Hardware Guide for X3

[Doug Park]

James,

From my first post:

For the most part our system requirements will remain the same as for X2 with the caveat that X3 is designed for multi-core systems.

For someone that is looking for really cheap hardware that X3 will do good on a Core 2 Duo would be my recommended cheap machine.

You have a Core 2 Duo which is the low end of the recommended system scale.

3) A 64 bit OS is a must have.

You are running a 32 bit OS. I would recommend upgrading to Windows 7 64 bit at some point in time so you can access all of your memory instead of just 3GB. While not critical, it is probably the most important change you can make for your hardware to improve performance.

While it is theoretically possible to spend $18,000 for a new machine, $1800 would buy a very sweet desktop to run Chief on. The machine I developed X3 on cost us about $1300 to build a year ago.