Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz
4 GB DDR3
ATI 4870 1GB

..most probably on high settings

I'm not the least bit brand loyal, so switching brands isn't a problem.

I run dual-monitors on my desktop at home and ATI's drivers and firmwares have given me a lot of trouble in that area in the past (yeah, the x1900xtx I had actually had a firmware bug with some dual-monitor setups that was never fixed). I also have a PC in every room connected to TVs to use as clients for my media server. I have a mix of ATI and nVidia at home right now, and the nVidia cards play nicer with the video playback software I use than the ATI's do, but it's possible that ATI has made improvements in newer chipsets. I like ATI's stuff, I've just had fewer problems with my nVidia cards in recent years.

That said, I have no problem switching if the products aren't buggy. Has ATI revealed a timeline on the release of their new baby?

At the very least....I have a similar system and am banking on max.


Some rumormills have it as some time this month for the Radoen 6870...I'll just say probably by the end of the year.

Since everyone is posting theirs, http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/4328/icanrunit.jpg

Damn my crappy CPU. Can still run Fallout 3 on near max settings though, so I should be good for New Vegas.

is it just me or does October seem like its going twice as slow? :violin:

systemrequirementslab.com has never been accurate for anything I've done. It said I couldn't run BF2, but I ran it perfectly, so I have minimal faith in it. Can anyone tell me if I'm good to go with these specs? Just got the computer (laptop) a few weeks ago. Mostly worried about if the video card can handle it [well].

Manufacturer:
Hewlett-Packard
Processor:
AMD Phenom™ II N830 Triple-Core Processor (3 CPUs), ~2.1GHz
Memory:
4096MB RAM
Hard Drive:
500 GB
Video Card:
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
Monitor:
17" HD
Sound Card:
Speakers and Headphones (IDT High Definition Audio CODEC)
Speakers/Headphones:
Bose
Operating System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)


I'm a huge PC noob. I've played almost everything on the Xbox but wanted to try to run it on this computer [if I can] so I can use mods and stuff.

Definitely. Depending on the resolution, you'll be able to max it out.

I'm more inclined to say medium-highish settings...probably high. Not maxed out though...it's not that great of a card.

I was a bit nervous when taking the test. http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/7467/38155449.jpg :whistling:
Seems like the cpu is (temporarily) the weakest link here.

Clock speed doesnt matter too much when comparing different CPU architectures. IIRC Fallout 3 had a minimum of a 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4. A 2.4Ghz Phenom II would be a huge improvement over the Pentium 4.

You've missed my point entirely. of all the upgrades i've made until ultimately I now have a new computer, that is the one piece besides the monitor that hasn't been done. both of those pieces came from my old DELL.. and yes, I am fully aware my system is more than capable of running it. :user:

New Vegas here I come!!!

My 8800GT 512mb could play Fallout 3 fairly well. I'm hoping this will do fine for new vegas also.

Gonna upgrade to an ati 5770 once the 6*** series comes out soon.

I still have the same rig as it was when FO3 came out. Ran just fine on medium-highish. Gonna give it a try.
http://img291.imageshack.us/f/snotdevice.jpg/

Eh, you'll do more than fine with that card

That card is MORE than enough to get FNV on ultra.



Probably because a Pentium 4 is a single core and Phenom II are multi-core.

lol i have an e machines computer

Compared to desktop graphics cards, the Mobilty 5650 is similar to a ATI Radeon 5570 with lower core clock speeds and slower memory speeds. The Radeon 5570 is on par with the Radeon 4670. I'm sticking to probably high settings and it DOES depend on resolution.


And it's more than single and dual-core thats making the difference in the speeds of a Pentium 4 and a phenom II. Pentium 4 chips have always been inefficient technology where devs were trying to get all they could through ramping up speed. It wasn't until AMD starting making CPUs more efficient by getting more work/cycle out of their chips. Any Phenom II (if there was one) would absolutely destroy a Pentium 4 of the same frequency.



What matters is the hardware inside...not the brand. Although eMachines PC pretty much never come with anything special.

So Can You Run It, which is already bad and inaccurate enough, is showing the "dual-core" requirement as minimum req. Yet, we're told here by gstaff that it's actually recommended req. Something seriously needs to be cleared up here.

then we already know both the minimum and system requirements

Recommended requirements:
OS: Windows 7/Vista/XP
CPU: dual core 2.0 GHz
Memory: 2GB RAM
Storage: 10GB free hard drive space
Video card: NVidia GForce 6 series, ATI 1300XT series

Minimum Requirements:
OS: Windows 7/Vista/XP
CPU: single core 2.0 GHz or 2.5 GHz
Memory: 1GB RAM
Storage: 10GB free hard drive space
Video card: ( probably a Nvidia GEforce 5 series and HD Radeon 3,4,5 series).

at least this is what i get from the system req mix up, essentially you just cut everything in half and call it minimum

I am sure an Nvidia 5 series card will not run the game, seeing as it couldnt run Oblivion correctly.

whats the difference between GeForce 5 series and ATI 5 series?

Difference is comparable to the one of between stone mallet and a plasma rifle.....

Basicly GeForce 5xxx series (FX) was a faulty serie, mostly because a lot of games just didn't seem to like this generation of GeForce GPU's from the very beginning what I heard and read.

You cannot compare ATI/Nvidia generation names together really. An ATI 5 series is fairly new from 2009. And the Nvidia 5 series is from 2003 IIRC. Each company has independent naming schemes that change pretty often. Nvidia is now on the 400 series of cards while AMD (formerly ATI) is now on the 6000 series of cards.

At the beginning I was pretty calm about whether I will run FO:NV at mostly high settings, but reading as more and more people worry about running this game I would like to ask someone with GPU-benchmark scores expertise, how does he think FO:NV will run on my lappy:

Asus N50Vn with:
- Intel Cantiga PM45 mainboard chipset
- T5800 C2D 2 GHz 2 MB L2 cache CPU
- 4 GB DDR2 RAM 800 MHz
- NVIDIA GeForce 9650m GT 1 GB DDR2 GPU with newest official drivers from NVIDIA
- Windows Vista 32 bit SP2
- 320 5400 rpm HDD

Also would it make sense to upgrade the CPU in this lappy, knowing I won't be able to upgrade my GPU? (scores 5300 pts in 3dmark06 with OC), or should I just stick to it until I get a whole new laptop ?

Benchmarks really arent too reliable when comparing them to games......Especially games on this particular engine. It should run the game fine at about medium-high settings. Hard drive spindle speed is somewhat slow compared to today's HDDs. As to the upgrade CPU, I personally wouldnt. Laptop CPUs are generally not made to be powerhouses, and yours would do fine for this game.