Can this System handle BS? give me your opinion

[hollywoody]

Hi, I was looking at maybe picking up something along this line..do you guys think this setup can handle BS on high settings? thanks

This is from fry's ready to go sys. $1299

 

SPECIFICATIONS

OPERATING SYSTEM • Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit - makes everyday tasks

simple—and makes new things possible

PROCESSOR • Intel® Core™ i7-920 Processor

PROCESSOR SPEED • 2.66GHz

CACHE (L2) • 1MB L2 + 8MB shared L3 cache with QPI Technology

CHIPSET • Intel® X58 Express Chipset

MEMORY • 9GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM memory (3x2048MB and 3x1024MB)

(expandable to 24GB)

HARD DRIVE • 1 Terabyte Serial ATA hard drive

OPTICAL DRIVE(S) • SuperMulti DVD Burner with LightScribe Technology

Write: 16x max DVD±R, 12x max DVD±R DL, 8x max DVD+RW, 6x max

DVD-RW, 12x max DVD-RAM, 40x max CD-R, 32x max CD-RW

Read: 16x max DVD-ROM, 40x max CD-ROM

VIDEO GRAPHICS • NVIDIA Geforce GTX 260 graphics card with 1.8 GB dedicated graphics

memory, DVI capabilities and support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10

NETWORK INTERFACE • 10/100/1000Base-T network interface

WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY • Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g/n

SOUND • High Definition Audio with up to 7.1 surround sound capabilities

MEMORY SLOTS • 6 DIMM (240-pin, DDR3) (occupied)

EXPANSION SLOTS • 1 PCI Express x1 (one available)

• 1 PCI Express x4 (one available)

• 2 PCI Express x16 (one available)

EXPANSION BAYS • 2 external 5.25" (one available)

• 1 external 3.5" (one available)

• 2 internal 3.5" (one available)

EXTERNAL PORTS • Front panel 15-in-1 memory card reader: supports SmartMedia, xD,

MultiMedia Card, Secure Digital (SD), Mini Secure Digital, Compact Flash I,

Compact Flash II, IBM Microdrive, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, Memory

Stick Duo, Memory Stick Pro Duo, RSMMC, MMC Mobile, MMC+

• 4 USB 2.0 ports (Back)

• 3 USB 2.0 ports (Front)

• 1 FireWire® (IEEE 1394) port (Back)

• 2 eSATA (Back)

• Headphone; Microphone (Front)

• Optical Audio Out; LAN; Microphone/Line-in/Line-out; Rear speaker-out;

Side speaker out; Center (subwoofer)

• DVI available on the graphics card

 

 

Thanks

[Flyby]

Somehow I think it will be adequate, but Black Shark is cpu-intensive. Be sure to search out the affinity trick so you can use one core for the sim and the others to run the Windows background stuff. I'm planning to build a system based on that processor.

FLyby out

ps you're not just showing off are ya? ;)

[Grimes]

I think you will be fine.

[Pilotasso]

...Just barely :D

[SeaFoam]

If you are spending that much why not build it yourself? I can think of a few parts I would change out and still keep it under $1300 but would be a lot better.

[EtherealN]

Be sure to search out the affinity trick so you can use one core for the sim and the others to run the Windows background stuff.

 

Not necessary. With the 1.0.1 patch DCS:BS will do that automatically.

[hitman]

a laptop can handle this sim just fine.

[Vecko]

a laptop can handle this sim just fine.

 

Obviously ,you never experience online gameplay with 300+ active units in the mission...

[CAT_101st]

It will play the game but the CPU is lacking in gh. I think a custom built will be better for you. Put your mony towards the CPU and GPU

[Boberro]

I think you will be able to get at least 20 FPS ^^

[EtherealN]

Obviously ,you never experience online gameplay with 300+ active units in the mission...

 

There's nothing inherent in laptops that make them weaker than a stationary - as long as the laptops in question are designed with gaming in mind. You pay a premium for minituarization and lose overclocking options (mostly... I overclocked my netbook but that's just me...), but as long as you don't demand 10 hour battery times and can stand a 3.5kg laptop you can get some extremely powerful machines.

 

Besides, your argument applies equally to stationary machines. Make the mission big enough and I don't care if you are running a BlueGene/L... ;)

 

The processor in the OP's post is good. Standard clock is a bit on the low side, but the architecture is good and add a good aftermarket CPU fan/heatsink assembly and it'll go to somewhere between 3.8 and 4.4GHz. As long as the motherboard has a BIOS that allows that kind of control.

[hitman]

Obviously ,you never experience online gameplay with 300+ active units in the mission...

 

now why would you want that many? a decent laptop from 4 years ago had no problems with lomac online, and black shark isnt much different. all you need to play these sims are decent video cards and maybe even a dual core chip. 1024 mb memory will probably even work...i f%^&in bet you it would if you had an amd fx57, ati 9800 pro, pc3200 1024 mb ram...i betch it would run fine.

[emenance]

I like the OP system for 1200 bucks that aint a bad price. One could almost spend that building it them selves.

 

Laptops are really funny when talking about this sim. Laptops do inherently have a problem with High performance games, unless as mentioned they are " made for gaming " . Basically you have the neg factors in a typical non game laptop. Slower speed harddrive, slower motherboard in general ( yes some MB are just slower than others), slow graphics. Soome of that is fixed with a " gaming laptop" like faster graphics, faster hdd, and maybe a faster motherboard. Both platforms will suffer from heatbuild up and that will eventually cause insignificant, meaningful and consequential results as in a problematic death of hardware.