So next year I'm getting a Desktop

• Taycat wrote on 2010-11-01 15:54
  Since it'll be my Senior year, I decided to get a PC rather than a laptop since I can easily buy a netbook for college.
  
  I wish to have some recommendations from my fellow members.
  
  Please, nothing more than 1k.
  
  My parents would **** bricks if it were higher than that.
  
  Heck, I'd say no more than 800 or 900.....
  
  ANYWAY, I want one that is good, but not superawesomelyorgasmic.
  
  I want it to be able to play games like Vindi at highest quality settings with room for me to improve on if it craps out on me.
  
  I am also planning ahead since by next year the same computer could possibly be costing less.
  
  So shoot!
• RicochetOrange wrote on 2010-11-02 01:31
  I built an awesome gaming desktop for about $600, including monitor (giant 22in LED too), mouse, and keyboard. AMD Athalon II Triple-Core 3.1 GHz, 4 gigs of RAM, 1GB Graphics card, etc. The tower itself was $446.
  
  Best thing to do is to Google builds based on your budget, and get what you need.
• Shirayuki wrote on 2010-11-02 01:36
  Prebuilt or you wanna make it yourself?
  
  Edit: Since you want a prebuilt just buy something you'd actually use from IBuyPower or something.
• Taycat wrote on 2010-11-03 14:41

  Quote from Shirayuki;200934:

  Prebuilt or you wanna make it yourself?

  
  
  Prebuilt.
  
  I'm not ready to build one for myself just yet.
• Ampersand wrote on 2010-11-03 14:58
  If you're gonna get it next year, build it next year. There will be a new generation of parts, as well as significantly different prices on current parts. There is no way that a build determined today could hold up as cost effective in a few months.
  
  But rest assured. For $800 you can easily own a computer that will play the newest games at decent settings. Current games won't be worth talking about, graphically speaking.
• Miyuko wrote on 2010-11-04 06:09

  Quote from Xiyamae;200486:

  Since it'll be my Senior year, I decided to get a PC rather than a laptop since I can easily buy a netbook for college.
  
  I wish to have some recommendations from my fellow members.
  
  Please, nothing more than 1k.
  
  My parents would **** bricks if it were higher than that.
  
  Heck, I'd say no more than 800 or 900.....
  
  ANYWAY, I want one that is good, but not superawesomelyorgasmic.
  
  I want it to be able to play games like Vindi at highest quality settings with room for me to improve on if it craps out on me.
  
  I am also planning ahead since by next year the same computer could possibly be costing less.
  
  So shoot!

  
  
  Mines orgasmic. Gateway computer comes with windows 7 and i can play vindi on Max Graphics. :D
• Adelynn wrote on 2010-11-10 16:40
  Which Gateway specifically? I'm kind of interested in this as well.
• sakraycore wrote on 2010-11-13 03:06
  vindictus isn't that demanding. with the specs in my sig (it's midrange computer) I can record in fraps with every option maxed basically (anisotropic filtering at 4x, never bothered to change that, AA at 4x) and at a constant 30FPS. Here's a video I made recently if you want to see how smooth it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obar-s_qv58
  
  I would suggest as of currently,
  
  i5-750
  4GB DDR3
  GTX 460 1GB
  
  if you're not bulding, a prebuilt like this is a beast too.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOKgPOdm84I&feature=channel
• Mentosftw wrote on 2010-11-13 03:35
  :D I have a 2003 pentium 4
  
  I can barely run Mabinogi under minimum settings.
  Go me!
• Arty wrote on 2010-11-14 15:30
  Here's what you should generally get:
  
  • A quad core processor (either AMD or Intel) Though if you are on a strict budget getting a good dual-core would not hurt your ability to play Mabi, but probably will hurt your ability to multi or triple client Mabi. haha
  • At least 4GB of DDR3 RAM. 8GB if you want to dual/triple client.
  • A decent graphics card*
  
  *For the graphics card, there are so many choices. Pick one that has at least 1GB of memory. Some good types to look out for are: Radeon HD 5xxx, and GeForce GTX 4xx.
  
  I have a Intel i5 and a Radeon HD 4890. It can triple-client Mabi but the virtual clients sometimes crash due to the time difference caused by the lag spikes that throws the time between my virtual system and my main system out of sync, causing hackshield to think that I'm using a speed hack...
  
  Also if you get what I said above you should be able to run most games that are out on high settings. By most I mean pretty much 99%. And it is easy to find computers with those specs, since there are a wide range of current computers that will have those components that I listed.
• Adelynn wrote on 2010-11-15 20:05
  I like how you're multi-clienting and what hackshield worries about is your speed. XD
  
  I'm keeping an eye on this thread because I'm interested too. x~x