Mass Effect: Andromeda PC Specs Announced

@stl_blue_notes: I also joined the 'master race' (or should I say: 'retarded race'?) a few months ago and there is a few tips I can give to you from what I've learned:

- Never trust the 'recommended specs' for most games: some games will run like shit even if you have better settings than the recommended (Dishonored 2, for example)

- PC gamers love to talk about full Backward compatibility on PC, but they forget to tell you that most of older games won't run on new machines without some tweaks here and there (if I haven't searched for some fixes, I wouldn't be able to play GTA 3 on win 10, for example)

- and the last but not the least, never pay the full price on a pc game, as most modern games are just lazy console ports and, like I said before, may not play very well, even on the 'recommended' specs (Deadly premonition, pc version, altough it is the most 'beautiful' version and plays 60fps, it will crash so often that you'll want to uninstall and don't play anymore), always look for discounts in sites like nuuvem or steam sales.

With that all being said, there's one thing I really like on my pc and consoles will never beat: Emulation. Playing a ps2/gc game in 4/6x native resolution is priceless, or should I say, the price you can pay for your GPU/CPU.

My Rig: gtx 1060 6gb, i7 6700k and 16gb ram.

@stl_blue_notes: I remember buying a PS3 at the end of the generation for the 4 exclusives that interested me. The 30 fps was fine but many games had so many drops below that it looked like someone was using a flip motion picture book on the other side of the screen.

The frame rate and auto-aim really killed it for me.

@stl_blue_notes:

Lol you just wasted $2000 for no difference the difference between 30 and 60 FPS is neglable lol

@stl_blue_notes: you won't be disappointed.

@Megawizard: I5 3330, 16GB DDR3 and GTX 1060 6GB. My processor is letting me down in few games, but overall I'm pleased with my performance. Will be switching to Ryzen once the competition heats up and prices fall even more. We are either way going to have to wait for Ruzen 5 processors, so I'm in no hurry to upgrade right now.

@Megawizard: 670 Ti? >.> Some classified god tier 670 with 8 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 512 bit bus with 2150 cuda cores and massive hordes of OC headroom or something?

@Megawizard: Get a good OC'able RX 470 for $180. Several models can be very safely overclocked to Rx 480 reference clocks (while running cooler and consuming less power) and in addition they're amazing DX12 performers, beating out GTX 970 and 1060. The RX 470, for example, easily runs The Witcher 3 at 1080p holding 65fps with a mix of Very High and Ultra settings - miles beyond console for a very affordable price.

Just saying, if you need a great budget upgrade...

@Megawizard: Low settings through and through lol

@guitarist1980: Yes, It was a scathing example of rage. If you think that is angry you should wait until your step dad gets home...

@GrayFlare: if the game has SLI support, doesn't really require 16gb ram to max, and VRAM doesn't become an issue, you should be fine.

@titang1: I think you'll hit 4k/60 tbh. What clock do you have your i5 at?

@couly: Optimization says "no".

@couly:

But the game devs never optimize their games as good as they do it for the consoles though, its like the super Android flagships vs the latest iphones, who have half the specs...

@dirthurts: if it's really going to perform at a 6800 level then you'll be golden for a long time.

@Myron117:

The 1060 wasn't out then was it?

@Myron117: Well in either case, it would be them overselling what you actually need. Especially since these minimum specs don't indicate what performance is expected.

@Myron117: the biggest problem with AK was memory leaks.

@Thalandor: developers always do that sadly. they do it so that people will buy the new cards to put money in Nvidia's pocket. Of what ive been reading from other people who know specs, power and etc and that build PCs, they say that a gtx 970 is more then enough too run this game on high settings no problem.

@Lach0121: the price difference between 8 and 16GB isn't that big to be honest. so most people are opting for 16 instead of 8. also 8GB is considered bare minimum these days.