Spirit Bomb
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Post by Spirit Bomb on Dec 15, 2016 7:49:41 GMT
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4P03F95842Thoughts? Please check out the specs and tell me what you think. Just bought it today. It seems pretty good for the gaming I'll be doing (pre 2007 games only), and it was on sale, and was 150+ dollars cheaper than the cheapest pre-built gaming PCs they were offering, which were too excessive for my games anyways. It has a quad-core 3.70 ghz processor and 4 GB of DDR3 Ram (which I'm going to upgrade to six, since I already own 2 one GB sticks of RAM). The only aspect that worries me is the graphics card, because I have no idea if it will be good for gaming, and my own graphics card may not fit in the motherboard.
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Post by Imperial Khador on Dec 15, 2016 8:21:28 GMT
Hey Maestro. For 9+ year old games, you're probably fine even without a graphics card. For comparison, a friend of mine picked up this windows tablet while it was on sale for his young son for Christmas as a way to play some older PC games, and more recent indi games. (For reference, the lad is about 7 and has been playing mostly on the family's Xbox 360, as well as the his father's DS and a lot of older emulated console games on his father's PSP. He's been wanting to play Minecraft on his dad's gaming PC for while, due to more mods being available.) So that little Windows 10 tablet had no graphics cards, and is outclassed by your new machine in every way, yet it still runs a lot of older games, and indi games just fine (including Minecraft, but it isn't exactly system-intensive), as my friend has been installing and testing games so it is ready to go for Christmas. For what you're doing, I'm sure this PC will work out just fine, even without a graphics card.
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Post by Cervantes on Dec 15, 2016 9:12:41 GMT
It's a pretty good pc for what you're looking to play. About the graphics card, there are some videos on youtube of people running even GTA V on the Radeon HD 8370D (albeit on low settings and 30 fps), so for older games you're certainly good to go. Keep in mind you're not restricted to older games - modern indie games also tend to not be very taxing on any pc (especially 2d ones), so you can also play those.
If your older card is better, then you can still try swapping them, maybe it will fit.
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Post by Spirit Bomb on Dec 15, 2016 18:01:25 GMT
Hey Maestro. For 9+ year old games, you're probably fine even without a graphics card. For comparison, a friend of mine picked up this windows tablet while it was on sale for his young son for Christmas as a way to play some older PC games, and more recent indi games. (For reference, the lad is about 7 and has been playing mostly on the family's Xbox 360, as well as the his father's DS and a lot of older emulated console games on his father's PSP. He's been wanting to play Minecraft on his dad's gaming PC for while, due to more mods being available.) So that little Windows 10 tablet had no graphics cards, and is outclassed by your new machine in every way, yet it still runs a lot of older games, and indi games just fine (including Minecraft, but it isn't exactly system-intensive), as my friend has been installing and testing games so it is ready to go for Christmas. For what you're doing, I'm sure this PC will work out just fine, even without a graphics card. Cervantes Thank you guys for the input. I'm really relieved to know that this computer will run the games that I planned on playing. Now about Windows 7, is it easy to use? Are there any things I should know about it that anyone here has experienced problems with?
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Post by Imperial Khador on Dec 15, 2016 18:30:20 GMT
I would suggest running all available updates, but beyond that, not too many suggestions. The interface is pretty close to XP if that's what you're used to running. If you want it to be organized a bit more like XP, you could download something like Windows Classic Shell
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Post by Spirit Bomb on Dec 16, 2016 2:29:31 GMT
Ok thanks!
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Post by Spirit Bomb on Dec 16, 2016 4:19:56 GMT
Hey Cervantes, since you seem pretty experienced with PC gaming, I thought I'd throw you this quick question: would my graphics specs be able to run Crysis at a reasonable framerate? That's a game I've heard really good things about, but never played. I just figured if my PC can run GTA V, and if Crysis is better optimized for PCs than GTA V, then I should have no trouble running it.
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Jan 5, 2017 19:03:04 GMT
We're waiting, Cervantes. And we'd like an answer.
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Post by Cervantes on Jan 6, 2017 2:17:09 GMT
We're waiting, Cervantes . And we'd like an answer. Oh man, now you've put me under pressure! The answer is now irrelevant, since the maestro got another pc anyway. But I'll just say this: I bought a pc in 2009 with a really cheap GPU at the time (a Geforce 220), a dual-core CPU, I think it was only 2 GB RAM and yet I played Crysis to death. The game ran really well - it was certainly not at maximum settings, but it still looked much better than anything else I had ever seen. My point is: any current pc with even the most modest GPU will run Crysis well enough.
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Post by Cervantes on Jan 6, 2017 19:06:18 GMT
By the way, Crysis is a really fun game. Some people dismissed it at the time by saying it was just a tech demo, but it's not: there's great gameplay to support those graphics.
But there's one important recommendation, though: the game is only good if you choose the "Delta" dificulty. Some people thought it was a harder dificulty; it's not. It's supposed to be a more realistic one, so you die in fewer hits - but also do the enemies. The Korean dialogue isn't translated, the health regenerates much slower, there are fewer HUD elements and, most importantly, the AI is much better in this mode. As a simple example, if you turn invisible in front of enemies on normal, they'll immediatelly lose you; on Delta, they'll spray some shots towards the location you were last seen and will investigate the surroundings. It was while playing on this dificulty that I realized how much fun the game was, since I had to think about how I would approach each base (it actually reminds me of the gameplay in The Phantom Pain); I don't know why they didn't choose Delta as the standard dificulty, it made the game so much better.
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Post by Spirit Bomb on Jan 7, 2017 4:41:08 GMT
We're waiting, Cervantes . And we'd like an answer. Thanks Dan. I know I can always count on you. Cervantes Ehh, I'll think I'll pass on Crysis for the time being, simply because I've been spending way too much money on games lately and also because I've heard that it has severe trouble running on Windows 10, which my computer has. If anything the next game I'll buy will be an older title, like Half Life. Thank you though.
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Post by Cervantes on Jan 9, 2017 6:56:32 GMT
Spirit Bomb Sadly I don't have Crysis installed right now to test it, but I think I played it on W10 once with no problems. Anyway, if you have already bought other games, better enjoy them!
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