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

[alQamar]

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.

You don't need that cooling solutions. A air cooler will do it like a arctic freezer 13. Most people have a completely wrong of power supply demands and cooling demands. We don't run on Intel 4.
You do not essentially need a single point water cooling solution for overclocking nowadays.

[alQamar]

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.

What ca said and promised will be soon known. On 3rd September I will instantly update my benchmark thread for Rome 2

[Epic28]

Ill follow suit after I OC my CPU. Will post benchmarks. Also would like to start a thread regarding increasing unit sizes and benchmarking the best number performance vs battle scale (be it 240 men/unit or 320...)

No matter the CPU/GPU/PC, I highly doubt anything over 320 men/unit will be enjoyable performance wise. Whether it be CPU bottlenecking or pathfindig issues.

[alQamar]

Hi Splenyi, congratulations you have reached more than 100.000 views! Amazing!

[SPiiTFiiRE88]

How well do you think my system could run Rome 2?

Intel i5 3570K at 3.8ghz
EVGA GTX 670 2gb
8gb Corsiar Vengeance ram at 1800mhz
650 watt Corsair PSU
Samsung 23" 1920x1080p monitor

[alQamar]

Shogun at ultra all maxed out with about 70 fps, Rome 2 > we do not have data meet tomorrow on the benchmark thread. I've heard the requirements are much higher than CA commited.

[GoodSmurfin]

Hey guys!

So I'm looking to upgrade the RAM on my Windows Vista Home premium 64 bit version, but I was looking at Crucial.com and used their scan system and it said the maximum amount of ram is 8gb, but when I looked around on other sites it said the max for Home Premium is 16gb?

Any way of looking up the limitation on my computer?

[oneilmatt]

I know this is, but I needed a quick answer. If I can run Shogun 2 on medium/high specs, will I be able to play Rome II on low/ medium? Want to make sure before I buy. Please reply quickly.

[GoodSmurfin]

I'm pretty sure you'll be fine on medium graphics on Rome if you play shogun on medium/high

[-Concrete-]

Could you link me to the posts about Overclocking, It seems my 4670k will need a hefty OC to ultra the game but I know nothing about it. Cooling shouldn't be a problem.

[Germanicus75]

Hi Guys,

I am playing with the idea of putting together an i7 build and need your advice. The proposed components are:

Computer Case: Cooler Master HAF 922M/USB 3.0 ATX Mid Tower Case (Black)
Power Supply: Thermaltake 450W PSU
Motherboard: Asus B85M-E Intel B85 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 uATX
DDR3 Memory : 8GB (2X4GB) DDR3-1600 PC3-12800 Hyper-X
Processor: Intel Core i7 4770K 3.5GHz Quad Core 8MB
CPU Cooling Fan : Original Factory Cooling Fan and Heatsink

Already owned are: monitor (1280*1024), 2 SSDs, DVD drives, keyboard, mouse, Win 7 64-bit.

I will be using the PC partly for normal office applications, but also for a certain amount of gaming (mostly strategy games).

In particular, I would like to run "Rome II: Total War" quite well

My questions are as follows. Your advice is much appreciated!

Will I be able to overclock this CPU on this motherboard?

Will I be able to overlock this CPU using the stock HSF? If so, what overclock might I expect?

Is DDR3-1600 (Hyper-X) still considered decent RAM for gaming?

Won't there be a clash between the mobo onboard video and the CPU integrated graphics (Intel HD Graphics 4600)? How can I resolve that clash?

Which will be better: the onboard mobo video or the integrated CPU graphics?

I have a GeForce GTS 450 (Graphics clock: 783MHz, Processor clock: 1566MHz, Memory clock: 1804MHz, GDDR5, 1GB video RAM).
Will the integrated CPU graphics be better than this video card?

Can I run a PCIe-2.0 video card in a PCIe-3.0 slot at x16?

I think that's all my questions for now. Thanks for your time!

[Leonidas480bc]

I have the following computer how well will the game play on this?
AMD FX 6350 six core
10GB ram
Geforce GTX 660 TI

[SimonB1er]

I have a Asus s56c laptop with a: Intel Core i5 - 3317u, 1.7Ghz processor, 750G + 24G (SSD), 6G RAM, NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 635M/2GB. Do you guys think I can run the game? Thanks

[Willyton]

Vista
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz 3.19GHz
RAM: 4GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

Probably not good enough, but no harm in asking right?

I can run Rome I and medieval II in high def, not played empire or shogun?

Thanks for your time reading this.

[alexdblade21]

Vista
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz 3.19GHz
RAM: 4GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

Probably not good enough, but no harm in asking right?

I can run Rome I and medieval II in high def, not played empire or shogun?

Thanks for your time reading this.

pentium 4? that is old. I think u are require at least a dual core. Rome amd and medieval are a different engine, empire and so on uses the warscape engine taht requires dual cores I believe.

[Willyton]

pentium 4? that is old. I think u are require at least a dual core. Rome amd and medieval are a different engine, empire and so on uses the warscape engine taht requires dual cores I believe.

Oh we'll then! I know this has nothing to do with Rome but I can run Skyrim on medium though? That requires dual processor, I guess I'm gonna have to give it a miss anyhow!

[sgthunter]

wow windows vista... haven't seen that in ages.

[alexdblade21]

alot of times u can run games even if u are under the min req. Min req means game developers wont take responsability for the stability of the game. You probably can run it at very low settings with very low fps. Gl

[SimonB1er]

I have a Asus s56c laptop with a: Intel Core i5 - 3317u, 1.7Ghz processor, 750G + 24G (SSD), 6G RAM, NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 635M/2GB. Do you guys think I can run the game? Thanks

[Willyton]

Thanks a lot Alex appreciate it. And sgthunter not everyone has the luxury of a high spec computer with Windows 8, but I like my vista does me well.