Think this hardware will run ARR smooth?

[Signy]

4gb is not enough this days... 8gb at least or if you go with 16gb you can disable the windows paging to make the hard drive go faster and make it last longer.

[Shougun]

4gb is not enough this days... 8gb at least or if you go with 16gb you can disable the windows paging to make the hard drive go faster and make it last longer.

4gb is fine XD (dont scare people now >.> lol). You just have to be smart about how many apps. you got up - though 8gb and even really 16gb is super cheap these days (and is super useful for bloating your active apps list XD). Think I got my 16gb corsair ram for ~40 cause of a sell.

[Cedri]

Heya guys.
I just bough a new computer friday, and since i'm kinda rusty on Hardware selection, a friend told me to buy this:

MOTHERBOARD: ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
CPU: AMD FX8120
RAM: KINGSTON 4GB/1600MHZ
HDD: WESTERN DIGITAL 500GB SATA 3'5"
GPU: MSI GTX650 1GB DDR5 OC

This costed around 550€ which was what i had to spend on a new computer (was saving for PS3, but i'm pretty sure this is a better choice to play ARR hopefully).

Think this will suffice to run ARR smoothy almost at best resolutions? I been asking myself because their recommended specs are kinda high and since i cant run current version fully maxed out... :/

Motherboard: Seems fine.
CPU: ranked 109/418 (According to passmark)
RAM: Get 4 sticks of 4GB. (it's affordable) Seriously 4x1gb is dated, or if you're running 2x2gb that worries me for gaming.
HDD: really doesn't matter for MMOs. It sores data? Cool!
Video Card ranked 75/471 (According to passmark)

Baseline gaming system is how this looks to me. Moar ram plox.

[Wynn]

4gb is fine XD (dont scare people now >.> lol). You just have to be smart about how many apps. you got up - though 8gb and even really 16gb is super cheap these days (and is super useful for bloating your active apps list XD). Think I got my 16gb corsair ram for ~40 cause of a sell.

Just to add: Some operating systems can't even use more than 4GB like 32 bit versions of Windows 7. In cases like that, adding more will do a person no good at all.

[Shougun]

Just to add: Some operating systems can't even use more than 4GB like 32 bit versions of Windows 7. In cases like that, adding more will do a person no good at all.

OH man I really hate that. I mean I know about it so its cool for me but I get people asking me "why isnt my system using all its memory". And I face palm at microsoft and ask "Are you running 64bit pro version?" and they say no and then I face palm at microsoft again.

[Cedri]

OH man I really hate that. I mean I know about it so its cool for me but I get people asking me "why isnt my system using all its memory". And I face palm at microsoft and ask "Are you running 64bit pro version?" and they say no and then I face palm at microsoft again.

Why facepalm at microsoft? 32 bit was a nessisary version of windows 7 for compatibility reasons.

[Shougun]

Why facepalm at microsoft? 32 bit was a nessisary version of windows 7 for compatibility reasons.

Microsoft has ram limitations as part of the 64 bit versions. Home is 8gb but premium is 16gb. If you have 16gb but not premium windows 7 you have 8gb anyways.

Windows 8 has hilarious limits though 128(home)/512 gb(pro)...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx

[Cedri]

Microsoft has ram limitations as part of the 64 bit versions. Home is 8gb but premium is 16gb. If you have 16gb but not premium windows 7 you have 8gb anyways.

Windows 8 has hilarious limits though 128(home)/512 gb(pro)...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx

OH you're talking about that I thought you were talking about 32 vs 64 bit os XD

[Reinheart]

Microsoft has ram limitations as part of the 64 bit versions. Home is 8gb but premium is 16gb. If you have 16gb but not premium windows 7 you have 8gb anyways.

Windows 8 has hilarious limits though 128(home)/512 gb(pro)...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx

128/512GB ram.... damn times are changing fast.... lol I still remember when I was going OMFG this game needs 15 floppy disks to install on my hard drive.... I think was running 128MB ram also...

[GinTama]

i suggest you get a SSD its almost a must on new systems