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Yep, that's my situation as well. This happens with a lot of multiplayer games, for me at least. Where I feel like I'm invading someone else's turf. It feels like everyone knows how to play but me or that everything goes perfect for everyone else but me.
How did they get so good? They seem to know all the tricks and I never do. This happens to me with Halo3 & COD4 as well. Making it a frustrating experience. The only multiplayer shooter I'm good at is Gears of War.
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I totally agree. I loved the original Red Faction on PS2, but the sequel was just a mess.
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I'm in.
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My Radeon 4890 should be more than enough for this game. I'll also be giving this a try on 64 bit Win7, so we'll see how that goes. Shouldn't be an issue.
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There are so many games out nowadays that I dont have time to play them all, Red Faction included. So im happy to "wait" until Sept 15th while I play Batman and Shadow Complex :D
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I prefer to call mine my Personal Computer.
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Not really though, I only have an 8800GT and stock Q6600 in it :(
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....that doesn't change the fact that i'm going to get DX11 hardware sometime next year. :P
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With this new case, overclocking is the first order of business. Finally, I have some breathing room....then I'll consider SLI....when I need it.
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It'd probably cost you a small fortune but then again you don't need the top of the line to play games and have them looking better than any console.
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i7 920 (and corresponding motherboard), 3 GB RAM, 640 GB HDD, and 4890. It cost me around $1000, but I think I could have shaved off a solid $100-$200 dollars if I'd done full ATX instead of microATX and gotten a better PSU (I got a 750 watt PSU, but my system has never used more than 350 watts).
Sticking with a different quad core instead of the i7, like say the Phenom II X4, would save quite a fair bit of cash and leave you with a snappy system for quite a while.
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My 23" Dell (which is pretty decent with LCDs) monitor cost me $150 shipped.
So to sum up, not too shabby and if you spend say, $550, you can get a quad core behemoth that will suit you quite nicely.
$1000 and up rigs are only for the "new" core i7s, which are good, but not worth the premiums they charge for the CPUs and Mobos IMHO.
Newegg, Tigerdirect (on occassion) and Amazon (when they have low stocks on hardware they tend to give a great discount on them to clear it out) are the places to shop.
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Ram, you wouldn't need to upgrade, maybe add more, but 4GB is very cheap, ~50$, and thats all you'd need. Run out of harddrive space, just add a new HDD, but if you delete stuff you don't need or burn to DVD the rest of it, you wouldn't need to get another HDD. HDD's last quite a long time.
That's pretty much all you'd upgrade, the main one being the videocard. The rest could easily last 4+ years. And keep in mind, this is only if you care about running absolutely every game at high with no major compromises.
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theres nothing I want more than to mod a set of rocket launchers on the light Mech.......
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I have a C2D E8400 overclocked to 3.825GHz, 4GB RAM and an HD 4870. Game runs sweet on medium-high at 1920x1080 with very few slowdowns.
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