Buying a new PC

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by mrlip, Apr 23, 2009.

  1. mrlip

    mrlip Regular member

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    mrlip, Apr 23, 2009
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    That system will play games like Tetris just fine! If you wanna play anything made in the last 5 years, it is the wrong system.
     
    KillerBug, Apr 24, 2009
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    Ok anything decent going in the price range I mentioned?
     
    mrlip, Apr 24, 2009
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    If I knew where to get a £300 PC that was good for gaming, I would buy it before I told anyone else about it. That is about what you would pay for a good video card, processor, and ram.

    If you want to game for that kind of money, you are much better off with a console (Xbox360 or PS3). If you get the PS3, you can load Linux on it and buy a USB keyboard & mouse...it will have most of the capabilities of a linux pc, and you can reboot to play ps3 games. You can even use it with a some PC monitors (must be DVI with HDCP support).
     
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    Yeah ive already got a PS3 which is why I dont wanna spend much on the PC. Cheers anyway
     
    mrlip, Apr 24, 2009
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    mrlip, except for windows which i presume you have to load & the games' requirement for videocard then go for it. if using a 32bit version of windows instead of 64bit, you'll be luky to see past 3gig of ram in windows even tho the bios sees 4gig.
     
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    Cheers DDP, that system or something equivalent will probably do for me. Yeah I have Windows, would you recommend running Xp or Vista on a system like that?
     
    mrlip, Apr 24, 2009
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    go with xp as vista might have problems with some games & maybe any hardware/software you might have.
     
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    Ok thanks for the tip. I was just looking before at the specs on a few recent PC games and it looks like that system should be able to run most new games quite adequately. Like you mentioned, the graphics card is a bit of weakness but that same seller has quite a few similar systems on ebay so I may look for one with a better card
     
    mrlip, Apr 25, 2009
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    or upgrade the videocard later.
     
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    64bit xp supposedly has driver issues & 32bit can only read a max of about 3.5gig of ram.
     
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