building a new pc

Originally Posted by Oldschool61

I think everyone is going overboard with recommendations. Didnt Oleg say 2 years ago that a top of the line system in 2008-9 (2years ago) would run the sim fine??

That was very wishful thinking on Oleg's part, they are having to take a lot out of the game at the moment (optimising) to get the thing to run. Just like with Il2-sturm Cliffs Of Dover is going to utilize CPU power far more than GPU. Personaly I would wait until the issues are resolved with the Sandy bridge CPU, get a pre overclocked bundle to 4.8Ghz, this game is going to need everything you can throw at it.

[Biggs [CV]]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

they are having to take a lot out of the game at the moment (optimising) to get the thing to run. Just like with Il2-sturm Cliffs Of Dover is going to utilize CPU power far more than GPU.

Source? I have yet to read that they are taking stuff out of the game, nor have I read that COD is more CPU intensive than GPU.

Originally Posted by Biggs [CV]

Source? I have yet to read that they are taking stuff out of the game, nor have I read that COD is more CPU intensive than GPU.

I'm paraphrasing Luthier, "Dynamic weather fis not enabled by default, although you can enable it in the FMB and bring your PC to a hault".

[Biggs [CV]]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

I'm paraphrasing Luthier, "Dynamic weather fis not enabled by default, although you can enable it in the FMB and bring your PC to a hault".

The fact that you can enable it means its still in the game.
Tree said they are "Taking things out of the game."

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Biggs [CV]

Source? I have yet to read that they are taking stuff out of the game, nor have I read that COD is more CPU intensive than GPU.

Well resource heavy features are added and removed from games before release depending on the current state of PC technology. That is just how its always done.

Similarly every single flightsim ever made has been CPU locked once you get to much "stuff" in the air, whilst very rarely are they GPU locked.

Its generally hard or impossible to CPU lock a first person shooter but in a flightsim you can generally can just put 50 or so more bombers in the air and watch the FPS plummet.

There is no reason to assume that CoD is magically any different.

[WTE_Galway]

On the subject of power supplies and what all those connectors actually do ...

http://www.playtool.com/pages/psucon...tml#peripheral

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by Biggs [CV]

Source? I have yet to read that they are taking stuff out of the game, nor have I read that COD is more CPU intensive than GPU.

Re: taking things out - Luthier did say as much some time back. Along the lines that they had built a 2013 game and were having to scale back features to get it to work with 2011 systems.

There is also the dynamic campaign and DX11 which are more 'not being put in' (initially) rather than 'taken out'.

Haven't heard anything on CPU V GPU either. Il-2 was, but COD may be more evenly balanced with the extra eye candy? Expect we'll have to wait and see.

Originally Posted by kendo65

the lines that they had built a 2013 game and were having to scale back features to get it to work with 2011 systems.

He wrote that on Facebook btw.

[meshuggahs]

Just remember kids, it's easier to upgrade you GPU/add another one than swap the whole mb/processor/memory deal!

I'm personally waiting for the sandy bridge mobos in april, since the sweet spot in cost/performance/overclocking is there at the moment.
Maybe even wait till may/june and see how bulldozers perform and are priced.

1156 & AM3 are just dead ends for future upgrades.

[Voyager]

At this point, I wouldn't even be considering the upgradeablity of the motherboard. The last time I successfully upgraded a CPU without replacing the MB was Thunderbird.

My most recent upgrade, I was going to swap out an early Core 2 with 4GB Ram for a Wolfdale and more 8GB ram, and a 64 Bit OS. Didn't work at all, and I ended up doing what was effectively a full backbone replace, for a Core 2, after Nephalim was out. It would have cost me the same to just go for an I5.