I highly doubt that Spore will require a high-end gaming machine... Just because it is a new game doesn't mean the developers are going to be like Crytek and make a game that alienates it's user base.

http://www.sporeev.com/info...

Those are not official requirements, however that is what was said in an interview a while back. Though I can see them increasing the requirements a little bit, I highly doubt they are enough to need someone to drop a crap ton of money to upgrade, if at all.

I honestly would not get too frazzeled about something that hasn't been announced yet. This is Maxis and they generally always set their sys reqs to allow a large audience to experience their games. Just keep an eye on their official website as I'm sure sys reqs will be announced soon.

A good gauge of how well it will run would be to test out the creature creator on the 17th of June and see how that runs on your system.

Have you seen GH3 for the PC
To have a stream of notes going down, they recommend nvidia 8800(although required is nvidia 7300, but most people only have intel's family chipset) and 2 GB of ram, High processer etc.
Mine lags and runs barely on lowest setting everything off and backgrounds all removed.(notice how EA games are "optimized")

The link you gave me was probably from 2005 when they had spores set release in early 06, times have changed...

yup we'll wait for the creature creator, but it wont tell us how much are PC will need when we are dealing with large environments with many things on it.

Hopefully i can run it on minimum settings, the graphics of the game probably havnt been optimized yet because that is usually at the end of the process... if the graphics are what they are right now then i probably will be able to play it but if they enhance it im screwed.

I understand what you mean, and I have to say I agree. I'm sure the specs have gone up from what is listed there, and the creature creator wont tell you completely if your system is good enough. However, I think it is a good test and I don't believe the reqs will be too insane. I do have to admit that I'm looking at things from my perspective which are obviously different from yours, in terms of average hardware. I have to admit that I am more than likely underestimating them.

If you are really hard up for upgrading your system and need good advice, or more importantly good deals, goto:
http://www.techpowerup.com/

Go to their forums and introduce yourself and converse with people. I was able to easily get computer parts (Q6600, 8800GT, and Gigabyte mobo) used for very cheap. They also helped me find places that have really good deals for new equipment. What was going to cost me about 1,300 ended up only costing me a little over 600. This isn't the only place, but with any site you need to make yourself known first and their community is cool.

Anyway, hope that helps you a little in case you do need to upgrade.