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Condor Hero
United States2931 Posts
On July 31 2010 04:47 tofucake wrote: Not really. Preconfigured systems come with loads of bloatware and are overpriced. Buying the parts and assembling a computer by yourself is cheaper. if i cant do that, are there services that can for a price? | ||
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Dohrann
United States7 Posts
The PSU will be able to handle it all. 8GBs of RAM? 4GB is more than enough for casual use. If you aren't doing something like video encoding it's not worth the premium. GTS 250 for $130? (Keep in mind those rebates are fulfilled by them giving you that amount in gift cards [Visa I think]). I'd opt for a 5770 or even 460 instead with the money you save by going 4gb of RAM. Have you tried comboing items? You can save quite a bit of money. I will be using it for some CADD design, drafting, other than that it will be for mainly gaming. I'm not sure if RAM will effect CADD designing though. I wouldn't assume so. As for combining items, I plan to do as much of that as I can when I actually place the order, as I can't add combined items into my wish list. | ||
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buhhy
United States1113 Posts
On July 31 2010 06:38 Dohrann wrote: I will be using it for some CADD design, drafting, other than that it will be for mainly gaming. I'm not sure if RAM will effect CADD designing though. I wouldn't assume so. As for combining items, I plan to do as much of that as I can when I actually place the order, as I can't add combined items into my wish list. RAM is super important if you plan on doing intensive 3D renders, or working with high polygon models. So if you plan on using it for work more than games, I'd recommend RAM over graphics. Otherwise, 8 GB isn't terribly useful. | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
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johanngrunt
Hong Kong1555 Posts
On July 31 2010 05:12 Condor Hero wrote: if i cant do that, are there services that can for a price? Since you are in the US, try iBuypower. You can customize your own system. Prices are actually cheaper than buying the parts sometimes, don't know why. I'd recommend it if you don't want to build your own computer and don't have the know how. Prices go as low as 500 sometimes. and if you already have an OS, you can leave that out of the price and just get the hardware, saving you even more money. (no bloatware too) | ||
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Art.FeeL
1163 Posts
CPU AMD Phenom II x4 925 MBO ASUS M4A77TD Pro Soc.AM3 VGA ASUS EAH5570/DI/1GD3 Low Profile POW Seasonic SS-620GM 620W MEM DDR3 2GB 1333MHz KINGSTON KVR1333D3N9/2G X2 HDD WD 320KS 320GB, Serial ATA II, 16 MB cache, 7200 rpm MBO ASUS M4A77TD PRO Soc.AM3 CPU AMD Phenom II X4 955 POW Seasonic SS-620GM 620W MEM DDR3 2GB 1333MHz KINGSTON KVR1333D3N9/2G X2 HDD WD 500KS 500 GB, SATA-II, 16 MB cache, 7200 rpm VGA VTX HD5770 1GB I do realize that the second configuration is better in theory, but will there be any real difference in practice? | ||
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FragKrag
United States11552 Posts
the 5570 is a pretty weak GPU  | ||
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djcube
United States985 Posts
Also, in the ati CCC, it doesn't specifically say which card I'm using. It just shows "5700 series w/ Monitor" and so I don't have options to monitor temperatures. Any help would be appreciated. | ||
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Echo515
Canada105 Posts
Toshiba Qosmio HP Pavilion Some questions: What's the difference between a Core i5 430M and Core i5 450M? Which graphics card is better nvidia 330M or ATI 5650? Which one will play SC2 better? Which one would you buy? | ||
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FragKrag
United States11552 Posts
2. 5650M is better 3. The one with the 5650M 4. The HP djcube: No, that does not sound like normal frame rates for the 5750 and a 2.4GHz C2Q :/ Have you updated your drivers recently? The 5750 is definitely not a budget card. It's more of a midrange card :/ | ||
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krynis
Canada43 Posts
Old System - * CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 620 * GPU: Gigabyte Radeon 5770 1gb DDR5 * MOBO: ASUS M2A-VM (yes I know its archaic but it did not give me any problems beyond not being able to label the cpu.) * RAM: 4GB DDR2 New System - * CPU: Intel Core i7 860 Quad Core Processor Lynnfield LGA1156 $334.51 * GPU: Gigabyte Radeon 5770 1gb DDR5 x2 * MOBO: Gigabyte P55A-UD3P ATX LGA1156 P55* * RAM: Corsair XMS3 8GB DDR3 4X2GB DDR3-1600 CL 7-8-7-20* i'll keep my Corsair TX650W from the old setup to power it (should be more then enough?) the Mobo and 4gb of the ram is actually a bundle at NCIX.com for $300 with a $40 MIR and ill add 2 more sticks for $121 with a $20 MIR, I wont be getting the second 5770 immediately probably a month after. atm I prefer Intel over AMD, they just seem better for gaming in my experience, I live in Canada and do most of my shopping from NCIX, oh yeah and I generally play at 1920x1080. I may OC the new setup but I wont touch that till I've replaced all the cooling and picked up a better case (this one is not ideal of OCing.) PS. I've also posted this on Anandtechs general hardware forum, looking for opinion from both general pc builders and those who are perhaps more keen on SC2. | ||
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FragKrag
United States11552 Posts
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
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FragKrag
United States11552 Posts
it's an AM2 motherboard | ||
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krynis
Canada43 Posts
also have general slowness in many other games and its been like that with most of my AMD cpus for some years now, granted I've bought mostly budget cpus but they've come up short even against other budget cpus by intel, and not just in this system. PS. also because I have the money? | ||
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Condor Hero
United States2931 Posts
Processor - Intel Pentium E5400(2.7GHz) Memory - 4GB DDR2 Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce 7050 Integrated Graphics Power Supply - 250W or do i need to upgrade the graphics card or something? | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14899 Posts
You need a graphics card period, plus probably need to overclock your cpu, a new PSU, you're fine on ram that's about it | ||
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FragKrag
United States11552 Posts
Condor Hero: No. You need a better graphics card, and the cpu might be fine. Not 100% sure. | ||
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johanngrunt
Hong Kong1555 Posts
On August 01 2010 08:33 Condor Hero wrote: would a computer with these specifications be able to run sc2 on ultra? Processor - Intel Pentium E5400(2.7GHz) Memory - 4GB DDR2 Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce 7050 Integrated Graphics Power Supply - 250W or do i need to upgrade the graphics card or something? In addition to what FragKrag said, might want to beef up the PSU as well when adding a graphics card. | ||
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Condor Hero
United States2931 Posts
On August 01 2010 10:34 johanngrunt wrote: In addition to what FragKrag said, might want to beef up the PSU as well when adding a graphics card. can you recommend a graphics card? im not so obsessed with playing on ultra as much as playing at least on high without any lag during big battles | ||
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