Build a PC for Rome 2 / Hardware Recommendations and Advice Thread

[Karpinskaia]

Here's my new PC. I know AMD CPU's underperform in Total War games, but alas, in my country the FX-8320's price is 40% lower then an i5-4670k so being on a budget I came up with this build:
MB: Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0
CPU: FX-8320
RAM: 8GB Kingston HyperX 1600 Mhz
VGA: Asus GTX 560ti DirectCU II Top
HDD: Seagate 320 GB 16 MB 7200 RPM
CPU cooler: Thermalright True Spirit 120 M (BW)
Case: Cooltek Timaios
PSU: Rasurbo Silent&Power 650W

I know that zooming in during a battle would mean a dramatic FPS drop, but as I play on legendary difficulty I don't have time to admire the troops and a quad core 4,6 GHz FX-8320 should be enough to handle the game from afar. At least I hope so.

[alQamar]

Simply because the price delta b/n 680 and 670 doesn't justify the difference in performance... basically, people went for most bang for the buck

It's still a wicked card! I had one for about a year it will max out everything on the graphics side of things. I have a 780 now ( won it) and it makes no difference at the moment as everything is still maxed out.

Here is the real answer. The GTX 670 and 680 are offically withdrawn from the market. You can only get what is still in stock.

[alQamar]

Here's my new PC. I know AMD CPU's underperform in Total War games, but alas, in my country the FX-8320's price is 40% lower then an i5-4670k so being on a budget I came up with this build:
MB: Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0
CPU: FX-8320
RAM: 8GB Kingston HyperX 1600 Mhz
VGA: Asus GTX 560ti DirectCU II Top
HDD: Seagate 320 GB 16 MB 7200 RPM
CPU cooler: Thermalright True Spirit 120 M (BW)
Case: Cooltek Timaios
PSU: Rasurbo Silent&Power 650W

I know that zooming in during a battle would mean a dramatic FPS drop, but as I play on legendary difficulty I don't have time to admire the troops and a quad core 4,6 GHz FX-8320 should be enough to handle the game from afar. At least I hope so.

When you are on budget go for a i5 4550 and H87 micro atx board. Then you can obeye your budget and will still get better perfomance!

[Aruberikku]

Okay, did some more searching. What about this one?
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+D...6#tab=overview
The graphics card should be able to run the game just fine right?
I'm not looking to have this high octane performance, just something that will work smoothly. Heck if I could go cheaper I would.

Guessing you can't change anything in that PC?
Because 8GB of RAM would be more than enough and you could use the money to increase the GPU instead, like Irishman said.
No info on the PSU though.

[II TRAIANA]

Hey.
i'm planning on by this pc:
OS - Windows 8
CPU - i7 4770K
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA Z87X D3H
CPU - NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan 6GB DDR5 837MHz
RAM - 32GB
SSD - 500GB
HDD - 6TB
PSU - Corsair TX 650W V2 /80+ Bronze
Screen - 27"
How high settings can i have with this pc?

[alQamar]

It is much over. I have sources that you cannot expect ultra settings. We will see on Tuesday.

[sakura002]

Hey.
i'm planning on by this pc:
OS - Windows 8
CPU - i7 4770K
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA Z87X D3H
CPU - NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan 6GB DDR5 837MHz
RAM - 32GB
SSD - 500GB
HDD - 6TB
PSU - Corsair TX 650W V2 /80+ Bronze
Screen - 27"
How high settings can i have with this pc?

Lol ask yourself that question theres no better graphics card and cpu at the moment. It will run all maxed out, if youre not bein sarcastic with ur post

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[♔ Tsar ♔]

Hello, can i run Rome 2 on high settings on my laptop?
I'm planing to buy SSD soon.


Laptop: Asus N76VZ-V2G-T1040
Screen: 17,3" Full HD LED (matt)
CPU: Intel i7 3610QM (2,30-3,30GHz)
RAM: DDR3 1600 MHz, 6Gb
GPU: nVidia GeForce GT 650M 2Gb
HDD: 750Gb, 7200 rpm
OS: Windows 8 Professional 64bit
...

[Aruberikku]

Hey.
i'm planning on by this pc:
OS - Windows 8
CPU - i7 4770K
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA Z87X D3H
CPU - NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan 6GB DDR5 837MHz
RAM - 32GB
SSD - 500GB
HDD - 6TB
PSU - Corsair TX 650W V2 /80+ Bronze
Screen - 27"
How high settings can i have with this pc?

Ehm. You really don't need to go that extreme. The price/performance ratio doesn't really justify it.

It is much over. I have sources that you cannot expect ultra settings. We will see on Tuesday.

That hurts...

[alQamar]

Hello, can i run Rome 2 on high settings on my laptop?
I'm planing to buy SSD soon.


Laptop: Asus N76VZ-V2G-T1040
Screen: 17,3" Full HD LED (matt)
CPU: Intel i7 3610QM (2,30-3,30GHz)
RAM: DDR3 1600 MHz, 6Gb
GPU: nVidia GeForce GT 650M 2Gb
HDD: 750Gb, 7200 rpm
OS: Windows 8 Professional 64bit
...

Can you please run the benchmarks in my signature?

[A Barbarian]

It is much over. I have sources that you cannot expect ultra settings. We will see on Tuesday.

No problem, the 'Third Age' mod in 8xSSAA looks great has probably better AI better cutscenes and more playable factions
Oh, and it has no graphical bugs like S2-FOTS.

[alQamar]

Outstanding argument for this money i'd better let me make a roman uniform.

[Mimoxx]

just 1 more day !!! lets after make all reports and testing with the game !! I made a option to buy pc after game is out! to see i7 v i5 performance is important

[alQamar]

Good idea

[Andonai]

just 1 more day !!! lets after make all reports and testing with the game !! I made a option to buy pc after game is out! to see i7 v i5 performance is important

If you can trust the hundreds of benchmarks, you will not significantly benefit from an i7 in games, videoencoding is another story. But in the end, the real performance depends on your whole system not only on the cpu.
It´s important that your system is build in a way, that there are no bottlenecks or as few as possible, so well choosen hardware is by far more important than one good component and the rest is crap or is bottlenecking the good component.
It´s like some people are buying these crap pc´s with one good component like the newest i7 and a GPU that is by far to weak to support the CPU ==> waste of money and the gaming performance will never be the one it could be with components that are "supporting" each other.

[Mauser89]

Should I overclock my i5 4670k for Rome 2?

[alQamar]

There is no other reason to have bought this particular cpu :o
Don't oc on a stock cooler though.

[Mauser89]

New to Intel so everything is new to me. I'm reading that it get to 4.0GHz easily so I'll do that when the H60 cooler comes.

No comparison between this stock and the AMD 965BE overclocked to 4.0GHz.

[C.Maximus]

So the Specs are out, I've done what I promised myself to do and wait till the few days before or after game release to get my new laptop. I want to spend 500$-700$ (700$ At the most!) For something that can run it on Med-High and will pretty much stay away from Ultra. I have a desktop at home, there I will be drinking beer, smoking herb and being able to fully enjoy the splender of the ultra graphics and ultra unit setting. However, at work, when I am doing over night secruty shifts in the brink of winter, where even the road up to my office is so fozen over that I wont even be able to leave untill they plow it at 6 in the morning. Unfortunatly I will not be drinking beer, and so I want to play the game for well, game play purposes and dont really want to drop 1200 on a laptop for pretty graphics.

CA mentioned Rome 2 had a wide range of graphical values so if I am really looking to save some cash (Moving into a new place soon and wanting to upgrade my desktop over spending butt tons of money on a flimsy laptop) I wonder if I can get away with a good 400 dollar machine that could do a low-med or even med down the board.

I dont mind referbished either, That is fine.... Im not asking you all to do the work for me, I am looking myself, however I know there are some of you among us in the TW Center who have far superior knowledge of laptop specs and their ability to run games. I am pretty good with desktops but there's a lot I take for granted and am lost on: Will I need to get some sort of cooling unit? Even if a laptop has mega specs, will it overheat and crash on me trying to run Rome II? Which brand of laptop is worth a damn... I build my own computers and well... dont have the tools or knowledge to construct a laptop. Am I better off getting a portable PC that I can hook up to my company sceen? ( This is my LEAST favorite option due to the fact that the work computer houses all the camera ports so... no cameras... so I will only be playing this when I know it is iced over)

Anyways, any hellp is appreciated... like I said I do not mind referbished and would rather have local (Colorado, Denver area) however shipping off the net is cool too if it will save me some $$$... I am looking for Reliability more than raw power. I would rather have something that holds up and can handle Rome 2, even if it doesnt look all too pretty, over something that blasts me with eye candy but overheats in a matter of minutes.

[Biggus Splenus]

There is no other reason to have bought this particular cpu :o
Don't oc on a stock cooler though.

exactly. Why would you spend an extra $40-50 on benefits of overclocking, if you're not going to?