Will my new computer play Ship Sim Extremes

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[will19984713]

Hi, ive just purchased a new PC, Here are the specs can anyone tell me if this will play Ship Sim Extremes well?

Intel core i5 processor 680 - 3.60ghz 4MB
Memory: 6144MB (2x2GB) (2x1GB) 1333MHz DDR3 Dual Channel
2TB 7200rpm Duall HDD
1GB ATI Radeon HD5770 graphics card

Many Thanks

[Denis]

Hi Will,

With this PC, Shim Sim Extremes should run perfectly well 

[Ralphy]

im no pc expert, but from what i can see it should have no problems at all. if someone more techy could back me up though it would be more help  

P.S: Nice spec's, wish mine were more like yours  

hope you enjoy SSE

EDIT: Denis beat me to it

Ralphy

[will19984713]

Thanks for the reply, i bought it yesterday and changed the i7 processor to a i5 as the i7 it came with was only a 2.8ghz processor and the i5 was 3.6ghz.  Dont know if i did the right thing or not?

[Denis]

Yeah, you can't beat me : I'm Dr Evil, mouahahahahahhah  .

[Ralphy]

if the i7 came with the 2.8ghz and i5 with 3.6ghz im sure it was the right thing to do

[will19984713]

I hope so but the i7 was 8MB and i5 is only 4MB but as ime not a techy guy ime not really sure what it means.  All i know is that the one i have gone for is a higher power processor.

[Willmutt]

i7 has 4 cores (8 "cores" with hyperthreading turned on), i5 has 2 cores and no hyperthreading, so overall it says it all, i7 is a better processor. But thanks to your higher core-clock I guess these processors are almost as good as each other in games, i7 probably slightly better but more expensive, fair enough...

[JHB]

Simple answer: yes, it will

[will19984713]

I had to pay £80 extra for the i5 as it was 3.6ghz.

[Willmutt]

That's sad, sorry to say this, but then you've got bamboozled. PC shops shouldn't take advantage of ignorance, but unfortunately it's an easy way to earn money . But still you have a good PC, and you should get very good gaming performance anyway.

[will19984713]

Its a Dell XPS so i did it all online, i didnt think dell would rip you off but obviously they have.  O well at least the PC will be capable of playing extremes very well.

[Denis]

Hi will19984713,

You've not been bamboozlded at all, the I5 680 is the latest Intel cpu generation, and costs actually more money than an older i7@2.8ghz.

It is actually a 2 core CPU, but it has hypertreading capacities.

It's an excellent CPU, and will probably performs (much?) better than an i7@2.8ghz....

All the i5 cpu don't have the same architecture,
some are dual cores, some are quad cores,
some have hyperthreadring, some don't...

Here's a brief description of the i5s :  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_i5

That's an excellent choice anyway !

[will19984713]

Thanks for that, ime glad someone has backed up my choice.  The reason i did it is because the ship sim extremes operating requirements are 2.8ghz or 3.0ghz processor so i thought i better get something slightly more powerful but i dont have a great deal of technical knowledge about pc's.  Ive got a dell diemsnion that i played ship sim 08 on but it struggled and was jerky.