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Ok, so what do you think?

Started by Strix, October 27, 2009, 10:15:12 AM

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Strix

Ok, I was looking at a computer with the following items in it...

Intel® Core™ i7 920 2.66GHz (8MB Cache) Quad Core Processor   
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English   
Single 1.8GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260   
6GB DDR3 1333MHz (3x 2GB) Tri Channel Memory   
640GB - SATA-II, 3Gb/s, 7,200RPM, 16MB Cache HDD

Would that make for a decent gaming system? And about how much would you pay for it? Or what should be upgraded?

Thanks
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DontSayBanana

Looks good for the most part, but unless you only want to play bleeding-edge games, you might want to go higher than Home Premium on the Windows front- Windows 7 Home Premium doesn't have XP Mode.
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Syt

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derspiess

Yikes, that would definitely be overkill for me.  I'm not doing a whole lot of PC gaming these days-- my system build in the next couple months is going to be a joke by these standards :D
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DisturbedPervert

Looks good.  Might even be able to run HoI III

DGuller

Looks good for the most part, although the graphics card seems a little strange to me.  Why so much RAM on a detuned and somewhat old card?

Barrister

Quote from: DGuller on October 27, 2009, 12:26:30 PM
Looks good for the most part, although the graphics card seems a little strange to me.  Why so much RAM on a detuned and somewhat old card?

You can never have too much RAM.

I have 10GB, but I find myself wondering if I should fill those last 2 slots...
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Strix

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher

Tonitrus

Quote from: Syt on October 27, 2009, 11:13:37 AM
You want a custom case.


The Packers are already working on their own prototype....


DGuller

Quote from: Barrister on October 27, 2009, 01:08:46 PM
Quote from: DGuller on October 27, 2009, 12:26:30 PM
Looks good for the most part, although the graphics card seems a little strange to me.  Why so much RAM on a detuned and somewhat old card?

You can never have too much RAM.

I have 10GB, but I find myself wondering if I should fill those last 2 slots...
I meant video RAM.  It just seemed like an odd combination, a mid-range card with more RAM than many high-end cards.

DontSayBanana

Quote from: DGuller on October 27, 2009, 02:12:27 PM
I meant video RAM.  It just seemed like an odd combination, a mid-range card with more RAM than many high-end cards.

It's actually not that uncommon to see a midrange card with a ton of VRAM to pull in misinformed card buyers.  Look at third-party Radeons; they'll have a ton of memory, and then you find out they skimp on rendering pipes or processing power.
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MadBurgerMaker

#12
Make sure that GFX card has a lifetime warranty, in case that chip problem nVidia was having for the last 3 or 4 years is still going on.  If it still is, and your card takes a shit on you because of it, the various companies will generally replace it with whatever is "current" when it happens (upgrade  :cool:).

DGuller

Is it EVGA that has a lifetime warranty on its products?

MadBurgerMaker

#14
XFX, BFG, and EVGA are the ones I'm pretty sure have some sort of lifetime warranty.

Edit:  Oh, for Beeb and the MacBook Pro he may or may not have: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377  Heh