sooo that would be me.

i know we dont know everything about nova right now but from what we have seen, would you say something like this would be efficient to run "nova"

any suggestion would be pretty cool.

Slap an actual GPU on there and you should be fine- 8 gigs of RAM won't be an issue, but for the PC master race, you should be aiming for 16.

I'm also running a 1TB hard drive like it shows on there, and I feel like more space would be better.

If you do go shopping for a graphics card to add on to the system linked above be careful as matching up GPUs to APUs can be very tricky and result in a much lower price to performance ratio if you do not get the right ones.

You will definitely need a Radeon card for them to pair up and be able to really share performance but which one will depend on which chip you end up with.

For gaming purposes I generally recommend staying away from APUs due to heat output when you try to game on them. Going with a well balanced CPU / GPU combo will get you much farther in the long run. Also APUs are harder to pair up with GPUs without ending up with a bottleneck in there.

^ This

Personally i have an fx 6300 CPU and an r9 270x GPU. These work well considering how little i paid for them, although i must admit i do need an upgrade some time soon

Agrees with NOMOMHANDS. (scary, I know right?)
We have no idea when or even if NOVA will be greenlit, much less reach a release state. Technology changes much too fast to predict what you will need down the road. Hard lesson for me was buying my first PC straight out of college for 3d. 9Gb SCSI drive with an OpenGL card. Next year DirectX seemed to take over, and CD-RW drives were becoming somewhat affordable making my work station a glorified nightstand. It's all but guaranteed that today's tech will be obsolete or at the very least much cheaper tomorrow. I'm kind of exaggerating with my story but at least you'll probably get better prices by waiting as new tech becomes the new FotM.

So yeah. Unless there's a game you want to play now, wait.

I will post something stupid later so you can disagree with me. I'm sure you are really sick of agreeing with me right now.

Is there a particular subject you would like to call me stupid on? LOL


As far as future hardware the roadmaps have already been laid out for the next year thanks to the VR wars getting going. There is lots of speculation on release dates and what not but the next 2 years are pretty much laid out thanks to it having turned into a complete race to market. The Oculus CEO saying that peoples' "crappy computers" was what is holding back VR definitely helped this.

Just take a look at AMDs stock price over the past month. I was fortunate enough to buy under 2.50 back in early march when first numbers from Oculus and Thrive were coming out which told me GPU sales were going to go nuts.

Nah man that's terrible.

Avoid any PC that has integrated graphics instead of a separate GPU. Integrated graphics simply isn't good enough to run anything like nova. Although if you're lucky it might run minecraft :P

I'd recommend talking to cat merc about PC builds, from what I've seen he knows what he's talking about.

p.s. I do miss my old Intergraph work station