I'm Buying a PC just to play this game HELP with picking the right one

[Dominic22]

Hello, as everyone who reads this can see I love this game. I'm buying a computer that will play this game with no problem at all. I need help with choosing the right one. Can anyone list like information I should make sure it has like the processor the cards the memory the ram etc... All help would be nice. Thanks.

[Guest __Uknow__]

CPU: Intel Q6700

MotherBoard: p5k

RAM: 3G DDR

Graphics: Geforce GTX 260

Sound: Creative SB x-fi

Get that and you can play it certainly

[Dominic22]

CPU: Intel Q6700

MotherBoard: p5k

RAM: 3G DDR

Graphics: Geforce GTX 260

Sound: Creative SB x-fi

Get that and you can play it certainly

Are you sure I won't need any other certain things?

And is that expensive?

What about Q6600 or Q6000 I only see that well I see others but those are the closest to the Q6700

I found the Q6700 but I there is no P5K from the selection the motherboard

This stuff costs in the thousands

[Hoppah]

My pc:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (3,0 GHz)

NVIDIA® GeForce 8800GT (512 mb)

4 GB DDR2 RAM

720 GB HDD

Windows® Vista® Home Premium

Bought it on 10 March 2008 for about €800 (USD $1 144) and everything works without any problem.

I still don't get all the whining people about Vista lol.

And EM4 works perfectly on this pc.

The problems with this game that often occur have more to do with certain installed software and driver(version)s instead of Vista or the hardware.

I don't know where you live, but PC's are in the US cheap as hell.

Mikesphotos recently bought a pc in the US which is twice as good as mine and paid less than me.

But after all, I don't think you need to worry about hardware specifications.

Emergency 4 is quite old now, it's not like Crysis.

[Ami89E1234]

i say Alienware lol

be pretty damn sweet with their best one, the awesome Area-51 ALX:

ALIENWARE

which you can buy for as little as $4,699 (US) lol

[Stan]

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ EE ~2.6Ghz

ATI Radeon HD2600XT

4 GB DDR2 RAM ( 4 x 1 Gb)

ASUS M2N Sli Deluxe

2 x 160 GB HDD

1 x 320 GB HDD

Windows® Vista® Ultimate 64 Bit

Runs the game very well...

Might still be worth a litle 800$

And ehm... just idiots pay 4000$ for a pc....

[MikesPhotos]

The computer I picked up and frankenstined is a Gateway FX4710-UB003A

• Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor1 Q9300 (2.50GHz,1333MHz FSB, 6MB L2 cache)
  
• 6GB Ram
  
• 640 GB HD
  
• 18x DVD+/-R/RW Labelflash Drive
  
• GeForce 9800GT 512mb Factory Overclocked
  
• 15-1 Media Reader
  
• 7.1 HD audio
  
• 6 USB 2.0, 1 eSATA, 2 Firewire, 2 DVI, 1 S-Video port
  
• 10/100 Ethernet
  
• 56k Modem
  
• 400 Watt PSU
  

This is a stock retail unit found at Fry's, Bestbuy and the like here stateside. Wait for the weekend sales and you can find it for under 900 bucks.

I replaced the PSU with a 1000w model, up'd the hard drive space to 4 TBs, added a gigabit adapter, 2nd video card so i could have my 4 monitors, 2 additional fans on the rear, and an extra SATA card to support the additional drives.

My custom home built rig blew a PSU after 8 years that fried everything leaving me in the lurch for time. The one thing I looked at more then anything was upgradeability. How many PCI/PCIe slots are open and usable? How many Drives can fit in the bay? Can I access the bays easily? How is the cooling/fan situation? So many of the HP and Dell systems were just horrible in these respects. I have custom needs with gaming being a minor issue which is why I made the adjustments I did.

As for playing games though, Arma, Crysis, EM4, MTW2 and anything else i've loaded on here and taken off has run smoothly even with a ton of background processes running.

My new laptop also plays EM4 wonderfully and it's not anywhere near that in specs. It's an HP tx2510US tablet.

• AMD Turion™ X2 ZM-80 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processor
  
• 12.1" diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Integrated Touch-screen, Convertible Display (1280 x 800). Panel rotates 180 degrees and folds flat. Rechargeable Digitizer for handwriting capture included
  
• ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 Graphics RS780M with 64MB DDR2 (sideport memory) with up to 1470MB total graphics memory
  
• 3072MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
  
• 250GB (5400RPM) Hard Drive (SATA)
  
• LightScribe Super Multi 8X DVD?R/RW with Double Layer Support
  
• Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g/n & Bluetooth
  
• Wireless IR remote control
  
• 3 USB ports and S-Video Port
  

Can usually be found on sale for around $950 at Frys and such. I got this because I needed a tablet under 1k and well, unlike computers, the choices were much more limited.

Mike

Mike

[KR1SU]

Here's a good PC with you can play the newest games:

Intel E8500

Asus P5Q Pro

Radeon HD 4850

4GB RAM

Antec P182

Western Digital WD6400AAKS

Corsair HX520 or Enermax Modu82+ 525W

Vista Home Premium 64 bit

OR if only to EM4, heres a cheaper pc:

Abit IP35-E

Intel E7200

Radeon HD 3850

etc.

[Stan]

my older pc:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+

2 x 512 mb ram

ATI Radeon X350xt

Asus A8N-E

Runs fine...

[Dominic22]

Hello everyone, Thanks so much for all of your replies. They helped very much. Now it's time to go scouting for the PC.

[Dominic22]

$1161.00

(before all applicable rebates)

CASE: Sigma Gaming Windstorm Mid-Tower 420W Case

CPU: AMD Athlon™ X2 6000+ Dual-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology

MOTHERBOARD: Biostar TA790GX A2+ AM2+/AM2 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

MEMORY: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)8GB (4x2GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (Corsair or Major Brand)

VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB 16X PCI Express (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)

VIDEO CARD 2: NONE

VIDEO CARD 3: NONE

LCD Monitor: 19& quot; TFT Active Matrix LCD Display (ViewSonic VX1932WM Widescreen 1440x900 w/ ClearMotiv 2MS Broadcast-Quality Video)

HARD DRIVE: Single Hard Drive (750GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)

Data Hard Drive: NONE

Optical Drive: (Special Price) LG 20X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR)

Optical Drive 2: NONE

SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO

Ok, would this be good? I'll try to look at more and posts them. Because I don't want to pay al of that money.