trevort
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Sure! MSI would love to make that sale. I just hope i can scrape up enough dough to purchase a Sapphire Radeon 5570 and a Corsair 550VX power supply.
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I had enough sitting in my Paypal account, and still have my previous motherboard and current cards that I can sell, so I went ahead and bought the GTX 460s.
I were actually saving towards a less xpensive Hex core I7 CPU, but they never released a sub £300 one, so Im not bothering with one of those anymore and used it on the graphics upgrade.
I save up about £500 each year for upgrades, its plenty on top whatever I make back for selling my old parts.
Hello everyone. I have been following this forum for a moment, but this is my first post. I wonder if a machine with an ultra-low voltage CPU can run this game. For example, Alienware M11x.
http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/notebooks/alienware-m11x/pd.aspx?refid=alienware-m11x&s=dhs&cs=19&~oid=us~en~29~fasttrack_laptops_anav_2~~
It's supposed to be a machine for gaming, but I am not sure if it's powerful enough for Civ5.
http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/notebooks/alienware-m11x/pd.aspx?refid=alienware-m11x&s=dhs&cs=19&~oid=us~en~29~fasttrack_laptops_anav_2~~
It's supposed to be a machine for gaming, but I am not sure if it's powerful enough for Civ5.
CanuckSoldier
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Well it is a Core i5 CPU with a turbo mode upto 1.8GHz, and 4 gig of RAM and a GT 335M nVidia graphics chip. So yes it meets the recommnended specs for Civ5. Now likely it will jump into turbo mode for Civ5 for sure and start sucking the batteries down if your not plugged in. But it should have no problem running the game.
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tokala
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You won't be very happy with the i5 520UM and CiV. The turbo mode will only kick in if the CPU is not yet using up its thermal design power. With 2 cores under load the maximum "Turbo Boost" is 533MHz: http://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/SL/SLBQP.html
So you get 1.6 GHz at best.
As the iX processors are more powerful clock for clock than the C2Ds, you will probably make the minimum requirement for the CPU, but not nearly the recommended.
GPU is fairly powerful though for a laptop, should have no problems with CiV.
For CiV you would want it the other way around: CPU as powerful as reasonable, GPU gets what's left of the thermal budget
Remember that anything slower than a 5750 would not pass the recommended settings for CiV 5. The 4800 series still works very well for modern games, especially the 4870 and 4890 which both outperform any cards from the 5700 series.
Also, keep in mind that in general, Mac components tend to perform slightly worse than their PC counterparts, meaning the Mac sys requirements are most likely a little higher.
Crbarber22695
The Next Great Liberal
I meat all the recommended requirements! Yay! 
yanner39
Emperor
I bought a new laptop a few weeks back and mentioned to the sales rep that I would use it for gaming. Hopefully someone can confirm that I will be ok for Civ5:
Intel Core i5-430M, 2.26GHz, 3MB L3 Cache
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 Up to 2650MB Memory
4GB Memory
Intel Core i5-430M, 2.26GHz, 3MB L3 Cache
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 Up to 2650MB Memory
4GB Memory
aMoralAtheist
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meets minimum specs
Never trust sales reps, do some research of your own, all the info you need can easily be found on the web
The notebook is ok but certainly nothing special. For a gaming notebook it is low end, but I guess the price was too. Meets minimum requirements but that is it, not at all higher than the minimum.
My two year old laptop has about a 50% better graphics card, CPU is about 10% worse than yours, but I knew what I was looking for and not relying on a rep (and probably also spending considerably more on it than you did).
Ever since the Civ specs came out I have started looking at what stuff is out there nowadays and was surprised that my laptop in essence is still as good as they come (you can get about 10% better graphics, depending on what test you use), for desktops that would not be the case.
Oh and I am ignoring SLI notebooks here, mine isn't and I do not care for them either
Jazz_Bassist
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It will be a wait and see. I ran CIV 4 on 64MB Intel Integrated video and 256 MB of RAM, and a machine with a 2.80 GHZ processor.
I still have that machine but with 1.5 GB RAM, and a PCI NVIDA Ge-Force 512MB 8400 GS card. Which is over the recommended 7900 GS. I will drop the extra RAM into the machine and get it up to 2 GB. So I will hit minimum on RAM, have more than enough on video, but not quite enough processor. If I am not mistaken I think this game utilizes more of the GPU than CPU.
Remember when Civ 4 came out some of us did not meet the minimum requirements and could run it ok, with things turned down a bit. Some people with nice systems had a lot of trouble running it. It will be a system to system thing and a wait and see.
I still have that machine but with 1.5 GB RAM, and a PCI NVIDA Ge-Force 512MB 8400 GS card. Which is over the recommended 7900 GS. I will drop the extra RAM into the machine and get it up to 2 GB. So I will hit minimum on RAM, have more than enough on video, but not quite enough processor. If I am not mistaken I think this game utilizes more of the GPU than CPU.
Remember when Civ 4 came out some of us did not meet the minimum requirements and could run it ok, with things turned down a bit. Some people with nice systems had a lot of trouble running it. It will be a system to system thing and a wait and see.
tokala
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Sorry to bust your bubble, but a 8400 GS has only about 1/3 of the power of a 7900 GS. For those generations of cards, the second number is indicating the performance level of the cards: 2,3,4,5=not meant for gaming 6=budget gaming 8,9 = high performance.
Your P4 2.8 GHz equally has about 1/3 of the power of the "minimum" required CPUs.
RAM will be the least of your worries
I would suggest to not invest any time/money in your old machine, unless you can get ciV at least to start up and run at more than a crawl. Than you might want to think about optimizing your performance ...
Jazz_Bassist
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Sorry to bust your bubble, but a 8400 GS has only about 1/3 of the power of a 7900 GS. For those generations of cards, the second number is indicating the performance level of the cards: 2,3,4,5=not meant for gaming 6=budget gaming 8,9 = high performance.
Your P4 2.8 GHz equally has about 1/3 of the power of the "minimum" required CPUs.
RAM will be the least of your worries
I would suggest to not invest any time/money in your old machine, unless you can get ciV at least to start up and run at more than a crawl. Than you might want to think about optimizing your performance ...
Well it wasn't suppose to run Civ 4 stock but it did. This card wasn't suppose to RUN AIX 2.0 (BF2 mod) but it did only full graphics. It runs Total WAR 2 fine. So like you said I will have to wait and see.
tokala
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Anyone looking for a new desktop video card might find an extremely elegant graphical guide here .
Cards closer to the centerline have a better price/performance ratio, the small % numbers indicate roughly the performance relative to the HD 5750. HD 5750/5770 and GTX 460 occupy the "sweet spot".
Cards closer to the centerline have a better price/performance ratio, the small % numbers indicate roughly the performance relative to the HD 5750. HD 5750/5770 and GTX 460 occupy the "sweet spot".
That is actually better than the Intel IGP
Can anybody tell me what their thoughts are on the TOSHIBA SATELLITE A665-3DV? I am going desktop-replacement, and before I decided on that, I was really keen on the 3-D Vision thing. Is this laptop worth the extra cost for 3-D Vision? I mean, I doubt I'll be playing much CiV in 3-D, but spec-wise, it's MORE than enough. Just want to know if anybody has had any experience with this or any other (of the few available) 3-D Vision laptops.
Specs (for kicks):
Core i7 1.73 GhZ w/ Turbo boost (740 QM)
Nvidia 1GB GTS 350M
4GB DDR3 (expands to 8GB, I think)
640 GB HDD @ 5400 RPM (yikes on the HDD speed a bit...)
Thoughts? Oh yeah, I imagine I'll pretty much ALWAYS be plugged in
http://laptops.toshiba.com/laptops/satellite/A660/A665-3DV
Specs (for kicks):
Core i7 1.73 GhZ w/ Turbo boost (740 QM)
Nvidia 1GB GTS 350M
4GB DDR3 (expands to 8GB, I think)
640 GB HDD @ 5400 RPM (yikes on the HDD speed a bit...)
Thoughts? Oh yeah, I imagine I'll pretty much ALWAYS be plugged in
http://laptops.toshiba.com/laptops/satellite/A660/A665-3DV
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