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Originally Posted by GGG
Would a computer like this run star citizen on max settings?
And if I want to use a TV as a monitor what to I need to look for in a TV to make it work. For me I envision using this thing as a media server as well.
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It would be close, but likely not fully. SC is CryEngine3, and to run CryEngine3 on max (including AA, AF etc) you typically need an SLI/Crossfire solution (which is okay, because CryEngine loooooves SLI/Crossfire). It's possible the new 780Ti or the 290X could run it without issue, but unlikely as even a Titan only runs 1920x1080 Crysis 3 @ ~50-55 FPS with everything on Very High (but with low MSAA).
http://www.techspot.com/review/644-n...tan/page4.html (I know it shows Crysis 3 @1920x1200 but you can extrapolate an extra 5 FPS or so from that for 1080)
Chris Roberts has said that Star Citizen is made for PCs, and in such, he wants it to pull everything it possibly can from hardware. That said, the game wont be in full release till late 2014/early 2015, which will have much faster hardware as the standard. Will a 770/280X be good? It sure will. Will it be able to max it with a stable 60 FPS at all times? No.
As far as using a TV, keep in mind 1920x1080 on a PC looks way better on a 24/27 inch monitor than it does on a 60 inch TV. All modern HDTVs will work fine with modern videocards more or less out of the box thanks to HDCP handshakes and the HDMI standard.
EDIT: This just in, NVidia, in response to the 280X/290X release, takes an axe to the 770/780 pricing (now $329/$499 US respectively). Sweet.
http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/...x-770-pricing/
Expect MemEx/NCIX/Newegg to reflect those price changes within a day.