| ethomaz said: Minimum: http://store.steampowered.com/app/243470/
I said last year the MS/Sony choice for 8-core CPU will drive the optimizations for multi-core in PC... well the games will use more and more threads in the future. |
Even minimum CPU and RAM are out of reach of my current PC, only the R7 250 GPU - 1GB GDDR5 graphics card I ordered (the fastest I could find in the mid-low range that had passive cooling), arriving next week, should be fine.
My original plan (well not my oldest plan, but the one I made after delaying building a new PC, that was the real origina plan) was to wait before building my next PC and just upgrading the RAM, but doubling my 4GB DDR2 ECC to 8GB would have cost me more than a new GPU, and a lot more than what I paid that RAM when it was still in production, absolutely not worth the money, so I opted for buying a new GPU that I'll recycle in my next PC, and that in the meantime will allow me to free up that precious half GB currently used by the onboard GPU (I could leave it the minimum chunk possible besides 0MB, Idk if it's 64MB or 128MB, I must check, if it's possible to use an old HD3300 in hybrid crossfire with a new Rx Radeon, or as a coprocessor, I must check this too, but the HD3300 already has its own 128MB DDR3 dedicated sideport RAM, so maybe I could free all that main RAM anyway).
And the bolded of what you wrote is why I decided to delay building my next PC, as if I'll choose an eight-core instead of a four-core, I'll want a mid-low-cost and low-power consumption one, as I usually do, but not just that, I'll also need to be 100% sure that the performance of a single core exceed a single core of my current dual-core Athlon 5050e, as I don't want that my next PC be a downgrade for most of my oldest games, that can use just one core. Also, both if I'll opt for a GPU or an APU, I'll want to wait for new RAM tech to be available, DDR4 or, for APUs, GDDR5 as main RAM, like PS4 already does, and in the latter case I'll want ECC to be available to it too.
Yes, I guess that while mid-high and high-end PCs outperform the newest consoles too as usual, in the mid and low-end consoles currently enjoy some of the best performing components in certain sections and of a particular kind, APUs, with their built-in GPUs, for both PS4 and XBOne, and main RAM too for PS4. It's probably possible to build a mid range PC with discrete GPU outperforming the new consoles, but not with a power consumption as low. So maybe it's not the best time to build a new mid-low-end low-power consumption PC, next year could offer a wider range of options.
