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I am new at building PC's

Discussion in 'Building a new PC' started by LocustInc, Oct 30, 2009.

  1. LocustInc

    LocustInc Member

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    well thank you for the help and yes the shipping would be expensive
     
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    how much did your pc cost
     
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    in american dollars or give me an esimate
     
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    That's what worries me. All you know about your graphics card is that it's 512MB, which is almost completely irrelevant. A 512MB 9500GT would be terrible for games, whereas a 512MB GTS250 would be OK-ish. Generally newegg is the best place to order PC parts in the US.
    My PC has been built and upgraded in stages, I didn't build it all at once so I can't give you an exact figure, but what's currently in it probably cost me around £1600 when new ($2500 but in the UK we pay VAT which is currently 15%, was 17.5%)
     
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    A 512 MB card is rather week for a high end gaming system. And your better off going with ATI over Nvidia anyways.
     
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    Not true, a 512MB HD4870 is a perfectly adequate gaming card even today.
    Agreed about ATI over nVidia though, certainly at the moment.
     
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    it works great for us eve online and nothing to high end. no crysis the highest we run is empire total war
     

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