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On July 13 2009 07:53 VorcePA wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2009 01:37 Danka wrote:I actually need some help. I guessed this would be the right thread. I am buying the following: Core duo 2.8
Seagate 1 terabye
Nvidia 9400
Pioneer DVD burner. Thats all I know about my PC. Im not a tech guy  Anyone's advice as to wether (a) it will run SC2, and (b) it is decent (for a new computer.) Get a better video card than that. 9600 GT would be ideal, but you can also go with the older 8800 GT, as well (the 8800 is better than the 9400 by a large margin). Also, if you can find out what sort of RAM you're putting in to that computer, that's going to be important, too. RAM is arguably the most important piece of hardware to a stable and speedy computer. Preferably, I'd need to know how much ram, what brand, what type (DDR, DD2, or DDR3), how fast (800, 1066, 1333, 1600, or 1888, [or 2066 if you're an idiot and wasting money on it :p]), and the latency of the ram (Usually is in the specs as something like 8-8-8-24).
unfortunately...I cant make a lot of changes cause I already ordered a lot of the parts. I managed to change card to 9600 thanks to your advice.
The ram is Kingston 8 gig...DDR2,(no ddr3 yet in peru,commercialy)...1066 speed.
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Naturally I bought the cheapest laptop I could find that had what I wanted - which is well below what will most likely be needed to run SC2. I hate being a poor bum.
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On July 13 2009 09:14 Danka wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2009 07:53 VorcePA wrote:On July 13 2009 01:37 Danka wrote:I actually need some help. I guessed this would be the right thread. I am buying the following: Core duo 2.8
Seagate 1 terabye
Nvidia 9400
Pioneer DVD burner. Thats all I know about my PC. Im not a tech guy Anyone's advice as to wether (a) it will run SC2, and (b) it is decent (for a new computer.) Get a better video card than that. 9600 GT would be ideal, but you can also go with the older 8800 GT, as well (the 8800 is better than the 9400 by a large margin). Also, if you can find out what sort of RAM you're putting in to that computer, that's going to be important, too. RAM is arguably the most important piece of hardware to a stable and speedy computer. Preferably, I'd need to know how much ram, what brand, what type (DDR, DD2, or DDR3), how fast (800, 1066, 1333, 1600, or 1888, [or 2066 if you're an idiot and wasting money on it :p]), and the latency of the ram (Usually is in the specs as something like 8-8-8-24). unfortunately...I cant make a lot of changes cause I already ordered a lot of the parts. I managed to change card to 9600 thanks to your advice. The ram is Kingston 8 gig...DDR2,(no ddr3 yet in peru,commercialy)...1066 speed.
That's good. Be sure to get the 64-bit version of whichever windows you're getting (XP/Vista/7), as the 32-bit version will only be able to make use of 3gb of that 8 you're putting in there.
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On July 13 2009 09:07 Harem wrote:
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.6 GHz
512 MB ram
NVidia Geforce FX 5200
Windows XP
I'm pretty fucked for when SC2 is out. -_-
You can get a 9600gt for $70, 2gb ram for $20 and you are unfucked. I think its cheaper to upgrade than most people think, but you just have to make sure your motherboard will be compatible with the new stuff. Infact for you some cheap ram would probably make your computer breathe with fresh air and speed.
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On July 13 2009 10:17 Pape wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2009 09:07 Harem wrote:
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.6 GHz
512 MB ram
NVidia Geforce FX 5200
Windows XP
I'm pretty fucked for when SC2 is out. -_- You can get a 9600gt for $70, 2gb ram for $20 and you are unfucked. I think its cheaper to upgrade than most people think, but you just have to make sure your motherboard will be compatible with the new stuff. Infact for you some cheap ram would probably make your computer breathe with fresh air and speed.
How do you check what motherboard you have so you can tell what it is compatible with?
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Windows XP SP3
Core2duo E8400 3.00ghz
ATI HD 4870 512mb
4gb corsair DDR2 ram
Dual 22inch monitors
I should be able to max SC2 =)
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On July 13 2009 10:23 Harem wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2009 10:17 Pape wrote:On July 13 2009 09:07 Harem wrote:
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.6 GHz
512 MB ram
NVidia Geforce FX 5200
Windows XP
I'm pretty fucked for when SC2 is out. -_- You can get a 9600gt for $70, 2gb ram for $20 and you are unfucked. I think its cheaper to upgrade than most people think, but you just have to make sure your motherboard will be compatible with the new stuff. Infact for you some cheap ram would probably make your computer breathe with fresh air and speed. How do you check what motherboard you have so you can tell what it is compatible with?
Well you could most likely just open the computer and check that
1. The PSU is over (i think its 450 watt for 9600GT?) and that you have 30A on the 12 volt rail (it should say on the psu)
2. You have a PCI-E slot (x1 will work, but x16 is the best)
3. You have a spare 6-pin power connector. The 9600gt wont work without one.
As for the ram, You can go into device manager to check what mobo you have, and then google that to find your RAM maximum. If its a motherboard made in the last 5 years it SHOULD be able to accommodate 2 gigs, or at least 1 gig.
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On July 13 2009 10:28 ghermination wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2009 10:23 Harem wrote:On July 13 2009 10:17 Pape wrote:On July 13 2009 09:07 Harem wrote:+ Show Spoiler +Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.6 GHz
512 MB ram
NVidia Geforce FX 5200
Windows XP
I'm pretty fucked for when SC2 is out. -_- You can get a 9600gt for $70, 2gb ram for $20 and you are unfucked. I think its cheaper to upgrade than most people think, but you just have to make sure your motherboard will be compatible with the new stuff. Infact for you some cheap ram would probably make your computer breathe with fresh air and speed. How do you check what motherboard you have so you can tell what it is compatible with? Well you could most likely just open the computer and check that 1. The PSU is over (i think its 450 watt for 9600GT?) and that you have 30A on the 12 volt rail (it should say on the psu) 2. You have a PCI-E slot (x1 will work, but x16 is the best) 3. You have a spare 6-pin power connector. The 9600gt wont work without one. As for the ram, You can go into device manager to check what mobo you have, and then google that to find your RAM maximum. If its a motherboard made in the last 5 years it SHOULD be able to accommodate 2 gigs, or at least 1 gig.
What he said and also, if its a brand name computer you can look the computer model up and on the manufacturers spec page it should tell you what pci slot you have, what kind of ram it takes, and other things but you only need those 2 really. Also the power supply around 450watts is probably good enough.
I do disagree with the 6-pin connector to run the 9600gt. I am pretty sure my 9600 came with a 2 4-pin peripheral to the whatever the 9600 requires convertor, so you could run as most old power supplies have lots of peripheral 4 pinners. But that could depend on what the manufacturer of the graphics card provides I guess. I'm not an expert I just read around a little bit to keep up to date.
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anufacturer: ECS-USA
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 250 GB
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4650
Realtek HD Audio output
Speakers/Headphones: Sony MDR-XD100
Operating System: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3
I'm praying
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On July 13 2009 11:09 MeriaDoKk wrote:
anufacturer: ECS-USA
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 250 GB
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4650
Realtek HD Audio output
Speakers/Headphones: Sony MDR-XD100
Operating System: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3
I'm praying
I would beef up the video card if I were you. What resolution are you planning to play at?
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On July 13 2009 11:14 Sadistx wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2009 11:09 MeriaDoKk wrote:
anufacturer: ECS-USA
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 250 GB
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4650
Realtek HD Audio output
Speakers/Headphones: Sony MDR-XD100
Operating System: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3
I'm praying I would beef up the video card if I were you. What resolution are you planning to play at?
1440x900 D
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On July 13 2009 11:26 MeriaDoKk wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2009 11:14 Sadistx wrote:On July 13 2009 11:09 MeriaDoKk wrote:
anufacturer: ECS-USA
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 250 GB
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4650
Realtek HD Audio output
Speakers/Headphones: Sony MDR-XD100
Operating System: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3
I'm praying I would beef up the video card if I were you. What resolution are you planning to play at? 1440x900 D
I'd recommend a 4850 when/if you can afford it (it's about 100$ now, 85$ if you dont mind mail in rebates), the performance increase should be almoust double the fps.
Don't sweat it though, you have plenty of time before the actual release.
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On July 13 2009 11:34 Sadistx wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2009 11:26 MeriaDoKk wrote:On July 13 2009 11:14 Sadistx wrote:On July 13 2009 11:09 MeriaDoKk wrote:
anufacturer: ECS-USA
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 250 GB
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4650
Realtek HD Audio output
Speakers/Headphones: Sony MDR-XD100
Operating System: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3
I'm praying I would beef up the video card if I were you. What resolution are you planning to play at? 1440x900 D I'd recommend a 4850 when/if you can afford it (it's about 100$ now, 85$ if you dont mind mail in rebates), the performance increase should be almoust double the fps. Don't sweat it though, you have plenty of time before the actual release.
I was able to play Crysis, with decent FPS, does that count :D ?
Edit: I just looked the price for the 4850.. here in Chile is like 200$ =[
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On July 13 2009 11:36 MeriaDoKk wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2009 11:34 Sadistx wrote:On July 13 2009 11:26 MeriaDoKk wrote:On July 13 2009 11:14 Sadistx wrote:On July 13 2009 11:09 MeriaDoKk wrote:
anufacturer: ECS-USA
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 250 GB
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4650
Realtek HD Audio output
Speakers/Headphones: Sony MDR-XD100
Operating System: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3
I'm praying I would beef up the video card if I were you. What resolution are you planning to play at? 1440x900 D I'd recommend a 4850 when/if you can afford it (it's about 100$ now, 85$ if you dont mind mail in rebates), the performance increase should be almoust double the fps. Don't sweat it though, you have plenty of time before the actual release. I was able to play Crysis, with decent FPS, does that count :D ? Edit: I just looked the price for the 4850.. here in Chile is like 200$ =[
Just wait until beta and see  There's going to be people with the same video card as yours.
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CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6320 @ 1.86GHz
RAM: 1gb
Video Card: Geforce 7600 GS
Not really too tech savvy. I was thinking about upgrading my video card and RAM, but I don't think my motherboard is compatible with the newer video cards. So I'm holding out on upgrading my RAM and Video Card until I get a new motherboard (which is almost like buying a new computer).
Any advice?
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win xp
pentium 4-- 2 Ghz
256 RAM
Video card.. NOT.. or i just cant find it xD
i can barely play scbw
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CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 7750 Dual-Core Processor, ~3.0GHz
M. Board: Gigabyte MA78G-DS3H AMD780G
RAM: 2046MB
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4870 1Gb vram
Operating System: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3
I want to buy a better CPU maybe a Phenom II x2 550... but on here its not for sale -.-
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On July 12 2009 23:02 Mutaahh wrote:
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7 920
PSU: Cooler Master Real Power 850W
Mobo: Asus Rampage II Extreme
Hard disk: Maxtor DiamondMax 1TB
Memory: 2x Corsair 4GB DDR3-1600 Kit 8GB memory
with some other things (DVD-RW, windows, big tower), it will cost about € 1.634,-
i7 boards run triple-channel memory, so you probably shouldn't get a double-channel kit. Your motherboard has 6 dim slots, and it will have much better bandwidth with 3 or 6 sticks than 2 or 4.
Also, I'm pretty sure the Seagate 7200.12 or WD Caviar Black 1TB models will both outperform the Maxtor, in different categories. I don't have benchmarks for the Diamondmax 23, but I know the Diamondmax 21 sucked, and versions before that were never really above average. If you can get the seagate or WD i mentioned, you really should consider it, unless you have data suggesting the maxtor is better.
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On July 13 2009 11:56 MasterDana wrote:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6320 @ 1.86GHz
RAM: 1gb
Video Card: Geforce 7600 GS
Not really too tech savvy. I was thinking about upgrading my video card and RAM, but I don't think my motherboard is compatible with the newer video cards. So I'm holding out on upgrading my RAM and Video Card until I get a new motherboard (which is almost like buying a new computer).
Any advice?
How much are you looking to spend?
in my previous post I linked to neweggs phenom ii 940+mobo combo for $189
Add 4 GB ddr2, amd 4850, and a decent power supply and you've got a $500 pc that plays pretty much any game at max.
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On July 13 2009 11:56 MasterDana wrote:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6320 @ 1.86GHz
RAM: 1gb
Video Card: Geforce 7600 GS
Not really too tech savvy. I was thinking about upgrading my video card and RAM, but I don't think my motherboard is compatible with the newer video cards. So I'm holding out on upgrading my RAM and Video Card until I get a new motherboard (which is almost like buying a new computer).
Any advice?
You need to find out, specifically, if your motherboard takes AGP or PCI-e. Just going to have to have someone look at it, as I can't really explain how to do it over the internets. If it's AGP, you're pretty much maxed out on the graphics card. I think the highest NVidia goes up to on AGP is the 7800 GT. Not a bad card, and would most likely play Starcraft II, but it would probably be at low/medium settings.
For the RAM you need to find out if it's DDR1 or DDR2, and get 3gb in that comp. RAM is cheap and the best thing to have in your computer.
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