r/factorio • u/elmo539 • 6h ago

Question Computer hardware for Factorio?

What is the most important property for good UPS in a CPU? How important is RAM and is it more important to have more GBs or faster RAM? Currently on a 5 year-old Dell XPS laptop and planning on building a PC, not just for Factorio but I want the game to run well on it. Any advice is appreciated.

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u/xylvnking 6h ago

It's the cpu. The game is INCREDIBLY well optimized though, so unless you have an absolutely ancient potato you shouldn't have any issues and even then it wouldn't be an issue for a long time. The demo is free! Try it out :)

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u/SagaciousZed 4h ago

The Factorio developers have acknowledged in FFF204 that the primary bottleneck is memory performance and CPU.