THE BUZZ: THQ has confirmed the official minimum and recommended PC specs for Saints Row: The Third.

You will need at least:

Minimum system requirements:

• OS: Windows XP
• Processor: 2GHz Dual Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X2) or higher
• Memory: 2GB System RAM or more
• Graphics: 320MB Video RAM GPU w/ Shader Model 3.0 support. NVIDIA GeForce 8800 series or better. ATI Radeon HD3800 series or better
• DirectX: 9.0c
• Hard Drive: 10GB
• Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0C compliant sound card or equivalent onboard sound
• Co-Op Play: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 cards require 640MB of Video RAM. ATI Radeon HD3800 cards require 1GB of Video RAM
• Online Steam Account

But you’d be better off with:

Recommended system requirements:

• OS: Microsoft Windows 7
• Processor: Any Quad Core Processor (Intel Core i5 or AMD Phenom II X4) or 3.0+ Dual Core CPU
• Memory: 4GB System RAM or more
• Graphics: 1GB Video RAM GPU w/ Shader Model 4.0 support. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 series or better. ATI Radeon HD5000 series or better
• DirectX: DirectX 11
• Hard Drive: 10 GB
• Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0C compliant sound card or equivalent onboard sound
• Online Steam Account

EGM’s TAKE: By the looks of the specs you’re going to need a fair bit of juice if you want to run the game smoothly with good graphics.