Re: Off Topic (Decent Gaming PC?)
- From: Doug Jacobs <djacobs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:30:25 -0000
boodybandit <allaboutgamez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I haven't put together a PC in nearly 3 years and I am totally out of touch
with what is decent these days.
So can one of you PC gaming gurus give me an idea of what to put together
for a decent gaming PC that won't break my wallet? (-$1000 just a tower)
It's for my son and it really only needs to run WOW but I want to run it
flawlessly for him.
I am looking at AMD Atholon 64 5600 dual processor
video card - Geforce 8600 GTS
1g ram Corsair 1066mhz
Vista Premium installed (or should I go with XP?)
Is this ok?
Should I add or take away anything?
More ram, better vid card?
I'd really try to get an Intel 6400 Duo-Core - seems to be the sweet spot
for gaming right now between performance and price.
Video card is fine (maybe a little overkill for WoW, but...)
Stick with XP. So far Vista has proven it's as useless (and slow!) for
games as Blu-Ray is. Yeah, some day it won't be...some day...
Get 2GB RAM if possible.
The above is basically what I went with, and spent about $1500 from
Velocity Micro for a pre-assembled box. That was about 4 months ago,
though, so prices should be cheaper.
--
It's not broken. It's...advanced.
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