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Question of the Day: What is your non-negotiable item, device, or app for international travel?
Please help me spec a gaming machine for R6000
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onlyoneken
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Do they require a monitor? Hard drive etc? Or in other words, do they have a current machine with anything that is reusable?
what onlyoneken said ... need to know if they have a monitor + mouse + keyboard .... as that needs to be included in the sale.
these days you can get away with a i5 , 6870, 4gb ddr3 ram , 500w quality psu for less than that amount !
these days you can get away with a i5 , 6870, 4gb ddr3 ram , 500w quality psu for less than that amount !
hardly enjoyable on a controller , fps games are meant for pc's (no offence, adventure and action / rpg games are great on console)
i can build a pc almost 40 times more powerful than those consoles + he will still have cash left to buy those games
and a controller !
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They don't have anything that is reusable except for perhaps a monitor
cerebus
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This will be a bit challenging due to the fact that he needs EVERYTHING and the high cost of hdd's these days. Also if he intends to do the legal thing - that is buy Windows and Office - it will severely limit what he can afford. Without software here is one possible build:
Case: Zalman Z7 - r500
PSU - Corsair cx500 - r600
Ram - G.Skill 8gb 1600mhz - r500 (wootware)
Graphics - GTX560ti - r2200 (wootware)
CPU - AMD X6 1055t - r1400
Mobo - MSI 890GXM - r1100
HDD - 500gb - r700
TOTAL - r7000. As you said that's the high end of his budget.
BTW there is no crysis 3. Just FYI dude.
Case: Zalman Z7 - r500
PSU - Corsair cx500 - r600
Ram - G.Skill 8gb 1600mhz - r500 (wootware)
Graphics - GTX560ti - r2200 (wootware)
CPU - AMD X6 1055t - r1400
Mobo - MSI 890GXM - r1100
HDD - 500gb - r700
TOTAL - r7000. As you said that's the high end of his budget.
BTW there is no crysis 3. Just FYI dude.
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lmao cerebus !
i was going to post the same rig with a zalman z9 and cx600 and club3d 6850 XD SIGH
but with less ram , 4 or 6gb
cerebus
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IMO 8gb these days is critical. I couldn't believe the difference it made when I upgraded last month.
IMO 8gb these days is critical. I couldn't believe the difference it made when I upgraded last month.
do you do coding or editing and stuffs ? my friendo does coding for a company using his own pc and he said from 6gb to 8gb there was no real difference, there should be a big difference from 4gb to 8gb + better timings from better quality ram that is
cerebus
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I run voice recognition apps and a number of other memory intensive programs at the same time. I find Win7 64 is around 2.5gb usage as a base, and then once you hit 3+gb pagefile usage it starts to chunk on 4gb.
my win 64 runs .. 700mb-800mb max
and ive got 4gb , but i dont run anything memory intensive other than games which hardly top 4gb un modded. even skyrim with hd textures runs smooth. anyways, hope the OP comes right with the rig, what we do not know is the monitor they are using ! ! ! and the resolution ! so the gfx cards we offered might be overkill ?
cerebus
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Over...kill... Does not compute.