Spec me a PC suitable for Far Cry 2

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My mate has bought the game but only has a Athlon XP 1800 :D

What kind of spec/budget would he be looking at to get up and running with this game?

Thanks in advance!
 
overclocking or not?

monitor size/res used?

extra bits needed
-HDD space?
-wireless?
-RAID?
-keyboard + mouse?
 
Overclocking is not required.

Current display is a 17" CRT.

He'd be looking at a CPU, motherboard, RAM, video card and PSU.

Thanks dude.
 
Option one

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
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XFX Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (HD-485X-YDFC) £97.99
(£112.69) £97.99
(£112.69)
CP-271-IN_60.jpg
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.80GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £91.99
(£105.79) £91.99
(£105.79)
MB-143-AB_60.jpg
Abit IP35 Pro XE Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £52.16
(£59.98) £52.16
(£59.98)
CA-006-CS_60.jpg
Corsair VX 450W ATX Power Supply £51.99
(£59.79) £51.99
(£59.79)
HD-057-SA_60.jpg
Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ) £37.99
(£43.69) £37.99
(£43.69)
MY-038-KS_60.jpg
Kingston Hyper X 4GB (2 X 2GB) DDR2 6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX6400D2LLk2/4G) £33.99
(£39.09) £33.99
(£39.09) Sub Total : £366.11 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DHL @ Home Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.99 VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £56.27 Total : £431.37
 
Cheaper version...

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
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Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail (11147-00-20) £74.99
(£86.24) £74.99
(£86.24)
CA-006-CS_60.jpg
Corsair VX 450W ATX Power Supply £51.99
(£59.79) £51.99
(£59.79)
CP-225-AM_60.jpg
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+ 2.70GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail £49.99
(£57.49) £49.99
(£57.49)
MB-178-GI_60.jpg
Gigabyte GA-M52L-S3 nForce 520LE (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £43.99
(£50.59) £43.99
(£50.59)
HD-057-SA_60.jpg
Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ) £37.99
(£43.69) £37.99
(£43.69)
MY-038-KS_60.jpg
Kingston Hyper X 4GB (2 X 2GB) DDR2 6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX6400D2LLk2/4G) £33.99
(£39.09) £33.99
(£39.09) Sub Total : £292.94 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DHL @ Home Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.99 VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £45.29 Total : £347.22
 
The system ive got in my sig runs farcry 2 at 40-50fps at very high settings even at the busiest times..
 
It's not worth building a system mainly for one game. Especially one as bad as Far Cry 2. It truly is an awful game. Buggy as hell, worst being the memory leak problem where the game crashes to desktop. Just check out Ubisofts forums. It is also extremely repetetive, get in a jeep and drive somwhere, have a crash with an enemy jeep, carry on driving until you get to a checkpoint. Get attacked and kill everyone. get back in the jeep and carry out the mission and then do it all over again, and again, and again. I have given up after 50% of the game completed. It is so boring. It also has nothing to do with the original Far Cry and i can't see why they called it Far Cry 2. It really is one of the worst FPS games i have ever played.
 
Plenty people enjoyed it though, and didn't get any crashing issues whatsoever. For what it is, it does it very well.

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pastymuncher said:
It's not worth building a system mainly for one game. Especially one as bad as Far Cry 2. It truly is an awful game. Buggy as hell, worst being the memory leak problem where the game crashes to desktop. Just check out Ubisofts forums. It is also extremely repetetive, get in a jeep and drive somwhere, have a crash with an enemy jeep, carry on driving until you get to a checkpoint. Get attacked and kill everyone. get back in the jeep and carry out the mission and then do it all over again, and again, and again. I have given up after 50% of the game completed. It is so boring. It also has nothing to do with the original Far Cry and i can't see why they called it Far Cry 2. It really is one of the worst FPS games i have ever played.
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I actually liked the game and completed it 100%..never had a crash either.
 
I never had any crashes with the game but i did find it extremely repetitive and the whole malaria thing for me was stupid. I wouldn't build a system for this specific game but i can understand building one capable of playing the latest games. What is the total budget he has to play with as thats the best way to sort him the best spec as without that people could recommend spec's allday long and not get it right.
 
The budget for this build is £500. Hope this is sufficient to play games like this?

His current monitor is a decent CRT but I guess he can use a DVI-VGA adapter in the short-term?
 
FunkyT said:
He'd be looking at a CPU, motherboard, RAM, video card and PSU.
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Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £149.49

AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition 2.8GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £123.99

Asus M4A78 PRO AMD 780G (Socket AM2+/AM3) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £90.84

Corsair VX 550W ATX Power Supply £72.44

Kingston Hyper X 4GB (2 X 2GB) DDR2 6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX6400D2LLk2/4G) £39.09

All prices are inc vat, this comes to £485 including shipping
 
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