Post your Rig [Will it run SC2? - Page 49

FragKrag

United States11563 Posts

November 26 2009 00:37 GMT

#961

On November 26 2009 07:15 Ecael wrote:
I am a WD man myself, but what's so bad about Hitachi? Their laptop drives are excellent far as I can recall.

lies

DanceDance

226 Posts

November 26 2009 01:33 GMT

#962

On November 26 2009 05:41 Mobius wrote:
a lot of people say windows 7.. but I thought windows 7 cannot run StarCraft? I got new computer just now, but no operating system yet, I dont know what to put.. Maybe just cracked version of win xp 64bit.. i would buy win7 if it was starcraft compatible.

I had the same problem, didn't know what to go with. I ended up getting Windows 7. It's actually really expensive here, like $200+ but it's worth it. I like it more then XP. I've only tried two games so far, Counterstrike and Modern Warfare2, both work fine. I'll try starcraft later tonight.

Drakonis

Canada97 Posts

November 26 2009 02:00 GMT

#963

I have windows 7 64bit and my SC worked just fine... after a bit of messing around with it.
I just set SC to XP compatibility, and kept the Change Screen Resolution menu open in the background and voila.
A friend of mine also had to keep his desktop background a solid black color in order to get it to work.

Mooga

United States575 Posts

November 26 2009 02:22 GMT

#964

On November 26 2009 11:00 Drakonis wrote:

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Which Windows 7 edition do you have? I'm just wondering because the "home premium" edition doesn't come with the windows xp mode, according to this link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/compare/default.aspx
That's the only feature worth having by upgrading from home to pro, and $80 to upgrade for that is way overpriced.

Also, I'm concerned with hard drive partitioning and especially RAM memory partitioning, as some hardware will be locked up with the virtualization of XP. I know that this in particular doesn't have anything to do with starcraft, but I'm just trying to determine which edition of Windows 7 I need.

onmach

United States1241 Posts

November 26 2009 02:24 GMT

#965

By the way if you people are going to buy windows 7. At least be frugal about it. Take a hard drive that has windows on it. Any windows. Mine was an old hard drive with a borked windows install of XP on it that hadn't been booted in years. Copy it to your new hard drive.

Buy Windows 7 upgrade instead of the full thing. Install the way you would install any windows. During the install it will rename your windows directory to windows.old, then install windows the way it normally would. Input your new win7 key and then when the install is done activate over the internet.

It should be noted that it will warn you that installing it in this fashion will not work, but in my case and in others it certainly did.

That should save you around $100. If by some miracle microsoft bothers to fix this, you can still call them up and get a proper key that will turn your install into a full one.

Mooga

United States575 Posts

November 26 2009 02:39 GMT

#966

On November 26 2009 11:24 onmach wrote:
By the way if you people are going to buy windows 7. At least be frugal about it. Take a hard drive that has windows on it. Any windows. Mine was an old hard drive with a borked windows install of XP on it that hadn't been booted in years. Copy it to your new hard drive.

"Any windows" is not accurate. You can only upgrade from windows xp or vista. It costs $50 to upgrade to windows 7 home premium edition or $100 for the pro edition.

So as far as I know upgrading from xp to 7 is a feature, not a bug.

semantics

10040 Posts

November 26 2009 04:19 GMT

#967

On November 26 2009 11:39 Mooga wrote:

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We all know how this plays

7mk

Germany10157 Posts

November 26 2009 12:36 GMT

#968

Hey I'm gonna get myself this touch screen notebook
http://www.amazon.com/Acer-AS5738PG-6306-15-6-Inch-Touchscreen-Windows/dp/B002PY7HWI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1259239223&sr=8-1
is it good enough?

Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 2GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, ATI HD 4570, Win 7 HP

Mooga

United States575 Posts

November 26 2009 17:21 GMT

#969

On November 26 2009 21:36 7mk wrote:
Hey I'm gonna get myself this touch screen notebook
http://www.amazon.com/Acer-AS5738PG-6306-15-6-Inch-Touchscreen-Windows/dp/B002PY7HWI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1259239223&sr=8-1
is it good enough?

Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 2GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, ATI HD 4570, Win 7 HP

It should be fine. The graphics card is not very fast, but I think SC2 will be more CPU intensive anyway. However, I would trade away touch screen functionality for a better cpu or gpu. I have a touch screen on my laptop and I disabled that functionality a long time ago because it has limited uses. Now my laptop boots in half the time

. Touchscreens are probably useful for artists, but for everyone else it's just a waste of money.

semantics

10040 Posts

November 26 2009 18:10 GMT

#970

touch pad screen on laptops are usually not that functional for the avg joe.

It'd by sc but not too well that cpu is a power saver isn't that great and the gpu is a crippled gpu but still a ton better then most.

synapse

China13814 Posts

November 26 2009 18:50 GMT

#971

I'm buying a Dell Studio Desktop, mainly for the photoshop/flash stuff that I do. (My budget is like 800 dollars, since that's all the money I've made in the last few years)

[Customized on the Dell website]

Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q8300 (4MB L2, 2.5GHz, 1333FSB)
Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit
6GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4DIMMs
640GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)

EDIT
+ 20" monitor

-> $710

The Dell website only gives graphics card options of the 4350 and 220GT, so I'm thinking of saving 100 dollars on the desktop by just getting the integrated crap and installing this little guy:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187091&cm_re=geforce_9800_gt_512mb-_-14-187-091-_-Product

Will this run SC2 well enough?

Mooga

United States575 Posts

November 26 2009 19:15 GMT

#972

On November 27 2009 03:50 synapse wrote:
I'm buying a Dell Studio Desktop, mainly for the photoshop/flash stuff that I do. (My budget is like 800 dollars, since that's all the money I've made in the last few years)

[Customized on the Dell website]

Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q8300 (4MB L2, 2.5GHz, 1333FSB)
Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit
6GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4DIMMs
640GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)

-> $710

The Dell website only gives graphics card options of the 4350 and 220GT, so I'm thinking of saving 100 dollars on the desktop by just getting the integrated crap and installing this little guy:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187091&cm_re=geforce_9800_gt_512mb-_-14-187-091-_-Product

Will this run SC2 well enough?

Probably, but you can get a better deal at Dell and get a quad core processor for $470 (with tax included). The thing is, you have to be able to shop at aafes(dot)com. If you're dependent or in the military, then you're set. It's a good deal because no tax and free shipping.

First, log into aafes.
Go to computer>desktops
Click on the customize Dell link which redirects you to a special Dell page.
Select the Studio xps 9000 one.
Strip it down (no monitor, 3GB RAM, etc...) til you get the price down to $589.
Use this coupon code to get 20% off: 9189vip1

Specs (from memory so may not be 100% accurate):
i7 920 quad core processor
3GB tri-channel RAM
ATI Radeon 5870 (?) graphics card
Blu-ray drive
CD/DVD drives
475W power supply
Intel x58 chipset motherboard
500GB harddrive
and other stuff i probably forgot

The i7 920 benchmarks very well and can overclock easily, but the Dell bios prevents overclocking. It's still a really good deal, I can't even come close to matching that price by building a comp with the same specs.

Mooga

United States575 Posts

November 26 2009 19:22 GMT

#973

Oh, and apparently the 20% off coupon only works today (Thanksgiving) so you better pull the trigger if you're gonna buy a Dell.

I'm still trying to decide. I'd prefer to build my own computer, but this deal may be too good.