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[JayDilla34]

Hey everyone. Well I was all excited to order my game on amazon and had it on launch day. Of course there were issues with connecting to the network, but then i also realized all 3 pc's i have dont meet the minimum requirements to play the game. So of course it locks up everytime i click what character i want male or female. So I'm going to buy a new pc. Does this pc meet the minimum requirements? Just want to ask before i order the pc.


Intel® Pentium® dual-core E5400 VT(2MB, 2.7GHz, 800FSB)
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
6GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM3 at 800MHz - 4DIMMs
750GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache
Video CardsIntegrated Intel® GMA X4500HD Graphic
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio

Thanks for the help.

James

[Gorath Alpha]

An actual, discrete video card produced by either ATI or nVIDIA is required. As is clearly shown in the widely published and easily available system requirements.

                    ME2

PC MINIMUM System Requirements
OS = Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP1 / Windows 7
Processor = 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent AMD CPU
Memory = 1 GB RAM for Windows XP / 2 GB RAM for Windows Vista and Windows 7
Hard Drive = 15 GB
DVD ROM = 1x Speed
Sound Card = DirectX 9.0c compatible
Direct X = DirectX 9.0c August 2008 (included)
Input = Keyboard / Mouse
Video Card = 256 MB (with Pixel Shader 3.0 support). Supported Chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or greater; ATI Radeon X1600 Pro or greater. Please note that NVIDIA GeForce 7300, 7400, 7500, 8100, 8200, 8300, 8400, 9200, and 9300; ATI Radeon HD 2400, 3200, HD 3450, HD 3470, and HD4350 are below minimum system requirements. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required. Intel and S3 video cards are not officially supported  in Mass Effect 2.

Gorath

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 27 janvier 2010 - 12:39 .

[alicyn sterling]

keep away from integrated Video cards

[JayDilla34]

i have an option to upgrade to a Nvidia Gforce GTS 240 1024 MB should i pick that video card then?

[Gorath Alpha]

If you have an option to go with the GT 250, that one is good, but the 240 is not very competitive in performance with the Radeon cards in its class (like the HD 4670, which is much better, and much less expensive).

[JayDilla34]

it doesnt give me an option for that video card only the 2 i said earlier and also a ATI Radeon HD4350 512MB

[JayDilla34]

which one would you pick if u had to?

[alicyn sterling]

just my opinion, HD4350 is really low end - spend a little more money, for maybe a HD4890 or something it is more fun having headroom and play this game with all settings on high.

[Seronx The Cursed]

The X4500HD
Is about as fast as the 8400GM

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814102865
I recommend this
If you want a dedicated

The 8400GM
has about 6.4 GB/s of max speed

The Card I recommended has a speed of
73.6 GB/s
and to place that into speed terms that is for understandableability
it equals 1008 GFlops


and also if you want to upgrade your cpu

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16819115036

It should be combatible to your motherboard if you get a new bios for it :\\

Modifié par Seronx The Cursed, 27 janvier 2010 - 01:12 .

[Gorath Alpha]

JayDilla34 wrote...

which one would you pick if u had to?

None of the three is a high-performance option; other makers are selling better performance than whoever you are thinking about buying from!  The Intel is bargain basement junk, the HD 4350 is basically the game's bare minimum equivalent (despite being named as unsupported, I've checed it against the published minimum, and I don't like either one of those).  The GT 240 is "fair" when compared to the HD 4350, but it's not any better than year before  last's 9600 GT, and costs much more than the Geforce 9600 GT does. 

Gorath

[Mromson]

In order from weakest to strongest:



9800 GT http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814130535

HD 4850 http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814150351

GTS 250 http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814150357

GTS 250 http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814130514

HD 5770 http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814150462

HD 4890 http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814150438

HD 5850 http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814161302



Either of the cards will run Mass Effect with supreme brilliance. And pretty much every other game as well.



Note that the higher resolution you play the game on (max resolution is limited by your monitor) the worse it will run. That said, even the 9800 GT will run Mass Effect at full force on a 1920x1200 resolution.

[Seronx The Cursed]

the 5770 is the faster and better rebrand of the 4890

they are exactly the same speed

[Gorath Alpha]

Seronx The Cursed wrote...

the 5770 is the faster and better rebrand of the 4890
they are exactly the same speed

The HD 48n0 cards all have 256 bit or higher memory systems.  The HD 57n0 cards, so far, are all 128 bits, and thus, basically just very fast Mainline / Medium cards.  As you can see from this, that change and the memory clock speed are different.

www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

P. S. I could edit my statement to the thread up above, I suppose, but since I woite that, I opened an mWave eMail ad, and they are selling a GT 240 that will be price-competitive with the HD 4650 after mail-in rebate, although still isn't as powerful as that older model Radeon card is.

Gorath
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[JayDilla34]

ok i picked this... will it meet the minimum specs?





[HP Pavilion Elite HPE-170t series



* Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

* Intel® Core™ i7-860 quad-core processor [2.8GHz, 1MB L2 + 8MB shared L3 cache]

* 6GB DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM [3 DIMMs]

* 640GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive

* 1GB ATI Radeon HD 4650 [DVI, HDMI, VGA]

[Gorath Alpha]

It will do very well overall, yes.

[overlordbill]

you would do better off not buying an hp... they are designed to fail just out of warranty. believe me, i know. also, if you are out of warranty, they want you to pay $50 just to talk about what may be wrong with your computer. hp are a bunch of crooks, do not buy from them. if you are looking for an already built pc, try these sites

http://www.ibuypower.com

http://www.cyberpower.com