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Scoobes on 05 July 2013

A lil' offtopic but any of you built a budget PC recently. I'm looking to build a budget PC for my GF; cheap, but able to last 4 years with some light gaming.




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disolitude on 05 July 2013
Scoobes said:
A lil' offtopic but any of you built a budget PC recently. I'm looking to build a budget PC for my GF; cheap, but able to last 4 years with some light gaming.



if you want to go dirt cheap you can look at those mobo+apu bundles for 100 bucks. Those should do windows 8 app store gaming no problem and would cost 200-250 tops for the whole system.

Something like this - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128561



Scoobes on 05 July 2013
disolitude said:
Scoobes said:
A lil' offtopic but any of you built a budget PC recently. I'm looking to build a budget PC for my GF; cheap, but able to last 4 years with some light gaming.



if you want to go dirt cheap you can look at those mobo+apu bundles for 100 bucks. Those should do windows 8 app store gaming no problem and would cost 200-250 tops for the whole system.

Something like this - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128561

That's probably a bit too cheap although I was looking at APUs as a general way to keep the cost down whilst giving her a GPU that could handle the odd RTS (normally old ones like Age of Mythology).

A motherboard bundle might be worth looking at though. I didn't consider them when looking at the build.




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Trunkin on 05 July 2013

2.16ghz Intel Pentium Dual Core T3400 with integrated GMA 4500M graphics, 4gbs RAM, and check this! It's got shared memory. That's right, SHARED MEMORY. Bleeding edge, man!



SaberSaurus on 05 July 2013
Scoobes said:
A lil' offtopic but any of you built a budget PC recently. I'm looking to build a budget PC for my GF; cheap, but able to last 4 years with some light gaming.


What's your budget?



   

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lt_dan_27 on 05 July 2013
CGI-Quality said:
lt_dan_27 said:
CGI-Quality said:

I still wonder if Battlefield will be doing as much as Metro: Last Light. With the advanced, unprecedented use of tech in that game, I can't imagine BF4 requires much more than it. Then again, depending on optimization, it should make sense that BF4 wouldn't.

Still, those requirements are like any other PC requirements. They get to the point. There's just nothing solid claiming BF4 will require 2GB of RAM for textures. Mere speculation.

While it's true metro LL looked amazing, have you seen the textures? They are they are pretty low res in some parts compared to the overall quality of other aspects. That's intentional. nvidia payed them them to optimize for nvidia cards, and it would be a pretty poor optimization job if they couldn't max it out with their flag ship card and amd could. 

The textures in Last Light are, arguably, the game's strongest feature. The use of tessellation and other applied sciences on the work is phenomenal. Every game has a few low res textures (in fact, Battlefield 3 is full of them), but no other game has as high of quality texture work as Last Light. Go take a look a GeForce's website, they give a full look at the game. It's the most advanced on the PC.

I've played through the game, and I love the metro series, but the lighting is definitely the best looking part of that game. It's also true that it's one of the best looking games out there. It's probably a debate between that and crysis 3, but they cheaped out on a lot of the textures. And yes I have also played bf3 (I don't see how bf3 having them disproves anything I've said) and seen the beautful 2d sprite trees. 



RazorDragon on 05 July 2013

Here:

Foxconn A6VMX Mobo
2x2GB Kingston DDR2 1066 Ram
AMD Phenom X3 8650 @ 2.3GHz(changing to a Phenom II X4 945 soon)
Zotac Geforce GTS 450 1GB
2x 160GB Samsung HD161HJ
18.5" LG W1943C Monitor(1366x768)
Windows XP 32-bit

I'll probably upgrade that PC in a few years, since I want to play some next-gen games on PC.



Solid-Stark on 05 July 2013

My current specs are as follows:

Intel Core i3 2120 @3.3GHz

8GB Memory @1333MHz

Nvidia GTX550Ti OC

Seagate 1TB HDD

Intel 120GB SSD

Total:$530

When it comes to current games, I only have all the Fallout games and most Valve games on Steam which I am able to run at Ultra settings, 1080p, 4x AA, and 50+fps average across all titles. (The games are not very demanding to begin with). However, with Crysis 1 I am able to do High settings @ 1080p w/ 2x AA resulting about 24fps average.

I was looking to upgrade my PC soon (AMD APU based) but I have decided to stick this out at least another year. Most of my gaming is emulation (SNES and 64) so I'm looking for a cost-power efficient solution for the GPU (as it seems to be my best option), but I can't decide on one. I'm crossing my fingers for a 740 GDDR5.

Overall, I have not come into serious CPU or RAM bottleneck issues when it comes to gaming. However, for work I have come into some multitasking issues due to the CPU but it's nothing to cry or rage about.





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Gaming on: PS4 Pro, Switch, SNES Mini, Wii U, PC (i5-7400, GTX 1060)

Andrespetmonkey on 05 July 2013

i7 2600k
gtx 550 ti
8gb



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Locknuts on 05 July 2013

It's getting old now but still does the job:

Core i5 2500k @ 4.5GHZ with Antec 620 Closed loop cooler
2 x GTX 560ti in SLI @ 950 MHz
Asrock P67 Extreme Mobo
8GB G.Skill DDR3 ram @ 1600MHz
WD 500GB HDD with 60GB SSD in SRT mode
27" Benq Monitor