Will this work for T:ANE?

[alexl102]

Hi All,

As a bit of a personal project I'm hoping to build my own PC capable of running T:ANE.
I have been given an EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTX Graphics Card + a power supply. I'm considering getting an intel i3 6100 3.7GHz CPU and then a motherboard to match. I know very little about this stuff; would these be sufficient to run T:ANE well or do I need a better graphics card and processor?

Cheers!

 

[malikrthr]

Hi Alexl102, I think the processor is good but you would need a different graphics card. TANE needs a directX11 or higher graphics card to run and the EVGA Geforce 8800GTX is a DirectX10 card. Perhaps you can purchase a card like the GTX 750Ti or the GTX 950.

 

[cascaderailroad]

Which brings up a point, If you have a DirectX11 Video card ... and TS10 takes DirectX10 ... and TRS2006 takes DirectX9, and OpenGL ... will all of these ancient programs run on an DixectX11 video card, if you have OpenGL, DirectX9, DirectX10, and DirectX11 installed on your PC?

 

[clam1952]

Put simply yes they will.
i5 would be better, Graphics card although good in it's day back in 2006! does not support DX11 so that won't work with TANE.

 

[boc61]

I'd definitely suggest an i5 as well. The i3 really isn't meant for graphic intensive programs. As far as the graphics card, if money is tight, I have a GTX 680 in this machine with an i5 2500 and TANE runs fairly well on medium settings. You can get a 680 for under $100 USD. If you do have some more to spend then go for one of the 700 series cards.

 

[johnwhelan]

Hi All,

As a bit of a personal project I'm hoping to build my own PC capable of running T:ANE.
I have been given an EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTX Graphics Card + a power supply. I'm considering getting an intel i3 6100 3.7GHz CPU and then a motherboard to match. I know very little about this stuff; would these be sufficient to run T:ANE well or do I need a better graphics card and processor?

Cheers!

You don't give your country and sometimes that makes a difference to the recommendation. For example some things make more senes in the US or Canada than they do in the UK. A sort of budget would be useful as well.

Cheerio John

 

[alexl102]

Thank you to all for recommendations so far. I'm UK-based and would only be running T:ANE (maybe TS12 but probably not) on it initially so no need to worry about 2006 or anything.

In terms of budget, realistically as low as possible to begin with. It's my first foray into PC-building and it's something I'll be using as a personal learning experience but I can upgrade things bit-by-bit later if I want to.

If we're talking about the Motherboard, CPU and Graphics card being the 3 big things, I'd like to spend less than £500 on the lot if possible.

Also, I've noticed that within the i3/i5/i7 levels of processors, there's a lot of variations even then. Anyone able to advise on which i5 I should be looking at?

 

[johnwhelan]

Thank you to all for recommendations so far. I'm UK-based and would only be running T:ANE (maybe TS12 but probably not) on it initially so no need to worry about 2006 or anything.

In terms of budget, realistically as low as possible to begin with. It's my first foray into PC-building and it's something I'll be using as a personal learning experience but I can upgrade things bit-by-bit later if I want to.

If we're talking about the Motherboard, CPU and Graphics card being the 3 big things, I'd like to spend less than £500 on the lot if possible.

Also, I've noticed that within the i3/i5/i7 levels of processors, there's a lot of variations even then. Anyone able to advise on which i5 I should be looking at?

For TANE start with the GPU and work from there. Currently nVidia are about to announce Pascal GPUs so I wouldn't do anything for the moment. Cost wise remember a copy of windows 10 has a cost, you'll pay more for it than a manufacturer will.

In Canada I'd start with a refurbished Dell workstation which is a xeon processor with ecc memory, the equivalent of an i7 the caches are the big thing, three years old off lease, they come with nice power supplies and drop a decent GPU into it and I could get a working system under your budget.

In the UK you have VAT, a GTX 970 would be nice, but you're looking at 550 min for a complete system.

The CPU is used less with TANE than TS12, I think it only uses two cores anyway so I'm not sure what performance increase you'd see with an i5 over an i3. Even a slow i7 though would give you better caches which means you can get more through the CPU at the same speed.

Have fun.

Cheerio John

 

[pdkoester]

That GPU might be a good PhysX processor, look it up.