I was just wondering how high of setting I could run any game on this computer. It is about $1,000.00. Is that too much for what I'm getting? Is this a good computer? Could it do Crysis on max? 21.5-inch Full HD Widescreen Monitor Intel® Core™ i5-2400 processor(6MB Cache, 3.1GHz) Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 4GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 4 DIMMs 1TB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache Thanks.
So is this what you guys are talking about being able to run any game at 1080p or lower at high settings? My System Details Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English AMD Phenom™ II X6 1045T + ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB 2 Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis 6GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 4 DIMMS No Monitor 1TB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache 16X CD/DVD Burner with Roxio Creator 2011
[QUOTE="Jaun7707"][QUOTE="Threesixtyci"]I suggest you do you're own homework. Look at video card benchmarks and such. I can't tell you which is better because I only keep up with the current trends when I plan on building myself a PC. And I don't plan on replacing my PC for at least another 3 years.... Anyway for gaming, you want CPU Ghz over number of Cores. And the 2.7Ghz that you have there is a bit under par for gaming. You want something at least in the 3's, and as far as AMD is concerned you want something that has unlocked cores (aka: black edition CPUs). You'll also need a gaming video card. Generally, expect the high end video cards to run over 300 bucks and medium end to run from 120 to 200 bucks. Low end stuff generally runs under 100 bucks. I suggest staying away from Crossfire and SLI, personally. Duel video card setups are generally more trouble then they're worth when it comes to driver and game compatibility. Seems that AMD and Nvidia always break something with each new driver and most often it's SLI/Crossfire related stuff that they break.ionusX
So would any Intel be unlocked or would I have to look for a special versions as well? Could I get an i7 at around 3Ghz?
truth be told threesixty but his budget allows for it.. id say here is what your after TC
intel core i5 sandybridge w/ lower end 5700/6700/6800/460 series video card and 4gb ram
phenom II x4/x6 w/ 4gb ram and an hd 6800/460/ 5800 series video card.
those would be the ideal specs to shoot for and should set you back anywhere from 900-1050
[QUOTE="Threesixtyci"]I suggest you do you're own homework. Look at video card benchmarks and such. I can't tell you which is better because I only keep up with the current trends when I plan on building myself a PC. And I don't plan on replacing my PC for at least another 3 years.... Anyway for gaming, you want CPU Ghz over number of Cores. And the 2.7Ghz that you have there is a bit under par for gaming. You want something at least in the 3's, and as far as AMD is concerned you want something that has unlocked cores (aka: black edition CPUs). You'll also need a gaming video card. Generally, expect the high end video cards to run over 300 bucks and medium end to run from 120 to 200 bucks. Low end stuff generally runs under 100 bucks. I suggest staying away from Crossfire and SLI, personally. Duel video card setups are generally more trouble then they're worth when it comes to driver and game compatibility. Seems that AMD and Nvidia always break something with each new driver and most often it's SLI/Crossfire related stuff that they break. So would any Intel be unlocked or would I have to look for a special versions as well? Could I get an i7 at around 3Ghz?
[QUOTE="Jaun7707"]Thanks a lot that clears a lot up. So I should drop the sound card since I have a gaming headset? Also what should I look for in a graphics card if not the VRAM, is clock speed more important? Thanks again.neatfeatguy
You need to look at more then just the VRAM. I could sell you a 9500GT with 2GB of RAM on it, doesn't mean it's going to run games well. The low end cards are generally slapped with an overkill amount of RAM as a selling gimmick to get uneducated people to buy it....because generally more = better. So when people see the 6850 1GB card there for $200 (or whatever the cost is) and then see the 6570 2GB for $100.....oh hot damn! There's 2GB of RAM on this card and only 1GB on the other card....that means the 2GB card is better! Which is NOT the case. You have take other things into consideration, such as memory bus/bandwidth, shaders, clock speeds....it can seem pretty confusing at first. But once you learn the basics of what to look for and learn to check benchmark comparisons, it becomes pretty easy to spot the low end vs. high end cards. Also learning the naming scheme the companies are using helps, too, but is not always correct to just rely on that aspect alone. So I should be looking at clock speeds? And suppose I do look at the bandwidth and clock speeds then higher numbers are better correct? And suppose there are two cards exactly the same just the manufacturer clocks them differently for people to buy how could I know when that occurs so I can buy the cheap one and then overclock it to match the other one?
Thanks a lot that clears a lot up. So I should drop the sound card since I have a gaming headset? Also what should I look for in a graphics card if not the VRAM, is clock speed more important? Thanks again.
What graphics card would you suggest? Isn't 2GB of VRAM more than enough for most games? I thought most games now days require 512mb of VRAM and 1GB was a lot wouldn't 2GB be future proof? Should I lower the CPU to 4 core? The memory card was forced on I wish I could get rid of it.
I am looking at buying a good gaming pc and I built one on the HP website. So I'm just wondering weather or not this would be good, not good enough, too good. Thanks- All this at $1,100.00 Operating system: Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Do I need ultimate?) Processor: AMD Phenom(TM) II X6 1045T six-core processor [2.7GHz, 3MB L2 + 6MB L3 shared, up to 4000MHz] Memory: 8GB DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM [4 DIMMs] Hard drive: 1TB Graphics card: 2GB DDR3 AMD Radeon HD 6570 [DVI, HDMI. VGA adapter] Primary optical drive: LightScribe 16X max. DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive Networking: Wireless-N LAN card edit Productivity ports: 15-in-1 memory card reader, 1 USB, 1394, audio Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
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