PC Building Challenge

[vortmax]

First off, your poll has nothing to do with the topic of the thread. WTF? That right there made me lose interest in this thread.

you know what really pissed me off?
I used to be a member or Pc- Mech with a lot of posts

and what does post count matter? Quantity does not mean quality. It just means someone has too much free time. I'm sorry you were banned, but I have never encountered a board that will ban perminatly for such a small thing. I've even been on some pretty Nazi boards. Banning is always the result of repeated offenses and at least one direct warning.

WHOA!!!!
LOOK at howmany people have viewed this thread. I guess its popular eh?
Too bad none of them will actually input anything to the discussion.

Maybe they don't have anything to add. Again, quantity does not mean quality. I'm sure everyone could add their 2 cents and just say something stupid like "I don't know", but that wouldn't make for a very interesting thread now would it?

anyway, back on topic. Any system with at least a 2 GHz processor, 1 gig of ram and a 64 mb AGP or PCIE g-card will be fine for gaming at present time. You will have to use low settings, but hey...it's a budget system. My laptop (listed in sig) can run Far cry on low setting just fine. My desktop (also in sig) can manage it on medium settings without problem, and it's "antiquated"

 

[4W4K3]

For $700 I hope he could do much better than a 64MB AGP card and an Athlon XP CPU. I mean that could be done on a $300 budget. Hopefully with a 6600GT Medium-High setings will be doable for the majority of games, excluding the VERY new ones.

 

[vortmax]

I'm saying that base system will run it, so arguing over some of these things is a moot point.

 

[4W4K3]

I'm saying that base system will run it, so arguing over some of these things is a moot point.

It's supposed to be a gaming computer though, and $700 isn't really a small budget. If he has to resort to setting all settings on low and buying crappy hardware...I wouldn't stretch so far as to call it a "gaming" computer.

I'd have to disagre with you when you said "a 64 mb AGP or PCIE g-card will be fine for gaming at present time." That's just not true, most games (even older games) will run very horribly on a card like that. Resorting to all low settings and no AA/AF kind of defeats the purpose of a gaming computer at all, he might as well just buy a $400 Dell and forget gaming. Simply "running" a game is alot different than "playing" the game, if you get what i mean.

 

[vanquished]

I agree with you 4w4k3,
My friend the one i started the thread for has a dell, the thin one with a 64 mb video card. Halo only works on low settings, and thats an old game. Hl2 barely works and css sucks big time. I think that 700 is not that small a budget as well. I still am a fan of your set up 4w4k3.

P.S. I dont care if the po;; is off topic, im trying to give people who aren't good with computers something to do.
- Jack

 

[vanquished]

Also in response to my other friends pc...
Thanks for pointing those things our, i hadnt realized it but, he really isnt on a budget, he just doesnt want to waiste money on stuff he wont use. he wants to game avidly i wonder if i could get rid of the sli and give him teh 7800 gt, even though its not that much better, what the hell y not.
- Jack

 

[vanquished]

so is this forum dead now?
- Jack