COD4 Recommended Specs

[Eredell]

CPU: 2.4 GHz dual core or better is recommended
RAM: 1GB for XP; 2GB for Vista is recommended
Harddrive: 8GB of free hard drive space
Video card: 3.0 Shader Support recommended. Nvidia Geforce 7800 or better or ATI Radeon X1800 or better


These are CoD4's recommended specs, my question is if I need to buy more RAM, or a new CPU, I'm set for video card.

I know the recommendations says 1GB is enough, but who knows.

Currently I have
1GB of RAM
and a Pentium 4 3.2GHZ Processor (Outdated I know)

if I need a new CPU, would you recommend

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115004

or the more expensive

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115003

[Calum]

What video card do you currently have?
And I actually wouldn't recommend either of those CPUs.
I would highly recommend this if you have the money and if your board supports it.
Also, 2Gb of RAM will help.

[Soviet_Genius]

Isn't dual core completely pointless for gaming because games never use both cores? Oh and that game runs well on my system, AMD Athlon 4200+, 1 GB RAM, GeForce 8600.

[Deerpark]

The games that utilizes more than one core are already here. Like UT 3 for example.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3127&p=4
And from what I've read COD 4 doesn't run well on single core processors either.

[Eredell]

What video card do you currently have?
And I actually wouldn't recommend either of those CPUs.
I would highly recommend this if you have the money and if your board supports it.
Also, 2Gb of RAM will help.

Right now I have a Geforce 8800GT 512mb

[Calum]

Deerpark is right, games are starting to take advantage of multiple cores.  Even if they don't, think logically - if you have one core, and your PC is running Windows and maybe some background apps plus the game, COD4 doesn't have as much CPU power to draw on.
On the other hand, if you have a dual core, one core can be dedicated entirely to running the game, with the other core handling background threads and also the game.
See where I'm coming from?
Eredell: nice card, I agree that you are sorted as regards your video card.  Get a Core 2 Duo and 2Gb of RAM to support that and you'll be flying along.

[Eredell]

alright, cool, thanks everyone for all your help.

one more question for you though Calum, As of where I stand right now. How do you suppose the game would handle, around on Medium settings?

[Calum]

It should run pretty well.
2Gb of RAM would make the game feel a lot smoother and decrease the loading time, it wouldn't necessarily increase the fps a whole lot.
A faster CPU would help during intensive shootouts with bullets and projectiles flying all over the place.  You may experience a little slowdown here with your current CPU.
However, I do think your machine should handle the game pretty well overall.

[Eredell]

alright, cool man.
thanks!

[Calum]

You're welcome.
Feel free to ask if you need any more info or advice.

[scooterpickleman]

Isn't dual core completely pointless for gaming because games never use both cores? Oh and that game runs well on my system, AMD Athlon 4200+, 1 GB RAM, GeForce 8600.

many games support dual cores now lol. especially the ones that reccommend them or they wouldnt be reccommended them lol