Mass Effect PC spec info - whats the deal?

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darconi said:

According to Joystiq, the Mass Effect PC spec is:

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/16/mass-effect-pc-requires-processor-memory-and-video-card/#comments

 Minimum System Requirements

• Operating System: Windows XP or Vista
• Processor: 2.4+GHZ Intel or 2.0+GHZ AMD
• Memory: 1 Gigabyte Ram (XP); 2 Gigabytes Ram (Vista)
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6 series(6800GT or better); ATI 1300XT or better (X1550, X1600 Pro and HD2400 are below minimum system requirements)
• Hard Drive Space: 12 Gigabytes
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card and drivers

Recommended System Requirements

• Operating System: Windows XP or Vista
• Processor: 2.6+GHZ Intel or 2.4+GHZ AMD
• Memory: 2 Gigabytes Ram
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX or higher; ATI X1800 XL series or higher
• Hard Drive Space: 12 Gigabytes
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card and drivers – 5.1 sound card recommended

 

 So a buncha people on the forums are bitching as always about PC spec, etc etc.  But I look at this and maybe I'm missing something but isn't this pretty...low?

 Note that this doesn't say dual core processors, it just implies single core.  So maybe I'm wrong but this looks really low to me. I mean 2.4-2.6 ghz processors were out over 5 yrs ago.  In fact my computer which is pushing 5 yrs meets the minimum requirements and isn't that far off the recommended specs because I made 1 GPU upgrade the other year. 

If this is true, anyone else agree with me that the crying over high spec requirements for new games is overdone? 

So u mean we now have over 5 Ghz system.?