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chapset on 22 August 2008
Mummelmann said:
I recommend XP anyways, and that video card is a tad outdated. Other than that is looks fine and I'd say it is worth 550$ as long as it is easily upgradeable.
Some would say "But-but the DX10!!", which is bull, there are not many visually impressive games that make full and good use of DX10 yet and those who do would tax your gpu and RAM too much anyhow.
do you think that video card could support empire total war or a game like crysis?

 



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Mummelmann on 22 August 2008

Support it? Sure, but it won't run too well, especially Crysis!
The Empire games require quite a bit of punch, but it is more evenly distributed on RAM, cpu etc, mostly because of the insane number of effects and animations onscreen at once.



chapset on 22 August 2008
Mummelmann said:
Support it? Sure, but it won't run too well, especially Crysis!
The Empire games require quite a bit of punch, but it is more evenly distributed on RAM, cpu etc, mostly because of the insane number of effects and animations onscreen at once.

ok thx for the info

 



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evo03 on 22 August 2008

I think you should definitely move away from the 8600 as reports are saying those are defective.



Vaza on 22 August 2008
chapset said:
Vaza said:
If it's running Vista + latest games, some more RAM might be necessary.

 

 so vista is that laggy? wath if i use xp?

 

Vista isn't exactly laggy, its made to run on 1GB ram smoothly, so that means your game has 1GB ram to use, for the best graphically games, this isn't enough and may cause some problems on the highest end games (Crysis for example), even more so if you have a dated video card.



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chapset on 22 August 2008
Vaza said:
chapset said:
Vaza said:
If it's running Vista + latest games, some more RAM might be necessary.

 

 so vista is that laggy? wath if i use xp?

 

Vista isn't exactly laggy, its made to run on 1GB ram smoothly, so that means your game has 1GB ram to use, for the best graphically games, this isn't enough and may cause some problems on the highest end games (Crysis for example), even more so if you have a dated video card.

ok, i think i won't buy that computer then, since school is starting next week and am short on money (you know lots of books to buy) thx for the help

 



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|_emmiwinks on 22 August 2008

Vista isnt bad at all really, but RAM is big with it, it takes a Gig of RAM and uses it to page to exclusively. So if you only have 1 gig of RAM you have some memory issues, 2 gigs is recommended, I run 4 gigs, no problems.

Also dump the 8600 and get a 8800GT, its like 150-170 on newegg for a brand new one. Im sure you can find a good deal somewhere.



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xbebop on 22 August 2008
chapset said:
Intel Core 2 Duo e8400 3.0ghz
mother board Asus P5KPL-VM
2 gigs RAM DDR2 800mhz
hard drive 300 gig 7200rpm
Nvidia Gefore 8600GT OC
keyboard and wireless mouse from Microsoft
DVD 18x
power supply 450 watt
boitier noir avec coter transparent style cube
monitor 17" CRT Viewsonic Optiquest

 

Build. Your. Own.

You could get a much better PC for the same price, or a bit more. With $650, you could play most games on high.



chapset on 22 August 2008
xbebop said:
chapset said:
Intel Core 2 Duo e8400 3.0ghz
mother board Asus P5KPL-VM
2 gigs RAM DDR2 800mhz
hard drive 300 gig 7200rpm
Nvidia Gefore 8600GT OC
keyboard and wireless mouse from Microsoft
DVD 18x
power supply 450 watt
boitier noir avec coter transparent style cube
monitor 17" CRT Viewsonic Optiquest

 

Build. Your. Own.

You could get a much better PC for the same price, or a bit more. With $650, you could play most games on high.

i don't have enough computer knowledge for that yet.



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ssj12 on 22 August 2008
chapset said:
xbebop said:
chapset said:
Intel Core 2 Duo e8400 3.0ghz
mother board Asus P5KPL-VM
2 gigs RAM DDR2 800mhz
hard drive 300 gig 7200rpm
Nvidia Gefore 8600GT OC
keyboard and wireless mouse from Microsoft
DVD 18x
power supply 450 watt
boitier noir avec coter transparent style cube
monitor 17" CRT Viewsonic Optiquest

 

Build. Your. Own.

You could get a much better PC for the same price, or a bit more. With $650, you could play most games on high.

i don't have enough computer knowledge for that yet.

then find someone local that does and pay them $20 to do it.



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