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Post by greentank on Jan 10, 2012 23:31:22 GMT -5
First 25 man, fps droped so bad and me so frustrated. Going to best buy putting it on the credit card by the end of the week for a new computer, any suggestions on a new tower and if i should get a graphics card along with it from best buy. Any suggestions would be helpful thanks  |
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Post by Nosferalatu on Jan 11, 2012 0:29:36 GMT -5
First 25 man, fps droped so bad and me so frustrated. Going to best buy putting it on the credit card by the end of the week for a new computer, any suggestions on a new tower and if i should get a graphics card along with it from best buy. Any suggestions would be helpful thanks My suggestion would be to not buy something off the shelf at Best Buy. What is your budget? |
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Post by Grimgore on Jan 11, 2012 1:22:08 GMT -5
www.newegg.com/www.tigerdirect.com/Best Buy is likely to be overpriced for what you get plus they'll do their best to aggressively shove a Best Buy warranty (whether you have a manufacturer's warranty or not) down your throat. And then if something actually DOES go wrong w/ your PC down the line, it's like pulling teeth to get them to actually honor the warranty you purchased from them. Best Buy is probably the worst place to buy a new PC IMO. Their bad business practices are finally starting to hurt them (they lost money last year and had a huge drop off in holiday sales from the previous year) and Amazon is (rightfully) taking all their business away.
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Post by womper on Jan 11, 2012 1:40:44 GMT -5
imac ftw
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Post by McClebby on Jan 11, 2012 3:42:52 GMT -5
First 25 man, fps droped so bad and me so frustrated. Going to best buy putting it on the credit card by the end of the week for a new computer, any suggestions on a new tower and if i should get a graphics card along with it from best buy. Any suggestions would be helpful thanks Dont need to waste money on a whole new PC if you have like a Core2Duo...get a new graphic card or probably some RAM should fix the FPS issue. |
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Post by greentank on Jan 11, 2012 8:23:25 GMT -5
The reason with best buy is the credit card with the 18 months no intrest, and trying to stay under 700. I have an old amd quad core thats been giving me problems so its time to just upgrade.
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Post by greentank on Jan 11, 2012 8:40:35 GMT -5
If anything i was just looking at new egg and they have a "prefered account" with 12 months no intrest i may look into that and apply for that.
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Post by Vindication on Jan 11, 2012 9:30:15 GMT -5
Dell has the same credit offer and I'm willing to bet they are cheaper than failbuy.
Newegg "Preferred account" is hard to qualify for also, but you might get lucky.
What are your current specs btw? You can build a pretty cheap system that will be upgradable and easily play WoW.
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Post by greentank on Jan 11, 2012 10:25:42 GMT -5
im running a gateway amd quad core 1.8, 4gb of ram and on board ati graphics.I think im at work and not currently on my home computer.
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Post by Deeproot on Jan 11, 2012 12:26:06 GMT -5
I just helped a friend build a halfway decent amd based computer on newegg for like $500ish. Had a dedicated graphics card and whatnot. Granted it's one he'll have to build himself (or have someone who knows how to build it for him) but its cheap, customized, and easily upgrade-able in the future. Get an AMD socket 3+ board, a phenom II quad core, a halfway decent graphics card, HDD, windows 7, PSU, and Case and you'll be all set. Probably need an optical drive as well.
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Post by Nosferalatu on Jan 11, 2012 12:27:49 GMT -5
If you're comfortable building your own system that's definitely the way to go. Building a system is pretty basic even if you've never done it before - hell, I walked Aeri through replacing her power supply over the phone. If you decide to go this route, let us know and we can get you a decent list together of parts. If you're looking for something off the shelf I would do as Mookies suggested and go with Dell. All the major manufacturers have some issues when it comes to quality or support, but being in the industry and supporting multiple makes for our clients Dell is still at the top of my list. This is a good system for under the $700 mark and Dell offers their own financing as well - configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=dxcwmn1&c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&model_id=xps-8300 it includes a dedicated graphics card for the base price of $649 and offers 3 other options for better graphics, with the 6770 bumping the price up to $789. None of the cards are FANTASTIC by todays standards, but they are definitely enough that you would notice a big improvement over onboard graphics. The other thing to consider which will affect the price is pushing out the warranty to 2 or 3 years, Dell has been very good in the past with warranty replacements so it's a decent investment. |
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Post by Nosferalatu on Jan 11, 2012 12:28:28 GMT -5
I just helped a friend build a halfway decent amd based computer on newegg for like $500ish. Had a dedicated graphics card and whatnot. Granted it's one he'll have to build himself (or have someone who knows how to build it for him) but its cheap, customized, and easily upgrade-able in the future. Get an AMD socket 3+ board, a phenom II quad core, a halfway decent graphics card, HDD, windows 7, PSU, and Case and you'll be all set. Probably need an optical drive as well. Ewww AMD. |
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Post by Deeproot on Jan 11, 2012 13:10:06 GMT -5
AMD works just as well. I've yet to ever get any troubles out of it, I just moved all my stuff to a new mobo like a month ago and it's all still working well, i upgraded from a amd 2+ board to an amd 3+ board, now if I want here soon i can get a newer CPU, my mobo has 2 pci-e x16 slots and a few USB 3.0 ports. Just as good as a computer based on Intel/Nvidia tech.
In other news, he could buy a dell for ~500 and then buy a graphics card from a place like newegg or so, but then he might have to also get a PSU, every computer I ever got from dell pretty much had the bare minimum PSU.
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Post by Nosferalatu on Jan 11, 2012 13:58:00 GMT -5
Every AMD CPU I've run or worked with has been total crap when compared to a similarly specced Intel. It could just be bad luck or coincidence on my part, but they always just feel laggy. That being said, they do WORK, but you get what you pay for.
I agree on the PSU issue, he'd definitely need to look into upgrading it if he got a Dell and intended on putting in his own card.
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Post by Vindication on Jan 11, 2012 14:09:42 GMT -5
I actually have a question.
I've wanted to upgrade to an i7 from an AMD. I'll need new Mobo... do I also need to buy another copy of win7? I always assumed windows pc identification was linked to mobo.
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