I will make a sportsmans bet right now, that anyone with an i7 and a good GPU will have no problem running COD.
I even think my C2D E6850 Dual Core will do fine as Oleg is not going to release something which needs ridiculous hardware to even run it on low-med gfx. I'd say that a Skt 939 AMD or Pentium D will probably have some issues running it, but as with all games this all depends on your gfx card and total RAM.
Even an i7 extreme would stutter and stall if you only had 1gb of RAM and were running Vista. It would be a constant page file thrashing nightmare.
An AM2 AMD dual core with 4gb of RAM would run smoother.
IMO having enough RAM so as not to have it thrashing the hard disk's virtual memory, is as important as the CPU, often more important.
I've got an i7-940 OC'd to 3.45 Ghz (with much more room to go yet if i need it), 6 gig of ram and a GTX280 gfx card.
i'm not going to do anything at the moment, until i've tried it on my system. I'm pretty sure i'll be able to run it no probs whatsoever.
my only decision will be if after i played it, and i want to up the graphics, to get a GTX580 or not.
EDIT: Sorry for the continued thread hijackOriginally posted by M_Gunz:
HOLY COW! I wonder if that's possible with Sandy Bridge?![]()
Sandy Bridgge can OC to 5.0ghz stable! Tho it does need some hefty volts to do it...
Here's a bit review of it
http://www.overclock3d.net/rev...andy_bridge_review/1
And a video review - (a bit long and tedious so make a cuppa before ya sit down to watch it or skip to the end conclusion)
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The Noctua DH14 heatsink is still the king of air cooling, lovely and quiet even when the cpu is working hard with the volts up. But it's such a big beast it has problems fitting on most boards if you use memory with large heatsinks built into them, and it is a premium cooler so the price isn't the cheapest. Tho bang for buck wise it is probably the best cooling option out there for overclocking (including water cooling).
Hi all.
I have been out of the picture of a while. However now with the release of CoD actually approaching (two weeks i am sure) I actually have to start thinking about my hardware. I recently bought the following laptop:
Sony Vaio VPC-F12S1E.
Specs:
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
- Intel Core i7-740QM quad core processor running @ 1.73Ghz
- 6GB of DDR-III 1333Mhz memory (8GB max)
- 7200 rpm 500GB hard drive
- Dedicated nVidia GeForce GT 330M graphics with 1GB of memory
I am mostly wondering if this Geforce is going to be enough to play CoD? I guess only time will tell how it will turn out. Too bad one can't update GPU on laptops![]()
EDIT: Sorry for the continued thread hijackOriginally posted by Inadaze:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by M_Gunz:
HOLY COW! I wonder if that's possible with Sandy Bridge?![]()
Sandy Bridgge can OC to 5.0ghz stable! Tho it does need some hefty volts to do it...
Here's a bit review of it
http://www.overclock3d.net/rev...andy_bridge_review/1
And a video review - (a bit long and tedious so make a cuppa before ya sit down to watch it or skip to the end conclusion)
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The Noctua DH14 heatsink is still the king of air cooling, lovely and quiet even when the cpu is working hard with the volts up. But it's such a big beast it has problems fitting on most boards if you use memory with large heatsinks built into them, and it is a premium cooler so the price isn't the cheapest. Tho bang for buck wise it is probably the best cooling option out there for overclocking (including water cooling). </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
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"I wonder if I have enough voltage yet?"