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

[Another fan]

Currently, that will probably run the game on medium settings. With an upgrade of the GPU you should be able to go for high settings.
What's your budget?

About 150 €. What do you recommend I do?.


Thx gor all.

[CanOmer]

My PC specs:

Core i7 920 with stock HSF
Gigabyte EX58-UD3R
Geil 3x4GB 1600MHz DDR3
Powercolor HD6850 1GB
1TB+750GB Samsung and 200GB Seagate HDD
Dell U2412M 24" LED IPS 1920x1200
Glacialtech 650W
Tuncmatik Newtech Pro 1KVA

What are your recommends for upgrade to play Rome II better?

- New GPU
- SSD for short loading times
- HSF for overclock the CPU
- other?

[Econtra]

Hello all!

I have been reading much of the thread with great interest. You guys are doing God's work and deserve appreciation.

Now, if I may add a question to the heap: I am looking to build a solid ~900-1000 USD gaming PC, to play Rome II and other titles. How much, if any, of my old rig will I be able to recycle? My setup is:

Intel i3 540 3.07GHz
ATI Radeon HD 5450
Dell 0G3HR7
3 GB Kingston DDR3 RAM

Thanks ahead.

[alQamar]

My PC specs:

Core i7 920 with stock HSF
Gigabyte EX58-UD3R
Geil 3x4GB 1600MHz DDR3
Powercolor HD6850 1GB
1TB+750GB Samsung and 200GB Seagate HDD
Dell U2412M 24" LED IPS 1920x1200
Glacialtech 650W
Tuncmatik Newtech Pro 1KVA

What are your recommends for upgrade to play Rome II better?

- New GPU
- SSD for short loading times
- HSF for overclock the CPU
- other?

Oc the cpu would be a best effort try a "artic freezer 13 pwm co" for quick mounting and good results.
No Gpu upgrade before Wednesday. We need to check the real requirements. It seems ca underestimated them.

[Obatan]

Hi everyone,

Given that this thread was started nearly 6 months ago and Rome II has now been released, are there any changes to the recommended builds from the very first page given that there is probably way more information on the game now?

Ideally I was looking to start from scratch and build the 'Tier-Excellent' option so I could play on with Ultra.

[Sir Jeongbun]

first of all this is my first account, an my first post, i would like to ask, what else to add, to play total war rome 2 with locked 60FPS in ultra.

my current computer spec :
-core i7 3.4.
-2x8(16mb) memory ram.
-GTX650 1gb 128bit ( i know, my graphic card may looks bad, this is temporary gpu, until i can afford titan).

[Keiji99]

first of all this is my first account, an my first post, i would like to ask, what else to add, to play total war rome 2 with locked 60FPS in ultra.

my current computer spec :
-core i7 3.4.
-2x8(16mb) memory ram.
-GTX650 1gb 128bit ( i know, my graphic card may looks bad, this is temporary gpu, until i can afford titan).

A Titan is for professional work or more than 3 monitors (for gaming). Get a GTX 780 ti, it costs less, and performs better. Or get an R9 290X which performs roughly the same as a Titan for half the price.

[alQamar]

A Titan is for professional work or more than 3 monitors (for gaming). Get a GTX 780 ti, it costs less, and performs better. Or get an R9 290X which performs roughly the same as a Titan for half the price.

at the cost of much higher temps, energy waste and freaking loud cooling because of the first both... plus for Rome it is Total Waste not giving a Total War Experience cause of CPU bottlenecks. Not a good move at all Kejii

[Keiji99]

at the cost of much higher temps, energy waste and freaking loud cooling because of the first both... plus for Rome it is Total Waste not giving a Total War Experience cause of CPU bottlenecks. Not a good move at all Kejii

True, but that's why I suggested the Gtx 780 ti.

[♠ Thomas Cochrane ♠]

I was pretty sure I had my stuff sorted out, but I had no idea that i5s were better than i7s for gaming. My past 2 comps have had i7s, but I've never spent more than $1000 on the rig. I'm planning to upgrade in about september, so can you tell me why I should go for an i5 instead of an i7? I'm looking at spending between $1500 and $1950 AUD

[Biggus Splenus]

i5 are not better for gaming, i7 are just unnecessary. You spend an extra $100 for an extra 5 frames max. The reason for this is because games are not heavily threaded, ie. cannot take advantage of multiple threads. Battlefield 3 has the most heavily threaded engine and is suppose to be able to support 6 cores, but even when just using 4 cores there is only a tiny difference. The difference may be noticed online with 64 players though. Shogun 2 could only utilise 2 cores properly, and hopefully Rome 2 will be upgraded to 4 cores.

Back to the processors; the reason why you are paying the extra $100 for an i7 is because of the 'hyper-threading' technology, which essentially means that it has 4 physical cores, but can use them as 8 virtual cores. No games at this time or the near future can utilize that many cores and are far from doing so, which is why the i7 is a waste of money for a gaming machine. The i7 has a little more L3 cache in it too, but again this is unnecessary for gaming. If you do video editing/rendering, 2D and/or 3D art, then the i7 is a good investment.

That's a big price range you have there if you can tell me exactly what you want this machine for ie. any photoshop, autodesk, sony vegas, gaming etc. that will help me a lot. If you can tell me what games you want this rigged for that would help heaps too, do you play Battlefield, Crysis, Farcry.

Do you need to purchase Windows, a new monitor, keyboard and mouse? Personally, when I built my PC I had to buy all these, because a brand new system just doesn't feel brand new without a new monitor, keyboard and mouse.

[♠ Thomas Cochrane ♠]

i5 are not better for gaming, i7 are just unnecessary. You spend an extra $100 for an extra 5 frames max. The reason for this is because games are not heavily threaded, ie. cannot take advantage of multiple threads. Battlefield 3 has the most heavily threaded engine and is suppose to be able to support 6 cores, but even when just using 4 cores there is only a tiny difference. The difference may be noticed online with 64 players though. Shogun 2 could only utilise 2 cores properly, and hopefully Rome 2 will be upgraded to 4 cores.

Back to the processors; the reason why you are paying the extra $100 for an i7 is because of the 'hyper-threading' technology, which essentially means that it has 4 physical cores, but can use them as 8 virtual cores. No games at this time or the near future can utilize that many cores and are far from doing so, which is why the i7 is a waste of money for a gaming machine. The i7 has a little more L3 cache in it too, but again this is unnecessary for gaming. If you do video editing/rendering, 2D and/or 3D art, then the i7 is a good investment.

That's a big price range you have there if you can tell me exactly what you want this machine for ie. any photoshop, autodesk, sony vegas, gaming etc. that will help me a lot. If you can tell me what games you want this rigged for that would help heaps too, do you play Battlefield, Crysis, Farcry.

Do you need to purchase Windows, a new monitor, keyboard and mouse? Personally, when I built my PC I had to buy all these, because a brand new system just doesn't feel brand new without a new monitor, keyboard and mouse.

You're right, and I'm just now thinking about factoring in those kinds of accessories. I'm still using a Dell wireless keyboard with one of the arms from a bulldog clip acting as one of the stands, and the other one falls out if you lift it up!
I bought an Alienware Optx AW2310 mid last year for a bargain, and although its only 23", I'd need to be convinced to upgrade. Is two monitors worthwhile? The one reason for not keeping it would be that at present I'm an AMD man, and this one only has Nvidia 3D capabilities. I guess I'll have to wait to experience this new 3D porn fad

My price range is dependent on how much expendable income I have by September as I'm starting a heavily commission-centred job tomorrow!

I use the brunt of my specs for gaming, with some sound editing on the side, but nothing major. I've got some nice creative desktop speakers. At current I play BF3, Skyrim, Tomb Raider and all the TW games, so you can work out what kind of gaming that is. I do however put R2 @ ultra settings as my benchmark, and we can be pretty realistic about what those specs will be already.

The i5 vs i7 thing is good news, as I've now seen on review sites too, so that will clear up some dosh for a 128-256gb SSD.

What else?

[BigBOSS_Gr]

Back to the processors; the reason why you are paying the extra $100 for an i7 is because of the 'hyper-threading' technology, which essentially means that it has 4 physical cores, but can use them as 8 virtual cores. No games at this time or the near future can utilize that many cores and are far from doing so, which is why the i7 is a waste of money for a gaming machine. The i7 has a little more L3 cache in it too, but again this is unnecessary for gaming. If you do video editing/rendering, 2D and/or 3D art, then the i7 is a good investment..

Hyper threading in games like CRYSIS 3 offers at least plus 10-15 fps.

[Sharpe]

What can I do with about 800 quid? For max framerate and graphics.

[Biggus Splenus]

You could most probably max out Rome 2, or have some thing on very high instead of ultra. But I have the same questions for you as above:

That's a big price range you have there if you can tell me exactly what you want this machine for ie. any photoshop, autodesk, sony vegas, gaming etc. that will help me a lot. If you can tell me what games you want this rigged for that would help heaps too, do you play Battlefield, Crysis, Farcry.

Do you need to purchase Windows, a new monitor, keyboard and mouse? Personally, when I built my PC I had to buy all these, because a brand new system just doesn't feel brand new without a new monitor, keyboard and mouse.

[Sharpe]

I need a mouse, screen and keyboard.

It would be used for games, films, music and word processing for my uni work.

I could probably push the budget to 1000 quid. It has to last for about 6 years.

[General George S. Patton]

I could probably push the budget to 1000 quid

I did the same thing, lol just a little more, well maybe just another 100...

lol

[AngryTitusPullo]

Just do it man. Who cares for vote.

Please give me the best budget up to MYR 5000 inclusive of OS / monitor etc. from these 2 links.

http://www.startec.com.my/wp-content...price_part.pdf

http://www.viewnet.com.my/downloads/..._pricelist.pdf

[Sharpe]

I will ask my parents for some money haha, at 22 years of age.

"It's not for playing games I swear, Microsoft Word has becoming a demanding program in modern times"

[♠ Thomas Cochrane ♠]

I will ask my parents for some money haha, at 22 years of age.

"It's not for playing games I swear, Microsoft Word has becoming a demanding program in modern times"

Oh jeez! i did that for my last one 2 years ago. I also said I'd pay them back for it too!! We're bad.