Battlefield 1943, Bad Company 2 system specs revealed

1080p is for losers!!!

No, your tired ass avatar is for losers.

god, this avatar has been receiving some serious hate lately.

Well I'll agree to save up for a "real" monitor if you promise to get a new pic (and stop being such a prick).

sorry if that came off bad, i've never been good at sarcasm on the web

Jose so far has been:
A) Ostentatious
B) An Asshole.

Oh, bot, what's next?

This is Joystiq, not highschool.

Who you calling a "bot" Steve?

boy*
And that's more of a general phrase, rather than a insult.

Seeing as it's the equivelant to a 216-SP GTX260, yes.

Which makes me wonder why they didn't mention that.

yes

Looks like I'm pre-ordering both of these games. I just realized that all that games I'm going to buy Q1 next year are going to be EA games.

Also gets 3 and a half hours to four hours battery life with my optimization.

I've just about got the same thing but it's a 9800M GTS /w 1GB and only a 2.3Ghz Duo core.

Your sepcs are impossible. Unless, you have a GPU sticking out of your laptop's side.


Should be M9800, as Nadril stated.

But good battery life BTW.

Yeah 9800m GTX bra, I figured that was implied since I said it was a laptop.

Smart man going with EVGA

my system is old compared to yours but i love my EVGA 790i mother board with my GTX 260 Core 216 and Q9550 at 2.83

Ooh, you got the Obsidian? I'm still stuck with my HAF932, really liking the look of the Obsidian. Do you like it?

Bartoman,

Personally, I'd go with an HD 5770 since it offers noticeably better performance (though the HD 57XX line seems to absolute flat-line at a resolution higher than 1920x1200 due to the 128 bit bus) for just a little more money; you'd be getting better bang for your buck. Or, you could wait for the availability of the HD5850 to improve during the early part of next year and grab one after the prices fall slightly; the MSRP did go up shortly after launch because demand is incredibly strong but supply is minimal.

Digressing for a moment, the poor availability of the HD5850 and higher prices are both products of the poor yield rates on TMSC's 40 nm node. It's not because the RV8XX chips are extremely large or complex (unlike NVIDIA's GT300), but because TMSC made a few mistakes they shouldn't have (more than a few sites have reported their equipment wasn't properly calibrated and they didn't get around to actually fixing it for weeks). It's telling that the yield rate of a manufacturing process improves shortly after it comes online (as it should) but then nosedives and actually becomes worse when it was new. It's crippling ATI's ability to adequately meet demand and it's compounded the troubles NVIDIA's been having getting their own DX11 part to market (they're on A2 silicon right now when they should've been on A3 or better months ago).

Thank you very much for the advice, I will take it into consideration. However, It's only this particular system that's on discount and i'm not really having a big budget to start with, but maybe I can get 5770 version for not too much more money from that shop. I'm not counting on it though, but again, thank you VERY much for the advice!

While I'd agree with you on other games, this is one game I really think it would be better to have on PC.

What Games for Windows games has MS screwed with? Off the top of my head, Fallout 3, Arkham Asylum and Bioshock are all great games, with no detectable influence from MS, and they're all GfW.