What do I look for in a good gaming pc/graphics card?

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    Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
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    bigboi972 said:
    whats the best place to buy a pc that can handle games? or where can i buy that will allow me to customize it i dont know how to build a pc
    Your in the States..you have Voodoo, Falcon Northwest, etc.Buy a PC magazine like PC User (or w/e u get there) as some companies send new PC's in to be evaluated and tested.
    Will give you some idea what they are using in there system builds. Building your own is not that difficult. Get a mate to help you that builds his own and done once you never forget.
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    Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #12

    will anything with at least an i5 processor and an nvidia card work for me when it comes to games
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    w7
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    Ha ha sorry- Maybe I should have broken my post into 4 or 5 or so..
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  4. Posts : 472
    Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
       #14

    bigboi972 said:
    will anything with at least an i5 processor and an nvidia card work for me when it comes to games
    At this rate ur thread is gunna be 100 pages long..try being a little more specific...as in which i5 and what vid card
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    Windows10 Pro - 64Bit vs.10547
       #15

    - if it's laptop you're after, these look nice:
    Toshiba Qosmio® Laptop Computers | US.Toshiba.com

    bought the missus a Toshiba Satellite model for Christmas..

    - great build quality..
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  6. Posts : 319
    Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #16

    [QUOTE=simmo;1246444]
    bigboi972 said:
    will anything with at least an i5 processor and an nvidia card work for me when it comes to games
    At this rate ur thread is gunna be 100 pages long..try being a little more specific...as in which i5 and what vid card [/QUOTE
    Ok I was thinking for games such as battle field 2 or crysis would a pc with the following work when it comes to smooth game play.

    Intel® Core™ i5-560M Mobile Processor 2.66 GHz 32nm 3M L3 Cache Max Turbo Frequency: 3.20 GHz

    320GB 5400RPM SATA300 Hard Drive

    Intel PM55 Chipset Mainboard

    NVIDIA GTS250M 1GB DDR3 VRAM Video
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  7. Posts : 472
    Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
       #17

    [QUOTE=bigboi972;1249853]
    simmo said:
    bigboi972 said:
    will anything with at least an i5 processor and an nvidia card work for me when it comes to games
    At this rate ur thread is gunna be 100 pages long..try being a little more specific...as in which i5 and what vid card [/QUOTE
    Ok I was thinking for games such as battle field 2 or crysis would a pc with the following work when it comes to smooth game play.

    Intel® Core™ i5-560M Mobile Processor 2.66 GHz 32nm 3M L3 Cache Max Turbo Frequency: 3.20 GHz

    320GB 5400RPM SATA300 Hard Drive

    Intel PM55 Chipset Mainboard

    NVIDIA GTS250M 1GB DDR3 VRAM Video
    Your thinking of a laptop? I would think most laptops would have a battle running either of the games you mention..Crysis is very demanding on Graphics...

    Battlefeild 2 or Bad Company 2? BC2 is very demanding on the CPU.

    That said Laptops are not something I know much about...I would'nt bother buying one personally. Good for emails net surfing utubeing facebooking etc...serious gaming? no.
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  8. Posts : 54
    Windows 8.1 Pro w/ Media Center 64-Bit
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    I would probably wait a few weeks and get a sandy bridge laptop.

    Just put this together on avadirect.com:
    GAMING NOTEBOOK *Pre-Order Only* Clevo P151HM Core™i7 Gaming Notebook, 15.6" Full HD Matte LED LCD, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460M 1.5GB Graphics $1479.41 $1479.41
    CLEVO P151HM-R Core™ i7 Notebook Barebone, Intel® HM65, 15.6" Full HD LED Matte, FPR, PCIe x16 MXM-III Discrete Graphics
    INTEL Core™ i7-2720QM Quad-Core 2.2GHz, HD Graphics 3000, 6MB L3 Cache, 32nm, 45W, Retail
    NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 460M 1.5GB GDDR5 Mobile Graphics Card for P151HM
    CRUCIAL 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC3-10600 DDR3 1333MHz SDRAM SODIMM, CL9, Non-ECC
    SEAGATE 500GB Momentus 5400.6, 5400 RPM, 8MB cache, 2.5-Inch, SATA 3 Gb/s, w/ G-Force Protection, OEM
    CLEVO Dual Layer Super-Multi DVD±RW Optical Drive for Clevo P151HM
    NETWORK Built-in 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet LAN Card
    WIRELESS Wireless 802.11b/g/n LAN Card and Bluetooth Module
    NOTEBOOK ACCESSORY AC Adapter 100-240V (Included)
    NOTEBOOK ACCESSORY Built-in Fingerprint Reader (Included)
    MICROSOFT Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition, OEM
    SERVICE System Binder
    WARRANTY Standard 1 Year Warranty for Clevo Notebooks
    That will play anything with decent settings.
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    Windows 11 Pro x64 [Latest Release and Release Preview]
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    My rule of thumb for the laptop vs Desktop price divide, is that in a laptop you get half as much for twice the price of a desktop. this is after thirty plus years in this industry.

    I have just spent £2000+ [ $2540 US], on the desktop in my specs on TenForums so I would look to need to spend £4000-£8000 for an equivalent laptop, now I know that this seems a high top end and I doubt that you wold be able to find an equivalent laptop to my Mid range gaming desktop based system - laptop processors are by necessity, "cut Down", "low power" mobile versions of the processors fitted to desktops, the same goes with Memory and especially graphics cards (this is an area that I as a non gamer can save some money on and I did so you would need to factor in an extra $1200 or so for a better graphics card.

    Scary numbers I know but real world, prices for decent Tech often are ...
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    Windows 7 64 bit
       #20

    bigboi972 said:
    Ok its that time again I wanna get a new pc and I need a little help when it comes to choosing. Now my price range is up to 1150$ and what ill be doing with this laptop and yes it must be a laptop is. Homework, graphic design/motion graphics(photoshop), creating music(fruityloops), and playing games like starcraft 2 and maybe battle field 2. The specs for the pc that I have are in the specs area of my profile. Also this would help me a lot peridically during this post ill post links to pcs that im interested in and it would be nice to get the opinion on theam, because I really dont know what to look for. and a side question does the graphics when it comes to video games on pc rely on the processor or video cards? Also when i look at the specs for a specific pc and for the processor it says some thing like Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-640M Dual Core Processor (2.8 GHz, 4MB L3 Cache) with Turbo Boost up to 3.46GHz what is what is 640M and what does it mean to have dual core is that good? and is a higher ghz better than lowe ghz and whats l3 cache I know its alot of questions but I dont wanna waste my money Thanks everyone

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    I really like the Acer Nitro, it's a pretty solid allowance and all rounder predominantly used by real geeks.
    I'm pretty unspecific about which model, I think the 2018 model is better than the 2019 model.
    They rarely make such good gaming laptops unless the price of gaming is going up, to tell you the truth how much more of the Tetris Based Analogies about business and predispositions and performance pleasure do we need?
    I think this is the golden age of monitor protection, since mobile phones are taking up Apple's revenue. And we are thinking of a whole ideology of ghost protection when it comes to online gaming and I really am a fan of the system you've chosen to use your laptop for _>_

    I'll definitely recommend the Acer Nitro. Good lk. :)
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