Hey everyone,
The last time I purchased a computer was back in 2010 I think... so it's been a while and I am a bit out of the loop. My intention is to purchase a package computer and then swap out the included (likely junkie) video card and get a a better one and install it on my own.
My question is two-part:
1. I want to go with a Windows machine, using an Intel processor. What processor should I be looking for? i3? i5? i7?
2. I want to focus on nVidia (never really had any great experiences with radeons). What card should I be targetting?
My budget is, I expect, kind of low. I am hoping to spend $500 on everything.
And I would like to devote $100 of that to the video card.
I don't need a good audio card. Don't really care about that. My current PC has a solid state drive, which I will be adding to the new computer, so the hdd in the new pc doesn't have to be special. I would like to have 8 GB of RAM, so I guess that is important. I also imagine that whatever package PC I buy will probably ship with a rather lousy video card and equally small PSU.
So I am guessing I would need at least a 500 Watt PSU in the package PC.
This of course depends on what graphics card I end up getting. I am not a huge gamer, but I do like to play a couple games once in a while. I am especially looking forward to the new Star Wars Battlefront 3 that was recently teased at SW Celebration. But that game is a bit off, and I don't think the system requirements have been released as if yet. So in order to better target what I THINK I want, I have a small list of games that have some varying system requirements that, at least according to steam, are fairly recent and popular. I'm not particularly interested in these, just mainly their system requirements.
Shadows of Mordor
Call of Duty: Ghosts
Watch Dogs
Crysis 3
Far Cry 4
Wolfenstein New Order
I think a very important point for me is that since I am one a budget, I am not going to be looking to run games like this in maxed out settings on iMAX resolutions. My monitor only supports up to 1280 x 1024 anyway... so... budget, but hopefully not something that will be immediately useless to me in the 2016 year.
By the way, this is my current Rig:
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 @ 2.8 Ghz
8 Gigs of Ram... not entirely sure of the specs on these...
64-Bit Windows 7
nVidia GTS 250 (oooooollllldddddd)
Sandisk 256 Gig ATA Solid State Drive
On board sound (hah)
Thanks for any feedback you might have.
The last time I purchased a computer was back in 2010 I think... so it's been a while and I am a bit out of the loop. My intention is to purchase a package computer and then swap out the included (likely junkie) video card and get a a better one and install it on my own.
My question is two-part:
1. I want to go with a Windows machine, using an Intel processor. What processor should I be looking for? i3? i5? i7?
2. I want to focus on nVidia (never really had any great experiences with radeons). What card should I be targetting?
My budget is, I expect, kind of low. I am hoping to spend $500 on everything.
And I would like to devote $100 of that to the video card.
I don't need a good audio card. Don't really care about that. My current PC has a solid state drive, which I will be adding to the new computer, so the hdd in the new pc doesn't have to be special. I would like to have 8 GB of RAM, so I guess that is important. I also imagine that whatever package PC I buy will probably ship with a rather lousy video card and equally small PSU.
So I am guessing I would need at least a 500 Watt PSU in the package PC.
This of course depends on what graphics card I end up getting. I am not a huge gamer, but I do like to play a couple games once in a while. I am especially looking forward to the new Star Wars Battlefront 3 that was recently teased at SW Celebration. But that game is a bit off, and I don't think the system requirements have been released as if yet. So in order to better target what I THINK I want, I have a small list of games that have some varying system requirements that, at least according to steam, are fairly recent and popular. I'm not particularly interested in these, just mainly their system requirements.
Shadows of Mordor
Call of Duty: Ghosts
Watch Dogs
Crysis 3
Far Cry 4
Wolfenstein New Order
I think a very important point for me is that since I am one a budget, I am not going to be looking to run games like this in maxed out settings on iMAX resolutions. My monitor only supports up to 1280 x 1024 anyway... so... budget, but hopefully not something that will be immediately useless to me in the 2016 year.
By the way, this is my current Rig:
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 @ 2.8 Ghz
8 Gigs of Ram... not entirely sure of the specs on these...
64-Bit Windows 7
nVidia GTS 250 (oooooollllldddddd)
Sandisk 256 Gig ATA Solid State Drive
On board sound (hah)
Thanks for any feedback you might have.