Buying a new pc... help requested
Khan of Wyrms:
Dude! Do NOT get a Dell.
mistymage:
We do have a pc guy who does work for a reasonable price. But he solves most problems by formatting. Like with my Shuttle... it was in twice and he said "virus". Turned out the hard drive died from over heating. It was 5 years old so had had a darn good run. Now that I have an OS disk I can do that much on my own. He would build the pc but we would have to buy the parts. He does not play the Sims so I would have to give him the type of specs Pescado mentioned so that he could tell us what to buy.
I don't want a Dell or an Aspire (what I am on now). I am leaning towards an iBUYPOWER or Cyberpower gaming pc. I just need to know if higher numbered graphics cards will work with the game. But I suppose that is one of those "find out by trying it" things.
rhldavies:
I find Medion computers very reliable and I've yet to run into any problems with mine. I recently upgraded my pc over christmas and I thought it was a pretty good deal for the price. For £488 (Err, around $700?) I got:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad Processor Q8200 (2.33GHz, 1333FSB, 4MB)
Pre-Loaded Genuine Windows Vista(R) Home Premium (32 installed but also came with 64 on disk)
4GB DDR2-RAM (Dual Channel Mode)
1TB hard disk (Serial ATA 2, 16 MB cache)
Nvidia GeForce 9600GT (512mb GDDR3 RAM with HDMI and DVI output)
2x Multi-Standard DVD/CD Writers (DVD-RAM and Dual-Layer support)
3 Year warranty
The reason I upgraded it was mainly for sims 3.
Annette:
@ rhldavies and any other Quad core owner: How does the Quad Core play TS2? I can understand that it will probably be great for TS3 as we assume they will write it for multiple cores. But TS2 was written for the single core.
So is your game play with 2 less than it was on a single core computer as it's not using all the power you have, or does having all that extra ram and a newer video card make it better?
I'd hate to upgrade and find out that TS2 played better on my old single core 3.2ghz than it does on a quad core. I'm looking at getting the Q9550 from here http://www.msy.com.au/SYSTEMS/P3.pdf
Solowren:
Quote from: Yecats on 2009 January 13, 20:27:30
for the low, low, price of only
Online Price $2,628.00
EW. Dell charges $320 for that quad core processor. I got mine for $110.
DELL SUCKS.
Also, Annette:
I got a quad core recently in my new build and kept my graphics card and RAM, and I notice gameplay improvement over my old single core. It's not significant, but it's something.
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