Buying New PC, are these specs OK?

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Originally Posted by Jack Morris

Thanks to GRAthos, I know a good place in Dubai where I can get a computer built in under 2 hours. Due to various circumstances, the best specs they can offer me are as follows. (Bear in mind that I just want to run CoD at a consistent 30FPS over london at almost max settings, and I can always upgrade parts in the future):

GTX 580 1.5GB

i7 2600k at 3.3ghz

8GB of RAM (Kingston)

850w Power Supply

Nice Case

These are my final specs, are they good enough to run at 30FPS over London?

And thanks one more time to GRAthos! Your advice was much appreciated!

Its your GPU, resolution and game settings that will decide. My 1.28Gb GTX570 delivers 30+ fps at rooftop level with the occasional momentary drop into the 20s to load textures or something. However I am only running 1680 x 1050 resolution (I have the impression that 1900 may account for a significant fps drop), AA set to x2, Anti-Epilepsy filter off (a must), SSAO off, Vsynch on and Detail Level initially set to High and then with the following adjustments:
Builings Detail Low
Forest Off
Buildings amount Medium
Grass off

If you have 1680 x 1050 you should do better than that with your 3Gb 580 GPU. If you have 1900 res I would expect you to get at least as good as I do on 1680. So you could start as above or just whack it on Very High, play with the settings and see how it goes.

Forest is a huge resource hog (all those individual swaying glittering trees) and are pointless except perhaps at lower settings just for the eye candy. The trees do not have collision modelling so you can fly through them. Actually its the enemy planes that sometimes try to hide in them thinking they can because they have Forest On but if you have it off/very low you can see them, they can't hide.


Short answer - you will be fine but you may not be able to run fully maxed out (who can?). Don't fret about London. Its become a bit of an informal bechmark but I've never actually had to fight over London.