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doooby69
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Played this game on a friends computer a couple days ago and immediately fell in love. Im an old everquest player who has yet to find another MMORPG i have liked... But to put the love story to the side, I would love to hear yalls' opinion on which computer I should save up for. I am planning on purchasing a desktop computer to play this game and to take on other tasks since my laptop died on me about 6 months ago. But like i said im looking to buy a desktop and my budget is being set around 700 dollars. What is yalls' opinion on a good computer to run games like this on medium to high settings? Thanks guys
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Hm If youve got 700 saved I would say wait for another paycheck or two or three and drop around 900-1000. You can get some really decent stuff on newegg for that much, youd even be able to play it on high settings.
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waiting: earthrise
The only reason you would want to buy from a company is to get a laptop. Desktops are turning into a build-it-yourself kind of thing. I would suggest just building your own desktop.
Laptops are easier to customize and put together than you think. There are several guides on the net to do it. I would check Toms Hardware. Either way customizing is better than buying from any company. Companies tend to buy in bulk and purchase cheap. Therefore you might get a computer from dell that costs 1k yet has a really crappy mobo. Remeber, when buying from a company, your purchasing the logo, not the parts. Customizing is the way to go and you may actually learn something.
i guess the main problem is that i am pretty illiterate when it comes to computers much less buidling my own whereas perhaps a guide couldnt even help me. was wondering if their were any particular models, perhaps even something that could be box purchased from a local best buy, circuit city, etc...
I got a nice labtop at best buy for around 725. ATI Radeon 3200 Graphics card, Plays Blu Ray DVDs, Webcam, Between 2.0-3.0 GB Processor I believe and holds 120 GB Files and stuff. So I would try and get that.
Laptops are easier to customize and put together than you think. There are several guides on the net to do it. I would check Toms Hardware. Either way customizing is better than buying from any company. Companies tend to buy in bulk and purchase cheap. Therefore you might get a computer from dell that costs 1k yet has a really crappy mobo. Remeber, when buying from a company, your purchasing the logo, not the parts. Customizing is the way to go and you may actually learn something.
You can custom build a laptop? I had no idea =o. But what you said about purchasing the logo is so true. I noticed that any company that lets you build your own pc won't let you choose the mobo that goes with it. And then they thrown in there own mock up parts.
Anyways, I would suggest just building your own pc. I recently built my own and it came out cheaper than a name brand.
Sheesh with $700 you could build a good rig that will run Age of Conan at max settings.
Why not just shop at newegg for parts? If you don't know how to build a computer, you can go to directron.com and buy all the individual parts and they'll custom build and send it to you.
I'm amazed at how much computer you can buy for $700 today.
Pay attention to what video card is inlcuded. Say no to on board video. ATi and NVidia both have very powerful graphics cards for under $200. Read around for what's current and considered the current "best bang for the buck".
Almost all PCs today have PCI-E graphics cards slots. Getting an otherwise powerful PC with sub-par graphics can work if you upgrade the graphics card yourself. The only hitch is that most pre-made computers with on-board graphics lack a powerful enough power supply to power today's stand alone cards. However, a decent 450+ Watt power supply can be had fairly inexpensively and they are usually easy to install.
I usually build my own, but I've seen some incredible deals on PCs at Best Buy and Circuit City this fall, most of which would only require the slight modification of changing the PS and adding a good card to offer great bang for the buck.
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Learning to build a PC can be a valuable skill these days, especially when something goes wrong with a computer and you can fix it on your own without taking it to a shop or having to pack it up and send it back to the company you bought from.
That said, if you're absolutely clueless it's not always wise to jump in on $1000 worth of new hardware. You can order bare-bones systems which are usually case, power supply, and sometimes motherboard/cpu. You could get one of those, then just plug in RAM, graphics, hard drives and optical and you're good to go.
Building really is deceptively easy. If you can read instructions and manipulate an object into a slot, you can build a computer.