Are these good specs for Trainz 12?

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c38nsw

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Hi, I am looking into buying a gaming desktop. I was wondering if the following would be good for Trainz to run on?

Processor
Intel Quad Core i7-3770 Processor 3.4Ghz (8M Cache, Max Turbo Frequency 3.90 GHz)
RAM / Memory
Latest 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR III 1333 MHz Premium System Memory

Operating System
Windows 7 64-bit

Motherboard
"JW Standard H61 Chipset Mainboard with Intergrated Lan, Sound & VGA"

Hard Drive
1000GB (1TB) Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive

Graphics Card
4GB nVidia Geforce GT630

Sound Card
Integrated High Definition Audio Chipset

Cameron.
 
Hi Cameron,

I agree. The system is great overall.

I have a similar spec'd system except with the GTX680.

The 6T630 was a low-end sneak in. NVidia does this all the time which confuses a lot of people.

John
 
Back when Trainz first came out, more than ten years ago as I recall, it was critical to have a high end machine to get tolerable Trainz performance. Trainz was "dumbed down" to make it possible, like limited view distance and very simple objects. Today it is basically the same program with a ton of tweaks and upgrades made posible by more powerful PCs. Today the power of the PC is not so criticle. Your PC is plenty good. It's weakest point is the video card which is far superior to those of a few years ago. If you are happy with it's performance, don't worry about it.
 
SuperFudd said:
Back when Trainz first came out, more than ten years ago as I recall, it was critical to have a high end machine to get tolerable Trainz performance. Trainz was "dumbed down" to make it possible, like limited view distance and very simple objects. Today it is basically the same program with a ton of tweaks and upgrades made posible by more powerful PCs. Today the power of the PC is not so criticle. Your PC is plenty good. It's weakest point is the video card which is far superior to those of a few years ago. If you are happy with it's performance, don't worry about it.
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A high end machine 10 years ago didn't have the computing power of some smart phones today.
 
SuperFudd said:
Back when Trainz first came out, more than ten years ago as I recall, it was critical to have a high end machine to get tolerable Trainz performance. Trainz was "dumbed down" to make it possible, like limited view distance and very simple objects. Today it is basically the same program with a ton of tweaks and upgrades made posible by more powerful PCs. Today the power of the PC is not so criticle. Your PC is plenty good. It's weakest point is the video card which is far superior to those of a few years ago. If you are happy with it's performance, don't worry about it.
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It depends on what the OP expects to run The GT630 card would be okay for less complex routes but if he buys Roy's CPR mountain sub he would get framerates of 1 or 2 if that and stutters could last for minutes.
It is very sneaky of some manufacturers putting an i7 3770 in a PC with a relatively low end graphics card. I think they hope to mask the poor GPU with a high end CPU taking advantage of the general ignorance of PC buyers.

Ken
 
Get a Intel processor that has the letter "K" at the end. That means that the CPU can be overclocked if you want. Down-under at the moment, it appears that Nvidia's GTX 660Ti & the GTX 670 offer the best bang for your bucks.

I've got the GTX 660Ti and I'm very happy with it. All setting "maxed out" and I'm still getting great frame rates. Either card will do a great job...

(The GTX 690 is an amazing video card, but the average punter "down-unders" got to take out a second mortgage to get one) !!!

As someone has already mentioned, 16 gigs of Ram is a bit of an overkill. 8 gigs is plenty, and spend the balance on a better video card...

Cheers, Mac...
 
meatloaf747 said:
Get a Intel processor that has the letter "K" at the end. That means that the CPU can be overclocked if you want. Down-under at the moment, it appears that Nvidia's GTX 660Ti & the GTX 670 offer the best bang for your bucks.

I've got the GTX 660Ti and I'm very happy with it. All setting "maxed out" and I'm still getting great frame rates. Either card will do a great job...

(The GTX 690 is an amazing video card, but the average punter "down-unders" got to take out a second mortgage to get one) !!!

As someone has already mentioned, 16 gigs of Ram is a bit of an overkill. 8 gigs is plenty, and spend the balance on a better video card...

Cheers, Mac...
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I think the I7 without overclocking is more than enough CPU. Spend some money on the GPU, cause that is where the bottleneck will occur.
 
Robert2d6 said:
I think the I7 without overclocking is more than enough CPU. Spend some money on the GPU, cause that is where the bottleneck will occur.
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Don't wish to appear rude in anyway Bob but the price different Down-under between the "K" CPU & the "S" CPU's is $12 NZ... http://www.pp.co.nz/CPUs-Intel.php

Intel Core i7-3770K 3.4Ghz 8MB Cache *Quad Core* 2000Mhz Socket LGA1155 CPU Retail Boxed $484.00 NZ
Intel Core i7-3770s 3.1Ghz 8MB Cache *Quad Core* 2000Mhz Socket LGA1155 CPU Retail Boxed $472.00 NZ

Please also note the "default" clock speeds. That's also why I would recommend the Intel Core i7-3770K 3.4Ghz over the "S"

My simple philosophy, better to have the ability to "overclock" down the track, than not. (better future proofing). Like the i5-3570K the i7-3770K can be overclocked to 4.5Ghz without any problems, providing you have liquid cooling. I've been running my i5-3570 at 4.3Ghz for several months now without a single problem... A great, cheap, easly overclocked CPU...

Cheers, Mac...
 
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meatloaf747 said:
Don't wish to appear rude in anyway Bob the the price different Down-under between the "K" CPU & the "S" CPU's is $12 NZ... http://www.pp.co.nz/CPUs-Intel.php

Intel Core i7-3770K 3.4Ghz 8MB Cache *Quad Core* 2000Mhz Socket LGA1155 CPU Retail Boxed $484.00 NZ
Intel Core i7-3770s 3.1Ghz 8MB Cache *Quad Core* 2000Mhz Socket LGA1155 CPU Retail Boxed $472.00 NZ

Please also note the "default" clock speeds. That's also why I would recommend the Intel Core i7-3770K 3.4Ghz over the "S"

My simple philosophy, better to have the ability to "overclock" down the track, than not. (better future proofing). Like the i5-3570K the i7-3770K can be overclocked to 4.5Ghz without any problems, providing you have liquid cooling. I've been running my i5-3570 at 4.3Ghz for several months now without a single problem... A great, cheap, easly overclocked CPU...

Cheers, Mac...
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3770K is a great processor, but I would reccomend getting an i5 3570K and GTX 480 and get higher ram speed such as 1600MHz or 1866MHz
 
drchoi21 said:
3770K is a great processor, but I would recomend getting an i5 3570K and GTX 480 and get higher ram speed such as 1600MHz or 1866MHz
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Good point about the ram, missed that; 1600MHz is probably all he needs. Main point there is that he gets 2x module for "Dual"... Either 2 x 4's or 2 x 8's...

Cheers, Mac...
 
Just try to change the graphics card. I have a GTX 650 Ti and the game runs very well.
If you are rich ;) you can buy the GTX 690...

Greetings,

Toni
 
I think the heavy load on the game has to be carried by the GPU, not the CPU. CPU on my PC is not working very hard at all.
 
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