Help me build a gaming PC for 620 dollars

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Soleron said:

I like any/all of Squillam's suggestions.

And the 229W is whole system power consumption, proving my point.

Oh, I see... then I guess I should be fine :)

BTW, about that thing you said about PS2 emulation: "I don't think you need an Intel processor for PS2 emulation? AMD is compatible with all x86 instructions except SSE4.x as far as I know."

 

I just searched and found that the developers of the emulator recommend Intel processors over AMD ones. This is what I found (in spanish :P, I'll tell you what it says below it in english):

 

"Requisitos mínimos: Procesador: dos núcleos a 2.8GHz. (Ver Nota1) RAM: 1GB. Tarjeta de Video: 512MB con pixel shader 3.0 y soporte para Directx 9.

Requisitos recomendados: Procesador: dos nucleos a 3,2ghz (Recomendable Intel con instruccion SSE4.1 Penryn y superiores). RAM: 2GB. Tarjeta de Video: 512MB con pixel shader 4.1 y soporte para Directx 10.

Nota: aunque tengas los requisitos recomendados es muy probable que no consigas los 60 FPS constantes en la mayoría de los juegos, ya que el emulador está todavía en desarrollo y faltan optimizar muchas cosas, de todas formas con los requisitos recomendados vas a tener una velocidad "jugable" (promedio de 45 FPS).

Nota1: El emulador se lleva bastante bien con procesadores con la instruccion SSE4.1 y desde que hay speedhacks se puede jugar muchos juegos con un Intel core duo 2 Penryn serie 2,1ghz o superior acompañado con una Nvidia 8800GTS 512Mb - segun los desarolladores se lleva mal con los procesadores AMD porque no tiene set de instrucciones deseadas para la emulacion , los speedhacks pueden conducir glitches o pantallazos en negro

Nota2: Solo Soporta dos cores por hardware y ya se remarca PS2 no se adaptan bien a través de muchos hilos / núcleos de la CPU, ya que cada emulado se debe hacer en bajo nivel y por eso a dia de hoy no ayudaria un CPU con muchos hilos o nucleos."

 

It basically says that you need a dual core at least at 2,8ghz(3,2ghz recommended). It also says it's best to have an Intel CPU with SSE4.1 Perynn instructions sets or superior... and it also says that the emulator doesn't work as well with AMD CPUs because it doesn't have some desired instruction sets for emulations and that the speedhacks (sometimes necessary for reaching 60 FPS) could cause glitches or black screens with AMD CPUs.

It also says that the emulator doesn't work very well with CPUs with lots of threads and/or cores and getting a CPU with lots of cores won't really help because the emulator only uses 2.

Now... do you know if the i5 760 has those instruction sets? O_o

 

 

Squilliam said:

Sorry, I tried my best but not being able to read it properly makes things hard. Anyway depending on how much extra you're going to spend either my 2nd or your 2nd is fine. However mine only costs $50 more and comes with a good enough graphics card out of the box and twice the memory. Then you can save your money until next year and get one of the next generation graphics cards.

 

Don't worry, you really helped me ;)

Now... I'd like to know why you recommend the first one you posted... is it because I could later change the CPU for a better one without having to change the Motherboard and also because it has 1TB instead of 500GB HDD? or does that one give you a better performance in games?

Also... considering what I said to soleron about the PS2 emulator working better on Intel processors... would you still choose the first one you posted over the second one if you were me? :P

I really don't know what to do... I'd go with the one you recommended me if it wasn't for the PS2 emulator :S

I think I need to start searching how the emulator works on that processor...