Need Rig Suggestions

[slice]

Yup, there are plenty of games that use up to 4gb or RAM. So now a days, 8gb is really the gamers choice.

[K PhaNTOM]

caspain uses about 3.5gig ram.. during heavy firefights.
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No way in hell it uses that much. Just not possible. You had some other program leaking.

I mean their RECOMMENDED requirement says

Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
RAM: 4GB

So... just not possible.

[slice]

No way in hell it uses that much. Just not possible. You had some other program leaking.

I mean their RECOMMENDED requirement says



So... just not possible.

sure it is possible. It is completely possible. Most games recommended requirements do not even run the game smoothly maxed. NEVER go by what they "recommend".

If you bothered to do your research, you will find that it is not unlikely that is could use 3.5gb. I mean heck, they recommend a GTX 560. This card has 1gb vram, when @ 1080p rez caspian was using 1.5gb or vram.... Riddle me that.

[Brian is Huh?!{CLR}]

I didnt have any other programs running..just my fw and bf3 beta. Oh and Firefox. And yes it uses that much at heavy loads and heavy ingame battles.

[Brian is Huh?!{CLR}]

Plus also wait till the REAL ULTRA settings are enabled. I'm sure it'll use about the same.

[Bon3z]

Okay. Bit the bullet and ordered below. Thanks again everyone. It's been about 5 years since I upgraded (for UT3 ).

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000)

Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W

EVGA 012-P3-1578-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) Classified 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP

ASRock P67 EXTREME4 GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel

[The_Needle]

Grats man, enjoy!

[Brian is Huh?!{CLR}]

Grats! U should be ready to go!

[bobytt]

What cooling you going to use with that 2500K?

[slice]

Very nice! You will be very happy with that upgrade. Like the above poster said what cooling?

If I may suggest, if you are on a budget and don't want to spend much, pick up a Cooler Master Hyper 212+. It is a very good cooler and cost only $30

If you want something more robust, I would get a Corsair H60/H80/H100.

That is my suggestions.

[Bon3z]

Very nice! You will be very happy with that upgrade. Like the above poster said what cooling?

If I may suggest, if you are on a budget and don't want to spend much, pick up a Cooler Master Hyper 212+. It is a very good cooler and cost only $30

If you want something more robust, I would get a Corsair H60/H80/H100.

That is my suggestions.

Actually, that's what I ordered (COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus). I do have a very nice Zalman on my current board.

Newegg.com - ZALMAN CNPS9500A-LED 92mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler

But I don't really want to mess around with the old CPU and motherboard (it's going straight into my daughter's computer case). Anyways, I figure I won't be overclocking the CPU to severely since the bottleneck will most likely be the video card.

[slice]

Actually, that's what I ordered (COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus). I do have a very nice Zalman on my current board.

Newegg.com - ZALMAN CNPS9500A-LED 92mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler

But I don't really want to mess around with the old CPU and motherboard (it's going straight into my daughter's computer case). Anyways, I figure I won't be overclocking the CPU to severely since the bottleneck will most likely be the video card.

I currently have a Hyper 212+ with a 2500k @ 4.5ghz. No problems here and temps even under full load do not see above 65c. The Corsair units do cool much better and upwards of up to 10-15c cooler. I will be upgrading to an H80 soon, but am thinking of spending that money on adding a second 6950 instead.

Good luck man! OC these things is so easy. The easiest OC I have ever done period.

[Dead...Again]

I currently have a Hyper 212+ with a 2500k @ 4.5ghz. No problems here and temps even under full load do not see above 65c. The Corsair units do cool much better and upwards of up to 10-15c cooler. I will be upgrading to an H80 soon, but am thinking of spending that money on adding a second 6950 instead.

Good luck man! OC these things is so easy. The easiest OC I have ever done period.

Did you change anything besides the multiplier to get a stable 4.5GHz? I have mine OCed to 4.1 right now, but thinking of going higher. I have a Corsair H70, so cooling shouldn't be an issue.

[slice]

Did you change anything besides the multiplier to get a stable 4.5GHz? I have mine OCed to 4.1 right now, but thinking of going higher. I have a Corsair H70, so cooling shouldn't be an issue.

No, All I am doing now is a multi change. The voltage under full load does not see higher than around 1.35ish... Most everything else is on auto.

[K PhaNTOM]

NEVER go by what they "recommend".

First of all, you don't read the minimum requirements, recommended are for settings High and Ultra.

And you are confusing vRam with real RAM. You don't add your 1.5GB of vRam to your other 1.5GB running on the real RAM.

vRam does not count.