FileSharing Talk - Battlefield 3 Beta Date and System Requirements Confirmed

It begins. And, subsequently, your social life ends. Who cares, it’s Battlefield 3! September 29th is the day the outside world disappears and the Battlefield 3 multiplayer beta kicks off, and it’s open to everyone across all platforms. You’ll be sauntering through gay exploded Paris on the Operation Metro map, which includes an initial park area filled with cover and proceeds into more of a cloistered urban sprawl. In a word: Excited.

Additionally, we've also had some alleged system requirements sent through. Now, these specs do stem from a fan site and not DICE themselves, so mayhap imbibe them with a grainage of sodium:

Minimum system requirements
OS: windows vista (service pack 2) 32-bit
Processor: 2 GHz dual core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon x2 2.7 GHz)
Memory: 2 GB
Hard drive: 20 GB
Graphics card (AMD): DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB ram (ATI Radeon 3000, 4000, 5000 or 6000 series, with ATI Radeon 3870 or higher performance)
Graphics card (Nvidia): DirectX 10.0 compatible with 512 MB ram (Nvidia GeForce 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 or 500 series with Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher performance)
Sound card: DirectX compatible
Keyboard and mouse

Recommended system requirements
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Quad-core CPU
Memory: 4 GB
Hard drive: 20 GB
Graphics card: DirectX 11 compatible with 1024 MB ram (Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon 6950)
Sound card: DirectX compatible
Keyboard and mouse
DVD rom drive