i think youll have a problem trying to run win 7 on it.

a mobo from 2006 wouldnt support it. not to mention all the other hardware.

Hi
i'm doing the guest pass right now...I'm running the game at 768X1024 with everything cranked up to high...Trouble is my computer is below recommended specs..right now it runs smooth as can be..Can't understand it.

I have Win7...4gb of ram...AMD HD6530D on board graphics..If i buy will there be slowdowns with this computer?:o

ttomm1946

Is ther new Sniper Elite worth having BTW?

ArchDemon123

other than that there is tribes ascend which is free but you pay for upgrades with real money (or earn them very slowly). it can be fun but imo horribly balanced with a bad meta game for a shooter. ie its not designed with alot of experience in the genre. ie, you spend alot of time doing nothing interesting, the guns are spammy and almost all AOE with massive knockback and the new guns are almost always overpowered at launch so people buy them with real money for an advantage.

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lol wow 7460 posts and you have no idea what your talking about.

let me just inform you as to why you are so wrong.a good sound card and good headphones means good 360 degree awareness in games. anyone who DOESNT have this is absolute cannon fodder, like im sure you are. the ability to hear exactly where someone is, is priceless. much more worth than a few more fps. i speak with alot of experience on this subject and anyone worth their salt in the industry would agree with me.

you need a good mouse mat to make sure your mouse reads properly at high speeds, and it needs to be big enough so you can swing your mouse fast and freely. it also needs to be high quality so that it doesnt fray or bobble and can be cleaned. again, without this you are cannon fodder in competitive gaming as you have to pick your mouse up and reset the position to continue turning (ie in any fps game).

you need a good mouse for the accuracy, comfort, speed and advantages it brings such as extra buttons.

what difference does a case make to your experience? absolutely none. mine sits behind my monitor on the desk with the side off. for easy access but also if i did have heat problems with my 2500k at 4.6ghz in my £20 case then there wouldnt be a problem. also an open case with fans whirring which has nothing stopping you reaching in and touching them is much cooler for your friends than some crappy led lights. you just have to not be really clumsy.

my recommendations would make his entire experience much better, and give him much more of an edge in games than a few more fps.

sadly he will have to learn the hard way as he gets mauled over and over again with no audio awareness. atleast he will have a sparkly case sitting there doing nothing though :)

in summary. anyone who expects to be competative in a combatitive 3d game without atleast some decent headphones and mouse is a mug.

GTR12

Alright english pommy, go back to your rain filled house, who cares about sound quality when you cant even run the game?

As for your priorities when it comes to gaming is wrong, picking a stupid mouse mat over a GPU? Sure if it was a high-end GPU or mid-high, go ahead, but its a regular GTX560... not even the Ti, they suck.

I don't care how good a "mouse mat" is , or mouse pad, but whatever,either way I am not spending $40 for one! No way. Unless you are a professional gamer, then maybe, but if you spend that much on a mouse pad then you really take gaming way too seriously, or you just have money to throw around.godzillavskong

why dont you have the same ethos when spending money on your case and **** LED lights?? if your gonna buy a $100'000 car are you seriously gonna keep the steering wheel from your old ford escort? because this is the same issue.

take my advice or not. i dont care i am just bored of noobs presenting no challenge to me because some other noobs have told them to spend all their money on a graphics card because "thats all that counts for gaming, duh". so they have a **** mouse which skips on a **** surface and they cant hear the difference between someone to the side of them and someone behind them but hey atleast they have 150 fps instead of 140 and a sparkly case for their friends to look at when they fail playing games.

dust your pc

[QUOTE="seercirra"]

like someone else said, get a cheaper brand of ram. its all the same. if its the same specs then its the same result. you can save $15 there with no loss in performance.

i would buy a much cheaper case. cases are just purely for show. $40 will be fine for a case, it never go wrong. save $60 with no loss in oerformance or reliability.

also your mobo you can probably save $30 on that and get the same spec on a gigabyte 1155 z68 board.

then i would get a 64gig ssd for a boot drive, and save another $70 or so.

then with the $180 you saved you can perhaps get a better graphics card or, more importantly, get some good headphones, soundcard and mouse and mouse mat. this will be much more important to your competitivity and enjoyment in games than a few extra fps. especially when the 560 with an overclocked 2500k will play most games where fps counts very smoothly anyway.

i would aim for around $60 for headphones (any good brand like sennheiser closed cup headphones will do well), $60 for a sound card (xfi or a xonar or something), $45 on a mouse (g400, g500, mx518) and $20 on a mouse mat. (personally i can reccomend a large razer goliathus slick mat)

GTR12

Case purely for show? It keeps all your damn parts cool, and lets you OC like you said.

Headphones, soundcard and a mousemat? :lol:

$60 for headphones and $60 for a soundcard when you spend $40 on case....

$20 on a mousemat? :lol: any cheap 50cent mousemat will work when you buy other useless things like a soundcard, spend money on a GPU for gaming.

lol wow 7460 posts and you have no idea what your talking about.

let me just inform you as to why you are so wrong.a good sound card and good headphones means good 360 degree awareness in games. anyone who DOESNT have this is absolute cannon fodder, like im sure you are. the ability to hear exactly where someone is, is priceless. much more worth than a few more fps. i speak with alot of experience on this subject and anyone worth their salt in the industry would agree with me.

you need a good mouse mat to make sure your mouse reads properly at high speeds, and it needs to be big enough so you can swing your mouse fast and freely. it also needs to be high quality so that it doesnt fray or bobble and can be cleaned. again, without this you are cannon fodder in competitive gaming as you have to pick your mouse up and reset the position to continue turning (ie in any fps game).

you need a good mouse for the accuracy, comfort, speed and advantages it brings such as extra buttons.

what difference does a case make to your experience? absolutely none. mine sits behind my monitor on the desk with the side off. for easy access but also if i did have heat problems with my 2500k at 4.6ghz in my £20 case then there wouldnt be a problem. also an open case with fans whirring which has nothing stopping you reaching in and touching them is much cooler for your friends than some crappy led lights. you just have to not be really clumsy.

my recommendations would make his entire experience much better, and give him much more of an edge in games than a few more fps.

sadly he will have to learn the hard way as he gets mauled over and over again with no audio awareness. atleast he will have a sparkly case sitting there doing nothing though :)

in summary. anyone who expects to be competative in a combatitive 3d game without atleast some decent headphones and mouse is a mug.

like someone else said, get a cheaper brand of ram. its all the same. if its the same specs then its the same result. you can save $15 there with no loss in performance.

i would buy a much cheaper case. cases are just purely for show. $40 will be fine for a case, it never go wrong. save $60 with no loss in oerformance or reliability.

also your mobo you can probably save $30 on that and get the same spec on a gigabyte 1155 z68 board.

then i would get a 64gig ssd for a boot drive, and save another $70 or so.

then with the $180 you saved you can perhaps get a better graphics card or, more importantly, get some good headphones, soundcard and mouse and mouse mat. this will be much more important to your competitivity and enjoyment in games than a few extra fps. especially when the 560 with an overclocked 2500k will play most games where fps counts very smoothly anyway.

i would aim for around $60 for headphones (any good brand like sennheiser closed cup headphones will do well), $60 for a sound card (xfi or a xonar or something), $45 on a mouse (g400, g500, mx518) and $20 on a mouse mat. (personally i can reccomend a large razer goliathus slick mat)

So I'm getting ready to purchase a new laptop for college and I've done a lot of research and want to hear other people's opinions before making a final decision. I want a laptop that mixes portability with power (so 14" to 15.6" and less than 7 lbs). I've found a few that seem to fit what I want but can't really decide between them. They are:

Alienware M14x - I know people say it's overpriced but I woudn't upgrade that much over the base model so it wouldn't be too expensive.

Asus N55SL - A little less catered to gaming but still powerful to do a good amount of gaming and editing.

Asus G53 - Really powerful but over 8 lbs so probably a little too heavy for me.

Another note - I believe the M14x will come with a free 360 so that's like a $150 discount right there.

Also if anyone has a laptop I didn't mention to recommend I'd appreciate it. I looked at Digital Storm but I couldn't find much about their reliability. I thought Origin PCs looked nice but at over 2k for one that's decently upgraded they seem way too overpriced.

t8trg8tr

there is no such thing as a gaming laptop. ive never played against anyone online who isnt completely **** using a laptop. the screen isnt big enough, mouse space isnt large enough, sound is not good enough, keyboard is not good enough. and then you may have 40 fps with your laptop when i have 150. you are just cannon fodder on a laptop. buy a desktop and enjoy a proper gaming experience.

like i say, its your monitor. its the same issue i had. i might last for a long time before it dies, but the problem is still with the monitor not being able to refresh cleanly.

your monitor is dying.

its not screen tearing.

especially if you hear any kind of hiss from your monitor, it is dying.

this is what happened before my lg flatron died. some games it looks like there is constant contrast fluctuation going on, it is almost subliminal at first and then will get worse and worse then start hissing, then your monitor will just switch off and die.

and it being ok for a second when you turn your monitor off and on proves its dying as whatever component is about to fail it is taking that 1 second to heat up again before it starts failing.