Age of Conan

Quad Q9300 2.5gh /500 gb sata-II HD/vista 64-bit/ 4 GB Memory/ 2x Nvidia 9800 Gtx 512Mb

high settings?

P.s should i get the killer gamer card? does it really help?

any Help?

I played on high settings with far less of a computer than you.  Hope that answers your question)

The video card is going to be taxed the most.  So yea.. sli config of 9800's should smoke the game on high settings.  That is of course if this game takes full advantage of sli.  I myself plan to play with a single 8800gtx.  As for the quad core, the same thing applies.  Most games aren't optimized for that many cores yet.  Many agree that while playing games the order of importance goes as follows.  Video Card > CPU > RAM > HD.  Some may even bump CPU further down.  The reason being is that if you take a look at game load on today's processors, it rarely will spike them to 100% load.   Lastly, no games utilize 4gb of ram, nor will they for quite some time.  My suggestion (for compatibility reasons) would be to cut it in half and load a 32-bit OS.   But yea, these are just my opinions. . . .

what would be the best thing ? i'm loooking for something that i can all games on High settings mainly AOC.but something thats not to high that play few games?..please write down everything . please i am not good with computer stuff.

would the killer game card be good to buy? does it really help?

exactly. This is what we've been talking about in the beta forums. The game doesn't take full advantage of sli nor is it optimized for quad core so a lot of people are going with a single more powerful 8800gtx vs. the 9800gtx which is just a rebadged 8800gts (g92). The 9800gt has a slightly higher coreclock and memory clock but only has 512 mb =\. better off SLI'in 2 8800gtx's. if you must get a 9 series it needs to be a 9800gx2. As for processors it seems that overclocked dual cores are fairing better. ppl with 3.5ghz athlons are reporting very good overall performance and load times. As for ram I think 3 gigs is just right. 2 gigs with vista you'll start pushing 80% Hope this helps.

I am happy with my 8800gtx.  The only thing I really don't like about it is the physical length of the card.  I have read that the 8800 gts 512 performs pretty close to par with the 8800gtx.  It's based on a newer chipset so it's smaller.  It is less money as well.  If you got the $$ go with the 9800 gx2.  At this point I would rather buy a single powerhouse card than multiple cards for sli because of what I (and lowryda) said above about sli optimization.  That will come down the road.  Also in order to sli you need use the exact same cards, so remember that for later, as well as greater power supply requirements for each additional card you add.  I think the minimum PSU for sli is like 750W.  Depending on the card you get, I would be on the more cautious side and go with 800 or 850W min for two cards, and around 1100W for a 3 card config.

As for 2gb or 3gb of ram, DDR2 is given a speed increase when paired up.  So 2X(1gb) would theoretically perform faster than 2X(1GB) and 1X(1GB) . I honestly don't know what the exact numbers are but I was only offering information from what I have read from other people.

Originally posted by DaJoKeR

what would be the best thing ? i'm loooking for something that i can all games on High settings mainly AOC.but something thats not to high that play few games?..please write down everything . please i am not good with computer stuff.

 

would the killer game card be good to buy? does it really help?

You may want to check this out.  These numbers assisted me in picking my card.  Also, the number of steam processors is not located on this page but the higher the better.  For the data on this page, the higher the numbers, the better.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_Graphics_Processing_Units#GeForce_8_series

considering thats pretty much the best PC money can buy. yes.

my PC is worse and I played in high no problems.

Originally posted by Consensus

considering thats the best PC money can buy. yes. god...

exactly, which leads me to believe it was either a "look how good my PC is, but I am unaware of this fact..honest OR I am a grumpy, cynical old sod.