I've been stuck on
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core 5200+
2.00 GB of Ram
for a couple years now and it runs CoH fine.
You run the game on high end graphics? and does this "Ultra Graphics" thing actually make alot of difference, i daren't attempt it, my Laptop sounds like a Helicopter taking off as it is when playing....
This is from xoticpc.com.
$1323
1x FORCE 1656-ID5 (Built on the MSI-1656-ID5)
- Warranty: 1 Year Complete Care Warranty - 1 Year Parts with 2nd Day Shipping, 24/7 Telephone Tech Support & Lifetime Labor Warranty
- Operating System: No Operating System Standard -
- Battery: Smart Li-ion Battery (6-Cell)
- Camera: Built in 2.0 Megapixel Camera
- Wireless Network: -Intel® Ultimate-N 6300 - 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless LAN Module ($35 upgrade.. worth it as I use campus wireless often)
- Bluetooth: Internal Bluetooth + EDR
- Memory Card Reader: Internal 4-in-1 Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO)
- Display: 15.4" WSXGA+ "Glare Type" Super Clear Ultra Bright Glossy Screen (1680x1050)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-720QM, 1.60-2.80GHz, (45nm, 6MB L3 cache) - Special! (was $120 more than base i5-430M)
- Thermal Compound: - IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU
- Graphics Video Card: ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD5850 1024MB PCI-Express GDDR5 DX11 (The 625 Mhz core clock one, not the 500! 625/ 1000 Mhz core / memory clocks )
- Ram: - 4,096MB (2 SODIMMS) DDR3 1333MHz Dual Channel Memory
- Optical Drive: - Combo Dual Layer SuperMulti 8X DVDRW Drive
- Primary Hard Drive: - 500GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache Buffer (Serial-ATA II 3GB/s)
Edit: It also has a numpad!! 
Sweet for a 15.4" lappy.
Search for user Father Xmas. He's got some nice rigs in his signature.
I like to see a moderate amount of shadows in game, but not so much that I have to turn up brightness of gamma just to see what is under that shadow. I keep the old graphics options set to High normally, with the slider bars at about 80-90% to the right (just before they turn red) and run at about 80fps. Recently I've turned on the water/reflective effects because I like how shiny it looks, which pulls me down to about 60fps, but that's ok to me. The only time I ever go below these settings is if I'm loading 3 or more accounts. >.>
From my Xfire profile in my sig:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.5GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Hard Drive: 3 Hard drives, 1 TB, 320 GB, 160 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
Monitor: LG 23" and Gateway 22" Widescreen
Sound Card: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (2- High Definition Audio Device)
Speakers/Headphones: Logitech X-540 5.1 Surround sound / Logitech Premium Notebook Headset
Keyboard: Logitech G11 Keyboard
Mouse: Logitech MX1000 Bluetooth Laser Mouse
Mouse Surface: ALLSOP Fat Pad
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100226-1909)
Motherboard: Gigabyte S-Series EGEM-S2H FSB 1333
Computer Case: Antec Nine Hundred Tower
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I run on pretty much max settings with 2 exceptions: FSAA is 8x instead of 16 of 32 (they both take off about 10 frames with each increase), and occlusion strength: I leave at normal. Strong and Strong with color Bleeding hit the frames pretty hard. I run at 30+ frames on 1 account, and if I run at minimum settings, It's closer to 140ish fps.
as per xfire (with minor updates)
Manufacturer: 1E655
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz (8 CPUs), (OC'd) ~ 4.0GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Hard Drive: 1 TB + 300GB Raptor
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
Monitor: 22" LGTV and 23" LG LED FLATRON E2350V
Sound Card: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Speakers/Headphones: Logitech generic headset
Keyboard: Logitech G11
Mouse: Logitech MX1000
Mouse Surface: phatpad
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Motherboard: P55 Express Chipset
Computer Case: Silverstone Raven 2
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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze
I hate to be the bringer of bad news... but Willpower sucks!!! you're better off rolling a regen
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^Professional Katana/regen build thread
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.1GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Hard Drive: 500 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
Monitor: LG L227W
Keyboard: Saitek Eclipse II
Mouse: Logitech GX518
Operating System:Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
Motherboard: Abit ip35 Pro
Computer Case: Gigabyte 3D Aurora
Agua Man lvl 48 Water/Electric Blaster
"To die hating NCSoft for shutting down City of Heroes, that was Freedom."
Just got a new set up recently.
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.66 ghz
Memory: 4 gigs
HD: 500 GB
Video Card: Geforce GTX 260
got a stock keyboard and a razer diamondback mouse.
video NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
4 gb ram
prossessor amd athlon(tm) 64 daul core 6000+ 3.10 gh
and as for hard drives
...i stop watching tv a long long time ago.....now i just download
Processor: Intel Core i7 920
Memory: 6GB Corsair Dominator
Hard Drive: Western Digital Velociraptor 300Gb x2
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 5870 x2
Monitor: Iiyama ProLite E2607WS 26" Widescreen LCD
Sound Card: Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
Speakers/Headphones: Razer Megalodon 7.1 Surround Sound Headset
Keyboard: Logitech G19 Gaming Keyboard
Mouse: razer naga
Mouse Surface: Razer Vespula
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Intel X58
Computer Case: Coolermaster HAF 932 Case water cooled
@Ryxx, you throw in that completed Rubix Cube to make us unfinished attemptees jealous :P
This is a well-timed thread, as I too am contemplating a computer purchase - mostly because the one of my older computers that my wife has been using is on its last legs, but while I'm buying one computer, why not more? (I'm actually thinking of three: a basic one for her, an uber gaming one for me and a latop that either of us could use. Yes, this is what tax refunds can do for you...)
But I have an additional question for some of those who responded to date: why do you have TWO monitors? What do you use them for? Do you recommend that set-up to enhance the gaming experience?
Ryxx; heh, I have that exact same Armor case.
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Ryxx; heh, I have that exact same Armor case.
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RYXX!!! If that isn't a warning to the future, I don't know what is!
Otherwise, you all scare me and my little Dell laptop.
My setup:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core
Memory: Kingston 4GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory
Hard Drive: 300 gig WD internal, 500 gig wd internal, 1t tb wd internal, 1.5 tb seagate internal, 160 gig wd external
Video Card: ZOTAC ZT-X26E3KB-FCP GeForce GTX 260 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP
Monitor: Two Samsung 226BW 22in Black LCD SyncMaster
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional 70SB088600002 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz
Speakers/Headphones: Creative 4.1 speakers w/ Logitech 980186-0403 Silver USB Connector USB Desktop Microphone
Keyboard: Saitek lighted Eclipse Gaming Keyboard
Mouse: Logitech Trackman Marble
Operating System: Windows XP
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-965P-S3 LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX
Power Supply: ENERMAX Liberty ELT500AWT 500W ATX12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC
Computer Case: Thermaltake Armor Series VA8003BWS Black Full Tower Case w/ 25CM Fan
UPS: CyberPower CP1350AVRLCD 1350 VA 810 Watts UPS (for pc, monitors, and external hd) and a cyberPower 350 Watts UPS (for wireless router and cable modem)
Printers: HP psc 1315 all-in-one and HP LaserJet p1006
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CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz (2400.02-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6f6 Family = 6 Model = f Stepping = 6
Cores per package: 2
real memory = 2146369536 (2046 MB)
nvidia0: <GeForce 8800 GTX> on vgapci0
The motherboard is an eVGA board with an nVidia 680i chipset, pretty much reference IIRC.
ad0: 57259MB <MAXTOR 6L060J3 A93.0500> at ata0-master UDMA133
acd0: DVDROM <Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-116 0122/E1.22> at ata0-slave UDMA66
ad4: 194481MB <Maxtor 6Y200M0 YAR51EW0> at ata2-master SATA150
ad6: 194481MB <Maxtor 6Y200M0 YAR51EW0> at ata3-master SATA150
ad8: 953869MB <WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 05.01D05> at ata4-master SATA300
acd1: DVDR <TSSTcorpCD/DVDW SH-S183L/SB03> at ata6-master SATA150
da0: <HITACHI HUS103073FL3600 SA19> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da0: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 80, 16bit)
da0: Command Queueing Enabled
da0: 70007MB (143374805 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8924C)
Keyboard is a Generation 1 MS Natural keyboard (PS/2)
ums0: <Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse, class 0/0, rev 2.00/11.10, addr 2> on uhub0
NVIDIA(0): NEC FE991SB (CRT-0): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
NVIDIA(0): Samsung S/M 900NF (CRT-1): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
hdac0: HDA Codec #0: Realtek ALC885
pcm0: <HDA Realtek ALC885 PCM #0 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0
pcm1: <HDA Realtek ALC885 PCM #1 Digital> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0
Speakers are recently upgraded M-Audio AV30 Studiophile replacing the ancient and terribly buzzy Logitechs I had.
It's an older rig, but I still run pretty much every game that comes out at 1600x1200 and with the quality settings cranked up.
But why two monitors?
Why?
WHY???
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So you don't have to alt-tab.
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Originally Posted by NIGHT_RUNNER
But why two monitors?
Why? WHY??? |
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City on the left, forums/other websites/music/another City on the right. I can't NOT multitask anymore, I end up just falling asleep in my chair. If I'm not playing video games, left monitor is usually for youtube while I browse on the right or I use both for browsing sites independently. Or one is for D&D books. |
Originally Posted by NIGHT_RUNNER
But I have an additional question for some of those who responded to date: why do you have TWO monitors? What do you use them for? Do you recommend that set-up to enhance the gaming experience?
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tl;dr Multitasking.
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Originally Posted by NIGHT_RUNNER
But why two monitors?
Why? WHY??? |
I'm actually seriously jealous of Ele's case. He bought his a couple months ago, and mine is over a year old. His handles cable management and airflow WAY better than mine.
Shamster: I am seriously jealous of your desk. I have ALWAYS wanted a good wraparound desk, but I am too cheap to buy one, or I don't have enough room for one.
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Originally Posted by Katsamoto
@Ryxx, you throw in that completed Rubik's Cube to make us unfinished attemptees jealous :P
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt8gsK-GM4Q
To everyone else, pics are better than wall of text!
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Originally Posted by NIGHT_RUNNER
But why two monitors?
Why? WHY??? |
After doing that, you can have your vent/steam/xfire channel open (or your AIM/yahoochat/ skype/etc), a browser, mids' hero designer (or two or three), any media player, and still see your tuning utility software for monitoring temps and CPU/Mem usage.
My second screen is actually a TV. so I can has playstation (or Obama) and CoX at the same time :O
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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze
I hate to be the bringer of bad news... but Willpower sucks!!! you're better off rolling a regen
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^Professional Katana/regen build thread
You know, a better question flux could have asked: Why is Elegost such a slob?
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yeah... my subwoofer turned into a table. It happens sometimes :[
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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze
I hate to be the bringer of bad news... but Willpower sucks!!! you're better off rolling a regen
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^Professional Katana/regen build thread
Ok admittedly I have a TV on my desk as well. I guess I could use a second screen for that. Or use a second display for a second game/other software. Is such a thing easy to set up?
Well, seems after like 6 years my laptop is finally starting to tire when it comes to playing CoX and other games. Wondering what sort of rigs everyones running out there and what sort of Gfx settings there playing on. Also which Processors/Graphics cards does everyone recommend for running CoX at full level but that isnt going to rip my wage packet into shreds.
Whats peoples opinions....