The announcement I wanted most out of Blizzcon was a release date... but that was perhaps overly optimistic of me.
The announcement I wanted second most was the system requirements. I've been dying to replace my crappy ASUS computer (never again until you start winning blue ribbon awards for system support) for two years now.
Think how good it would be for the economy if even 20% of the people who are waiting for D3 bought a new computer... doesn't Blizzard want to help out the economy? Surely now that there are four characters, and lots of acts, quests, and a virtual ton of different visual effects, the designers know what will work best (optimal if not minimal).
Sigh.
Thanks for the monk announcement... please don't limit his weapons too much. The club, but not mace business for the druid was, politely, undesireable.
As long as your graphic card meet the technical requirements (pixel shader and stuff), I don't see it as a problem.
Look at the game. Does it really look like its going to take that much out of a computer? Its obvious to me that no, especially with the settings down. Its not even comparable to Crysis.
Of course, this is all once the game is optimized and ready for launch. Blizzard stated very clearly that they want most computers to run it. And the average computer is not that strong. Having relatively low minimum requirements is a MUST to sell widely.
You really think most people upgrade their computer for a single game? The only thing people do when their computer can't run a game, is forget about it until they can afford to upgrade it. And considering the time we are in, I seriously would not waste money on a computer.
and also, if you are waiting 2 years for an upgrade...that kinda proves you got something not many gamers have: patience! You could probably wait more, but you're looking for an excuse to buy one now, my advice: wait.
probably not what you wanted to hear, but hey, it's the truth =p
I don't think d3 is going to be a benchmark game for upgrading your computer. It looks great, and can't wait to play it, but its not gonna push your system unless your already running into that issue with majority of other recent titles
Blizzard is smart and knows to make the most profit, the must appeal to a very large audience. They will make the system requirements relatively low for when the game comes out so most people can play it. Same way they did World of WarCraft.
Don't worry about a new computer..(unless you plan to play some other new game) if the game release is 2011 or even 2012 you have a lot of new options and you will get as fast computer as some high end now with a lot less money
buy an i7 and 295 and 12gb ddr3 and ssd and you will be fine
Yeah that uhm letssee costs me uhm letsee uhmm well Gpu if your taking to the max whch you are so the i7 975 costs 1k by iself 500 for gpu roughly 300 for your ram and uhm letsee to have effecient space at least 2 120's or a 250 which is uhm letssee 700 so add it all and you get 2.5k excluding good cooling chasis get the thermaltake speedo the best thats an extra 180 with a rebate 219 without, then you need a mobo anywere from 129.99 to 300 and then you need your monitor o be able to play 1080p an extra 250 if you by the viewsonic the official mlg one. so i men your talking about an extremely expensive computer...not worth it. Get AMD if you buy the AMD Phenom II 965 black edition it has 3.40 GHz better than the 1k i7 8 GB of rram way more than enough. And a 4870x2 is just as good as a 295 and 100 bucks less and the mobo i got is 179 and its extremely good for oc cuz it literally has on the fly oc. and btw the AMD CPU is roughly the priice of a i7 920 actually less than it and almost twice as fast, and their both quads hmm seems your just paying for brand name. and im paying for a better computer =] As to the system requirements the as long as you have even the 800 dollar alienware nothing extra youll be able to run it on high, cause a dua core with a semi nice gpu such as maybe a 4870 or a 3870x2 which is either 100 or 200 respectively and if your nvidia a 9800 for 100 is also fine and then having at least 4GB of ram which most can get by now for 100 bucks extre or something. and then getting a 500gb HDD is fine don't buy SSDs yet too overpriced upgrade when you want but wait for prices to comedown and to upgrade storage capacity.
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No doubt. The game is obviously not as demanding as Crysis, and that card can run Crysis.
Sweet. Thanx.
I think the newest game I have is Portal. I just don't have the money for many of the recent games, but I will definitely be setting aside funds for Diablo 3.
Blizzard is smart and knows to make the most profit, the must appeal to a very large audience. They will make the system requirements relatively low for when the game comes out so most people can play it. Same way they did World of WarCraft.
Exactly! Look at the last game they released. WotLK has a system requirement of a P4 1.4, 512MB RAM, and a GeForce 2 or better. LOL. Seriously, I don't think you will have to worry about Blizzard making the system requirements high end. Upgrade when D3 comes out or when SC2 is released. That's your best bet.
I run Crysis on High-Med, and I haven't even begun to overclock. If you have at least this (everything is dirt cheap right now) you will run SCII & DIII no prob.
Thanks for all the input on my original post... I don't suppose we could just keep the thread going until Blizzard releases the reqs... hint.
In other system related whatnot, I'm not happy with ASUS. Trying to get an appropriate BIOS update is not quite unlike threading a needle while both blindfolded and riding in an ATV accross the outback. Anyone have any thoughts about MSI, Gigabyte, or another motherboard manufacturer?
Thanks for all the input on my original post... I don't suppose we could just keep the thread going until Blizzard releases the reqs... hint.
In other system related whatnot, I'm not happy with ASUS. Trying to get an appropriate BIOS update is not quite unlike threading a needle while both blindfolded and riding in an ATV accross the outback. Anyone have any thoughts about MSI, Gigabyte, or another motherboard manufacturer?
Asking for opinion's on Motherboards is like asking someone's favorite ice cream.
Since you asked, let me tell you my experiences with motherboards, and other compy stuff.
I've worked in the IT business for 11 years. 6 years of that has included building/fixing servers/lappys/desktops. I've build SAN servers, supercomputers, and watercooled over-clocked systems. With numbers into the 1000's if not 10's of 1000's. Yikes. Right now I'm a buyer for a large company and have an anual budget of 250k for hardware purchases. Fun. I tell you all this so you can understand where my opinion spawns from.
I started out loving Asus boards. They were cheap, innovative, and designed for gamers. After about 3 years of building nothing but Asus, their quality started down hill. We got more and more DOA and RMA boards. Bad. Time for a switch.
We began reviewing other boards, Gigabyte, Intel, MSI, Foxcon, etc. The debate came down to Intel vs. MSI. The techs in our company wanted Intel, the sales ppl wanted MSI (cheaper). So we went with MSI for about 3 years. Again, we saw MSI's quality and support drop over time.
We then decided to go with Intel. Best choice we ever made. I've been personally using Intel boards for 6 years and the never die. (That can be a bad thing). I've found that Intel boards don't always have the buzz feature that MSI and Asus have, but upon working with Intel I found out that they actually TEST their products extensively before releaseing to market.
Out of all the 1000's of desktops I've built, I've seen fewer problems with Intel than any other Motherboard. My personal box has never had a core dump or a hard lock. That's pretty cool.
Dicho Card... very interesting. Do you have insight as to various CPUs as well? While I could probably wait to upgrade, my current computer has several issues that just cause headaches, so it's likely that I'll go ahead and get a new system sometime before Feb (depends on the holiday sales, etc... and since I'm now a student again for a semester, I can get a discount on Dell and a few other vendors).
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The announcement I wanted second most was the system requirements. I've been dying to replace my crappy ASUS computer (never again until you start winning blue ribbon awards for system support) for two years now.
Think how good it would be for the economy if even 20% of the people who are waiting for D3 bought a new computer... doesn't Blizzard want to help out the economy? Surely now that there are four characters, and lots of acts, quests, and a virtual ton of different visual effects, the designers know what will work best (optimal if not minimal).
Sigh.
Thanks for the monk announcement... please don't limit his weapons too much. The club, but not mace business for the druid was, politely, undesireable.
As long as your graphic card meet the technical requirements (pixel shader and stuff), I don't see it as a problem.
Look at the game. Does it really look like its going to take that much out of a computer? Its obvious to me that no, especially with the settings down. Its not even comparable to Crysis.
Of course, this is all once the game is optimized and ready for launch. Blizzard stated very clearly that they want most computers to run it. And the average computer is not that strong. Having relatively low minimum requirements is a MUST to sell widely.
You really think most people upgrade their computer for a single game? The only thing people do when their computer can't run a game, is forget about it until they can afford to upgrade it. And considering the time we are in, I seriously would not waste money on a computer.
probably not what you wanted to hear, but hey, it's the truth =p
Not sure if I'll upgrade stuff myself asides from a new hard drive and new graphics card. Just keep waiting...
And too bad no one asked him about the requirements at the panel. >.<
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No doubt. The game is obviously not as demanding as Crysis, and that card can run Crysis.
Sweet. Thanx.
I think the newest game I have is Portal. I just don't have the money for many of the recent games, but I will definitely be setting aside funds for Diablo 3.
/graphic-card-noob
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Exactly! Look at the last game they released. WotLK has a system requirement of a P4 1.4, 512MB RAM, and a GeForce 2 or better. LOL. Seriously, I don't think you will have to worry about Blizzard making the system requirements high end. Upgrade when D3 comes out or when SC2 is released. That's your best bet.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+ 2.5 GHz
3 GB RAM
17" HP Widescreen LCD monitor (1440x900)
Rosewill PSU 550w
Nvidia 9600GSO 512mb
I run Crysis on High-Med, and I haven't even begun to overclock. If you have at least this (everything is dirt cheap right now) you will run SCII & DIII no prob.
In other system related whatnot, I'm not happy with ASUS. Trying to get an appropriate BIOS update is not quite unlike threading a needle while both blindfolded and riding in an ATV accross the outback. Anyone have any thoughts about MSI, Gigabyte, or another motherboard manufacturer?
Asking for opinion's on Motherboards is like asking someone's favorite ice cream.
Since you asked, let me tell you my experiences with motherboards, and other compy stuff.
I've worked in the IT business for 11 years. 6 years of that has included building/fixing servers/lappys/desktops. I've build SAN servers, supercomputers, and watercooled over-clocked systems. With numbers into the 1000's if not 10's of 1000's. Yikes. Right now I'm a buyer for a large company and have an anual budget of 250k for hardware purchases. Fun. I tell you all this so you can understand where my opinion spawns from.
I started out loving Asus boards. They were cheap, innovative, and designed for gamers. After about 3 years of building nothing but Asus, their quality started down hill. We got more and more DOA and RMA boards. Bad. Time for a switch.
We began reviewing other boards, Gigabyte, Intel, MSI, Foxcon, etc. The debate came down to Intel vs. MSI. The techs in our company wanted Intel, the sales ppl wanted MSI (cheaper). So we went with MSI for about 3 years. Again, we saw MSI's quality and support drop over time.
We then decided to go with Intel. Best choice we ever made. I've been personally using Intel boards for 6 years and the never die. (That can be a bad thing). I've found that Intel boards don't always have the buzz feature that MSI and Asus have, but upon working with Intel I found out that they actually TEST their products extensively before releaseing to market.
Out of all the 1000's of desktops I've built, I've seen fewer problems with Intel than any other Motherboard. My personal box has never had a core dump or a hard lock. That's pretty cool.
I hope this information helps.:thumbsup: