled as is FSAA if applicable.

System is, and it should run SoW I think, below..

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
AMD 890FX based ASUS motherboard
4 x 2Gb A-Data DDR3 at 1333MHz dual channel
nVidia 480GTX graphics
Windows 7 64-bit

[Zorin]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

S!

Well, just upgraded my system a bit again. It runs any game I throw at it at the moment very nicely at 1920:1200 resolution as I have a 16:10 24" BenQ screen. I use only 2x or 4x FSAA in any game and Anisotropic filtering is most of times application controlled as is FSAA if applicable.

System is, and it should run SoW I think, below..

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
AMD 890FX based ASUS motherboard
4 x 2Gb A-Data DDR3 at 1333MHz dual channel
nVidia 480GTX graphics
Windows 7 64-bit

If that won't run SoW with ease, 1C will be in big trouble.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Zorin

If that won't run SoW with ease, 1C will be in big trouble.

Nope, until we see SoW hit the shelves, there will be new cpus and gpus.

I imagine there will be some CPU upgrades and GPU upgrades by this time next year.

[Flanker35M]

S!

ATI is planning the Southern Island refresh for their current lineup, which should boost the tesselation etc. Next year they launch the new Northern Island series with newer architecture. I bet nVidia will refresh their lineup as well and launch the 512-bit versions of their 4xx-series. IMO any current DX11 card in either SLI or XFire should be able to run SoW at acceptable FPS with decent eyecandy.

If SoW does utilize 4 cores as stated here, you will be good with any multicore CPU, be it AMD or Intel. They are overclockable so performance should really not be an issue. I think you need a lot of RAM with SoW.

[lbuchele]

I was talking to my older brother today about building a new system for SOW using a GTX 480.
He told me to think twice because the hot temperatures of this card and recommend me the ATI 5870 or 5970 (700USD!)
Well, it´s OK to me spending 700 bucks in a really fast VGA I reply to him, but Il2 always had an issue with ATI drivers, am I right?
I´m wondering if this time Oleg will do SOW Nvidia optmized too?
Because if not I´ll go the ATI road with ease.
Anyone has experience running ATI cards in Il2?