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Nice!

Yeah that's what I thought; even I knew that the GFX card was crap. I will upgrade the motherboard someday but given what you guys said, I'm okay for now. Plus my Lenovo has that three switch thing to control the PC's level of processing power.

Thanks for the replies they really helped. To be honest, there aren't that many genres/games on PC that tickle my fancy other than FPS and RTS like Quake and WarCraft. I really want to try StarCraft II though.

@ BasilZero sounds about right. I'll definitely do that to save some money.



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^^ Nah I'm cool; not much of a DOTA fan.

Not at home btw; I'm using a different pc so quoting doesn't work.



Red4ADevil said:
Nice!

Yeah that's what I thought; even I knew that the GFX card was crap. I will upgrade the motherboard someday but given what you guys said, I'm okay for now. Plus my Lenovo has that three switch thing to control the PC's level of processing power.

Thanks for the replies they really helped. To be honest, there aren't that many genres/games on PC that tickle my fancy other than FPS and RTS like Quake and WarCraft. I really want to try StarCraft II though.

@ BasilZero sounds about right. I'll definitely do that to save some money.

You'll probably find yourself picking up many (if not all) multiplats on PC. The games look better without exception, they are cheaper at launch and have better discounts, many can be modded, and you have a free choice between KB+M and gamepad.

It's only the rare awful PC port (like any Assassin's Creed game) that you'll still want to get on console.

If you want something similar to Quake and PC exclusive, try out Tribes: Ascend. It's free to play and excellent: here's a review of it that I wrote.



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Kantor said:
Red4ADevil said:
Nice!

Yeah that's what I thought; even I knew that the GFX card was crap. I will upgrade the motherboard someday but given what you guys said, I'm okay for now. Plus my Lenovo has that three switch thing to control the PC's level of processing power.

Thanks for the replies they really helped. To be honest, there aren't that many genres/games on PC that tickle my fancy other than FPS and RTS like Quake and WarCraft. I really want to try StarCraft II though.

@ BasilZero sounds about right. I'll definitely do that to save some money.

You'll probably find yourself picking up many (if not all) multiplats on PC. The games look better without exception, they are cheaper at launch and have better discounts, many can be modded, and you have a free choice between KB+M and gamepad.

It's only the rare awful PC port (like any Assassin's Creed game) that you'll still want to get on console.

If you want something similar to Quake and PC exclusive, try out Tribes: Ascend. It's free to play and excellent: here's a review of it that I wrote.


Thx I'll look into it. I think I'm going to have to upgrade the powersupply too. I don't know If im reading it right, but the max output is only 280W.



Red4ADevil said:


Thz I'll look into it. I think I'm going to have to upgrade the powersupply too. I don't know If im reading it right, but the max output is only 280W.


280w wouldn't be surprising on a pre-built. (Is that the 12v rail or the entire PSU?)

Go grab youself a decent Corsair HX/AX, they have a 7 year warranty and it will easily outlive the machine and end up in the next, they cost a bit initially, but IMHO the PSU is something you don't ever skimp on.




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@OP: If you have PC games a few years old in your backlog (or in your shoplist), play them first on your current PC, it should be good enough for them, except the most power-hungry graphics whore-fests, and delay the upgrade, that you'll need to play some recent games at high settings.
I have a PC far slower than yours (onboard HD3300 graphics, just to say), but several times faster than my previous one, and I'll really need to upgrade it when I'll start playing the most recent games in my backlog.



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