A PC to play farmville.

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#1 deadlytongs
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Person wants me to build that for them. Any suggestions? She put together a 580 dollar one on newegg that would be 510 if all the rebates actually worked. So anyway if you have any suggestions on a build that would be great. CPU is going to be AMD x2 555 BE.

Another Question. Would it be better to buy a boxed one for like 300 dollars and get a video card for it?

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#2 C_Rule
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Farmville.... Just go get her a $300 prebuilt from the shop, lol.
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#3 Phoenix534
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Just get a $250 prebuilt from, anywhere. Don't add a graphics card or anything.

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#4 gameguy6700
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Farmville? Holy ****, she must be a really hardcore gamer. You're going to need at least GTX580s in SLI, 16GB of RAM, and an i7 2600k to have any hope of maxing that thing out. Seriously though, a $300 POS Compaq from Best Buy will do her just fine.
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#5 deadlytongs
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I was thinking that, I think she just wants a custom case. I was thinking buy a case she likes and put the prebuilt into it. I'm not sure if she really wants to start playing other games on it or not.
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#6 ionusX
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dude farmville runs on a netbook ahahah on max at that :P

heck you can play VEERY facebook game on a mdoern netbook flawlessly.

if she want to be mroe serious about her games. just tell her to say so and we shall fix her up right n proper with a solid machine.

580 is a budget mroe suited to a low end gaming machine for playing codmw2 or guildwars or bioshock or dawn of war II. while 300 is far mroe pleaseable for what she is after.

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#7 KhanhAgE
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A PC to play Farmville? What has the world come to...
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#8 Tim_Millington
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A PC to play Farmville? What has the world come to...KhanhAgE

I thought the same thing lmao

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#9 gmaster456
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[QUOTE="gameguy6700"] Seriously though, a $300 POS Compaq from Best Buy will do her just fine.

This, seriously tho? Buying a computer for Farmville? Really?
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#11 deadlytongs
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A PC to play Farmville? What has the world come to...KhanhAgE
The one she has is breaking down, its about 7 years old now. So she's getting a new one anyway. I guess I could of been a little more clear about that lol.

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#12 blaznwiipspman1
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for people like that laptops are great alternatives to desktops.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Lenovo+-+IdeaPad+Laptop+/+AMD+E-Series+Processor+/+15.6%22+Display+/+4GB+Memory+/+320GB+Hard+Drive+-+Black/2731052.p?id=1218347171491&skuId=2731052

that laptop has a 6 hour battery life as well and only costs $300

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#13 gmaster456
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[QUOTE="blaznwiipspman1"]

for people like that laptops are great alternatives to desktops.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Lenovo+-+IdeaPad+Laptop+/+AMD+E-Series+Processor+/+15.6%22+Display+/+4GB+Memory+/+320GB+Hard+Drive+-+Black/2731052.p?id=1218347171491&skuId=2731052

that laptop has a 6 hour battery life as well and only costs $300

That laptop won't be usable for much after about a year because of such a slow CPU it has, especially with flash before even more hungry for CPU power these days. Although I have to say, the rest of the specs are pretty nice as well as the brand.
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#14 blaznwiipspman1
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[QUOTE="blaznwiipspman1"]

for people like that laptops are great alternatives to desktops.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Lenovo+-+IdeaPad+Laptop+/+AMD+E-Series+Processor+/+15.6%22+Display+/+4GB+Memory+/+320GB+Hard+Drive+-+Black/2731052.p?id=1218347171491&skuId=2731052

that laptop has a 6 hour battery life as well and only costs $300

gmaster456

That laptop won't be usable for much after about a year because of such a slow CPU it has, especially with flash before even more hungry for CPU power these days. Although I have to say, the rest of the specs are pretty nice as well as the brand.

i think it'll be fine for 2-3 years after which time she can upgrade to a new one, since this one is so cheap anyway.

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#15 scottahuch
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[QUOTE="gmaster456"][QUOTE="blaznwiipspman1"]

for people like that laptops are great alternatives to desktops.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Lenovo+-+IdeaPad+Laptop+/+AMD+E-Series+Processor+/+15.6%22+Display+/+4GB+Memory+/+320GB+Hard+Drive+-+Black/2731052.p?id=1218347171491&skuId=2731052

that laptop has a 6 hour battery life as well and only costs $300

blaznwiipspman1

That laptop won't be usable for much after about a year because of such a slow CPU it has, especially with flash before even more hungry for CPU power these days. Although I have to say, the rest of the specs are pretty nice as well as the brand.

i think it'll be fine for 2-3 years after which time she can upgrade to a new one, since this one is so cheap anyway.

I have a netbook with the same processor. Even though it's not all that great, it manages to play Portal 2 on medium.

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#16 xXMotoPsychoXx
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This should be sufficient; Facebook is quite demanding.

Gr33nHippo

Since it has a pentium 4 I'm guessing it has USB 2.0. A computer without USB 2.0 is useless anymore. So that's all you would have to worry about. As long as you don't have that problem this thing will beast facebook/farmville like a boss.

Hell if you really want to be a man put linux on that bad boy.