Mass Effect: Andromeda PC Specs Announced

@livedreamplay: Yeah I never understand the PC guys that say stuff like that ! You could build a PC for $500 that will match the PS4 or XB 1 - but there is no reason to do so - it would take effort and time and in the end you will be left with a Build that would need to be upgraded in no time at all - the PS4 and XB1 do what they do out of the box with very little setup required - the only People that would build a Console equivalent PC are those doing it as a tech exercise or comparison - I built my PC to a higher standard and have my XB1 and PS4 for convenience and playing online with my friends.

@livedreamplay: https://youtu.be/dlZoWUW_2yw

@livedreamplay: You can ABSOLUTELY build a PC more powerful than the Pro for around $400. Look up reviewtechusa's video on his $250 gaming PC. It doesn't outperform a PS4 Pro at $250, but an extra 100-150 dollars for a better CPU would push it well past the Pro's performance. And unless is a massively terrible port(which EA is not known for), you definitely don't need the recommended specs to play at Ultra. 12GB of ram will be more than enough, and the game will more than likely not be using any features that require an i7. An older i5 or an equivalent will be just as effective for the most part. And if you spend $450-500, you'll have a machine that dumpsters the Pro, and you'll make up for the difference quickly with game sales and free online play. Never believe the recommended specs from EA. They are usually exaggerated as a kind of insurance to minimize bitching, and they are likely paid to promote buying tech that isn't necessary.

@livedreamplay: if you set the graphics settings on pc to be equal to that of the PS4 you can build a pc for cheaper. You don't have to run the game on recommended settings. Recommended seems to be there as a way for devs to encourage people in buying expensive graphics cards (so I've noticed since gaming on pc since 2009), cpus, rams, motherboards, power supply. I have to say though I really like consoles for being a lot less hassle to get to what the point of all this is: to play the damn game. :)

@livedreamplay: you won't be able to build one that cheap, at least not that's worth it. But you certainly don't need as much as you're trying to make it sound. $500 would beat a ps4 pro easily. A $65 quad core from AMD like a 4300 and a $140 AMD 470 beat out a ps4 pro.

@X-7: One of the best CPU's ever made imho. I switched my 2500k for a 6700k, but I still use good old Sandy as a media server.

@sellingthings: I have noticed there are still lots of people rocking the 955. Those were great chips and if I remember correctly actually had better per core performance than some of amd's newer CPU architectures. The newer ones of course focussed on multithreaded which does not help as much in games. Especially back in the day but that is set to change very soon with new API like Vulcan and dx12.

@X-7: That's an interesting point. But I haven't seen a Frostbite engine game that took advantage of more than 4 cores or hyperthreading in general. Case in point, the most demanding game I can think of is Battlefield 1 which recommends an i5 6600k (and not an i7).