the OP said minimum vs. perfect, and so i think Geno is right. when perfect/maxed out has a common meaning (benchmark settings), you wouldnt say 'perfect settings' to describe 'medium playable' settings, RsistncE

Geno, if there is such a thing as 32x AA, shouldnt that be the AA used in your 'maxed out' argument rather than 4xAA ? why are you using the 4 when talking max settings when there's higher AA ? "

I am building a monster. 
 
I will disregard the requirements. 
 
I will have my vengaence, in this life or next.

Anything above an 8800 class nvidia card or equivalent. 
Anything above or =  4GB of RAM, I dont think this is coming out for xp, otherwise, 2GB for xp 
Anything above a q6600, CPU intensive game. 
 
Basically hardware that should work for any multiplat released this gen. And those are barebones minimum (requirements) 
 
My recommendation would be a mid-high DX11 card (GTX 560 ti), a mid corei7 cpu or mid-high corei5 (920 and above), and 4GB or 6GB of ram depending on corei5 or i7, socket type.

It'd be a waste of money to get myself a GTX 580 and use it with a 1680x1050 monitor right ? "

" @Geno: Only. You. And. Possibly. The. Op. Are. Talking. About. Perfect. Settings. 

" @RsistncE said:

" @Geno: Only. You. And. Possibly. The. Op. Are. Talking. About. Perfect. Settings. 

Oh sorry, didn't know it was convention to ignore the OP.   Followed by yada yada the same bullshit that I countered 5 posts ago (you still don't understand the Steam survey, benchmarks, or what resolution does to image quality).   Let the record show that I tried to educate this fool, but he did nothing but troll in response. "

I seriously hope my GT 9800 won't struggle with it, if it does i might have to replace it. :(

 Your understanding of statistics is fucking pathetic

" @RsistncE said:

 Your understanding of statistics is fucking pathetic

Since I've already replied to the rest of your "I don't know shit about PC gaming but continue to comment on it anyway" nonsense, and since you keep pushing this point about statistics I thought I'd just add that I've completed honors level university courses in statistics with the highest marks. From my experience, it is safe to say that you lie about 3 standard deviations below average in terms of intelligence, with a confidence interval of about 99%. "

" @Geno said:

" @RsistncE said:

 Your understanding of statistics is fucking pathetic

Since I've already replied to the rest of your "I don't know shit about PC gaming but continue to comment on it anyway" nonsense, and since you keep pushing this point about statistics I thought I'd just add that I've completed honors level university courses in statistics with the highest marks. From my experience, it is safe to say that you lie about 3 standard deviations below average in terms of intelligence, with a confidence interval of about 99%. "

Since I've already replied to the rest of your "this has less to do with technical benchmarks than you think" nonsense, I thought I'd just add that throwing around claims of achievement in your real life on internet threads are surefire ways of proving you actually didn't do those things. In fact: the null hypothesis here was that you're actually some for of hideous moron living in your mom's basement. Unfortunately, we failed to reject the null hypothesis. Sorry, better luck next time. "

" @RsistncE said:

" @Geno said:

" @RsistncE said:

 Your understanding of statistics is fucking pathetic

Since I've already replied to the rest of your "I don't know shit about PC gaming but continue to comment on it anyway" nonsense, and since you keep pushing this point about statistics I thought I'd just add that I've completed honors level university courses in statistics with the highest marks. From my experience, it is safe to say that you lie about 3 standard deviations below average in terms of intelligence, with a confidence interval of about 99%. "

Since I've already replied to the rest of your "this has less to do with technical benchmarks than you think" nonsense, I thought I'd just add that throwing around claims of achievement in your real life on internet threads are surefire ways of proving you actually didn't do those things. In fact: the null hypothesis here was that you're actually some for of hideous moron living in your mom's basement. Unfortunately, we failed to reject the null hypothesis. Sorry, better luck next time. "

Right, performance in games has nothing to do with benchmarks. Let's just state all of our different custom settings and express framerates through descriptive words instead, much more useful. Ooh, I have a better idea, let's interpretive dance our framerates to each other, that's even less technical! Boo technical! We don't need framerates or standards in a performance discussion! And if it doesn't run oh so buttery smooth (yum!) then it will magically optimize itself for us!
 
 *Roll*
 
Also you were the one constantly slinging ad hominems about my statistics knowledge, when it's clear that your own only extends to your 6th grade elementary education and maybe some reading on Wikipedia (for one, you don't even know how to interpret a survey). Oh and wonderful assertion about real life achievements. I also volunteer at hospitals and tutor people chemistry for free. Oops, according to your arbitrary ruling looks like I don't. I guess a random person over the internet has the ability to annul my entire life. You sure got me. And I take it the constant "mirror" posts that you keep making are indicative of your lack of imagination. "

All I wanna know is how they expect to garner huge PC sales with spec that high. Not everyone can afford to get the best parts every year.  Though I feel like I've picked a good year to build a top-of-the-line computer, with BF3, Skyrim, and Diablo all around the corner-ish. 

It took a whole week for a PC hardware thread to break into insults? I'm impressed. 
 
@XII_Sniper: At this point, I don't think publishers expect anyone to play new PC games aside from the hardcore PC enthusiasts who will get the best parts every year regardless of price. Everyone else just has consoles, which is why there are console versions.
 
Edit: Never mind, that's stupid. EA has been pretty clear that they want to unseat Call of Duty, and they've said one of their tactics is to make Battlefield a more technically impressive franchise. The fastest way to do that is ramp up the technical requirements and dump that added horsepower into features Call of Duty (with its console focus) cannot match. If that cuts down their sales for Battlefield 3, so be it if that's what's needed to reestablish the franchise for modern gaming.

Lots more destruction probably means it's gonna use up alot of cpu cycles to calculate those physics like Bad Company 2 does.   So a strong quadcore in the 3+ghz range  is definately on the checklist.   I'm a guess this game can be scaled back graphically a little bit so a video card within 3 generations of current technology will be able to run it.  How fast depends on how much money you spent on that video card.     

if it's not a console port hopefully it wont be much harder to run than BC2. 
 
plur remember guys, this IS supposed to run on consoles. 
 
EDIT:  all in all, if my GTX 460's in SLI and my overclocked core i5 750 cant handle it, i will be angry.

" It took a whole week for a PC hardware thread to break into insults? I'm impressed. 
 
@XII_Sniper: At this point, I don't think publishers expect anyone to play new PC games aside from the hardcore PC enthusiasts who will get the best parts every year regardless of price. Everyone else just has consoles, which is why there are console versions.  Edit: Never mind, that's stupid. EA has been pretty clear that they want to unseat Call of Duty, and they've said one of their tactics is to make Battlefield a more technically impressive franchise. The fastest way to do that is ramp up the technical requirements and dump that added horsepower into features Call of Duty (with its console focus) cannot match. If that cuts down their sales for Battlefield 3, so be it if that's what's needed to reestablish the franchise for modern gaming. "

"if it's not a console port "

" @SeriouslyNow: I never said the GTX 470 was in line with the 570, I think you must have misread. Though I duly note that BC2 has received performance optimizations since it's launch, in this case older numbers might be better since we're presumably speculating the performance demands for BF3 at its launch through extrapolation of BC2.  "