Evilhamburglar wrote:
my processor, sound card are awesome (p4 3.06 ghz core 2 duo and fatality) case is great was like $200 new corsair XMS DDR2 RAM is good and the 2 dvd drives and one cd drive it came with are fine.
whats is wrong with just purchasing mobo psu and gpu?
A P4 is not a Core 2 Duo. 3GHz on a P4 is still shit... P4's are just shit. It will bottleneck that card big time.
I have an X1950XT 256mb which is better than the 7950GT, and I can run the demo on mostly high, with a few mediums. I'm not sure the exact FPS because my Xfire didn't work ingame, but it was smooth for the most part except in big fire fights, then it got a little bit choppy (but still playable).
So, unless there is a huge difference between the demo and the real game (performance wise), you should be fine with that card for medium. The CPU will hurt the performance, and 1.5GB of RAM (probably not dual-channel) will also hurt the performance.