Good Rig for Rome 2 total war

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Ye Um thinking of purchasing a Rig mainly to start playing Either Shogun 2 or Rome 2, Wondering how this Rig would fare in Specific the CPU and the GPU for either of the Games. Also if you could point me in the direction of what Graphical settings as well it would be (High, Medium). And is intel Better than AMD

AMD FX-6300 6-CORE BLACK EDITION, 3.5 GHz, Turbo Core up to 4.1GHz,Total L2 Cache 6MB, L3 Cache 8MB, Socket AM3+, 32nm, 95W
Memory 8GB Kit Dual Channel RAM DDR3-1600
Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB WD10EZEX SATA3 64MB
Motherboard ASRock 960GM-VGS3 FX AM3/AM3+ mATX Board 760G 2 X DDR3 4 X SATA PCI-E 2.0
Video Card nVidia Geforce GTX 750 1GB GDDR5
Sorry to Chuck in all the Specs, even if they are not important! dont really know that much about PC's
Cheers Bros
 
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Total War 2 and Shogun are VERY cpu intensive especially Shogun 2 (it really makes your cpu cry) - Your 750 is good enough for low or medium settings if you'd like to keep a frame rate around 40-60 fps. And Intel is better then AMD in older games (cores are way stronger in intel cpus then and) but games that are optimized for using multiple cores AMD is on par with intel. I would get a better gpu such as r9 280x/r9 270x or the gtx 760. that six core is a great cpu for the price. if you mainly play shogun and total war i'd get an intel cpu however. those games doesn't utilize many cores which isn't good. intel has some great cpus such as the i5 4670k. I would get a new gpu and an intel cpu if u have the money but the 6 core is fine if you will also play games like battlefield 4 or thief ( they use all the cores available).
 
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i play a lot of total war on a mix between ultra and extreme for rome 2 with the rig in my signature, but i still have to downgrade another step in graphics for the really intense 20k man battles.

As for your build these are the required/ recomended specs for Rome 2

Minimum:
OS: XP/ Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8
Processor:2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor
Memory: 2GB RAM
Graphics:512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card (shader model 3, vertex texture fetch support).
DirectX®:9.0c
Hard Drive: 35 GB HD space
Screen Resolution: 1024x768

Recommended:
OS: Windows 7 / Windows 8
Processor:2nd Generation Intel Core i5 processor (or greater)
Memory: 4GB RAM
Graphics:1024 MB DirectX 11 compatible graphics card.
DirectX®:11
Hard Drive:35 GB HD space
Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

your system easily beats the system requirements but still your processor will probably hold you back more than your gpu. I would think that you could manage around medium settings for most situations in game
 
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Ok Man Sweet, So Looking to Run it On high Settings Graphics wise and a reasonable frame rate, so Intel is a bit more solid aye? Ye looking at an i5 as well, But would an GTX 750 Ti raise this much? and Another I was looking at, Bit more price but Better CPU and Intel i5 4570

Rig Thinking about
Intel 4570 B85 chipset MB
8GB DDR3 1600
1TB Sata3 7200rpm 64mb HDD
nVidia GTX660 2GBGPU.

Cheers for the Help Bros, Really Appreciated
 
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you should go with a intel cpu - you'll need the strong cores and a 750 ti would help a bit. Look at the r7 260x - it has 2 gb vram- it will allow u to play at higher res and its a bit better then the 750 ti but the prices are similar. the gtx 660 u suggested is a great card as well
 
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as for the i5 4670k u should get a z87 motherboard. it will allow u to over clock your cpu. the k in i5-4670k stands for unlocked so you can over clock it and get better performance.
 
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1200 NZD is most likely more realistic , but wanting to be running on high ish with a good frame rate , most of the time , but ye shit is pricey ish over here
 
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i think you'll still be able to afford the gtx 760. if any future total war games or shogun games get released you'll be more future proof with the gtx 760. but its your choice but think off the future as well
 
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I play rome 2 total war(I really like it, playing the normal difficulty is murder though...) I'm also a very curious person, and since I have 2 screens I open several instances of resource monitor to see what the game is using from my hardware. This is what I can tell you:

I have a core i3 cpu(not really impressive, in fact it was not the best i3 either, 3.2 GHZ no turbo or any fancy stuff) but the game is not killing my cpu(not really coming close either), the loading screens use one cpu thread to 100% while the others remain fairly low(so 40 to 50% of my cpu usage), so I disagree that cpu is a problem. I have 8 GB of memory ddr3 1333 mhz and it is plenty, the game uses like 4 GB to 5 GB at the most. What it will chew up and spit out though is your GPU. I have a 4 years old nvidia 9700 GT 1 GB ddr3 and play at medium graphics, and even that seems liek a struggle for my GPU. The graphics in this game are very advanced, and there are a lot of moving particles(waves in the sea, birds and animals running around in the battles, not to mention soldiers and distinct graphics per solider sometimes.) I am not a GPU expert so I cannot recommend a GPU, but if you want to play rome total war and really enjoy it get a good one. I would prioritize GPU over cpu.

BTW it would be a crime to buy an expensive system without an ssd. Don't put rome total war on it because the game is 30 GB (though it would immensly help with the slowish loading speed)but use it for the OS and other stuff...
 
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Cheers bro, so you thinking the Cpu is less important than the gpu is to the game ? Like I was thinking i5 as a cpu , As I have been told AMD equivalents are not as good...with a GTX660...and no idea what a ssd is tbh hahaha, thanks man
 
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Get 120 GB ssd for like 100$ (people recommend samsung, I recommend hyperx3k since I have it) install windows on it and browsers, and get the 1 terra disk for games and other media. And then you will see what an ssd is and how powerful it is. My i3 boots windows 7 so fast I never get to see the windows logo in the boot(that thing that forms while windows is loading) A computer is as fast as it's slowest component, and disks are slow. You can move games you frequently play on the ssd and leave the disk for stuff you do not use very often. With an ssd you will never wait on loading screens or on boot times or anything. You cannot go back after using an ssd, you will get used to the beautiful speed and hard disk pcs will seem like stoneage tech

Anyway about rome 2 total war, I was doing a research after writing my post, it seems the game is by design slow, people with very high end machines are complaining about the slow frame rates per second and the slowish game, so it might be a lost cause no matter what you get.

And yes, I always think for games GPU and memory is more important than cpu. I was using a dual core pc until about a year ago, and really my only problem with it was it could only go up to 4 GB of ram. I never had a game max out its cpu(though times have changed now I am sure)

 
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