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Time to upgrade my PC? Need help deciding what to buy, etc
olileauk:
--- Quote from: major on August 27, 2007, 10:18:54 pm ---Well I'm a high budget computer builder so low budget computers aren't my 100% specialties, but I guess I'll ring in my 2cents.
I say just keep your current configuration and just save up all your money for a new pc. I say that because I don't know your PSU(power supply) so a new GPU(gfx card) could overpower the PSU, so then you'd have to buy a PSU, theres 2 purchases already.
Then if you did buy those 2, then you could get away with 1gb of ram, but playing Bioshock or any newer game is really gonna tax your ram loosing quiet a bit of performance. Then also your CPU is gonna start bottlenecking your GPU.
I've built 3 Quad-core DX10 computers in the last 2 months that were on a budget, and they were only ranging from $1300-1600.
and those have had thing you might not need, like DVD drives and HDD's(hard drives). So my recommendation would be to save up your cash, and $1,000 will get you a Quad core DX10 PC fully ready to play any game out on high GFX and future games as well (cough....Crysis...cough)
P.S. you can run the Bioshock Demo on SM2, but its has Extremely long loadtimes and textures are little weird, and this is all with couple file tweaks.......but it's really not worth the time, but it is possible.
And make your friends jealous, even with simple benchmarks ;)
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wait what the fuck? the max you can get on the Vista scores is meant to be 5.9 - i can't get any higher than that, neither can other people, how the smeg did you got it out of ten?
major:
HAHA, was waiting for a Vista user to comment on that, yeah its a old vista trick, you can go and modify the file, and manually change your settings, my real score was i think like 5.5 or something, but I also got a score of 1.0 on a quadcore so its a little off, was gonna re-test after I installed Sp1b but then I got a new PC and just was to lazy to install Vista and SP1b that took 1 hour to install.
DaDude:
I've decided to wait it out - Bioshock will still look fantastic in a year 9to me), so I'm not bothered. Shame I ruined what happens though. :/
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