Minimal CPU for Doom 3?

[AndreaDoom]

Hi There!!!

Can any-one tell me, if possible!!, what's the minimal cpu that is needed to play with "Doom 3" with a Geforce3 ?? Of couse at low resolution!!

 

[JimmyDean]

Its very hard to determine at this time but I would think at least a 1.7 or 1.8ghz. This is just speculation from me tho

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[lumper]

i run the alpha that is anyway on an 1800+ all stock 266 fsb with a ti4400 and ti4600 pretty good.
just gets a bit slow when there are more than a few zombies but playable for sure.

 

[Turk]

Intel 8088 4.77 mhz!

 

[rook]

The hard part is finding one with an AGP 8X slot to support my 9700 Pro

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[TKH]

It's very hard to tell currently because no one can tell the future. Base on previous situation, game manufacturer wants to make money, so they won't set an extreme high config like 2.0GHz above in order to cover as many market segment as possible, of course if you want extremely high quality you should have the top of the line rig but more than 80% of consumers don't even own such a high end system. So relax, even some latest games requirement is a 32MB video card and 1GHz CPU along with 128MB RAM.

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[c0d1f1ed]

It will also be available for Xbox, which has a Pentium III 733 MHz if I'm not mistaken.

 

[dhlucke]

Lets face it though. Xbox can't hold a candle to a PC.

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[sabbath1]

I think I read two years or so back that GeForce 3 was a minimum. Considering that, I believe it's safe to say that a P4 1.8 / AMD 1800+ is what you should have to be able to play satisfactional, at least at 640x480. But, I don't really know, it's just a guess.


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[mrvikki]

Sadly it's not looking so good. I know this may be heresy on Tom's site but over at AnandTech.com they reviewed Doom3's playability on various cards... http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1821&p=20
Anyways, if you are running at 1024x768 No AA and no AF at medium quality on a P4 3.0GHz with HT
A GeforceFX 5200 Ultra only managed a paltry 37 FPS while the new GFFX5900 spanks the 9800pro.
BUT if you decide to enable antialiasing at medium quality...with either the $500 GFFX or the $350 ATI, you are going to get just about 40-50FPS MAX and forget about any res higher than 1024...(it's interesting that the ATI handles quality settings better than the new 5900...I guess the NVidia drivers are really a problem).
Even then...for the 5200 to be barely playable is a bit disconcerting...

I really don't want to have to buy a graphics card that costs more than my entire system to launch rockets at a cyber-demon...=(
Half-life 2 will probably be better anyway...=)