Personally I don't know. I do know that I'm level 33 and it took about 5-7 days. You level up pretty quick in this game. Mainly because there are SOOOO many quests, and they actually give good XP. Not all quests are grinding quests. So far, I'd venture to say that the majority of the quests have not been grinding quests.

^What server are you in? We could meet up. I haven't played in a month, but then I played the last couple of days and went from 33 to, I think, 37. I kind of lost interest, but I've had a lot going on.

My own disposition to the coming of this game has been frenetic and may be a bit skewed as my 'Conan-like' proclivities have often been lamented, but I do want to emphasize that I have played many different games and Freelancer, GuildWars, WOW, Hellgate:London as well as a freakin cornucopia of others have all held a special place on my hard drive or in my heart.
The Hyborian world is a world I have traveled many times before frankly because I watched the movies and read the super cool magazines Savage Sword and Saga! Read the comic books and Novels written by Robert E. Howard but I also know every artist who inked, painted and sketched every cover and all magazine art since 1975. Basically this guy was my father growing up. The influence on my life is visible and I use the skills I learned every single day of my life. Writing, sketching, reading, imagination, are just some of the positive aspects of growing up in Robert E. Howards mind and vision. Drinking, fighting and bedding wenches came much later but I am still pretty sure that would have happened anyway as I was a half-breed native kid on the reservation that had more than a few granules of intelligence. Resentment tends to find you quickly in those circumstances. Anyway, instead of me ranting about how fabulous it is for me to travel these lands that I cherished as a boy and live the life I know I could have been good at had it been mine to live I will leave it up to you. Try it. I love it on a much deeper level but you will see what i mean when you compare to others. As for the specs...The instanced areas should pose no threat and with a new machine it will prove to be a beautiful experience for you as the graphic environment is second to none. If there is a graphics trick or gimmick...its in there.
I have absolutely no problems with anything 'at all' with the game. 2.8 dual core.(is there anyone with a single core now?) 2 gigs ram(standard), 5600 rpm platter(below standard but acceptable), i ran it on the low end w/GeForce 6800 just fine but wanted to see all the bells and whistles so I bought a budget card for $140.00 which is the GeForce 8600 GT OC from PNY. I am now 35th level and not one glitch...anywhere. running XP pro as well. I believe if you are mad enough to be running vista then those specs are basically for direct X10 and the OS...crazy ram hungry OS. Vista *bleep* but I did buy this card because it supports Direct x10 if I too someday go entirely mad and upgrade to Vista.

For 'top-o-the-line' then yeah I think every game that comes out would be nice on a screaming machine. For me though I have things set on medium-high with a good distance and it is simply amazing. truly artwork as only Conan deserves.