Okay, so...The SC II Beta specs are up, which most of you probably know:

* Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1/Windows 7
* 2.2 Ghz Pentium IV or equivalent AMD Athlon processor
* 1 GB system RAM/1.5 GB for Vista and Windows 7
* 128 MB NVidia GeForce 6600 GT/ATI Radeon 9800 PRO video card
* 1024x768 minimum display resolution
* 4 GB free hard space (Beta)
* Broadband connection

I would just like to add that my PC blew up recently. I mean there were sparks and a little smoke. The motherboard was a refurb and about 2yrs old, psu was 3 yrs old and just out of warranty. Some of you may have noticed that i was going to rebuild...that will have to wait as other fiscally draining problems have arisen. BUT, on the bright side, I pulled out my old pc:
Athlon XP 3000+ on FIC AU13G mobo with 2GB PC-3200 and a 7300GT(512MB DDR2).
BEHOLD, IN ALL ITS GLORY!!!..
I can scrape by with this for SCII and all of my older games (I will also be attending a private, rather expensive college in the fall to finally complete my bachelor's degree, so money is going towards that now) for a while. my only real questions are this:

Is anyone else on here going to be playing on something similar?
AND
Is it worth spending ANY money at all to upgrade the gpu? (thinking probably not, though i am going to not be playing nearly as much on my pc [I can go back to my 360] and using my laptop for productivity)

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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-Albert Einstein

If you want games, at least 50% of the invested-in-a-system $ should go into the video card.

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so you're saying if i want to play games at all, i should upgrade the gpu? Also, the reason i want to play SCII on the desktop rather than my laptop is becuase my laptop can't play it (Xpress 1150).

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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-Albert Einstein

7300 is low-end obsolete card.
Get a 5750 at least and you'll play Starcraft 2 just fine.

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Just realized I have over $1,200.00 in my video cards lol

guess that makes me obsessed about my games ?

5750 and 5770 is about as low as you want to go if your going to be able to enjoy games with at least some eye candy.

Starcraft has very low specs, my laptops 5470 HD would most likly play the game maxed out lol . Hell it played bio shock II maxed but only at native 1366x768 res.

So a lower end 2010 card would rock the game, but you have to think of future to bud.

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AMD phenom II 1090T @ 4.23 Ghz custom water cooled
Asrock 890 FX deluxe 3 mother board
4 GB DDR 3 1600 @ 1688 Mhz 7 7 7 24 T1 2688 Mhz NB
2x 1 TB WD Sata III 64 mb cache HDD,s raid 0
2x 5870 HD @ 1015/1300 Asus reference
Dual OS win 7 x64 ultimate & win 7 x32 Ultimate (bench os)

No; it just makes you ready to game !



Yeah but the maxed-out beta (@1680*1050) has under 30FPS (way under) when benchmarking it on a GTX260.

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i cant max it on my current system. at 1440x900

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Current system
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OS: Ubuntu 10.10/Windows 7
Power Supply:RoseWill Bronze series 750 watt modular
RAM: Patriot 2GB 240-Pin DDR3
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-770TA-UD3 AM3
CPU: Athlon II X3 435 Rana 3.2Ghz Overclocked
GPU: AMD 6950 unlocked to a 6970
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Anyone currently playing starcraft 2? I would, but I do not have any of my computers with me.

Please tell me if it lives up to the hype!

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Phenom II X6 1090T BE @ 3.7GHz,
ASUS M4A89TD PRO 890FX,
OCZ BE 8GB (4 x 2GB) DDR3 1600,
SAPPHIRE Vapor-X Radeon HD 5870,
VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB,
(x2) Caviar Green WD20EARS 2TB,
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro M700,
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Blue

I just have the beta, and my computer handles it like nothing on ultra settings. procesor before this one was a athlon 64 2.2ghz single core. Piece of garbage. ran on ultra settings on xp, and low on windows 7 even though the card could handle ultra. The processor plays a big part for this game. New processor handles the os and the game like nothing.

My Computer Specs-

Windows 7 Pro. sp1 beta
Athlon 2 triple core rana 445 3.1ghz
G.skill 4gb ram
Nvidia geforce 8800 ultra 768 mb
Gigabyte am3 amd mobo
western digital 120 gb

I think a lot of the hype went into promoting bnet, rather than the game itself. It's Starcraft. Some different units, different balancing, but overall it's Starcraft. I think if you liked the first one(who didnt?), then you'll probably jump right in and love this one.

I dont get itI dont get itI dont get it

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More Advanced Micro Devices than Intel

Completed the game.
Overall it's good, but some missions are quite boring and the ending is sux0rz-american-average-movie-like edition.

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Don't get what

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Phenom II 965BE @ 6.22GHz on LN2

It lived up to its hype in beta he galaxy editor is amazing. I haven't been able to get a release version but beta multiplayer was fun even tho i sucked i was in the bronze bracket

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Current system
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OS: Ubuntu 10.10/Windows 7
Power Supply:RoseWill Bronze series 750 watt modular
RAM: Patriot 2GB 240-Pin DDR3
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-770TA-UD3 AM3
CPU: Athlon II X3 435 Rana 3.2Ghz Overclocked
GPU: AMD 6950 unlocked to a 6970
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I'm liking it so far. Not playing through it all that fast and it'll take me a while to learn all the key combos and get good again but I'm looking forward to playing on battlenet.

I like the fact they took the time for all the cut scene movies and stuff, storyline does add a certain something. I'm getting a tad fed up of the cantina etc. between every lvl tho', sometimes it's good, sometimes I just want to get on with the next battle.

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The opinions expressed above do not represent those of Advanced Micro Devices or any of their affiliates.

1100t on M5A99x-EVO with 2x4gb and 6870 running Win7 on Force120 ssd in Corsair 600t cooled by H100. Folding for team 34106

Picked up the game last week, im really enjoying it so far. Im around half-way through the campaign at the moment, haven't played online yet as i'll probably get beaten. The only thing that annoys me is in skirmish matches the Terran have barely any units, Diamond back, Goliath, Medic, Firebats, etc are all missing. Hopefully they will get added in the upcoming expansion packs.

With my rig (see sig) I can play the game maxed out.

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ASRock K10N78FullHD-hSLI R3.0 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.9ghz
Sapphire Radeon 5870 1GB
4GB DDR2 RAM (4 4 4 12)
Corsair TX650W PSU
Thermaltake M5 Case
Windows Vista x64 Ultimate

What difficulty setting do you play the single player on ?
Firebats were redundant since the flamer cars are in.
Diamond backs are OP and medics could give unfair advantage in early game.

As far as things are going, there won't be any new units for multiplayer in the expansions because of balance issues and compatibility requirements (owners of any of the 3 sub-games will be able to MP among each other).

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-Double post-
-Re-edit-
Did you use the latest beta driver with AA enabled for Starcraft 2 ?

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