ph30nix

okay well for christmas my GF has agreed to get me a new machine as my current is over 4 years old and while its still not a bad machine i cant play stuff with high settings and even on midrange it can get choppy also im not stupid enough to pass up a new comp lol but only thing is need to keep at under 1500 preferably under 1400 and i still want to be able to play almost any game coming out i currently play WoW and CSS will be getting F.E.A.R
soon but here is the machine i pieced together on HP (i checked dell and a similar system is more epensive and the vid card is turbo cache only)




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Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor E6400 (2.13GHz)

Memory 2GB DDR2-667MHz dual channel SDRAM (2x1024)

Hard Drive 160GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive

Primary CD/DVD Drive LightScribe 16X DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive

Networking 802.11 b/g Wireless LAN PCI Card

Graphics Card 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 7500LE, TV-Out, DVI, VGA

Sound Card Sound Blaster Audigy 4, 24-bit ADVANCED HD Audio

i deleted the stuff that is irrelavent but from what i read about the 7500le on HP site it doesnt rely on tubro cache it has actual 256MB memory but can use up to 500megs of system memory i cant even find this card on the nvidia website either everything else seems okay to me (the board has 4 ram slots so i can upgrade to 4gig ram later but its +$250 at the moment so i can wait on that im playing on 750mg right now)
there is a $200 dollar vid card upgrade ($200 from what i have selected now)
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT, HD , TV-out, 2 DVI
im never gonna run multiple monitors so i dont care about the DVI
i mean if i knock the processor down to a 1.8ghz i could probably swing the extra for the higher vid card but would it be worth it??

will this setup allow me to play most games at high settings?? or at least mid settigns with NO lag or hang ups?

Emperor_nero

the hard dirve is a bit small

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ph30nix

honestly to me its fine lol i only realy use my PC for games and if im not playing it currently i usualy have it uninstalled i dont like clutter and im going to be cleaning up the old PC (40gig hard drive) and letting my gf do whatever with it

i honestly wont fill up more then 80gigs even if i put everythign i have on it lol

flanker

Myself going with a store bought HP computer will get you what you need and give you great support if needed. Thats what I did and it's worked great.

ph30nix

so that card is good?? like i said i cant even find it on nvidia website but it does have 256 RAW MB of memory and can use up to 500 megs of system ram

funkysnair

hard drive space is determined by the user, depending on how much files they want to store....

as for hp etc if you want a computer that costs more than a self build and the fact that they arnt as upgradable as self builds hey crack on!

my advice-decide what you want to do with your pc games internet office then build around your needs

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liquidshadow

From what I can see, that graphics card is not very good. Also, you definitely don't need 4 gigs of RAM. Get 2 gb and use the money to get a better video card.

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ph30nix

k upgrade vid card i would just build the thing myself but i dont have the cash right now to buy all the parts so i need to finance it. also i know jack about mother boards wouldnt know which to get and i havnt put together a computer in years lol

okay how about this i lowerd the procesorr alittle (not much but alittle) and upgraded the vid card everything eslse is the same

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Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor E6300 (1.86GHz)

Memory 2GB DDR2-667MHz dual channel SDRAM (2x1024)

Hard Drive 160GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive

Primary CD/DVD Drive LightScribe 16X DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive

Graphics Card 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT, HD , TV-out, 2 DVI

Sound Card Sound Blaster Audigy 4, 24-bit ADVANCED HD Audio