Can my future build run Shogun 2 total war on high?

lemushroom

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Well, im building a gaming computer(My First Build :bounce: ) and was wondering if it could play shogun 2 total war with high graphics settings without lag. Heres the parts.

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ965FBGMBOX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103727

Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Green WD7500AADS 750GB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822136359

Optical Drive:HP Black 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM SATA 24X Multiformat DVD Writer
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6827140042
MOBO: ASRock 870 Extreme 3

GPU: XFX Radeon HD 6850 -

RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X DDR3 1333 Cas7

Case: Cooler Master HAF 912

PUS: Corsair CMPSU-650TX -


 

Bigmac80

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Good question because im also building a new pc and was very very interested in Shogun 2 since i was a big fan of Medieval Total War. Did you already build your pc? If not you should probably wait until they re-release sandy bridge on April or wait for the new AMD Bulldozer. Or wait till March 15th when Shogun comes out and check out peoples benchmarks. Because the last thing you wanna do is build your new system and find out you can't run the game on high settings. So me and you are in the same boat but at the same time im not in a rush until the they re-release sandy bridge or until bulldozer comes out. But from what i saw on Shogun 2 requirments it said 2nd generation i5-i7 cpu or AMD equivlent with 2gigs-4gigs of ram and AMD 5870 GPU. Also if you live near Microcenter the cpu's are alot cheaper, for instance a i7 950 is 200bucks and on newegg it's 300bucks. They even had the i5 2500k for 179.99 i'd take that any day over the 965 black edition since it's nearly the same price. But you'll have to wait until April i think. Hope this helps
 

Bigmac80

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I forgot about the graphics card, i have a gtx 295 atm i also wanna see if i can run that game on high settings with the gtx 295. I would get the GTX 580 or 6970 but i know they'll have a new one 6months from now so i'll probably wait till then before i upgrade my 295. I guess none of us will know yet till the game actually comes out.