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What's your tech specs?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by boyshiny, Aug 28, 2013.

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  1. necr0

    necr0 Well-Known Member

    I hate laptops.
     
    necr0, Aug 30, 2013
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  2. Cahos Rahne Veloza

    Cahos Rahne Veloza The Fart Awakens

    Laptops are great because of portability. They're especially good for people on the go, like White Collar employees and Yuppies. They're also fantastic for students, especially College/University students.

    But if you want to game, et al what you want is a gaming computer, desktops are the only way you should go.... Unless the games you want to play are older gen stuff that a laptop can handle.
     
    Cahos Rahne Veloza, Aug 30, 2013
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  3. Devon

    Devon Well-Known Member

    Not that I pay much attention to laptops but you'd think that laptop parts would become more user friendly to install - maybe even semi or fully modular without having to mess with screws. That would require more standards though, I suppose.
     
    Devon, Aug 30, 2013
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  4. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    A lot of standards. just about everything in a laptop is custom made for that specific model of laptop.
     
    Loonylion, Aug 30, 2013
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  5. razielleonhart

    razielleonhart Well-Known Member

    ASUS G74 ROG Laptop

    i7 2.20
    16GB of DDR3 Ram
    Geforce GTX 560m 2gb video card
    120GB SSD
    1tb drive
    1tb drive on the side for games
     
    razielleonhart, Sep 24, 2013
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  6. Eadelas25

    Eadelas25 Well-Known Member

    Hey guys, first off this may be off topic a bit so just bear with me. I'm buying my girlfriend either a laptop or desktop that could handle skyrim and Rome 2 Total war on high settings, medium at the least. She's hogging my desktop and I can't get any work done....

    I'd prefer to get her a laptop so please help me out with some recommendations.
     
    Eadelas25, Sep 24, 2013
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  7. Devon

    Devon Well-Known Member

    Get her a new desktop, then on the sneak slowly upgrade your computer with her parts.
     
    Devon, Sep 24, 2013
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  8. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    a laptop that will run skyrim on high? Good luck with that. One of the top end APUs might handle medium.
     
    Loonylion, Sep 24, 2013
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  9. Fylgja

    Fylgja High level Neet

    my laptop can run it on ultra at about 40fps
     
    Fylgja, Sep 24, 2013
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  10. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    yes and the heat produced by the components will kill it sooner or later.
     
    Loonylion, Sep 24, 2013
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  11. Eadelas25

    Eadelas25 Well-Known Member

    I'd never do that, she'd nag me and guilt trip me forever.

    I know how loony feels about laptops, and he's probably right...no point getting my girl a laptop that'll break down easy and she'll be back to hogging my desktop again.

    I got these specs from a local retailer, what do you guys think:

    Processor: AMD 2250x3 2.9ghz
    Memory: 2gb DDR3
    HDD: 500gb
    Video Card: GT430 2gb 128bit DDR3

    Is it enough for Skyrim at medium?
     
    Eadelas25, Sep 24, 2013
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  12. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    no. 2GB ram is barely enough to run windows 7 properly.

    you want a quad core cpu of at least 3.0ghz, at least 8GB ram, and you can do better than an entry level gtx 400 series. 500GB disk won't last long either.
     
    Loonylion, Sep 24, 2013
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  13. Devon

    Devon Well-Known Member

    What's your budget?
     
    Devon, Sep 25, 2013
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  14. Eadelas25

    Eadelas25 Well-Known Member

    My budget, in dollars would be about 300-500.

    I don't plan on spending much on this and prices seem to be going down here plus there's a few stores with promos.

    Here's a quote from PC Gamer:

    "If you’ve got a DirectX 9 card with 512MB on-board RAM, 2GB of system RAM and a dual core processor, you should be good to go."

    I went with that but I just found out it's only good for low settings...
     
    Eadelas25, Sep 25, 2013
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  15. Devon

    Devon Well-Known Member

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    This can't be right. What currency do you use?
     
    Devon, Sep 25, 2013
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  16. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    low and not on windows 7. 2GB ram would be an XP system.

    pretty much have to go for an AMD based system at that budget, try an APU system.

    Devon: I would imagine its USD.
     
    Loonylion, Sep 25, 2013
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  17. Eadelas25

    Eadelas25 Well-Known Member

    Re: What\'s your tech specs?

    I used US Dollars.
    Post Merge: [time]1380089269[/time]
    What kind of AMD or APU system? I need specifics so I can shop around for it.
     
    Eadelas25, Sep 25, 2013
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  18. Devon

    Devon Well-Known Member

    I'd look at an A10-5800K.

    Or an A8-6600K.
     
    Devon, Sep 25, 2013
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  19. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    APU is an architecture made by AMD that combines a radeon HD graphics core and an AMD CPU onto the same chip. It's cheap and for the price the performance of both cpu and graphics is incredible
     
    Loonylion, Sep 25, 2013
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  20. Eadelas25

    Eadelas25 Well-Known Member

    Alright, thanks loony. Hope I can get a good deal.

    @devonkiin

    I'll try to find those if they're available.
     
    Eadelas25, Sep 25, 2013
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