I read these forums a lot but had to sign up for this. I would honestly consider building your own pc. It's not that hard and you will get a better spec for the price. As an example I just spec'd a pc on scan.co.uk and for £450 you could get the parts for a complete system inc delivery with a quad core AMD CPU, 8gb ram, 1tb HDD and a AMD hd7850 graphics card. Posting this on my phone so I can't link anything atm but after building my own pc I could never go back to a pre-built system. Also you could get a 120gb SSD for your os and programs for £78 that would provide a significant boost over using a HDD.
Good luck with whatever you decide and see you in eorzea.
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mitch311 wrote:
I read these forums a lot but had to sign up for this. I would honestly consider building your own pc. It's not that hard and you will get a better spec for the price. As an example I just spec'd a pc on scan.co.uk and for £450 you could get the parts for a complete system inc delivery with a quad core AMD CPU, 8gb ram, 1tb HDD and a AMD hd7850 graphics card. Posting this on my phone so I can't link anything atm but after building my own pc I could never go back to a pre-built system. Also you could get a 120gb SSD for your os and programs for £78 that would provide a significant boost over using a HDD.
Good luck with whatever you decide and see you in eorzea.
Good luck with whatever you decide and see you in eorzea.
As Mitch and others have said building your own computer is easy. How easy you might ask, well I walked my 60 yr old mom through it over the phone in less than two hours. Yep it's really that easy.
Also I run almost this exact computer and it runs most everything I throw at it on high with good fps.
My setup
Amd fx-6300
Asus m5a97
Corsair builders 500w psu
8gb crucial ram
Gigabyte HD 7850
WD 1tb HDD
All in a cheap thermaltake v4 case I picked up for under $20.
I picked up parts when they were on sale so I saved a bit that way but it's still a good deal at regular price. Now if my Samsung 840 ssd and corsair h55 CPU water cooler ever show up I'll be happy.
A 430W psu is plenty for the 7700 series. Those cards use around 58W at max.
Also, in response to the thread title:
Patrick Stewart: "Then don't do it! Why do something that you hate to do?!"
Edited, Aug 13th 2013 12:54pm by PhrozenFFXI
Also, in response to the thread title:
Patrick Stewart: "Then don't do it! Why do something that you hate to do?!"
Edited, Aug 13th 2013 12:54pm by PhrozenFFXI
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