Who else has already bought a new PC in anticipation of Civ V?

Drago Askani said:
How big is your PC budget? For around 700-800dollars you can build a great machine (no os) add another 100 for an os if you don't have your disks for XP.
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I looked and you definitely could, but without an OS as you said. I spent the $730 and got a very good machine with an OS (Win 7) a million times smoother than Vista but that actually makes you want the perks that make it better than XP, plus this machine was absolutely designed to be expanded upon to be made a great machine well into the future.
 
I got a 2.8 gHz (dual core) AMD Athlon x64 with 4gigs of RAM, 500 gigs HDD, Vista Home Premium, a 15-in-1 card reader (SD cards, MS cards, etc.), and an HP Pocket Media drive bay for $700 flat in 2008.

No assembly or drivers required - and it's worked pretty well :p

While it did come with an integrated video card (NVIDIA GeForce 9100) the only thing this has really stopped me from playing enjoyably is Empire: Total War and Medieval 2: Total War which are quite graphics-intensive games.

I found several nice 512mb video cards online for like $30-50, so if I wanted to I could probably upgrade - it's just that that would be hassling, making sure it was compatible with my motherboard and OS and everything, and then making sure the integrated card is turned off and the new one is working in its place - and TBH I'm not sure if my PC (which is a slimline, actually) has extra expansion slots for it.
 
Buy a new computer for Civ? Hah! My 2 year old laptop's integrated video can run Civ4. Just about anyone who bought even a semi-decent computer in the last 4 years will be able to run Civ5.
 
cardgame said:
I got a 2.8 gHz (dual core) AMD Athlon x64 with 4gigs of RAM, 500 gigs HDD, Vista Home Premium, a 15-in-1 card reader (SD cards, MS cards, etc.), and an HP Pocket Media drive bay for $700 flat in 2008.

No assembly or drivers required - and it's worked pretty well :p

While it did come with an integrated video card (NVIDIA GeForce 9100) the only thing this has really stopped me from playing enjoyably is Empire: Total War and Medieval 2: Total War which are quite graphics-intensive games.

I found several nice 512mb video cards online for like $30-50, so if I wanted to I could probably upgrade - it's just that that would be hassling, making sure it was compatible with my motherboard and OS and everything, and then making sure the integrated card is turned off and the new one is working in its place - and TBH I'm not sure if my PC (which is a slimline, actually) has extra expansion slots for it.
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That's the thing, you can buy a PC with integrated graphics and it can be quite a deal because they will run most everything well, but the one thing you need to do is make sure to have expansion room available in case that video card is needed. Being able to install a video card can extend a PC's life.
 
Not bleeding edge but:

Win7 Ultimate/ASUS Crosshair/Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2GHz /4GB Corsair DDR2 1066/Gigabyte Radeon 4890/Western Digital Black 80GB RAID 0/Samsung 245BW

Should be fine.
 
True, and I should have checked but I was quite in the dark about computers at the time.
 
This is mine in a nutshell that I am ordering next week. Though its not Just for civ 5, I was planning this machines purchase weeks before I knew about civ 5. I am ordering the no os version and just picking up a copy of win 7 from walmart once it finally arrives. Also talked to customer service and they are letting me order it without the default video card, so thats another 60 bones saved.

CAS:Thermaltake V3 Black Mid-Tower Case
CS_FAN:Default case fans
CPU:Intelฎ CoreT i5-750 2.66 GHz 8M L2 Cache LGA1156
FAN:Asetek LCLC 120 Liquid Cooling System 120MM Radiator & Fan (Extreme Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA)
HDD:Single Hard Drive (1TB (1TBx1) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD )
MOTHERBOARD:[CrossFireX] Asus P7P55D LE Intel P55 Chipset DDR3 LGA1156 ATX Mainboard w/ 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, USB2.0, SATA-II RAID, 2 Gen2 PCIe X16, 2 PCIe X1, & 3 PCI
MEMORY:4GB (2GBx2) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Module (Corsair or Major Brand)
POWERSUPPLY:* 800 Watts Power Supplies (CyberPowerPC XF800S Performance ATX 2.0 Power - Quad SLI Ready)
SOUND:Creative Labs SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio 24-BIT PCI Sound Card
 
Well that whole PC waste conversation is OT so I'll just say.... no more ;~p

According to the target min specs for Civ5, my system should run Civ5 ok. But my first system was well over the min specs for Civ4. Yet I ran into MAF (Memory Allocation Failure) errors when playing huge maps and when playing smaller maps under expansive mods. I wonder the same for Civ5? When my current system: a Dell Optiplex 755 Small Form Factor ~ Intel Core2 Duo @ 2.66 GHz ~ 2 gigs RAM ~ ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT Graphics Card; still gave me MAF errors while playing large maps under the FfH2 mod, I gave up on Civ4 and reverted back to Civ3. It plays the vanilla game well enough, but that game didn't interest me for long. It was the mods and big maps I was into. Hopefully graphics processing and memory leaks won't be a problem with Civ5.
 
The maf is being caused by your mods, no one has that problem with civ 4 except when running certain mods.
 
I think my Core i7 / 6 GB / HD 4870 512 / Win7x64 Ulimate will have to do when it is initially released. I generally upgrade video cards every 2 generations, so I will wait for the HD 6xxx series (2 GB / 4GB). May also get a SSD and RAM upgrade to 12 GB later.

First PC / Pentium 133 / 16 MB / S3Trio3D
Civ2

First PC / AMD K2-300 Upgrade / 64 MB / GF TNT
Civ2 ToT
Civ3 Standard Maps

Second PC / Athlon XP 1800 / 512 MB / 4200 GF Card
Civ3 Giant Maps
Civ4 Standard Maps with reduced Graphics

Second PC / Athlon XP 1800 / 1.5 GB / 6600 GF Card
Civ4 Standard Maps with Full Graphics

Third PC / Core i7 / 6 GB / ATI 4870
Civ4 Giant Maps with Full Graphics
Civ4 Modding
Civ5 ????
 
I'm motivated to start shopping for a new machine. There are a lot of recnt games I've passed on. They won't run well on my 6year old machine.
 
Drago Askani said:
The maf is being caused by your mods, no one has that problem with civ 4 except when running certain mods.
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Yep, somewhere along the patch process I was able to play the larger vanilla maps (it took an expansion and its patches before that occurred). And it was the major mods which gave me the MAF's post BTS. That matters not though, as for this costumer (and many more as per Firaxian statements) it is these big mods that keep me playing Civ so fanatically (Civ3 anyhow). It is my hope that things are sorted such for Civ5 that big mods can be played on big maps under moderate systems.
 
White Elk said:
Yep, somewhere along the patch process I was able to play the larger vanilla maps (it took an expansion and its patches before that occurred). And it was the major mods which gave me the MAF's post BTS. That matters not though, as for this costumer (and many more as per Firaxian statements) it is these big mods that keep me playing Civ so fanatically (Civ3 anyhow). It is my hope that things are sorted such for Civ5 that big mods can be played on big maps under moderate systems.
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If the mod writers were better at optimizing their mods you wouldnt have the MAF's. Though one work around would be to flip the 3gig switch so that your system allocates 3 gigs of ram to civ.
 
my current computer which is a quad core at 2.4 Ghz, 3 Gigabytes of RAM and an ATI HD 3600 series will have to do.

i want my current computer to last 10, 20 years OR until a civilization game becomes unplayable at the lowest setting.
 
Mathalamus said:
my current computer which is a quad core at 2.4 Ghz, 3 Gigabytes of RAM and an ATI HD 3600 series will have to do.

i want my current computer to last 10, 20 years OR until a civilization game becomes unplayable at the lowest setting.
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Well, I think it is reasonable to expect a new computer to last 10 years with a few suitable upgrades in RAM and video card. My computer is 5 years old now, so I mostly play older games on it. They are cheap anyway and runs perfect on maximum settings, so it will have to do another 5 years or so. At least, it runs Civ 4 BtS fine now since I upgraded RAM and video card to decent levels.
 
V. Soma said:
I bought my last PC for civ4,
so will buy new one for civ5, it seems...
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:D same here

well, i was just thinking to buy a new pc and i would buy a mediocre one. but then i heard civ5 coming and postponed it a few months to buy a better one more easily. I think i will buy it as cash on May when I receive my 1extra salary as a reward of 5th anniversary in the plant.

what i will buy?
a good pc (i5-750 cpu with 4gb ram) costs nearly 750-800$ in Turkey. I plan to buy that + a 22/24" lcd monitor. [I could also give brand names but I noticed noone mentioned them, so I didn't]
 
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