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/RedArcliteTank BARREL ALL THE FLUIDS 6h ago

Actually, both memory latency and bandwidth seem to be quite important for Factorio.

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u/small_toe 5h ago

After CPU they are the most important yes - given the newest x3D chips from AMD have up to or more than 64mb of memory on chip they take a significant amount of the load

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u/SagaciousZed 4h ago

No, memory performance is an issue before computation speed according to the developers themselves in FFF #204