Quote Originally Posted by TweaK View Post
I'm seriously doubting you'll need a Dual Core 5000+ Athlon64 for a game.
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Need? Heh, no. A dual-core 4400 would be all I NEED to run the game at high settings. But the 5000 is only a little bit more (well, a hundred, but meh) So I figures, screw it, let's get a top-of-the-line processor that will last me ages.

But this game is WAY more CPU intensive than most. Basically, you have 10,000+ troops fighting it out, all animated in 3d. There's simply millions of calculations the CPU has to make, so much work it has to do. This game could probably run on a pretty average graphics card as long as the CPU is powerful. It's not as GPU-intensive.

As for the comments on the video card: Thanks. I was considering going for the 7800GT actually, but it was slightly more expensive. I may still yet, it depends what I can get that's affordable.