Computer Spec for T3D If you are trying to buy a new computer for game design

#1 Right now at work I'm running

AMD Phenom II x2 555 3.2 GHz
4 GB of RAM
Nvidia 460 GTX SE w/ 1 GB of video RAM
Win 7 64-bit

and when I run Pacific with everything on High, Vsync, Anti-Aliasing 4x, Anisotropic Filtering 16x

i get an average 23 FPS

but my personal recommendations for a new pc is

core i5
8 GB of RAM
Nvidia 560 TI w/ 2 GB of video RAM

hope this helps ya :D

#2 Faster is better...NVIDIA is better. But don't forget to test on lower end machines. I personally work on a lower end machine so that I can make sure that we are not building games for Crysis 2 rigs.

#3 I know this is a dead thread, but i saw it whenever I was looking at your job posting.

I just built an:
8 core AMD
16 gigs of ram
990fx extreme3 motherboard
a case with digital cpu and hd thermometers
and I have an AMD crossfire video setup.

Its flawless right now, I can subdivide 1million+ Polygons with it. with no lag

I built it for 500$, (reused my old SSD and HDD, and windows 7).
newegg.com is your friend. never buy a prebuilt rig

Like Eric said, NVIDIA is better, but for a little less of a benchmark you can use amd(ati) for less of a price. I'm still kind of torn between AMD and NVIDIA. Im sure if i had the money i would go NVIDIA SLI, but im sticking with AMD Crossfire right now, and it works great for the price.

#4 @Jordan, thanks me and my brother are in the process of upgrading our computers now! We are looking for something that can run high-end graphics and like crysis 1 on the highest setting with no lag. So with that being said you just helped us and set us in the right direction. Thanks!

#5 Np, AMD has really been stepping up recently. Their new cpu is like
299$ and its an unlocked 8 core. It benchmarks right behind the 1000$ i7 cpus.
make sure you go to
http://www.cpubenchmark.net
it will tell you how everything rates against each other. So whenever your looking for a video card, just hop over to the site and see how it compares to others. Its a good site to compare speeds vs. cost

*edit* The amd 8 core is only 199$ not 299$. and as you can see, it benchmarks right beneath the 780$ i7.
I would just spend the extra 30$ to get the higher end amd eight core though. I have the cheaper one and it works fine for me. but its up to you

#6 What type of frame rate do you get with south pacific?

#7 im not sure, im an artist. I cant really code.
Is there a way to post your fps? like a hot key? Im just coming back to torque after a while with unreal. So torque is new to me again haha

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#9 jordan,
i am not sure but may be u are talking about amd's new 8 core AMD FX-8120.

i have done some analysis some days ago.and the result for amd is weired considering intel's 4 core (i5 2500k).

almost in all cases it legs behind to i5 2500k(specially in gaming it is far behind of 2500k)

those benchmark is not mine,so i honestly cannot say it is true.

only in
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/
i am seeing it is in high score.

do not know what means by this "ubdivide 1million+ Polygons with it. with no lag".

but i will definetly go to core i5 2500k.because,i belief game development hardware performance mostly depends on grafics card,not processor.
specially when most of the current software and game is not prepared to take advantage of 3 or 4 core.

also in feature intel is always ahead of others.even their built in GPU is much stronger then 8 or 9 months old Nvidea GPU(100-120$).