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That 420W PSU actually came with the computer and not the 350W advertised.
Thanks for all your help!
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Ahh. This is the longest post ever.. to many systems. I just used the GPU bench to figure out what card I needed to upgrade to from my 9800gt... which didn't work well. Compares all the latest nvidia vs ati cards. Only good for GPU / graphics card stuff; it assumes you only need to upgrade your graphics card. http://www.gpubench.com/gpubench/index.cfm/graphics-and-video-card-tools/
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laptop
OS: Windows 7 64bit
Cpu: Intel® Core™ i3-350M 2.26GHz (3M cache)
Memory:3GB Memory (1x 1GB, 1x 2GB DDR3)
Graphics: 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 240M
Hard Drives: 250GB SATAII 7,200RPM
will this run sc2 well?
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On August 05 2010 11:00 elixir_gum wrote:
laptop
OS: Windows 7 64bit
Cpu: Intel® Core™ i3-350M 2.26GHz (3M cache)
Memory:3GB Memory (1x 1GB, 1x 2GB DDR3)
Graphics: 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 240M
Hard Drives: 250GB SATAII 7,200RPM
will this run sc2 well?
That's a fairly beast laptop. It should run it on medium/high fine. Not ultra by any means though.
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OS: Windows 7 32-bit
Cpu: Intel Core2 duo E8500 3,16GHz clocked to 4GHz
RAM: 2GB DDR2 800MHz (865MHz something due to cpu clocking)
Graphics: XFX GTX 260 core edition 896MB (sometimes clocked up to 675/1224 if i want a extra boost of FPS, mostly in other games but SC2)
Harddrives: 2x 250GB from seagate (taken from my old computer  )
it runs very well however i'm thinking about going for 4GB memory cause as off right now i have to turn off firefox and steam just so that i have enough RAM to play SC2. :/
note to people: SC2 eats RAM like a fat guy eats snacks. make sure your computer have at least 4GB (3 might be alright) of RAM memory.
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Nice thread just what I was looking for. Interested in buying the game but not sure my crappy computer can run it without making everything looking like something from 10 years ago. Guessing all the settings would have to be on lowest of low and resolution really crappy?
Also would there be slowdowns when there is alot of action you think? Especially thinking about 2v2s or more players.
OS: Vista 64
Cpu: AMD Athlon 64 x 2 4400+ 2,2GHz
RAM: 4gig Corsair PC3200
Graphics: Nvidia 9600GT
Harddrives: 250gig Samsung Spinpoint 7200RPM
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On August 05 2010 11:03 Froadac wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2010 11:00 elixir_gum wrote:
laptop
OS: Windows 7 64bit
Cpu: Intel® Core™ i3-350M 2.26GHz (3M cache)
Memory:3GB Memory (1x 1GB, 1x 2GB DDR3)
Graphics: 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 240M
Hard Drives: 250GB SATAII 7,200RPM
will this run sc2 well? That's a fairly beast laptop. It should run it on medium/high fine. Not ultra by any means though.
hmmm u sure? even when i run it on medium on campaign it tells me to lower my settings 
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On August 05 2010 12:45 elixir_gum wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2010 11:03 Froadac wrote:On August 05 2010 11:00 elixir_gum wrote:
laptop
OS: Windows 7 64bit
Cpu: Intel® Core™ i3-350M 2.26GHz (3M cache)
Memory:3GB Memory (1x 1GB, 1x 2GB DDR3)
Graphics: 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 240M
Hard Drives: 250GB SATAII 7,200RPM
will this run sc2 well? That's a fairly beast laptop. It should run it on medium/high fine. Not ultra by any means though. hmmm u sure? even when i run it on medium on campaign it tells me to lower my settings
RAM could be the problem, the 240 can play on medium/high without difficulty from what I"ve seen.
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Hyrule19150 Posts
Some settings rely on CPU and others on GPU. The tooltip for each tells you which. You can try lowering the ones which require CPU performance, and maybe even up the ones which are GPU heavy.
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On August 06 2010 00:25 Froadac wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2010 12:45 elixir_gum wrote:On August 05 2010 11:03 Froadac wrote:On August 05 2010 11:00 elixir_gum wrote:
laptop
OS: Windows 7 64bit
Cpu: Intel® Core™ i3-350M 2.26GHz (3M cache)
Memory:3GB Memory (1x 1GB, 1x 2GB DDR3)
Graphics: 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 240M
Hard Drives: 250GB SATAII 7,200RPM
will this run sc2 well? That's a fairly beast laptop. It should run it on medium/high fine. Not ultra by any means though. hmmm u sure? even when i run it on medium on campaign it tells me to lower my settings RAM could be the problem, the 240 can play on medium/high without difficulty from what I"ve seen.
another else got input? or is it probably just the ram?:
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I'm using a Toshiba Satellite A500 (2.53, 4 gig ram, 1 gig radeon etc) with windows vista. I have to play SC2 with the lowest settings, otherwise the game freezes for a split second every few seconds even in small battles, which makes it unplayable. It kinda sucks because at the lowest detail levels, SC2 looks like SC1 :/
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Can you guys help me make a decision whether i should upgrade my old pc or build a new pc to at least play sc2 in low or medium settings. My old pc has pentium 4 2.4ghz, 1mb ram, 64mb graphics card, asus motherboard agp. I know that the 1st thing i need to do is buy a motherboard that has pci slots for graphics and ddr2 for memory. I'm wondering if the budget rig posted by HD (E6300, 2mb ram, 9600GT) would be able to play starcraft2 at least in medium settings. Also about the motherboard it seems that the foxconn motherboard is hard to use and find, can you guys suggest another budget motherboard that is similar to it. Also my OS is Windows XP.
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OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 bit
MB: Asus M4A87TD EVO
CPU: AMD Phenom II x6 1055T 2.8 Ghz
GPU: ATI HD 5830
PSU: Corsair 700w
Case: COOLER MASTER HAF 922
HDD: 640 gb Western Digital Black (main) and 1.5 tb Western Digital Black (data)
RAM: 4gb ddr3 Corsair Memory
KB: Logitech g110
Mouse: Logitech g5
Probably going to get more RAM as SC2 used about 1GB alone i am finding.
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Got my copy of SC2 the other day. It runs on my PC, but only just: around 10 FPS at lowest settings.
I know my PC is getting old - but based on published system requirements and a 'Can you run it?' report, I had expected to get usable performance at lower settings. The graphics defaults suggested by the game are all pretty much medium.
Can anyone shed some light on what the problem is, and maybe offer some suggestions on what - If anything - I need to upgrade? I'd be happpy playing at low settings, as long as I could get around 30 FPS.
Any advice appreciated.
OS: Windows XP
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D 2.66GHz (2.67 GHz performance, rated at 3.204 GHz)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
RAM: 1.5GB
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That GeForce 7 is getting a bit behind the times. Not sure if that time period was when PCIe and DDR2 came out. You might need to upgrade the motherboard (assuming it doesn't already have a PCIe connector) and RAM (assuming it doesn't have DDR2 slots) just to get a new GPU. Will probably mean a whole new chipset (CPU), too.
I took several trips to Fry's and back a few years ago, thinking I could just upgrade. Little did I know every motherfucking component changed simultaneously.
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On August 06 2010 11:35 elixir_gum wrote:Show nested quote +On August 06 2010 00:25 Froadac wrote:On August 05 2010 12:45 elixir_gum wrote:On August 05 2010 11:03 Froadac wrote:On August 05 2010 11:00 elixir_gum wrote:
laptop
OS: Windows 7 64bit
Cpu: Intel® Core™ i3-350M 2.26GHz (3M cache)
Memory:3GB Memory (1x 1GB, 1x 2GB DDR3)
Graphics: 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 240M
Hard Drives: 250GB SATAII 7,200RPM
will this run sc2 well? That's a fairly beast laptop. It should run it on medium/high fine. Not ultra by any means though. hmmm u sure? even when i run it on medium on campaign it tells me to lower my settings RAM could be the problem, the 240 can play on medium/high without difficulty from what I"ve seen. another else got input? or is it probably just the ram?:
Campaign has a lot higher requirements than most anything you will see in multiplayer unless you do nothing but 4v4. You have plenty of ram, a fast CPU, and your video card is fine. Heat would be my #1 concern.
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OS: Windows 7 64bit
Cpu: Intel® Core™ i7
Memory:4GB Memory (2x 2GB DDR3)
Graphics: 512mMB Mobility Radeon HD4570 GDDR3
Hard Drives: 500GB SATAII 7200RPM
game runs just fine on my laptop.
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I have a basic:
Core 2 duo 6400 @ 2.14Ghz
2,14Ghz 3.00gig ram
Win XP 32bits
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
Asus PW5 DH Delux mobo
500gig 7200rpm Western Digitial HD (or something like that)
Playing 1v1 ladder at highest graphic settings without a problem.
Samething for 2v2
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On August 07 2010 03:17 Bibdy wrote:
That GeForce 7 is getting a bit behind the times. Not sure if that time period was when PCIe and DDR2 came out. You might need to upgrade the motherboard (assuming it doesn't already have a PCIe connector) and RAM (assuming it doesn't have DDR2 slots) just to get a new GPU. Will probably mean a whole new chipset (CPU), too.
I took several trips to Fry's and back a few years ago, thinking I could just upgrade. Little did I know every motherfucking component changed simultaneously.
Thanks for the advice. I think my motherboard is up to it - I've certainly been OK adding DDR2 RAM in the past.
I've actually had some joy upping the virtual memory space. That's improved things quite a bit, but I'll probably get some additional RAM and go from there - not too expensive.
Maybe I can get away without upgrading until SC3 comes around...
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Hyrule19150 Posts
On August 06 2010 14:35 jax1492 wrote:
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 bit
MB: Asus M4A87TD EVO
CPU: AMD Phenom II x6 1055T 2.8 Ghz
GPU: ATI HD 5830
PSU: Corsair 700w
Case: COOLER MASTER HAF 922
HDD: 640 gb Western Digital Black (main) and 1.5 tb Western Digital Black (data)
RAM: 4gb ddr3 Corsair Memory
KB: Logitech g110
Mouse: Logitech g5
Probably going to get more RAM as SC2 used about 1GB alone i am finding.
That's remarkably close to my rig. You should have no problems playing at High, with a bunch of stuff on Ultra (or all Ultra if you want, but some things on Ultra I personally don't see worth the performance drop).
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