Hello everyone I am in the process of picking out parts to make my girlfriend a computer. She wants to play wow on max settings, which isn't too demanding -- while being able to fraps Some light video editing from the fraps and photo shop. Oh and portal, whatever game that is. I just need to know where to heavier at and where to go lighter at, if you know what I mean. Case - http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5222597&sku=A406-1094 Motherboard and CPU - http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6817301&sku=B69-5126 CD/DVD - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118039 Harddrive - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148433 Video card - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130549 Power supply - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341018 Memory - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227559 OS - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116754 If there is anything I forgot, please tell me. I am completely open to suggestions because I think I over killed it. It's at 1015 dollars at the moment. So I want to maybe see what I have to drop performance wise to get the price down a little. I probably need more fans and what not, but I'm not too sure what I need. Thank you guys so much for your help.
i would say that you probably dont need the gtx 470 i say go with the 460 if she is just going to play wow that should do it. I think i played wow on my old gt 8500 and it ran like a charm
im assuming she has monitor, keyboard etc? rather than the 470, go for the 460 1gb version. more than enough. and maybe change the cpu to a quad core (also more than enough at the moment) and with the extra bit of cash upgrade your hard drive to a 10,000rpm one which will help with the write speeds when editing and such. tbh that rig is pretty damn good, and just for wow and photoshop it is definitely overkill
Okay I will look into that. Other notes. her parents are helping her for Christmas and aren't as comfortable money wise as mine. So 1000$ might be too much, that's why I am trying to minimize cost and get the most bang. My other computer thread is for mine, which I have money to spend out of pocket as well as parents. For her I went with the AMD 6 core because it was comparable to the i7 950 kind of. I will research more video card options though. I just want to make sure she can run max settings. So should I go less on the video card and heavier on the ram, how about the motherboard. Just overall judgment on the computer parts I've selected. Thank you guys for your time again!!!!! I am personally an Intel lover, but I have realized AMD is more money efficent if you're pinching pennies.
EDIT* Is this the right video card? It's about 60 - 70 dollars cheaper http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133326 I have realized the pennies do add up though. She doesn't have a keyboard. She does have a mouse, and the monitor will be a 19 inch flatscreen thing I got at black friday bestbuy a few years ago, I have 2 sitting at my feet at the moment.
yeah that's the card, I can't speak for PNY personally as I've never had one of their versions but I have the Palit and it runs everything incredibly. No problems (especially if she is to use a 19" monitor) as for scaling down to save money, 4gb of ram is plenty, unless she's overly worried about waiting for videos to export. WoW won't utilise 6 cores so it won't make a massive difference downgrading to a quad.
EDIT* Is this the right video card? It's about 60 - 70 dollars cheaper http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133326 I have realized the pennies do add up though. She doesn't have a keyboard. She does have a mouse, and the monitor will be a 19 inch flatscreen thing I got at black friday bestbuy a few years ago, I have 2 sitting at my feet at the moment.bigchocolatecat
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130570thats what i got
Could you recommend a processor to me that would have around the same power? I've been using http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html To rate processors as well as video cards. You've been so helpful so far, thank you so muchh! I am a Intel lover so going with AMD is strictly to save money so if you can just tell me what would be good to run it for around the same price or cheaper that would be super excellent. Sadly I am a novice in knowing what you need to have to max settings and what not.
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