What spec pcs are you using, and performance are you getting?

Hi everyone,

Im a bit of a newbie round these parts, but have been a member of the forums for many years but have finally got round to posting.

I have been playing Championship Manager since 1993 originally on the Commodore Amiga. Before that Football manager on the C64.

Just wondering what PC spec people are using on what kind of data base size, as im going to buy a new PC. :confused:

I suppose in the following format..

Processor:

Core Dual/quad/single:

Ram:

Graphics Card:

Game Database size:

How many Leagues:

Roughly the average time length of a season:

Cheers guys & gals!

Processor: Phenom II x3

Ram: 2GB DDR3 Kinsgston ValueRam

Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon 4850

Game Database size: Large (30000)

How many Leagues: ENG (tier 8), ESP (Top), FRA (Top), ITA (Top)

Roughly the average time length of a season: 22 hours.

Mate, my game flies with this hardware and I could easily add more leagues.

I would suggest building a computer instead of buying one off the shelf.

Cheers Bradmonk!!

Processor: Intel Core 2 Q6700

Core Dual/quad/single: Quad

Ram: Corsair 4GB DDR2 RAM

Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce Gtx 260

Game Database size: Large (75k players)

How many Leagues: All (Not all on playable, but i can't remember which ones are on playable. Think it's about 14 countries, rest on view-only)

Roughly the average time length of a season: 10 hours

Ta Roykela!!

Processor: Core2duo 2.33ghz

Ram: 4gb (only 3.3 usable though due to using a 32bit os(window7 home premium))

Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 4600 series 1gb ram

Database size: Large (40000+ Players)

Leagues: 25 all on playable

Roughly the average time length of a season: A bit longer than roykela (I'm very patient )

I should also mention that I use gamebooster which help with the speed and of course I ignore what the stars say regarding performance.

Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @3.8ghz

Ram: 6gb ddr 3 16000

Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 4890

Game Database size: Large

How many Leagues: 25 ( All Playable)

Roughly the average time length of a season: 7 hours

Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @3.8ghz

Ram: 6gb ddr 3 16000

Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 4890

Game Database size: Large

How many Leagues: 25 ( All Playable)

Roughly the average time length of a season: 7 hours

7 hours to do a season?? Man your mouse must take a battering!!

Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955 @3.2ghz

Ram: 4gb ddr2

Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 4870

Game Database size: medium

How many Leagues: 12 but with only England and USA playable (Took notice off the stars for some reason)

Roughly the average time length of a season: Now in 2055 and still get season done in under 10 hours.

Also would suggest building your own. Built my 1st comp last year and was a lot easier then i thought.

Processor: Q6600 O'ced to 3.2ghz

Ram: 4gb ddr2

Graphics Card: ATI 5850

Game Database size: Custom (66K)

How many Leagues: 12-14 depending on my mood, with less than 10 playable

I finish a season in under 20 hours but i like to take things slow, also I run short games typically less than 5 seasons but with custom clubs.

Would like to add that in my estimation FM is a database intensive app, so it is important what kind of hardrive you intend to run. I'm pretty certain that any current gen (intel i5/7) quad core processor with 4+gbs of ram would not be the bottleneck, if you can afford an SSD that should impact your gaming experience more than having a top of the line processor.

Also, build your own, its cheaper and easier than you think and the individual part warranties are usually more reliable and generous than the dells and HPs of the world.

Processor: AMD Duron ~1GHz

Ram: 768 MB

Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce 2 MX400 32MB

Game Database size: small (21 000 players)

How many Leagues: ten

Roughly the average time length of a season: 25-30 hours

Thanks guys seriously thats a big help!! Anyone else?!

Processor: Intel Core 2 CPU 1.7ghz

Ram: 2GB

Graphics Card: Intergrated Intel GMA

Game Database size: Normally around 40,000

How many Leagues: 16

Roughly the average time length of a season: 20hours (i take things slow)

Surprised at my average season time. Thought I went a lot faster.

Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @3.0ghz

Ram: 6GB DDR3

Graphics Card: nVidia 460GTX 1GB

Solid state harddrive

Game Database size: Large

How many Leagues: 15/20

Roughly the average time length of a season: Haven't got a clue, don't really time myself

Processor: 3.2gb quad-core

Ram: 8gb

Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD5850

Game Database size: Large or Custom (large + whatever)

How many Leagues: anything from 4 to around 20, depends what I feel like.

Roughly the average time length of a season: no idea. Think it varies.

8GB of RAM :o Lucky you

Haha.. it doesn't matter all that much at the minute - I barely ever use anything close to all of it even with several programs running, but I'm sure it'll come in handy one day

Thanks very much for taking the time to reply!! Any ideas of the best places to buy computer bits from? I was thinking of building my own.

Processor: AMD phenom II x4 965 ... 3.39ghz

Core Dual/quad/single: quad

Ram: 8gb ddr2 1066 mhz

Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 Sli-band

Game Database size: large with all players loaded from brazil, france, argentina and italy

How many Leagues: 56

Roughly the average time length of a season: processing is very quick but i usually do 2-3 games per day so a few weeks (but only because of my playtime not the CPU)

the game database size states 95,000 players

Processor: Hexacore AMD X6 1055T @ 4.2GHz

Ram: 12GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz

Graphics Card: EVGA GTX260 SSC Edition

Game Database size: Large

How many Leagues: 10

Roughly the average time length of a season: About 20h (more or less)

Processor: Intel Q6600 @ 3.0GHz

Core Dual/quad/single: Quad

Ram: 4Gb ddr2 800MHz

Graphics Card: Geforce 9800 GTX+

HDD: 2x 750Gb RAID 0

Game Database size: medium/Large

How many Leagues: Europe (all playable) cant remember how many that is. I like scouting and finding bargains.

Roughly the average time length of a season: somewhere between 24-48 hrs.

I don't know about anyone else but more ram and my RAID 0 setup makes the MTBCC (Mean time between clicking continue) a lot quicker. Gone are the days of clicking continue and off to make another tea.

Good luck with the new build mate.

Processor: Intel Q6600 @ 3.0GHz

Core Dual/quad/single: Quad

Ram: 4Gb ddr2 800MHz

Graphics Card: Geforce 9800 GTX+

HDD: 2x 750Gb RAID 0

Game Database size: medium/Large

How many Leagues: Europe (all playable) cant remember how many that is. I like scouting and finding bargains.

Roughly the average time length of a season: somewhere between 24-48 hrs.

I don't know about anyone else but more ram and my RAID 0 setup makes the MTBCC (Mean time between clicking continue) a lot quicker. Gone are the days of clicking continue and off to make another tea.

Good luck with the new build mate.

i agree

my processing through saturday is now 20-40 seconds compared to 3-5 minutes as it used to be on my old 1.7 processor and 1 gb ram

Thanks very much for taking the time to reply!! Any ideas of the best places to buy computer bits from? I was thinking of building my own.

Use google shopping to find the best deal. when I built mine I bought from loads of places, Amazon, Aria, LambdaTek, Misco, ebuyer, Eclipse, etc etc.... Used all of these with no probs. just shop around.

also, if you're not too savvy with the internal gubbins of a computer, Haynes (the car people) do a manual on how to build a system, I would strongly advise you purchase this to help walk you through the building process.

Processor: Amd Phenom II x3 720 Black Edition (currently running on 2.7 Mhz)

Ram: 4gb ddr 3 1300

Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 4870 1 GB Ram

Game Database size: Large

How many Leagues: ALL available ( All Playable)

Roughly the average time length of a season: 25-30 hours (depends on how much time I spend on looking at stats by other players clubs etc )

Processor: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300

Ram: 4GB DDR3 RAM

Graphics Card: 1GB NVidia 260M GTX

Game Database size: Large (including superbladesman's english league to level 11 etc)

How many Leagues: All of them

Roughly the average time length of a season: about a month, although I don't play it particularly that much.

Processor: Hexacore AMD X6 1055T @ 4.2GHz

Ram: 12GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz

Graphics Card: EVGA GTX260 SSC Edition

Game Database size: Large

How many Leagues: 10

Roughly the average time length of a season: About 20h (more or less)

you have got to be kidding me? 20 hrs with specs like that? i guess it depends how long you take.

i7 920 @ 4.5ghz (corsair h50 with 2 fans keeping this nice and cool)

4GB of 1600Mhz @1700Mhz

QPI is at 7700MT/s

ATI Radeon 5750 Gfx card (850mhz, 1300mhz up from 750 and 1150 respectively)

When it was at 3.9ghz, to holiday through an English season with down to BSN/BSS with about 20,000 players it took 9 minutes.

My current save has about 160,000 players in and a whole bunch of obscure leagues and processing a day never takes more than about 30 seconds. I generally play whilst on other games though, so I don't know how fast I could burn through a season playing it.

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.5Ghz

Ram: 4GB DDR2

Graphics Card: Crappy Intel onboard

1TB Hard drive

Game Database size: Large

How many Leagues: 25 - 30 comfortably, but more likely to play 11 - 15 higher rep leagues with lots of players loaded

Roughly the average time length of a season: Have never timed it, but never had issues with speed

i7 920 @ 4.5ghz (corsair h50 with 2 fans keeping this nice and cool)

4GB of 1600Mhz @1700Mhz

QPI is at 7700MT/s

ATI Radeon 5750 Gfx card (850mhz, 1300mhz up from 750 and 1150 respectively)

When it was at 3.9ghz, to holiday through an English season with down to BSN/BSS with about 20,000 players it took 9 minutes.

My current save has about 160,000 players in and a whole bunch of obscure leagues and processing a day never takes more than about 30 seconds. I generally play whilst on other games though, so I don't know how fast I could burn through a season playing it.

i was thinking of overclocking slightly

is it risky? or does it just reduce the longevity of your hardware (which i don't mind becuase i try to build a new pc once per year)

never once done overclocking but i have the facilities to do it

It can shorten the life, but if you plan on upgrading that regularly then it doesn't matter too much. You need a good cooler for your CPU to overclock it though, which usually requires a bigger case than usual and additional fans for airflow around the case. It can be risky if you just go into it blindly, but if you put the time in research it and maybe try it with a less valuable system first of all you can become comfortable with doing it.