Specs For id's Next Game After Doom 3 Calculated 62
jvm writes "Since my current PC is beefy enough to play Doom 3, I began planning for id Software's next game, the one that will come out _after_ Doom 3, so I've worked out the release date and minimum system requirements. It looks like a 3GHz processor and 1.5Gb of RAM just won't cut it in 2007, although the hard disk requirement doesn't hurt too much. Where's this information coming from? From id Software's past game requirements, a couple of exponential and linear models, and some pretty graphs. Start saving for that upgrade now! (Slashdot recently covered the Doom 3 system requirements.)"
Re:Start saving nothing... (Score:3, Informative)
Games hit the harddrive for 3 reasons:
1) Save-games (no big deal)
2) Loading maps (sometimes a pain in the ass)
3) Accessing the resources (it does it more if you have less ram).
RAID would only come in handy if the game you're playing has really long load-times, or if you're hitting a cache-file a lot.
For saved games, yeh, it's pretty useless.
But as far as price goes, RAID is pretty cheap. A lot of motherboards come with it now, particularly those with SATA ports.
At that point, you'd just need to buy 2 SATA drives (like, 2 80GB drives), and you'd have a fast RAID solution storing 160GB.
I'm considering going that route with my next PC. RAID 2 smallish SATA hard drives together for my main system, and back stuff up on a 3rd drive (probably a slow 5,200 RPM drive).