Will I be able to run Civ V on Max settings with this PC?

claestw said:
I'd be very interested in what kind of settings that system is able to do, especially at late game with lots of units moving around.

If you're building a new system, why not add an SSD to the mix? A lot of the times when I click on the mini-map to go to a different area, there's about 1-2 sec lag before the best textures are shown. I'm supposing that is due to hard-disk access bottlenecks. I'm guessing an SSD will help with the responsiveness a lot.

I'm also building a new system, but it'll most probably be based on Ivy Bridge, since I only upgrade/rebuild my system every four or five years.
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I went the cheap route and just put steam and games on a thumb drive. USB is not that bad. Of course that is the cheap route. My son has a lot of games though and needed a 64 Gig thumb drive.
 
Ah, I've heard about sticking in a USB flash drive to speed up Windows in general, but never looked into it seriously. Why would you say it's "cheap"? Didn't perform as expected?

One thing that's stopped me from throwing in flash memory all these years is that I'm really scared of that read/write limit on flash memory. How long have you been using the thumb drive as a games drive? I've always been a slow adopter for new technologies. My work kinda needs reliability over a lot of other qualities. :(
 
claestw said:
Ah, I've heard about sticking in a USB flash drive to speed up Windows in general, but never looked into it seriously. Why would you say it's "cheap"? Didn't perform as expected?

One thing that's stopped me from throwing in flash memory all these years is that I'm really scared of that read/write limit on flash memory. How long have you been using the thumb drive as a games drive? I've always been a slow adopter for new technologies. My work kinda needs reliability over a lot of other qualities. :(
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I just use it for steam. The least that can go wrong is re-download steam and games. I just meant that a jump drive on sale for $20.00 is cheaper than a solid state drive between $100 and $200. I kept getting file errors on the platter hard drive and I have been using a Sandisk 16 Gig thumb drive for about 6 months.
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock 970DE3/U3S3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($74.55 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($48.99 @ Newegg)
Hard Drive: Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: XFX Radeon HD 6870 1GB Video Card ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 430 ATX Mid Tower Case ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair 600W ATX12V Power Supply ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($17.99 @ Newegg)
Monitor: Acer S201HLbd 20.0" Monitor ($108.98 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit) ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $765.45
(Prices include shipping and discounts when available.)
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That is the final build I went with. I bought Civ5 on Steam yesterday (75% off sale!) and I've been able to play a Huge world with 18 civs at max settings (except I'm at 4xAA, I find 8xAA unnecessary) with the only stuttering happening during the changing turns, like expected in Civ games.
 
SG-17 said:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock 970DE3/U3S3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($74.55 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($48.99 @ Newegg)
Hard Drive: Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: XFX Radeon HD 6870 1GB Video Card ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 430 ATX Mid Tower Case ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair 600W ATX12V Power Supply ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($17.99 @ Newegg)
Monitor: Acer S201HLbd 20.0" Monitor ($108.98 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit) ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $765.45
(Prices include shipping and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2012-05-12 22:02 EDT-0400)

That is the final build I went with. I bought Civ5 on Steam yesterday (75% off sale!) and I've been able to play a Huge world with 18 civs at max settings (except I'm at 4xAA, I find 8xAA unnecessary) with the only stuttering happening during the changing turns, like expected in Civ games.
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Did you play the game to the end?
 
I haven't finished it yet, but I am almost finished with the Modern tech tree. So the world is as populated as it is going to get.
 
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