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How well can this run?

Discussion in 'Technical Help' started by MasterofXD, Dec 19, 2011.

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  1. MasterofXD

    MasterofXD Well-Known Member

    How well can this comp (my really crappy comp, im upgrading it soon though)
    run fallout 3 and oblivion?
    Intel Pentium 4CPU 2.80GHz
    MotherBoard: P4P800SE ASUSTeK
    1024MB Ram DDR
    20GB internal drive (500GB external)
    Nvidia GeForce 6200 512MB


    In a nutshell
    2.80GHz
    1GB Ram DDR
    Nvidia GeForce 6200 128MB

    if they can run, how well wil lthey?
     
    MasterofXD, Dec 19, 2011
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  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    those games would take up half your hard disk between them. Not counting any of the expansions or dlc.
     
    Loonylion, Dec 19, 2011
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  3. MasterofXD

    MasterofXD Well-Known Member

    Im putting them on my external HDD
     
    MasterofXD, Dec 19, 2011
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  4. serhat359

    serhat359 Well-Known Member

    Dont expect much from that computer. Even if it launches the games, you wont get enough fps to play I think. If I were you I would turn that external to an internal HDD because hard drives are very expensive right now.
     
    serhat359, Dec 19, 2011
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  5. SergeantMajorME

    SergeantMajorME Active Member

    Just FYI, when trying to run something on an external HDD, it runs quite a bit slower than if it's an internal drive. This is due to limitation in USB transfer rates. On your current system, you REALLY don't want anything slowing down your games if you really want to get any appreciable FPS out of it.
     
    SergeantMajorME, Dec 19, 2011
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  6. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    installing programs to external hard disks is generally a very bad idea.
     
    Loonylion, Dec 19, 2011
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  7. MasterofXD

    MasterofXD Well-Known Member

    Yeah I know, but my current internal sucks so bad so might as well.
    Now I gotta wait til march for a new comp -.-
     
    MasterofXD, Dec 19, 2011
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  8. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    its not just about performance, if the hard disk loses its connection to the computer while the program is running there will be significant data corruption and the computer could crash.
     
    Loonylion, Dec 19, 2011
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  9. MasterofXD

    MasterofXD Well-Known Member

    And THIS is why I need to upgrade.
     
    MasterofXD, Dec 21, 2011
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  10. necr0

    necr0 Well-Known Member

    That doesn't happen often Loony.
     
    necr0, Dec 21, 2011
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  11. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    more often than you'd think.
     
    Loonylion, Dec 21, 2011
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  12. necr0

    necr0 Well-Known Member

    Never happens to me.
     
    necr0, Dec 21, 2011
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  13. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    you've been lucky then. It's quite common, especially on computers with flaky USB controllers/ports.
     
    Loonylion, Dec 21, 2011
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  14. necr0

    necr0 Well-Known Member

    Oh. Wouldn't be mine then. Mine is like 3 grand from Harvey Norman :)
     
    necr0, Dec 21, 2011
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  15. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    sadly the cost of the computer has no bearing on the quality of the components used, especially not in prebuilt machines. and considering it can happen with any computer, its safer to not risk it by always installing and run programs from internal hard disks only.
     
    Loonylion, Dec 21, 2011
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  16. necr0

    necr0 Well-Known Member

    I trust Harvey. And I trust Apple. Apple + Harvey = One awesome computer.
     
    necr0, Dec 21, 2011
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  17. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    apple are notoriously bad.
     
    Loonylion, Dec 21, 2011
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  18. necr0

    necr0 Well-Known Member

    They are not bad. If you didn't have apple you wouldn't have an iPod.
     
    necr0, Dec 22, 2011
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  19. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    thats my exact point. There are hundreds of MP3 players better than the ipod, and there were mp3 players before the ipod. Apple have not invented anything new for decades, they just copy other companies idea's and market them like theres no tomorrow. PR is the only thing apple is actually good at, their products are overpriced and the quality of them is atrocious.
     
    Loonylion, Dec 22, 2011
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  20. Duncan Idaho

    Duncan Idaho Well-Known Member

    i've never seen a PC with a 20 GB HDD O_O i would have replaced it long ago, also loonylion what are the best brand of usb ports? mine are probably sub standard work fine, but dont like certain usb wires, also mac OS is a great piece of work, if i could run hackingtosh i wuldnt mind running OSX 10.6 since i used to work with 10.3.9 and 10.4.11, gotta love the macbooks.
     
    Duncan Idaho, Jan 2, 2012
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