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I need some suggestions for new computer! THX
Hi, I am really excited about TERA and wanna change my old computer to get ready for this game. I don't really know much about the current computer market. Can anyone suggest me some lists of computer components I should get? My acceptable price is around 2000usd. THX!
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You might want to try the hardware section of the forums instead, rather than the TERA game forum.
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/forum/851
You should also say what you need to fit in that budget (monitor? keyboard? mouse? surge protector? speakers? Or just the case and what comes in it?).
You should also say whether you can assemble parts yourself, or need to hire an OEM to do it for you.
Whatever you get on that budget should probably include a Core i5 2500 or 2500K, a good P67 motherboard, a Radeon HD 6950 or 6970 or GeForce GTX 570, and a good solid state drive.
Tera is not very demanding anyway, one of the unreal3 engine strongest points imo.
to sum it up for pretty good gaming.....have a quad core + 4gig ram and if your budget alowes use SSD disks (diskspeed is becoming the bottleneck in many systems.....including mine now
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And yeah a good GFX card too offcourse (i am very happy with the Nvidia GTX470 card tbh)
Here's a good reference point, at least for Tera.
Tera streamer playing from NY > Server located in Korea.
http://www.justin.tv/pawse#/w/971508256
his computer spec's
-AMD Phenom II X6 1090T ......................i3-i5-i7 or AMD equivalent will do
-8 Gigs G-Skill Ripjaws RAM 1600........4 Gigs should be fine
-Dual ATI Radeon 4870 Crossfire.........5xxx ATI or Nvidea equivalent will do (8800 with mid settings)
Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries...
You can build a Tera capable machine for $350.
I just built a friend a quad core AMD, ATI 4250, 4gb of RAM, and a 1TB HDD from parts off of newegg... $347.
I used an existing 500w power supply and case I had laying around.
For $2,000 you can build a friggin monster depending on your level of expertise. You can start with a $1,300 system and then spend another $400 on water-cooling gear from danger den and overclock the CPU, and GPUs. This even leaves room for a monitor, keyboard, headset, and mouse.
If you're serious about the $2,000, you really should spend a week researching the build. I recommend the fellas over at Toms Hardware and their price to performance benchmarking comparison charts. That's a lot of money and you can either blow it on a poor attempt at a pricey machine, or really build something configured well.
There's a lot of build factors where you should spend money and places where you'll just be wasting it. The specs are really dependent on expected resolution and multi-functionality. For example, if you are using a 42" flat screen television for a monitor, then dual graphic cards are a complete waste and you should get one good card and drop the rest on CPU and RAM. If on the other hand you run a 30" LCD 2560x1600 display, then you NEED two video boards.
I run a quad core Q9450 overclocked to 3.7Ghz (2.6 Stock) with dual Overclocked ATI 4870s, 8GB OCZ, 2x1TB Raid 0 WD 64Mb Buffers, Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4, 1KW Corsair PSU, Dager Den D5 Water pump, Thermochill 120.3 Radiator, TDX CPU Block, a T-Line, Samsung 305T 30" 2560x1600 LCD monitor, and Altec Lansing 641U
This system cost me $2,300 three years ago and still runs darn near everything at max. I also use it for Blu-Ray video editing. With $2,000 today I could build something at least twice as fast.
youtube.com/gcidogmeat
If you're going to give your friend integrated graphics based on a chip from three generations ago, be sure to mention that it's not intended to be used for gaming, and might not run games well.