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Lucky sod. :D

Anyway, purchased the meat of my pc now:

HP ZR24W 24" 1920X1200 screen
I7 2600k
8Gb DDR3 1600Mhz (2x4gb)
P8Z68-V PRO Motherboard
GTX 580 graphics card
X-Fi Titanium


Total cost: £765 (excluding X-Fi which I had already). Moderately chuffed at what I got for the cost, but BF3 better be bloody worth it. :D
 
Why are people purchasing now specifically for BF3? Hardware will come down in price between now and release. People are probably scurrying to release GPUs etc. in time for it, which at the worst will mean current new models will be cheaper as they're superseded.
 
Robbie G said:
Why are people purchasing now specifically for BF3? Hardware will come down in price between now and release. People are probably scurrying to release GPUs etc. in time for it, which at the worst will mean current new models will be cheaper as they're superseded.
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Personally I did it as my current machine was grinding to a halt, and I was struggling to work on it (processing large numbers of wedding photos). The Alpha ran great on it, so I have no doubt the final release will as well :)

I probably COULD have waited. But I didn't want to ;)
 
kenmare said:
Lucky sod. :D

Anyway, purchased the meat of my pc now:

HP ZR24W 24" 1920X1200 screen
I7 2600k
8Gb DDR3 1600Mhz (2x4gb)
P8Z68-V PRO Motherboard
GTX 580 graphics card
X-Fi Titanium


Total cost: £765 (excluding X-Fi which I had already). Moderately chuffed at what I got for the cost, but BF3 better be bloody worth it. :D
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That's a very good price for your system:cool:

I have Q6600 system which I built last april and it cost me around same. I did sell some old parts aswell to offset the actual cost.

But I still need 24" monitor :(
 
elmuzzy66. said:
Depends which build of bf2. THe orginal release had stupidly high time requirements for some awards, 1000hrs for gold pilot badge is an example. That got condensed to 100hrs which was a high but within reach.
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You could get a real pilots license in less time than that haha.
 
kenmare said:
You could get a real pilots license in less time than that haha.
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Here some of the original requirements, that ive managed to find.

AWARDS

Award Basic Veteran Expert

Engineer Combat 10 Kills IAR 20 Kills IAR / 250 hours 40 Kills IAR / 1,000 hours
Sniper Combat 10 Kills IAR 20 Kills IAR / 250 hours 35 Kills IAR / 1,000 hours
Medic Combat 10 Kills IAR 20 Kills IAR / 250 hours 40 Kills IAR / 1,000 hours
Spec Ops Combat 10 Kills IAR 20 Kills IAR / 250 hours 40 Kills IAR / 1,000 hours
Assault Combat 10 Kills IAR 20 Kills IAR / 250 hours 40 Kills IAR / 1,000 hours
Anti-Tank Combat 10 Kills IAR 20 Kills IAR / 250 hours 40 Kills IAR / 1,000 hours
Support Combat 10 Kills IAR 20 Kills IAR / 250 hours 40 Kills IAR / 1,000 hours
Knife Combat 7 Kills IAR 50 Kills / 7 Kills IAR 100 Kills / 18 Kills IAR
Pistol Combat 9 Kills IAR 50 Kills / 9 Kills IAR 500 Kills / 18 Kills IAR
Ground Defence 5 Min. IAR 12 Kills IAR / 200 hours 24 Kills IAR / 750 hours
Explosive Ordinance 13 kills IAR 23 Kills IAR / 500 kills 37 Kills IAR / 1,000 Kills
Commander 40 Points IAR 33 Min. IAR / 15,000 points 33 Min. IAR / 150,000 points
Engineer Repair 5 Repairs IAR 15 Repairs IAR / 500 hours 25 Repairs IAR / 1,000 Hours & Repairs
First Aid 5 Heals IAR 10 Heals IAR / 500 hours 25 Heals IAR / 1,000 Hours & Heals
Re-Supply 5 Resuplies IAR 10 Resuplies IAR / 500 Hours 25 Resuplies IAR / 1,000 Hours & Resuplies
Air Defence 10 Min IAR 12 Kills IAR / 250 Hours 24 Kills IAR / 750 Hours
Armor 10 Min IAR 12 Kills IAR / 100 Hours 24 Kills IAR / 1,000 Hours
Aviator 10 Min IAR 12 Kills IAR / 500 Hours 24 Kills IAR / 1,500 Hours
Helicopter 15 Min IAR 12 Kilsl IAR / 100 Hours 24 Kills IAR / 1,000 Hours
 
Robbie G said:
Why are people purchasing now specifically for BF3? Hardware will come down in price between now and release. People are probably scurrying to release GPUs etc. in time for it, which at the worst will mean current new models will be cheaper as they're superseded.
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The next gen cards from nvidia (not sure about ATI) will not be out until Q1 2012 so I don't really see the point in not upgrading now. Hell the 480 that I brought a while back is now over £100 more expensive.
 
ScarySquirrel said:
I disagree, without the fear of dying it would be a crap game of endless rushes. At least with people caring about K/D ratio, etc., there is a bit of tension, just like you'd get on a real Battlefield.
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For me the fear of dieing is due to losing position or an opportunity to frag. The problem (IMO) is that the KDR still what largely differentiates a noob from a born killing machine. But a born killing machine may not be playing the objectives.

I know that there are points for defensive kills etc but I think they need to do more to encourage playing the objectives.
 
Ok guys like most i don't want another program like steam for my games so im going to get a hard copy of the game.

So my question is were is the best place to buy

would like it on the day but next day is no problem
 
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