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Posted: December 4, 2010 09:58 am  | |||
      IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49    | Need a new PC, and want something cheap, but will run RS and other medium games well? http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWi...Number=21682188 It comes with a Tri-core 3.1ghz processor, 4GB of ram, a 1TB harddisk and a GTS 460 video card. It will run Runescape at 1920x1080 with max settings, 4x AA and you will get around 50fps most places(less in the GE). Other games should run nicely on medium to high settings. And all for less than $600 including shipping. Note that it'll be a bit more if you want a screen, but if you go with Linux for the OS(RS on Linux runs just as good as on Windows) you can save $100 to put towards that screen. -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link  I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox | ||
Posted: December 4, 2010 12:12 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: DG_Keanu Group: Council Posts: 4782 Member No.: 2033 Joined: August 25, 2009 Total Events Attended: 173 | Well, that beats my price check of £1,200 for the same power. --------------------  [05:42] <+WG_Keanu> I think I got a semi just looking at the pic [05:42] <%kat> same | ||
Posted: December 4, 2010 08:34 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Sativas Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 2255 Member No.: 1305 Joined: August 29, 2008 Total Events Attended: 155 | I love newegg now! Friends use to always link me there to get stuff and I never really took the time to look till recently. They have amazing prices. --------------------  The Ultimate Skilling and Combat Badges Updated June 17th, 2011        | ||
Posted: December 4, 2010 08:43 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: [JC] Group: Emeritus Posts: 3320 Member No.: 23 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 147 |
The UK is pretty well known for having pretty high prices for PC gear, I wouldn't have thought that it would be as much as ~1200 pounds for an equivalent PC to that though. I had a quick look at the Nz price of those components and it actually came out at a not too bad price, though personally I doubt you'd need anything near a 500w PSU so I would go for a lower wattage but higher quality supply (ie. a Corsair VX-450). --------------------  Old awards wat Most Mature & Most Honourable Most Dedicated|IRC Freak|Best Emeritus Placeholder lolz | ||
Posted: December 4, 2010 09:52 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Matt|Georgio9 Group: Emeritus Posts: 706 Member No.: 94 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 |
The GPU draws 106W alone. And besides, isn't it nice to know you have some room to expand your system or to have some buffer room between the peak power output of the supply what you actually need? I wouldn't say 500W is overkill at all considering how power hungry desktop hardware is and how much power you would probably need to run your system at peak load. --------------------   | ||
Posted: December 5, 2010 11:29 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49 | Well, the real problem comes finding a lower-wattage powersupply that both A, is rated 80+, and B, has enough PCI-E connectors. Figuring that you could have at least a GTX 460 which needs 2x6 pin, that's the lowest one I could find. Admittedly, I might choose a Corsair myself, but I didn't see one near the price of the one I chose. I'd have gone Seasonic(who make their own, as well as for others), but they didn't seem to have PCI-E power connectors. Also, remember that your PSU does best at 50-80% load - Figure your idle load should be around 50%, which gives you a significant margin for "under load" power. -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox | ||
Posted: December 6, 2010 05:27 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Garrett_xD Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 1316 Member No.: 2159 Joined: November 28, 2009 Total Events Attended: 132 | showed my dad this, because weve been interested in a new computer. Its late atm, but he said he would give this a look. --------------------  | ||
Posted: December 6, 2010 07:03 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49 |
Well, heck - it all depends on the budget; if you've got more, I can adjust the parts to match. I figure that $600's about the -minimum- you'd want to spend on a new computer though; below that, you'd want something used. -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox | ||
Posted: December 8, 2010 06:50 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Flame_Reece Group: Emeritus Posts: 626 Member No.: 133 Joined: January 20, 2008 Total Events Attended: 34 | What's the cheapest computer you could whip up so you can play average-maximum graphics (more or less leaning towards maximum) on games such as CoD/WoW?  -------------------- - Going MIA 31/03/2011 - - Avid-Gamers Unit - | ||
Posted: December 9, 2010 02:58 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49 | Find a graphics card that meets your requirements, as well as a processor spec(speed + # of cores), and I'll see what I can do. Though, like I said, you'd probably want to spend -no less- than $600 on a new machine. -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox | ||
Posted: December 11, 2010 06:00 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: Garrett_xD Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 1316 Member No.: 2159 Joined: November 28, 2009 Total Events Attended: 132 | all i want to be able to do is play wow, because i want to start playing that, and runescape is tryingto turn into wow anyways. -------------------- | ||
Posted: December 11, 2010 11:12 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49 | That rig will do fine, then. The GTS250 video card has a version that was branded specifically -for- WoW, so I assume performance is good. -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox | ||
Informational: $600 custom RS PC.