Who's waiting to buy a new PC for SoW?

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by lbuchele

I was playing ROF yesterday,after 6 months.I started the game,at 1920x1200,settings in high mostly,post processing off and for my surprise had very low fps in combat scenes and over cities.That's the first time this happens since I build my current rig.(a E8400@3,60 GHz ; GTX 460;4Gb RAM;asus P5Q.
Imediatly think about SOW and if it could take advantage of 6cores like ROF can do.
(my problem seems to be my only two cores and low vídeo RAM)

Hi lbuchele,

How much video memory have you got in your GTX460?

I have a similar computer (E8500@3.6GHz) but with a 9800GTX card and had planned to pick up a GTX460 as a video upgrade.

I've been trying to find a Q9550 somewhere as a stop-gap upgrade to make ROF play smoothly on my PC. (Very hard to find one at a reasonable price!)


Cheers!

[lbuchele]

The GTX 460 has only 868MB RAM what I think is too little by today standards.
I had no idea of the Win 7 problem with ROF and dual cores.
My NeXT system will be Sandy Bridge based probably.

Correcting:I don´t own a GTX 460 , I have a GTX 260 868Mb.
(I don´t really know where my mind was)

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

Very hard to find one at a reasonable price!

I'm seeing one on Amazon.co.uk, and a 9650 (without fan) for less.

[kendo65]

I updated my previous post in this thread with a link to the ROF site where they describe problems with running ROF on dual core Win7 systems:

"We are sorry about that but it is not our fault. Win7 have new CPU-thread management politics which is causing much problems for high-loaded multi-thread applications (like RoF) on 2-core systems. We have some attempts to contact with Microsoft - it was useless. So unfortunally we can't do anything here.
4-core systems have no such problems with Win7."

As the owner of a dual core Win7 system myself it is raising some questions about how SOW will run?

Difficult to know just how much the ROF people are passing the buck here?

I will say though that on my recent switchover from XP to Win7 64 the small overclock that ran perfectly on XP caused endless blue screens with Win 7, and I finally had to revert to stock settings!

[lbuchele]

What looks promising is the scalability of ROF from 4 to 6 cores.
Since SOW is newer than ROF probably ( no guarantee) it will benefits from 6 core CPU?
(just wild guessing,of course)

[Skoshi Tiger]

I've always been in the camp of holding off major upgrades untill you really need them. After getting the A-10 Beta I decided to upgrade from my e8500(@3.6Ghz) to a q9400 CPU. (Don't know why I didn't go for a quad core when I bult my PC???)

Now with my new quad core purring along at 3.6Ghz there is a noticable improvement with ROF and A10 seems to have a few less stutters.

Hopefully this will keep me happy till SOW gets released. Then I'll get a more modern graphics card and see what the performance is like before upgrading further.

Cheers!

[dduff442]

Originally Posted by kendo65

I will say though that on my recent switchover from XP to Win7 64 the small overclock that ran perfectly on XP caused endless blue screens with Win 7, and I finally had to revert to stock settings!

I had an o/c, stable under stress and tested for temp etc until it started blue-screening when the hot weather came along in Aug. I actually had to bump *up* the memory clock to get it going again. Maybe your o/c will work again now it's cooler? Its odd it crashes under Win7 and not XP although Win7 does probably put more strain on the machine.

dduff

[Stiboo]

I've only been waiting 12 months to upgrade!

My PC is now 3 years old...yikes....

Even my wife said last week don't you need to upgrade by now?...I almost fell over!

The only thing i'm sure of for a new PC is spending about £1200 with a 24 inch screen..

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by dduff442

I had an o/c, stable under stress and tested for temp etc until it started blue-screening when the hot weather came along in Aug. I actually had to bump *up* the memory clock to get it going again. Maybe your o/c will work again now it's cooler? Its odd it crashes under Win7 and not XP although Win7 does probably put more strain on the machine.

dduff

I have updated my bios recently and have now tried the oc again. So far working ok, but will see how things go in the next week or so.